Leadership

Appointed as Head of India Assets in November 2016 and Executive Director in 2024, Mr Khare is based in India and has over 22 years of experience in the petroleum Industry. Mr Khare’s area of expertise include upstream oil and gas, as well as midstream and downstream project implementation and operation. He brings with him rich and diverse experience spanning across Oil & Gas, Refinery, LNG, EOR, Marginal field development & steady state Operation management. Mr Khare originally worked for Synergia Energy Ltd as GM Operations & Business Development, and has experience working for various Indian companies including Reliance Petroleum, Enron and Cairn India Ltd.

Mr Salomon has a Bachelor degree in Applied Science and is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, South East Asian Petroleum Exploration Society and has over 37 years’ experience working for upstream energy companies. Mr Salomon has worked for a number of oil & gas companies in various senior positions including General Manager Exploration and New Ventures at Murphy Oil Corporation and Global Head of Geoscience at RISC PL, in addition to a number of executive director roles including Strategic Energy Resources, Norwest Energy and Nido Petroleum. At several times in his career, Mr Salomon has acted as an independent consultant for various oil & gas companies, including New Standard Energy and Pacrim Energy. Mr Salomon first worked on Indian projects in 1994 while at Ampolex and since that time has maintained connection with the Indian industry, at various times bidding in India’s exploration and field development rounds and working with Indian companies as joint venture partners, both in India and internationally.

Mr Salomon was appointed as a Director in November 2015 and became Managing Director in March 2016.

In April 2020 Mr Salomon was appointed as Interim Chairman of the Company. Mr Salomon continued as Managing Director and Interim Chairman until he was appointed as Executive Chairman on 16 June 2021. 

Mr Wessel was appointed as Synergia Energy Ltd's Chief Executive Officer and Director on 16 June 2021.

Mr Wessel is a geologist with over 40 years’ experience in all of the world’s major oil and gas regions. Mr Wessel founded and built Star Energy, the UK onshore operator of 25 oil and gas fields, through to its listing on AIM in 2004 and its sale to Petronas in 2008. During its evolution, Star Energy grew rapidly through acquisitions and diversification, culminating in it becoming a major gas storage developer and operator. Throughout his career, Mr Wessel has founded and managed a drilling services company and has developed and patented several key oilfield technologies. He has extensive experience in both project and corporate management.

Luke leads a team from Melbourne, Australia working with various companies in company secretarial support, listed compliance and governance software solutions. Luke has worked in private legal practice, in-house secretariat and for the last 15 years at Computershare in governance services. He is a fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia.

Joining Synergia Energy Ltd in June 2016, Mr Bolton has significant experience in the resource sector in Australia, having worked as Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary for a number of resource companies since 2003. Prior to this, Mr Bolton worked with Ernst & Young as an Executive Director in Corporate Finance. Mr Bolton has experience in the areas of commercial management and the financing of resource projects internationally. He also has extensive experience in capital and equity markets in a number of jurisdictions including ASX, AIM and the TSX. Mr Bolton has significant experience in the development and financing of new resources projects, particularly in emerging economies.

Mr Haywood has over 19 years’ international experience in delivering value for his investment network through a blended skill-set of corporate and operational experience, including six years in the Middle East, building early stage and growth projects. More recently, Mr Haywood has held senior management positions with UK and Australian public companies in the natural resource and energy sectors including O&G exploration and development in UK, EU and Central Asia. Mr Haywood’s expertise stretch across a broad UK and Australian public market, with a cross-functional skill set with diverse experience and capability encompassing research, strategy, implementation, capital and transactional management. Mr Haywood is currently Executive Director of Block Energy Plc and resource focussed UK advisory firm, Plutus Strategies Ltd.

Mr Haywood was appointed as a director in May 2017.

Mr Schwarz was appointed as a Non-Executive Director in September 2019. A former director of BG Exploration and Production Limited and CEO of independent exploration company Virgo Energy Ltd, Mr Schwarz is an AAPG Certified Petroleum Geologist and business development professional with over 45 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry. Mr Schwarz has previously held various senior management roles with Amerada Hess, BG, and Marubeni and is currently a director of Finite Energy Limited, an oil and gas consultancy business he founded over 15 years ago, specialising in strategy and business development advice in the UK and Europe.