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Management Bios

 

Jeremy Delmar-Morgan
Non-Executive Chairman of the Board

Jeremy Delmar-Morgan joined the Board of Directors of Sefton in September 2004. He brings to the company a wealth of experience in the investment and brokerage community having been associated with Teather & Greenwood from 1979 until 2004. In 1982, he became a partner in Teather & Greenwood and in 1992 was appointed senior partner with the same firm. In 1998, when Teather & Greenwood became a public company, Mr. Delmar-Morgan became the CEO and Chairman of the Board. He held these positions until 2001 when he stepped down as CEO and Executive Chairman remaining as Non-executive Chairman until his retirement in April 2004. In 2006, Mr. Delmar-Morgan became Chairman of the Board of the London brockage firm Hitchens Harrison, and was appointed Non-Executive Chairman of Sefton Resources in 2007. In addition, Mr. Delmar-Morgan is Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. s born in Scotland in 1941, received an MA from Cambridge in 1963, and became a member of the Securities Institute in 1985. Mr. Delmar-Morgan, who lives in London, is also Chairman of the Brendoncare Foundation and Chairman of the Board of the London Symphony Orchestra and a number of private companies.

Jim Ellerton
CEO and Executive Director

Jim Ellerton is CEO and Director of Sefton Resources, Inc., which is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Mr. Ellerton is a geologist and one of the founders of Sefton Resources, which was formed in 1994. Mr. Ellerton has over 30 years experience in the development and evaluation of oil and gas prospects throughout the major basins of North America. He is responsible for business development, screening mergers and acquisitions, funding and shareholder relations and is also resposible for the day-to-day activities of the entire group. Prior to starting Sefton Resources, Jim was successful in the financing and development of smaller oil and gas companies.

Born and raised in England, Jim started his education in London and graduated from the University of Toronto with an Honors Bachelor of Science Degree in Geology. He now resides in Denver, Colorado and is also president and founder of the Arctic Cultural Institute of The United States of America, a nonprofit organization that supports the art and culture of the Inuit.

Harry Barnum
Vice President Operations and Engineering, Executive Director

Harry Barnum is a Director and Vice President of Operations and Engineering for Sefton, and the President of TEG Oil & Gas, USA Inc, (a wholly owned subsidiary of Sefton), and is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company's California assets. He has more than twenty years of industry experience from 6 years with Chevron through several independent firms to his last position with Windsor Energy Corporation, all in California. In addition to Geological work, Harry has been involved in the management and operational side of the oil business which has included business economic evaluations, planning, budgets and projections, together with evaluating, hiring and negotiating with service contractors. Harry has degrees (BA and MA) in Geology from the State University of New York at Buffalo (1980). 

Robert "Bruce" Mackay BSc., JD
Non-executive Director

Bruce Mackay is Vice-President of Legal, Land, and Business Development for Sefton, and the President of TEG MidContinent, Inc, (a wholly owned subsidiary of Sefton), and is responsible for the day to day operations of the company's Kansas assets. Mr. Mackay is a lawyer who, after graduating from Oklahoma City University in 1977 with a law degree, has worked as a land manager and land consultant for the past 28 years for various companies including Flare Energy, Page Petroleum, K-N Energy, Cabot Oil & Gas, Ocean Energy, Whiting Petroleum, and most recently as Land Consultant to Dart Oil & Gas/Dart Cherokee Basin and their CBM project in Kansas.

Mr. Mackay's responsibilities have included extensive experience in contract negotiating, preparation and administration. He has been responsible for compliance with regulatory and administrative commissions and agencies. In addition, Bruce has dealt with the acquisitions and divestiture of real property and the "due diligence" associated with such acquisition and divestiture, including document preparation. As a senior land manager, he has been responsible for two to two hundred personnel and annual budgets in excess of $2,000,000. 

Karl Arleth
Non-executive Director

Mr. Arleth is currently Managing Partner of Blue River Resources LLC, a Denver-based private oil and gas start-up firm engaged in the acquisition and development of U.S. producing properties and exploration plays. Prior to Blue River Resources, he was Director, President and CEO of Teton Energy Corporation from 2002 to 2009. Prior to Teton, he served as Chief Operating Officer and a Director for Sefton Resources Inc. Between 1999 and 2001 he was a Non-Executive Director of Big Horn Resources, a Calgary-based oil and gas company. Ending in 1999, Mr. Arleth spent 22 years with Amoco and BP, holding various senior positions during his career including: Chair of the shareholder board of the Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC) for BP-Amoco in Baku, Azerbaijan; President of Amoco Caspian Sea Petroleum Ltd. in Azerbaijan; Director of Strategic Planning for Amoco Corporations Worldwide Exploration and Production Sector in Chicago; and President of Amoco Poland Ltd. in Warsaw, Poland.

Between 1977 and 1992, he held positions with Amoco as an exploration and development geologist, petrophysicist, analyst, project supervisor, manager and executive in Denver, Tulsa, Chicago and Houston. Mr. Arleth earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the University of California at Riverside and a Master of Science degree in Geology from San Diego State University. He has also completed the Executive Development Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Mark Smith
Non-executive Director

Mr. Smith currently is sole practitioner of law at Mark R. Smith PC in Calgary, Alberta Canada and has been involved in the energy industry for over 20 years. He was previously a partner with Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP for 1997 through June 2009 and was previously a partner with Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP, where he articled in 1986. He was lead counsel in numerous corporate and asset acquisitions and divestitures, primarily in the energy industry. He was the Managing Director and CEO of Scimitar Hydrocarbons Inc. (later merged with Rally Energy), an oil and gas company focused on development and exploration in the Middle East and Africa. He later co-founded and was Executive Chairman of Infiniti Resources, which was a Canadian domestic exploration and production company.

Mr. Smith has served and continues to serve on a number of boards and subcommittees of both public and private companies, including Grey Wolf Exploration, Destiny Resources, Welton Energy and Stone Mountain Resources. He holds a bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws, both from the University of Alberta.

Consultants

Michele Sorensen CPA, MBA
Financial Consultant

Michele Sorensen joined Sefton Resources in June 2007 as a part-time Financial Consultant. Ms. Sorensen has a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Wyoming and an MBA in Finance from the University of Colorado. She has over 20 years' professional experience working initially at KPMG Peat Marwick where she rose to the position of  Senior Auditor. Since 1990, Ms. Sorensen has been a Controller/Consultant responsible for accounting, tax planning and compliance for several publicly held and private oil and gas companies.

Specialist Advisor

Engineering

Reservoir:


W. Robert (Bob) Mendes
Bob Mendes has 37 years in the business, initially spent with Texaco (Venezuela), Skelly (US mid-continent), and Oasis (Libya) before moving to the UK for 20 years; during which he managed the substantial North Sea operations of Texas Eastern. Subsequently, he held several senior management posts with other companies. Over this period, Bob was given the responsibility for negotiating sales contracts and evaluating acquisitions and market opportunities. A graduate in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, Bob owns and operates a corporate-acquisitions consultancy business.

Dr. Nafi Onat
Nafi Onat received a BSc andMSc in Petroleum Engineering form Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Turkey. In 1975, he graduated from the Colorado School of Mines with a PhD in Petroleum Engineering.

Dr. Onat has over 30 years experience working in the Oil and Gas industry. Initially, he worked with Wenner Petroleum in Denver overseeing all of their field operations and subsequently worked with a particular emphasis on coal bed methane (CBM) for Evergreen Resources and Great Eastern Energy in  Eastern Kansas. Nafi founded Sure Engineering in 1997 focusing on reserve evaluation, well completion, production optimization and stimulation of CBM projects.