Chief Executive Officer and CO-Founder: John Dorrier
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Gulfsands Petroleum Ltd. 1997-2008. Gulfsands was started in 1997 with founders’ equity funds and grown to become the second largest oil producer in Syria by 2011. This dramatic growth was accomplished using early, debt-leveraged producing property acquisitions in the Gulf of Mexico as a platform, followed by successful exploration and field development in Syria and a public listing of the Company’s stock on the London Stock Exchange (AIM) in 2005. Exited Gulfsands and sold interest when Company’s public valuation was over $800 million.
Dorrier holds BSc. Degrees (Magna cum laude) in Physics and Geophysics from University of Utah. Following graduation, he worked as a geophysicist for Amoco and Mobil before spending 4 years as Manager of Geology and Geophysics for The Anschutz Corporation. Joined BHP Petroleum and held various positions in Australia before returning to the US and becoming Vice President Gulf Basin. Subsequently, moved to London to become General Manager, Europe, Africa and Middle East for BHP. Left BHP after 9 years and joined Seven Seas Petroleum, a startup venture that discovered the Guaduas Field in Colombia within a year of its inception. Within 2 years of startup, Seven Seas Petroleum had a market capitalization of $650 million with no debt, having started with $6 million of initial shareholder funding.
President/COO/CO-Founder: Reese James
Reese’s 39-year career has been highlighted by being the CEO of a highly successful global risk/crisis management businesses, commodity trading, software development and as a combat leader within our nation’s Army Tier 1 special operations organization.
Reese is a cross-functional leader with achievements in leadership, problem solving, cultural advisement operation/information fusion.
Reese received his BA from Mansfield University of Pennsylvania and Fellowship degree from the Center for International Studies (CIS) in international security and foreign policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
