the team

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Mr Welch is an international energy executive with over 30 years of industry experience having worked for Shell Oil Company and several large independents including Hunt Oil Company, Pioneer Natural Resources and as CEO of AIM listed explorer Chariot Oil and Gas (2009-2012). Mr Welch was appointed CEO of Sea Dragon Energy (2013-2015) in April 2013 and became a CEO of SDX Energy (2015-2019) following the merger with Madison PetroGas in October 2015. He was subsequently appointed CEO of Cosimo Holding Ltd in 2019 Mr Welch graduated from the Colorado School of Mines with both a Bachelor and Master's degrees in Petroleum Engineering. He also holds an MBA in Finance from the Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas.

Mr Orbell is a senior investment professional with 31 years of financial services experience. He was a Senior Solutions Director at Aberdeen Standard Investments from 2018 to 2019 where he worked on complex investment problems, multi-asset portfolios, and fiduciary management. Mr Orbell had previously held roles with Standard Life Investments (2014 – 2018) and Ignis Asset Management (2008 – 2014) where he was the Head of Hedge Fund Solutions and a Portfolio Manager. Mr Orbell was also an Executive Director at UBS in their structured credit department (2006 to 2007). In his early career, Mr Orbell worked for Nomura International (2000 – 2005), Credit Suisse First Boston and Credit Suisse Financial Products (1987 – 2000). Mr Orbell has a bachelor’s degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford.

Mr Firth is a senior investment professional with 25 years of financial services experience. He was a Portfolio Manager at Apollo Management International from 2013 to 2019 where he managed, analysed and invested in portfolios of Emerging Market Debt. Prior to Apollo, Mr Firth was a Managing Director at Credit Suisse (1996-2011) in the Global Credit Products Division. At Credit Suisse he held the roles of Head of European Distressed Debt Trading (2009-2011), Head of Corporate Credit Wind-Down and Legacy Assets (Europe and Asia) (2008-2009), and Portfolio Manager/Lead Trader within the Synthetic Structured Credit Group (1998-2008), he began his tenure at Credit Suisse as a Product Controller for the Asset Trading and Credit Derivative Group (1996-1998). Mr Firth holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Science from the University of the West of England, Bristol.

Dr Tyler is Charted Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering with 28 years of experience as a engineering consultant and company director.  He the managing director of Enabling Process Engineering Ltd (2003 – present), an engineering consultancy that works in the aerospace and energy sectors, working with companies such as Airbus and EDF, were he manages the day to day business, management accounts and contract, along with project management of complex engineering research and development projects.  Dr Tyler is also a director of La Tourelle Consultants Limited (2015 – present), Raphael Resources Limited (2019 – present) and Cosimo Holding Limited (2019 present).  He was a director of Carlo Holding Limited (2020-2020) that was instrumental in the purchase of Nathan River Resources, a iron ore mine in Australia.  Dr Tyler has a Masters degree in Engineering ( with Business Studies and German) and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sheffield, and post-doctoral research at UC Berkley.