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Board of Directors

MR PETER N. HOGAN

MR PETER N. HOGAN

CHAIRMAN, NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR  

Appointed to the Board on 29 August 2008, elected as Chairman 9 March 2017.

BBus, CA

Mr Hogan is a Chartered Accountant providing business advisory services to a diverse range of clients. Mr Hogan worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers for 23 years, including 17 years as Partner before retiring in 2008. He has extensive experience in providing business advisory services to Australian and overseas listed public companies and large private companies. He has particular experience with companies in the consumer and industrial product sectors and the mining sector.

During the past three years Mr Hogan has held the following other ASX listed company Directorships:

  • OneAll International Ltd (from December 2015) Non-Executive Director
  • Mr Hogan is also Deputy Chairman of Villa Maria Catholic homes Ltd which operates in the retirement living, aged care, social housing, disability and disability education sectors.
MR HUIHAI ZHUANG

MR HUIHAI ZHUANG

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Appointed 29 October 2015

BS

Mr Zhuang is 100% owner of our cornerstone investor Kam Lung Investment Development Company (Kam Lung). Mr Zhuang was appointed to the Board as the nominee for Kam Lung following their increase in shareholding to 19.99%. Mr Zhuang brings to the board strong networks across Chinese business and government sectors which is anticipated to create a more effective cultural and relationship building leverage for the Company in doing business in China.

Mr Zhuang holds a BS degree from Shantou University.

MR GEORGE SU SU

MR GEORGE SU

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Appointed to the Board 4 December 2015

BA (Bus Admin)

Mr Su has over 30 years business experience in the Asia Pacific region and is currently based in Sydney.  Mr Su was formerly head of the Australian operations of CITIC Securities, China’s largest investment bank, between 2009 and 2013. He continues to work with CITIC Securities as their business partner for Australia through Silk Road Corporate Finance Pty Ltd, providing corporate advisory services.

Mr Su also served as an independent director on the board of Macquarie Bank’s China property fund between 2006 and 2014. Born in China, Mr Su was educated in China and USA and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Hamline University, Saint Paul, USA.

Mr Su originally served as Alternate Director and translator for Mr Zhuang and was elected as a Non-Executive Director 9 March 2017.

During the past three years Mr Su has held the following other listed Directorships:

  • Oriental Technologies Investment Limited (from September 2007) Non-Executive Director after serving as Managing Director since 1998
  • YPB Group Limited (from July 2014) Non-Executive Director

MR BRYAN O'DONNELL

MANAGING DIRECTOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Appointed to the Board 8 January 2018

BE Civil Hons 1

Mr O’Donnell is a seasoned oil & gas executive and brings a wealth of commercial, operating and project development experience to Carbon Energy at this critical point in its next phase of growth.

Mr O’Donnell has extensive commercial and upstream petroleum development expertise from over 30 years managing oil, gas and CSG developments for ExxonMobil, Oil Search, Arrow Energy, Westside Corporation and BHP Petroleum. Prior to joining the Carbon Energy Limited, Mr O’Donnell was part of the Westside Executive Team as the Development Manager responsible for the Meridian Development.  Previously, Mr O’Donnell was the General Manager Surat Development for Arrow Energy where he was responsible for managing the Surat upstream LNG development, domestic gas projects and the LNG ramp gas commercial strategy and the negotiation of a number of GSAs.  Prior to that, Mr O’Donnell was the Manager of Projects for Oil Search Limited where he managed successful safe delivery of more than $US800 Million of oil & gas development projects. 

Mr O’Donnell has an engineering degree from UNSW (BE Civil Hons 1)