Gary Roper
Chairman
Gary has had extensive administrative experience in both government and commerce, principally in the areas of tenement management and co-ordination of exploration staff and programs. He was a founding Director of AuDAX and was Managing Director from 1987 to 2007.
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Wolfgang Zimmer
Managing Director
Wolfgang has 28 years experience in the Oil & Gas Industry. He received his Ph.D from the University of Vienna in Geology and Petrology. His career began with Mobil Oil in Vienna where he worked for 11 years primarily in Europe and the USA in oil and gas exploration and production. In 1991 he joined OMV, the Austrian Oil Company, and fulfilled a variety of senior management roles for the next 15 years. He established OMV’s Exploration and Production business in Australia and New Zealand and was its Managing Director for 5 years. He also has significant experience in North Africa having been the director of OMV’s onshore and offshore production operations in Tunisia. Most recently he was the CEO of Grove Energy, a Canadian and UK listed oil and gas explorer which he successfully merged with another exploration company in 2007.
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Paul Fink
Technical Director
Paul received an engineering degree from the Mining University of Leoben, Austria. He has 18 years of diversified oil and gas exploration and producing experience in both technical and managerial positions. Paul’s experience at OMV included exploration and producing assignments in Austria, Libya, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Australia and Pakistan where he was the Exploration and Reservoir Manager. In 2005 Paul formed a petroleum consulting business and has worked for various companies in Romania, Poland, Kazakhstan and India. In India, as Vice President (Exploration) for Focus Energy Limited, Paul headed a highly successful exploration campaign that included the evaluation, negotiation, and acquisition of petroleum licenses and resulted in the drilling of two significant discoveries.
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Andrew Childs
Non Executive Director
Andrew is Managing Director of Petroleum Ventures Pty Ltd, Chairman of Australian Oil Company Ltd and Non Executive Director of Jupiter Energy Ltd, Stratic Energy Corporation, Grove Energy Ltd, Orion Ener gy Pty Ltd and Bombora Energy Ltd.
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Peter Ironside
Company Secretary
Peter has been the company secretary since March 1995 and is a chartered accountant and business consultant with over twenty years experience in the exploration and mining industry, and is a director and/or company secretary of several ASX listed companies. Peter provides commercial and financial advice to the Board, together with support in the areas of administration, corporate initiatives and capital raisings.
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George Brugeyroux
Senior Geological Advisor
George has 30+ years of diversified domestic US and international geosciences/engineering experience in oil and gas exploration, exploitation and production. His numerous and varied assignments at Mobil Oil Corporation (Canada Northwest Territories-MacKenzie Delta exploration, onshore and offshore Gulf Coast, California, onshore Italy, Austria, offshore Nigeria and Angola) have developed a broad range of managerial, technical, economic and people skills. Since the Exxon-Mobil merger he has worked as a consultant on various projects in both the US and Europe. Special interests include exploration prospect evaluation, detailed reservoir and production analysis to optimize field development and ultimate recovery.
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Susanne Brugeyroux
Vienna Office Manager
Susi has 30 years experience in the secretarial field mainly with geoscience companies. She was employed with RAG (a Mobil/Shell affiliate) from 1978 until 1993 working as the personal assistant to the General Manger. Susi moved to the United States (Dallas) in 1993 and worked for Mobil Oil Corporation for 5 years providing support to the procurement and drilling department. She joined AuDAX Resources European arm at it’s inception and is currently the Vienna office manager and PA to the AuDAX Managing Director.
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Ivona Tomljenovic
Financial Controller
Ivona received her Master degree in Business Administration from the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz, Austria, in 2008. Business experience includes the development of an internal control system for a software development company, and Deloitte Wirtschaftspruefungs GmbH in Vienna, Austria, as an audit assistant. She joined the Vienna AuDAX team in July 2009 and is responsible for all accounting and financial functions.
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Amanda Sparks
Financial Consultant
Amanda Sparks has over 20 years experience working in the mineral and oil and gas industries in Australia. Amanda is a chartered accountant and a member of the Financial Services Institute of Australia. Her main responsibilities with AuDAX are corporate reporting and compliance.
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Wendy Donegan
Perth Office Manager
Wendy has been at AuDAX Resources Ltd since April 1996. She manages the administrative operations of the Perth office, provides support to board members and staff and deals with shareholder queries.
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Christian Kaufmann
Vienna Office IT Specialist
Christian has over 15 years experience in the IT business. He received a Masters in Information, Communication Systems and Services from the University of Applied Sciences Technikum-Wien and a Masters in Information Management from the Technical University Vienna. He started in the IT department of Gerot Pharmaceuticals. Later he worked for the Interunfall Versicherung, an Austrian insurance company; then was the CIO of Public Webwatch, a media research company and the head of IT Business Support for VCP Puls IT Consulting & Solutions.
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