Calgary, AB, Canada - June 23, 2014, Calgary, AB, Canada - Sonde Resources Corp., an oil and gas company, announced that Kurt A. Nelson has been appointed chief financial officer, effective July 1, 2014.
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Mr. Nelson was Sonde’s Chief Financial Officer from March 2011 until August 2013 and has remained active as a consultant to the Company. Mr. Nelson served as the Chief Accounting Officer, Vice President and Controller of Harvest Natural Resources Inc., from November 2001 to May 31, 2008. He served as Manager of Operations Analysis at Anadarko Petroleum Corporation from September 2000 to November 2001.
Mr. Nelson spent one year consulting, then 19 years with The Louisiana Land and Exploration Company and its successor Burlington Resources Inc., served as its Manager of Business Development from October 1997 to January 1999, Portfolio Manager from January 1997 to October 1997, Manager of Finance and Administration Houston Division from 1993 to October 1997, and various other positions, including Assistant Controller of Exploration and Production and Assistant Tax Director.
Mr. Nelson holds a B.B.A. degree in Business Administration from the University of Houston and is a Certified Public Accountant. He is replacing Rene Beaumier who resigned as Chief Financial Officer effective June 30, 2014.
Since 2010, Mr. Beaumier has worked as a consultant including acting CFO for Anglo Canadian Oil Corp., a Western Canada focused oil and gas company. Prior thereto, he spent 20 years with Nexen Inc. and Talisman Energy Inc. primarily on international assignments in Nigeria, Sudan and Indonesia. Mr. Beaumier started his career with the Calgary office of Deloitte LLP.
He received his bachelor of commerce degree from the University of Calgary in 1986 and is a Chartered Accountant.
The Sonde Board of Directors has appointed Mike Adams as Chairman of the Board effective after the AGM.
Mr. Adams joined the Sonde Board in March 2014. Mr. Adams is currently an independent energy business consultant based in Vancouver and Calgary with more than 40 years of experience mainly in petroleum reserves and resource analysis, and energy related M&A transactions. Until 2013, he was Vice President Global Business Development and Internal Qualified Reserves Evaluator with Talisman Energy.
Prior thereto Mr. Adams was Managing Director of Waterous and Co., an investment bank, in its Calgary, Houston and London offices. Mr. Adams started his career with Shell International with assignments in the UK, Norway, the Netherlands and Brunei.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Chemistry from Imperial College, London University and a Master of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the Royal School of Mines, London University. ■