Directors & Management
Douglas Jendry – Chairman
Doug Jendry is a highly experienced oil and gas executive with comprehensive experience both in Australia and internationally. Mr Jendry has held numerous board positions and executive management positions in the oil and gas sector and recently served on the boards of IPB Petroleum Limited, Talon Energy Limited, Capricorn Metals Limited and is an advisor to the Nero Resources Fund.
Timothy Handley – Managing Director & CEO
Tim Handley brings over 20 years of experience in energy sector leadership, corporate development and investment banking to the Company. He was most recently General Manager of Corporate Development & Investments at AusNet (a Brookfield consortium owned energy infrastructure company), where he successfully led the negotiations for the Western Renewables Link investment that will be capable of transporting over 3 gigawatts of electricity between western Victoria and Melbourne.
Previously, he served as Head of Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Development at Viva Energy Ltd, where he led commercial negotiations for its proposed Victorian LNG import terminal.
Tim’s career includes roles at UBS and Gresham Partners in Australia, six years in Brazil leading M&A projects, and experience as co-founder and Executive Chairman of ASX-listed LatAm Autos Ltd. His broad expertise across energy markets, major project commercial expertise, project funding and execution will be invaluable as Emperor Energy advances its flagship Judith Gas Field toward development.
Carl Dumbrell – Director & Company Secretary
Carl Dumbrell is a partner in a Sydney accounting firm with 20 years’ experience in taxation and assurance services in Australia and England, and with an on-going involvement in the raising of finance and the divestment of assets for listed companies.
Carl has Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Taxation Law degrees, and is a Chartered Accountant in both Australia and in England & Wales, as well as being a Chartered Tax Advisor, Registered Company Auditor, Registered Self-Managed Superannuation Fund Auditor, and Member of the Australia Institute of Company Directors.
Carl is a CEO and Executive Director of Herencia Resources Plc (AIM: HER), Chairman Mosman Oil & Gas Limited (AIM:MSMN) Chairman of the Kennedy Foundation, Chairman of St Michael’s Golf Club Foundation Ltd and President of St Michael’s Golf Club Limited.
Phil McNamara – Director
Mr McNamara is a Mining Engineer with 36 Years of experience in the Resources Industry. He is a qualified Coal Mine Manager having managed 3 underground coal mines across a 13 year period. He has held corporate roles with Junior Exploration Companies across the last 10 Years and was the Founding CEO and Managing Director of ASX listed Armour Energy (ASX: AJQ).
Phillip McNamara has been providing consulting services to Emperor Energy since 2016 and has played a key role in Emperor Energy’s progress to redefine the Judith gas prospect in the Company’s key Exploration Permit Vic/P47.
Nigel Harvey – Director
Mr Harvey is an experienced ASX Director and has previously been a Director of Emperor Energy. He is Chairman of a mid sized not for profit organisation and holds a wholesale Australian Financial Services Licence. Nigel operates a markets consulting practice predominantly on AFSL compliance.
Early in his career he was a business and finance journalist predominantly in London and the Middle East and subsequently worked as an investment banker in Sydney for several decades predominantly covering the Asia Pacific region for energy derivatives and hedging. He has held roles with large banks including JP Morgan and Macquarie.
He has undertaken the Australian Institute of Company Directors course including the two update courses.
Malcolm King – Director
Malcolm King has over 30 years experience in the upstream oil & gas industry in both technical and commercial leadership roles, most of this with Shell. During the first half of his career Malcolm worked as an exploration geologist with focus on opening new plays and developing new ventures across Australia, with a final technical role as Exploration Manager Timor Sea and Onshore Basins. During the second half of his career Malcolm has led upstream business development and commercial teams including deal delivery, LNG marketing and joint venture management in Australia as well as in global roles across Asia including Japan, Brunei, Singapore and Indonesia. More recently Malcolm has been leading the Commercial and then Business Development & New Ventures functions for Senex Energy.
A point to note in Malcolm’s technical background (with reference to Emperor Energy) is that while at Shell he was part of the team who developed the Judith play in the Gippsland Basin, including acquiring the acreage from LASMO at the time, and was later the well-site geologist during the drilling of the Judith-1 discovery. Judith is now the cornerstone asset for Emperor.
Malcolm has degrees in Applied Science (BSc, USQ) and Petroleum Geology (MSc, Aberdeen University, Scotland).
Steven Marshall – Chief Operating Officer
Steven is a qualified well engineer with extensive offshore drilling experience across 25 years in the North Sea, West Africa and more recently the Offshore Gippsland Basin with both GB Energy and CarbonNet.
As Operations Director for the Victorian Government’s CarbonNet Project, Steven led Australia’s first offshore Carbon Capture and Storage appraisal campaign, overseeing seismic, geophysical and geotechnical surveys, and the successful drilling of a landmark offshore well in 2019/20.
Most recently, Steven served as Chief Operating Officer for GB Energy Holdings Ltd, where he delivered the company’s inaugural offshore well in 2023 under budget, with zero harm, and full regulatory compliance while managing AGR and the Valaris-107 rig.
Geological Consultant
Geoff Geary – B.Sc. (Geology), MPESA
Geoff Geary is a consultant petroleum geologist (formerly with Oil Company of Australia and Mobil Oil) of 26 years standing and has a Technical Services Agreement through his company Focus on Australia Pty Ltd. He has had significant experience in company mergers, acquisitions, acreage promotion and farm outs in his career, both with smaller national companies and with major multi-nationals. He is experienced in sedimentary basin analysis, sequence stratigraphy, structural geology, seismic interpretation, basin modelling and oil and gas field evaluation and development.