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Management
| Robert Friedland Executive Co-Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer A co-founder of Ivanhoe Energy and co-founder and Chairman of its China-focused operating subsidiary, Sunwing Holding Corporation, Robert Friedland is an international financier who has been associated with international resource and technology ventures for 25 years. Mr. Friedland is in the vanguard of North American natural-resource sector leaders who have pioneered business links in Greater China and the Asia Pacific region during the past 20 years. He is Chairman of Ivanhoe Capital Corporation, his family's private company that specializes in venture capital and project financing from bases in Singapore and Beijing. With his leadership, Ivanhoe executives and affiliated benefiting companies have raised several billion dollars on international capital markets since 1993. As the founder and Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines — a Canadian public company whose shares trade on the New York, NASDAQ and Toronto exchanges — Mr. Friedland has directed the assembly by Ivanhoe Mines of a portfolio of interests in several countries during the past 12 years. Ivanhoe's core asset is the 12-kilometre-long (7.5-mile) chain of copper-gold deposits discovered at Oyu Tolgoi in southern Mongolia. Oyu Tolgoi, within 80 kilometres of the Mongolia-China border, is the world's largest and highest-grade copper-gold mine development project. Mr. Friedland was named the "2006 Mining Person of the Year" by Canada's Northern Miner, a leading industry publication, for his coup in gaining global mining leader Rio Tinto as a partner for Ivanhoe Mines in Mongolia. The Northern Miner said the partnership was "a defining moment in one of the world's biggest mineral-development success stories of the past decade." It described Mr. Friedland as "a dynamic force for a quarter-century in the minerals industry through a host of private and public-company vehicles." As Co-Chairman and controlling shareholder of Ivanhoe Nickel & Platinum Ltd. (Ivanplats), Mr. Friedland is closely involved with several mining projects in Africa, including a copper-cobalt discovery in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the development of a significant nickel-platinum-copper deposit on South Africa's Bushveld Complex. In 1996, he was named Developer of the Year by the Prospectors' and Developers' Association of Canada for his work in establishing and financing companies engaged in mineral exploration and development around the world. Mr. Friedland guided the development and sale of Diamond Fields Resources' nickel discovery at Voisey's Bay in Newfoundland, Canada, to INCO Ltd. for CDN$4.3 billion in 1996 (Inco's Voisey's Bay mine began production in September, 2005). He also led the discovery and sale of Fairbanks Gold's Fort Knox deposit in Alaska to Amax Gold for US$152 million in 1992 (Fort Knox, now owned by Kinross Gold, has produced approximately four million ounces of gold since 1996). | |
| David Dyck President & Chief Executive Officer, Ivanhoe Energy Canada Inc. Ivanhoe Energy Canada Inc. is Ivanhoe Energy's subsidiary for operations in Canada. As Executive Director and CEO of LeaRidge Capital since 2007, Mr. Dyck has provided financial advisory services to a number of North American companies in the energy and service sectors, guiding the successful completion of a series of financing transactions and restructurings that totalled more than $1.0 billion. From 2000 to 2007, Mr. Dyck was Senior Vice President, Finance, and Chief Financial Officer with Calgary-based Western Oil Sands. He was a member of the company's senior executive team and a director of four offshore subsidiaries. Western Oil Sands owned a 20% stake in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project and Mr. Dyck led a series of debt and equity financings that generated $3.5 billion for the company. He also led the company's team that concluded its sale to U.S. refining giant Marathon Oil Corporation through a $7 billion plan of arrangement in 2007. Mr. Dyck brings to Ivanhoe Energy his expertise gained from 24 years of experience in all areas of finance, tax, budgeting, planning and investor relations. He is a director of CE Franklin Ltd. and Richardson International Limited and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta. | |
| Gerald Schiefelbein Chief Financial Officer Gerald Schiefelbein brings 23 years of finance experience in the international oil and gas industry, having worked in North America, Europe and the Middle East with the BP Group and Amoco. Immediately prior to joining Ivanhoe Energy, Mr. Schiefelbein was Chief Financial Officer with Chicago-based BP Integrated Supply & Trading, where he led the finance department for BP's crude and oil-products supply and trading operations in the Americas. He received an undergraduate degree in business from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and his Masters in Management from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, in Illinois. | |
| Ian Barnett Executive Vice President, Corporate Development & Finance Ian Barnett has been associated with the HTL technology for over 13 years. A former investment banker with UBS in London, Ian co-founded Heptagon Investments Ltd., a private equity group focusing on development and venture capital investments, in 1991. In 1996 Heptagon backed Ensyn Group, the Ottawa based company that developed the HTL technology, and Ian was appointed to the Ensyn Board of Directors. When Ivanhoe Energy acquired Ensyn Group in 2005, Ian was recruited by Ivanhoe to assist the company in developing the HTL business opportunity. Mr. Barnett has over 30 years banking and investment experience, including 20 years in venture and development finance. He has worked extensively throughout Latin America, Europe and North America. Mr. Barnett is a graduate of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and holds an MBA from INSEAD, France. | |
| Michael Silverman Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer Dr. Michael Silverman has almost 30 years of experience in technology development and management, including the commercialization and marketing of new technologies. His most recent position was with Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), where he was VP of Petrochemicals and responsible for all aspects of the petrochemicals technology portfolio. He previously directed KBR's Technology Centre and was Manager of Technology Development for Stone & Webster. | |
| Ed Veith Executive Vice President, Upstream Ed Veith is a petroleum engineer with 23 years of experience in the oil industry. During his career, he has specialized in the reservoir management of enhanced and improved oil-recovery projects, including significant experience in thermal heavy-oil recovery operations in California. Mr. Veith formerly was President of Insight Energy LLC, where he evaluated major oil fields for acquisition and joint ventures, and also was with Aera Energy LLC, where he was responsible for the heavy oil development in California's Belridge, Cymric and McKittrick oil fields. He also has worked in a variety of engineering and leadership roles for Williams Brothers Engineering Co. and Bechtel Petroleum Operations, Inc. | |
| Patrick Chua Executive Vice President Patrick Chua is Chairman and Director of Sunwing Energy Ltd., Ivanhoe Energy's China-focused subsidiary. Patrick, a petroleum engineer, previously was a project manager and senior engineer with Sproule Associates Ltd. During his 22 years in the oil and gas industry, he has specialized in projects in China, managing properties and evaluating, negotiating and implementing production-sharing contracts. | |
| Gerald Moench Executive Vice President Gerald Moench is President and Director of Sunwing Energy Ltd., Ivanhoe Energy's China-focused subsidiary. Gerald was a consultant in Indonesia and New Zealand in the mid-1990s, and before that was General Manager of Santos Petroleum (Seram) Ltd. His +45 years' experience in the oil and gas industry has included drilling and completion operations in Canada, Indonesia, Australia and China. | |
| David Martin Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Ivanhoe Energy Latin America Inc. Ivanhoe Energy Latin America Inc. is the parent company of Ivanhoe Energy's Latin America Corporate Group. Part of the founding team at Occidental Petroleum, David Martin was President & Chief Executive Officer of Occidental Oil & Gas Corporation, of California, from 1986 to 1996. He also was former Executive Vice-President and a director of Occidental Petroleum Corporation, and a Director of Canadian Occidental Petroleum. A geologist, he has more than 40 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, 26 of them in senior management positions with Occidental Petroleum Corporation. |
