Leadership
Leadership Team
Abdel (Abby) Badwi
Chief Executive Officer & Executive Chairman
Mr. Badwi is a geologist and petroleum industry executive with more than 40 years of international upstream experience, leading public and private energy companies with oil and gas assets in many international jurisdictions.
Doug Urch
Chief FINANCIAL Officer
Mr. Urch brings over 40 years of international oil and gas financial leadership experience to the executive team of TAG Oil. From 2019 to 2024, he was EVP and CFO of PetroTal Corp. (TSX and AIM listed), operating in Peru, after serving as a Director and Board Chair from 2017 to 2019. From 2008 to 2018, he was EVP and CFO of Bankers Petroleum Ltd. (TSX and AIM listed), operating in Albania. From 2000 to 2008 he was VP and CFO of Rally Energy Corp. (Scimitar Hydrocarbons) (TSX listed), operating in Egypt. His international experience also includes Colombia, Pakistan, Turkey, Hungary, Romania and the USA. Mr. Urch has been a Director for both listed (TSX, Nasdaq & AIM), and private companies, providing strategic financial management and strong corporate governance. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), a designated member of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD), a member of the Financial Executives Institute (FEI) and graduate from the University of Calgary (B.Comm. -1980).
Gamal Rezk
VP And General Manager Egypt
Mr. Rezk served as VP of Finance, and then CFO, of Scimitar Production Egypt from June 2006 until he joined TAG Oil in 2020. Prior to that he served as Finance Administration Director at VA Tech Siemens (originally VA Tech Transmission & Distribution Limited) from 1999 to 2006. He has more than 24 years of oil and gas industry experience and is a Commerce graduate from the University of Cairo.
Giuseppe (Pino) Perone
Corporate Secretary and General Counsel
Mr. Perone is a lawyer by background and has extensive corporate experience that stems from practicing as corporate counsel, as well as serving as an executive and director, for various public and private companies in the resource and technology sectors.
Aly Soliman
DRILLING AND OPERATIONS MANAGER
Mr. Soliman is a senior production operations and drilling manager with 40+ years experience operating production facilities, field supervision, and managing drilling departments operations onshore and offshore internationally and Egypt with strong experience in implementing HSSE guidelines and regulations. Prior to joining TAG Oil, he held senior positions with several petroleum companies including Apex International, Norpetco, Tethys and various other IOCs operating in Egypt. Mr. Soliman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering, from the University of Cairo.
Kareem Othman
subsurface manager
Mr. Othman is a senior subsurface and exploration geophysicist with more than 20 years of international experience delivering integrated subsurface evaluations and exploration success across major petroleum provinces including the Western Desert, Gulf of Suez, Nile Delta, Mediterranean offshore Egypt, and the German North Sea. Proven track record of leading end-to-end subsurface workflows from seismic acquisition planning, processing supervision, and advanced interpretation through quantitative interpretation (QI), seismic inversion, reservoir characterization, prospect maturation, and well proposal delivery. Experience includes several years with Egyptian National Petroleum for Exploration and Development Company (ENPEDCO), Badr El Din Petroleum Company (BAPETCO - Shell/EGPC) in Egypt, and German E&P companies, DEA in Egypt and RWE in the North Sea. Mr. Othman is a graduate in 2021 from Ain Shams University in Cairo, BSc. Geophysics
Board of Directors
Abdel (Abby) Badwi
Executive Chairman
Mr. Badwi is a geologist and petroleum industry executive with more than 40 years of international upstream experience, leading public and private energy companies with oil and gas assets in many international jurisdictions.
Keith Hill
Director
Mr. Hill is the Chairman of Black Pearl Resources Inc. (TSX: PXX) and ShaMaran Petroleum Corp. (TSX-V: SNM), and is currently the CEO of Africa Oil Corp. (TSX-V: AOI). Prior to this, Mr. Hill was instrumental in developing Valkyries Petroleum Corp.
Shawn Reynolds
Director
Mr. Reynolds is Portfolio Manager of Van Eck Associates Corporation which he joined in 2005. He currently serves as Portfolio Manager for Van Eck’s Global Hard Assets Strategy where he is responsible for company research and portfolio construction.
Thomas Hickey
Director
Mr. Hickey is an attorney of the State of California and Solicitor of the Senior Court of England and Wales. Mr. Hickey brings to TAG over 20 years’ international oil and gas sector experience in M&A, corporate governance, compliance & ethics, and group restructuring and consolidation during his time with the operators Hess Corporation and Kuwait Energy and the service contractors Transocean and Subsea 7. Beginning his career in London, England, Mr. Hickey has since been expatriated to Houston, New York, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait City and Paris to support growth strategies and implement fit-for-purpose and effective corporate governance and compliance. Mr. Hickey recently acted as Head of Corporate Legal and M&A, and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, for Roquette Frères S.A., and is currently General Counsel for INSEAD. Mr. Hickey received an MBA from Strathclyde University (distinction) and is a certified CEDR mediator.
Gavin Wilson
Director
Gavin Wilson is an Investment Manager for Meridian Group of Companies, a private investment company, which has a significant shareholding in TAG Oil. Mr. Wilson was the Founder and Manager of RAB Energy and RAB Octane, listed investment funds, from 2004 until 2011.