Board of Directors

Lord Patrick James Gillford

Chairman of the Board of Directors of EDC

• Lord Patrick (Paddy) James Gillford is BoD Chairman of EDC since October 2007.
• Since March 2006 he has been a member of the Board of Directors of OJSC Polyus Gold.
• Lord Gillford founded and is currently a Director of The Policy Partnership Limited. Since 1997 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Benevolent Society of St. Patrick, and since 2005, he has served on the Advisory Council of the Ukrainian British City Club.
• Lord Gillford was a director of the Ballot Box Limited from 2000 to 2003, and Chairman of the Board of Directors (without executive powers) of Cleveland Bridge UK Ltd from 2000 to 2004.
• Lord Gillford is a graduate of Eton College.

Alexander Djaparidze

Chief Executive Officer of EDC

• One of EDC founders in 2002.
• Since 1995 to 2007 Mr. Djaparidze served as the President of PetroAlliance Services Company Limited. He has been Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors since February 2007.
• From 1990 until 1995 he served as Managing Director of the Soviet-US joint venture oilfield services company MD SEIS.
• Mr. Djaparidze holds a degree in Mining Engineering and Geophysics from the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas. He is Doctor of Science; member of Eurasia Geophysical Society (EGS).
• In 2006, he was awarded RF Government prize for special achievements in science and technology.

Alexander Shokhin

• Mr. Shokhin is a member of the BoD of EDC since October 2007.
• He has been a member of the Board of Directors of LUKOIL and Chairman of its HR & Compensation Committee since January 2005.
• Mr. Shokhin has been the President of the State University-Higher School of Economics since 1995.
• He has been President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs since 2005.
• Mr. Shokhin was Chairman of the Supervisory Council of Renaissance Capital Investment Group from 2002 until 2005.
• From 1994 until 2002 he was a Deputy of the State Duma, where his last position was the Head of the Duma Committee on Credit Institutions and Capital Markets.
• Mr. Shokhin holds a degree in Economics from the Moscow State University. He is Doctor of Economic Science; Professor and Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

Victor Kalyuzhny

• Mr. Kalyuzhny is a member of BoD of EDC since September 2009.
• Mr. Kalyuzhny has recently retired from a position of the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Latvia.
• During the 1970s and 1980s he occupied a number of key positions at Tomskneft's Strezhevoineft.
• From 1990 to 1993, Mr. Kalyuzhny worked in Vietnam as Director of Oil and Gas Extraction for VietSovPetro. He subsequently became First Deputy Director of Tomskneft, and from 1994 to1997 was first Vice President  of Eastern Oil Company.
• In 1997 Mr. Kalyuzhny became a Deputy of the Tomsk State Duma. In 1998, he was appointed First Deputy Minister for Fuel and Energy, becoming Minister of of Fuel and Energy of Russia in 1999.
• From 2000 to 2004 Mr. Kalyuzhny was Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Presidential Representative for Caspian Sea Status Settlement .
• Mr. Kalyuzhny graduated from Ufa Oil Institute.

Martin Hansen

• Mr. Hansen is Director of EDC since 2004.
• He has worked in various administrative and management capacities in the oil service industry.
• Since 1993, he has been responsible for and worked on several CIS projects, including a 700 well workover project in Western Siberia and served as CFO of PetroAlliance Services Company Limited.
• CIS experience in corporate structuring, budgeting, accounting, financial/tax analysis, import/export, contract negotiations, as well as in other administrative and management functions.
• Mr. Hansen holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from the University of Iowa.

 Todd Gremillion

• Mr. Gremillion is a member of the Board of Directors of EDC since October 2007.
• He served as a partner in Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. legal company in Houston, USA.
• Mr. Gremillion manages international oil and gas transactions. For more than 20 years he has been involved in financial and legal issues related to acquisition of fuel and energy assets.
• In 1969, Mr. Gremillion obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts and in 1972 — the degree of the doctor of Law in the Louisiana State University.

Rene Huck

• Mr. Huck is a Director of EDC since October 2007.
• He is also Director of BWO, a Norwegian FPSO Company.
• In October 2005 Mr. Huck retired from Schlumberger where he held a variety of senior positions over 15 years, most recently as Vice-President QHSE and Industry Affairs.
• In 1988-1990 he served as CEO of the drilling contractor Techfor Cosifor. 
• Prior to that, Mr. Huck worked for 16 years as drilling and operations manager  and then President TOTAL Egypt at TOTAL S.A.
• Mr. Huck holds a Mechanical Engineer degree from Ecole Centrale in Nantes, France and Petroleum Engineer degree from French Petroleum Institute, Rueil Malmaison (Paris).