The People Behind Colossal Energy
A management team and board with centuries of combined experience with supermajors, independents and frontier ventures — from ExxonMobil and MacMoRan to successful exits across Africa.
Executive Team
04Glenn Lovitz
45 years of international geoscience experience across ExxonMobil and independents.
- Senior Geoscientist, ExxonMobil affiliates: Esso Australia, Saudi Aramco, Exxon Co USA, and Exxon Exploration Co — Upstream Technology.
- Senior Geoscientist, Pogo Producing Company — Thailand, Vietnam, New Zealand, China and the North Sea.
Jeff Ratcliffe
20 years of international resource experience.
- CPA with over 14 years’ experience across private and public companies.
- CFO for several Canadian energy companies with international operations, including the United States and Africa.
Adinani Toahert Ahamada
A respected advisor to the Comoros Republic and the African oil & gas industry.
- Country Director, Western Energy Indian Ocean, Comoros.
- Lake Albert oil project interpreter, Uganda & Republic of Congo.
Nicolas Bonnefoy
Advised on landmark transactions across Africa and Europe.
- Dual-qualified and dual-citizen (France and England), Nicolas is an oil and gas lawyer, who has had an exclusive focus on Africa for more than 25 years.
- He has an extended experience of oil and gas regimes, contracts and transactions in Africa, and a deep understanding of the oil and gas industry in Africa.
Board and Advisors
05Curtis Cohen
45 years of international oil & gas experience.
- ExxonMobil Senior Exploration Geoscientist in Esso Exploration Inc. affiliates — Nigeria, Spain, Turkey, Somalia; Esso Australia, Esso Norway, Esso REP France; and Strategic Planning, Upstream, Exxon Company Int’l, NJ.
- Discovered >1 billion barrels in the Usan, Ukot and Owowo fields in deepwater Nigeria blocks OPL 222/223. Managed 3 billion bbl fields at Esso Australia — Kingfish, Turrum and Sunfish.
Parvez Tyab
25 years of international project finance experience.
- Co-Founder, Director & Board Member, Griffiths Energy Chad.
- Raised project finance, equity and debt for natural resource projects in the private and public markets.
Simon Akit, P.Eng., MBA
More than $5 billion in capital raised for the energy sector.
- Drilling, completions and production engineer at Encana Corp → Head of Institutional Sales and Trading, Ventum Financial → Global Head of Energy Sales, Canaccord Genuity.
- Member, BMO Capital Markets Resource Team, New York City.
Warren Irwin
Founder of Rosseau Asset Management, a top-performing hedge fund.
- Began his career as a bond analyst for Scotia Capital Markets, where he developed the Universe Bond Index — the Canadian bond market benchmark — as well as Canada’s first bond index fund shortly thereafter.
- Later worked in corporate finance and M&A for CIBC Wood Gundy, in credit analysis and fixed income management for Scotia Capital Markets, and in proprietary trading for Deutsche Bank Canada, before launching Rosseau Asset Management Ltd.
Patrick Tsang
International investor and entrepreneur with decades of experience in global financial markets and emerging markets.
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