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The Board

We are proud to introduce the Tulip Oil Board Members

Leo Koot

Non Executive Chairman

  • Over 30 years of industry experience.
  • Has run oil and energy businesses and has been an active board member, most recently with AIM listed Sterling Energy PLC as Senior Independent Non-Executive Director and Columbus Energy Resource PLC as Executive Chairman.
  • Global energy experience includes his role as Managing Partner of MENA Gulf Investment Partners (Abu Dhabi), President of Abu Dhabi National Energy Company’s TAQA Iraq and Managing Director of TAQA UK where he built the organization from a few people to an organization of over 2,000 staff and contractors and delivered a mature E&P operating company that managed 60,000 bopd production with US$1.7 billion in annual revenues.
  • Formerly CEO of Energy Development Partners – an oil and gas business creating ways to match capital and resources with developing production, for which he helped raise a US$350 million private equity fund.
  • Master in Petroleum Engineering and a business accreditation from Harvard Business School.

Imad Mohsen

CEO and Executive Director

  • Joined Tulip Oil in 2013 and is the CEO and executive board member of Tulip Oil Holding B.V.
  • Responsible for overall running the ventures in the Netherlands and Germany.
  • Started E&P career in 1997.
  • Prior to Tulip, spent 17 years with Shell in the Netherlands, Nigeria, Germany, the US and Egypt most recently as COO of Shell’s Egypt business (Bapetco) – 1,500 staff, 100k boepd, 60 wells/year
  • Served as personal Business Advisor to the CEO of the Royal Dutch Shell Group of Companies.
  • Shell’s GOM development manager subsea – USD 1bn Capex per year
  • Technical expertise covers field development, facility and process engineering, operations and project management.

Ruud Schrama

CFO and Executive Director

  • 25 years of experience in the E&P industry.
  • Most recently he held the position of Senior Vice President of Operations & Production at Addax Petroleum Corporation with accountability for business units in Cameroon, Gabon and Nigeria.
  • Career of 20 years with Shell since 1993. He started in The Netherlands as engineer and project manager, and moved subsequently to the UK, where he held responsibilities including business planning, HSE management, strategy management and corporate reorganizations.
  • From 2003, held positions as general manager and managing director in Cameroon, Nigeria and Egypt, where he was responsible for shallow offshore, deep offshore and land assets.
  • Held P/L responsibility for $10bln annual revenue, $3bln budget, 200,000 b/d production and 3,000 staff.
  • Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Systems Engineering, both cum laude from Delft University of Technology.

Dave Ellis

Non-Executive Director

  • 17 years of mining investment banking and investing experience.
  • Qualified as a Chartered Accountant
  • Managing Partner of Global Natural Resource Investments
  • Prior to this was a Managing Director of Barclays Natural Resource Investments
  • Served on the board of over 15 natural resource companies.

Richard Jennings

Non Executive Director

  • 12 years experience in the private equity industry, 10 within the natural resources sector
  • 2 years qualified corporate lawyer
  • Previous roles at Linklaters LLP and Barclays Natural Resource Investments (BNRI)
  • Part of the management buyout of BNRI in 2015, to form Global Natural Resource Investments (GNRI)
  • Various directorships held across GNRI portfolio, currently within both Oil and Gas and Mining Sectors
  • Managing Director for GNRI
The Tulip Oil Management and Organisation