Ric Malcolm is a professional geoscientist with over 33 years of varied oil and gas experience within seven international markets. He began his career as a Petroleum Geologist with Woodside Petroleum in Perth, exploring for oil and gas on the Northwest Shelf. He spent 10 years with Ampolex Perth & Sydney as senior explorer and then exploration manager in Western Australia and asset manager for Northern and Eastern Australia. Mr Malcolm was managing director of OMV (UK), a subsidiary of OMV, one of Europe’s leading oil and gas companies. Between 2008-2013, Mr Malcolm was the chief executive of Gulfsands Petroleum, an AIM listed oil and gas production, exploration, and development company with operations in Syria, Iraq, Morocco, Colombia, Tunisia and the USA.