Mr. Bednar is a Chartered Professional Accountant with ‎‎more than 25 years of direct professional experience in ‎‎‎the financial and regulatory management of oil and gas ‎‎companies listed on the TSX, TSX Venture ‎Exchange, ‎‎American Stock Exchange and Australia Stock Exchange. ‎In 2008, he was a founding director and Chair of the Audit Committee of Canacol and in 2015 he resigned from ‎this position to become Canacol’s CFO. ‎Mr. Bednar has been the CFO of ‎several international oil and gas ‎‎exploration and production companies, most notably the founding CFO of Pan Orient Energy Corp., a South East ‎Asian exploration company. He has previously sat on the ‎board of directors of ‎several internationally focused ‎‎exploration and production ‎companies. Mr. ‎Bednar ‎holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the ‎‎University of ‎Saskatchewan‎.

Mr. Sharma has 30 years of oil and natural gas ‎experience in the Americas, the Middle East, Russia, ‎Australasia, and Africa. He has held senior management ‎roles at major exploration and production companies ‎worldwide. He was Head of Production & Operations with ‎Afren Plc., Global Petroleum Engineering Manager for ‎BHP Billiton Petroleum and Worldwide Chief Reservoir ‎Engineer for Occidental Oil & Gas Company. Mr. Sharma ‎holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from ‎the University of Alberta‎.

Mr. Satterfield joined Canacol from Sanchez Oil and Gas Corporation where he served as Senior Vice President of New Ventures and Geosciences. Previously he worked for Occidental Petroleum for 22 years in the Americas, Middle East, Africa, and SE Asia in various geotechnical roles culminating as Exploration Manager in Bogota Colombia. Mr. Satterfield has a BSc and MA in geology from the University of Texas in Austin.

Mr. Zaidi is a lawyer and businessman with significant ‎experience in corporate finance and in the mining and ‎energy sector in Colombia. Prior to joining Canacol, Mr. ‎Zaidi was the President and General Counsel of Carrao Energy Ltd., a ‎private oil and gas exploration company he co-founded ‎and co-managed until its acquisition by Canacol in ‎November 2011. Prior to Carrao Energy Ltd., he had been an officer ‎or director of several private and public companies, ‎including Integral Oil Services, Pacific Rubiales Energy, ‎Petromagdalena Energy, Medoro Resources and others, ‎as well as a securities lawyer at Blake, Cassels & Graydon ‎LLP. Mr. Zaidi is also currently a director of Arrow Exploration Corp.  Mr. Zaidi holds a Juris Doctor degree from the ‎University of Toronto as well as a Bachelor of Commerce ‎‎(Finance) degree from McGill University‎‎‎.

Ms. Whitmore joined Canacol in 2013 as Director of ‎Taxation and was appointed Vice President of Taxation and ‎‎Corporate Affairs in April 2019.  Ms. Whitmore has over ‎‎25 years of experience in international tax planning, ‎consulting, ‎and corporate governance. Prior to joining Canacol, she worked for Hemisphere GPS, a U.S. ‎based technology ‎company and at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a Senior ‎Manager in the International Tax Services Group helping ‎clients ‎with cross-border reorganizations, offshore ‎financing and international acquisitions mainly in the ‎energy industry. Ms. ‎Whitmore is a Chartered ‎Professional Accountant and holds an Honors in Business ‎Administration degree from the ‎Ivey Business School‎‎‎‎.

Ms. Orozco joined Canacol in 2010. She has over 18 years of experience in both investor relations and banking. ‎Prior ‎to joining Canacol, she worked at Citibank in corporate banking covering the infrastructure and ‎pharmaceutical sector, ‎and in wealth management as a financial and investment advisor where she leveraged her learnings at Tolhurst Noall ‎an equity research and brokerage firm based in Australia. Ms. Orozco holds a B.Sc. in ‎Applied Finance from McQuarie ‎University‎‎‎.

Ms. Aurora Juan joined Canacol in 2010. She has over 20 years experience in the energy industry in Canada, ‎Colombia, Ecuador and France. Prior to joining the Corporation she held senior reservoir engineering roles at ‎Vermilion Energy, Acclaim Energy, EnCana and PanCanadian Petroleum. Ms. Juan is a Professional Engineer in ‎the Province of Alberta and holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering with a Petroleum Minor from the University of ‎Calgary‎‎‎.