Mr Terence Maxwell Barr
Managing Director
Mr Barr was appointed Managing Directors of the Company on 25 January 2005.  Mr Barr is a petroleum geologist with over 30 year’s experience, including 11 years with Santos.  In recent years, Mr Barr has specialised in tight gas exploration, drilling and completion and is considered an expert in this field. Prior to joining Samson, Mr Barr was employed as Managing Director by Ausam Resources from 1999 to 2003 and as was the owner of Barco Exploration from 2003 to 2005.

Mr Malcolm Alec Burne – Chairman
Non Executive Director
Mr Burne was appointed director of the Company on 29 April 1998.  Since 1996, Mr Burne has been Executive Chairman of Golden Prospect Plc, a UK listed Company which invests in the global natural resource sector. Mr Burne has controlled and managed fund managements, venture capital and investment banking companies in Australia, Hong Kong and North America.  Mr Burne has been a director of more than 20 public companies, many of them in mineral resources and gold exploration, as well as being executive chairman of Australian Bullion Company (Pty) Limited from 1983 to 1986, then one of Australia’s leading gold dealers and member of the Sydney Futures Exchange.  Mr Burne currently advises mining companies with interests in Canada, Australia and West Africa.

Mr Neil Thacker MacLachlan
Non Executive Director
Mr MacLachlan was appointed a director of the Company on 18 June 1998. Mr MacLachlan has over 27 years’ investment banking experience in Europe, South East Asia and Australia. Mr MacLachlan was a former director of Wardley Holdings Ltd and Wardley Australia Ltd from 1979 to 1986 and James Capel & Co. Limited from 1986 to 1990.  All three companies were investment banking subsidiaries of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC Holdings Ltd).    Mr MacLachlan was deputy managing director of Svenska Handelsbanken’s UK investment banking division from 1990 until 1993 and from 1993 until 1997, was employed by Barrick Gold Corporation as Executive Vice President, Asia.  Mr MacLachlan was also a non executive director of Golden Prospect Plc from 1997 to 2004.  Currently Mr MacLachlan is an Executive Director of Ambrian Partners Limited, a UK based investment bank specialising in the natural resources sector and which is a member of the London Stock Exchange. 

Mr David Thorwald Cairns B.Sc.(Geol.), M.Sc.(Env.Sc.), M.Aus.I.M.M
Non Executive Director
Mr. Cairns was appointed a director of the Company on 14 February 1994. Since 1990 he has been responsible for project development for another public company where his team successfully developed three gold mines in Western Australia [Marymia, Bullabulling and Chalice] and in Africa established the Obotan, Ghana and Golden Pride, Tanzania gold mines.  Mr Cairns is a geologist with over 35 years experience in exploration and mining of gold and base metals in Australia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Mr Cairns has been involved in the exploration, resource evaluation and project development of numerous projects in Australia and elsewhere.

Mr Neil Christian Fearis LL.B (Hons), MAICD, Asia
Alternate Director
Mr Fearis was appointed as an alternate director for Mr Malcolm Burne on 28 November 2005. Mr Fearis has 30 years experience as a commercial lawyer in the UK and Australia and is a member of several professional bodies associated with commerce and law.  From 1999 to 2005 Mr Fearis was a principal of the Western Australia law firm Fearis Salter Power Shervington.  Since 1 July 2005, Mr Fearis has acted as an independent legal consultant and currently consults to Minter Ellison Lawyers.

Dr Victor Rudenno
Non Executive Director
Dr Rudenno was appointed as a director of the Company on 11 April 2007.  In 1984, Dr Rudenno moved to the stock broking industry as a mining analyst working for firms such as James Capel, DBSM and Prudential Bache.  In 1995, Dr Rudenno moved to the corporate side of investment banking and worked for a number of leading firms including Macintosh Corporate, Deutsche Bank, Hartley Poynton and CIBC.

In 2002, Dr Rudenno co-founded Equity Capital Markets Ltd, an investment bank specialising in corporate advice and capital raising which merged with Interfinancial in 2005 where he is currently an Executive Director and Head of Resources.  He is a Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) and a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.  Dr Rudenno holds a Bachelor of Mining Engineering degree, a Master of Commerce degree and a Doctor of Philosophy for his thesis on Mining Economics.  During his academic career, Dr Rudenno lectured both at the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney predominantly on mining economics, geostatistics, operations research and minerals processing.

Mr Denis Ivan Rakich F.C.P.A
Company Secretary
Mr Rakich was appointed Company Secretary on 18 June 1998.  Mr Rakich is an accountant and Company secretary with extensive corporate experience within the petroleum services, petroleum and mineral production and exploration industries.  Mr Rakich is responsible for the legal, financial and corporate management of Samson Oil & Gas Limited.  He is a member of the Australian Society of Accountants and is currently Company Secretary for another public Company in the resources sector.

Ms Robyn Lamont
Chief Financial Officer
Ms Lamont has served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer since 1 May 2006, prior to which she served as Financial Controller since 2001.  Ms Lamont graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1999 with a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Accounting and Finance.  Ms Lamont worked for Arthur Andersen in Perth, Western Australia for three years and qualified as a Chartered Accountant through the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia in 2001.