About
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
Vice-President Legal, Land, and Business Development,
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.
Tony Ashton
Non-Executive Director
Tony Ashton has over 45 years in the Oil and Gas Industry. He began his career
as a Geologist in 1958 (after emigrating from England to Canada), at Canada
Southern Petroleum LTD, a public company. He held his first position as a junior
geologist and by 1976, he earned the title of Chief Geologist.
After resigning from Canada Southern Petroleum LTD (1976), he formed Tup Resources
LDT, a private Oil and Gas Company. Tup Resources LTD participated in oil and
gas ventures and consulted to several junior oil and gas companies. Mr. Ashton
also served as a director and officer of many of these companies.
In 1986, Mr. Ashton returned to Canada Southern Petroleum LTD as a consultant.
He was a Director of the company from 1988-2001. By 1996, he became Chief Executive
Officer of the company and President. In the year 2001, when he retired, Canada
Southern Petroleum LTD was listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in Canada and
on NASDAQ in the USA. Mr. Ashton is a member of Sefton's Audit Committee and
Chairman of the Compensation Committee.
Mr. Ashton was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, England and graduated with honors
from Manchester University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geology.
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.
Norm Thachuk
Norm Thachuk is a Specialist Advisor for Sefton with over 30 years in the
oil and gas industry. His background covers diverse areas such as, developing
exploration programs, implementing computer geological technology, and conducting
petrophysical evaluations. He has spent the majority of his career in the exploration
and production sector, initially with Shell in Canada, Turkey and Spain as
a senior petroleum engineer.
Norm has been a consultant and vice president to Ranger Oil Limited and a
consultant to Pan Canadian Petroleum. Prior to working at Ranger Oil, Norm
was president of Atlantic Energy Corporation for 7 years. Norm graduated from
the University of Toronto in 1960 with an Honors Bachelor of Science and Geological
Engineering Degree.
Until his retirement, Norm was a member of the Audit and Compensation Committees.