Mr. Hibberd is currently Chairman of the Board of Canacol and brings over 40 years of industry and senior leadership experience to the Corporation. For over 27 years, Mr. Hibberd has been Chairman and CEO of MJH Services Inc., a corporate finance advisory firm. He is also currently Vice Chairman of Sunshine Oilsands Ltd., Chairman of PetroFrontier Corp. and serves as a board member of CanAsia Energy Corp. Formerly, he was Chairman of Heritage Oil Plc, Heritage Oil Corporation and Greenfields Petroleum Corporation; and former director of Montana Exploration Corp., Avalite Inc., Challenger Energy Corp., Deer Creek Energy, Iteration Energy Ltd., Pan Orient Energy Corp., Rally Energy Corp., Sagres Energy, Skope Energy Inc. and Zapata Energy Corporation. Mr. Hibberd holds a BA and an MBA from the University of Toronto and an LLB from Western University. He is also a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.
Mr. Gamba is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Canacol, a role he has held since he founded the Corporation in 2008. Mr. Gamba has 29 years of international oil and gas experience, and has previously worked for Imperial Oil, Canadian Occidental Oil and Gas, Occidental Petroleum, and Alberta Energy Company in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, West Africa, Canada, and Latin America. He has served on the board of directors of several publicly listed and private oil and gas companies where he held positions on the ESG, audit, reserves, HSE and compensation committees. Mr. Gamba currently sits on the board of the Asociación Colombiana de Petroleo and Naturgas, two industry groups that form upstream, midstream and downstream policy for the oil and gas industry in Colombia. Mr. Gamba holds a B.Sc., an M.Sc., and a Ph.D. in Geology.
Dr. Winter is the Chief Executive Officer and Director of each of Horizon Petroleum Ltd. and Miramar Hydrocarbons Ltd. He is also a Director of Nevada Lithium Resources Inc. He was a co-founder of Canacol. Previously, Dr. Winter was the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Excelsior Energy Limited, an oil sands focused exploration company. Dr. Winter brings 40 years of international experience in a variety of technical, management and leadership roles living and working in Latin America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and the UK North Sea. His experience was gained working at British Petroleum, Sun Oil, Canadian Occidental, Alberta Energy Company, Calvalley Petroleum and Excelsior Energy Limited. Dr. Winter holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Geology from the University of London, an M.Sc. in Structural Geology and Rock Mechanics from Imperial College, University of London and a Ph.D. in Structural Geology from Edinburgh University.
Mr. Diaz has close to 30 years of experience as an international executive and general manager. Mr. Diaz is currently the Managing Partner at Evolvere Capital SAS, a private equity firm that manages various portfolio companies in Colombia, Latin America, and Spain. He is also the Chairman of the Board and Chair of the Audit Committee of Systemgroup, a financial services company which operates in seven Latin American countries. Mr. Diaz previously occupied the position of President and Chief Executive Officer for Organización Corona SA, and various executive positions for Monsanto Company including President of the Global Food Ingredients Division, Vice President of Global Strategy, and Vice President and General Manager for Latin America. Mr. Diaz currently leads a foundation that provides nutrition to more than 45,000 disadvantaged children in Colombia. Mr. Diaz received an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University, a graduate degree from the J.L. Kellog Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a graduate degree from Hult International Business School.
After 20 years in the banking industry covering the oil and gas and power industries, Mr. Gattass is now a board member of several energy and power companies. Having started working in the equity research department of Banco Icatu, Mr. Gattass later moved to UBS and BTG Pactual, where he was ranked a top analyst in energy and power for many years and where he ran the bank’s LatAm research and development department from 2009 onwards. Upon leaving BTG Pactual in 2015, Mr. Gattass joined the boards of Petrobras and its fuel distribution subsidiary BR Distribuidora, and later joined a number of other boards in the energy, power and water utility space. Mr. Gattass holds a degree in Economics from PUC-Rio.
Mr. Tovar Leopardi brings over 33 years of senior leadership experience in the banking, automotive and telecommunication industries. His expertise extends to legal and business affairs, banking and capital market regulation, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Tovar Leopardi is currently the Managing Partner of Escritorio Tovar – Lange S.C.P. and he is the CEO of Iveco Group Venezuela, C.A. and Inversiones Popolis, C.A. Mr. Tovar Leopardi is also a director of Corporación Digitel C.A., and DP Delta Finance B.V. (Netherlands). He holds a Law degree with a specialization in Administrative Law from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.
Ms. Garbarini has more than 10 years of experience as Finance Director at the Cisnero Blavia Family Office leading the finance and legal affairs departments internationally and focusing on the areas of energy, telecommunications and social responsibility. She is also a board member of Corporación Digitel C.A., a telecommunication company in Venezuela. She was a board member of the Universidad Iberoamericana in Bogotá, ambassador of the Sino PLPE Federation in Macao, of Fundación Unidos en Red and of GEN Global. Ms. Garbarini graduated cum laude in Business Management, Marketing and International Studies from Bentley University in Boston, Massachusetts.