Executive Committee

Frances Ward

Chief Financial Officer

Ross Glover

Chief Executive Officer

Thamala Perera Schuetze

General Counsel and Company Secretary

Ann-marie Wilkinson

Chief of Staff

Frances Ward

Chief Financial Officer

Frances is a qualified accountant with over 15 years’ senior management experience within the international oil and gas sector.

Her previous experience includes 11 years at Nexen Energy (now part of CNOOC) in various senior finance roles in their London and Calgary offices.

Frances joined Star Energy in 2017 as Group Financial Controller, then assuming overall responsibility for the finance function as Finance Director in July 2020 and was appointed as CFO in September 2022.

Ross Glover

Chief Executive Officer

Ross was appointed CEO in 2024, having been COO since 2022 and before that responsible for both new business and project development since he joined the Company in 2017.

Prior to joining Star Energy, he ran a UK based renewable energy project development company with a focus on onshore wind. Ross started his career in Southern Africa managing capital projects in the mineral processing and mining sector. After moving to the UK in 2003, he worked for one of the UK’s largest public sector leasing and managed equipment services companies where he was responsible for corporate acquisitions, disposals and structured finance.

Ross holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from Warwick Business School.

Thamala Perera Schuetze

General Counsel and Company Secretary

Thamala is a General Counsel with over 20 years’ experience. Prior to the reverse takeover of Star Energy Group Limited (then a wholly-owned subsidiary of PETRONAS) by the Company in 2011, Thamala was a member of the management team and the General Counsel of Star Energy responsible for the European Infrastructure Group of PETRONAS, with a primary focus on gas storage.

Thamala was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2000 and during her career has held (among others) positions at the regulator, Ofgem, where she advised on electricity, gas and LNG projects and at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in the telecoms sector.

Thamala holds a Master of Laws (LLM) in European Law from King’s College London.

Ann-marie Wilkinson

Chief of Staff

A communications and investor relations professional with over 25 years’ experience Ann-marie joined Star Energy in 2013. She was appointed Chief of Staff in 2023 having assumed additional managerial responsibilities for HR, IS, Security and Business Support.

Ann-marie has advised many energy sector companies as a financial public relations and corporate relations consultant having previously worked at M Communications, Bell Pottinger and Beattie Media. She also worked as a PRO at Smith New Court having joined from the Corporate Finance department at Touche Ross.

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