Board of Directors

Mr Maxwell is a leading oil and gas industry executive with more than 25 years’ experience in senior executive roles with Cooper Energy, BG Group (now owned by Shell), Woodside Energy and Santos.

Mr Maxwell was the Managing Director and CEO at Cooper Energy from October 2011 until his retirement in March 2023, where he lead the transformation and growth of the company into a leading gas supplier for South-east Australia. Prior to Cooper Energy, Mr Maxwell worked with the British multinational organisation BG Group, where he led the company’s LNG and gas entry into Australia and South-east Asia. His BG roles included a number of material acquisitions and responsibility for all commercial, exploration, business development, strategy and marketing activities for Australia. Before this Mr Maxwell held senior leadership positions at Woodside Energy, including three years on the Woodside Executive Committee.  

He was on the board of the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association from 2018-2023 and has served on a number of other industry association boards, government advisory groups and public company boards.

Mr Maxwell holds a Master of Technology from the Massey University and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Joanne is an experienced industry professional with more than 25 years’ experience in technical and executive roles with Woodside Petroleum, Newfield Exploration, Gulf Canada, Clyde Petroleum, Nido Petroleum and Blue Star Helium.

Joanne has been directly responsible for managing production operations, exploration drilling and development projects, capital raisings, asset transactions and joint venture interests throughout her career; including as Deputy Managing Director at Nido Petroleum and Managing Director at Blue Star Helium. Joanne is currently also a Non-executive Director of 88 Energy Limited, an Australian-listed explorer and producer and Jadestone Energy plc, an AIM-listed, SE Asian focussed producer.

Joanne is a Petroleum/Reservoir Engineer holding a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) from the University of Adelaide and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Robert has over 30 years of extensive international experience in the oil and gas and energy industries, covering senior commercial and leadership positions with BP as well as ASX and government board roles.  His BP career included exploration & production, gas & power and global M&A, with responsibility for numerous complex deals such as divestments, farm-ins, asset swaps, new acreage bids, unitisations, gas and LNG sales.

A former Managing Director of Challenger Energy Ltd and CEO of Eureka Energy Limited, Robert is also a director of the Mid West Port Authority and has served on a number of boards including the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, North West Shelf Gas Pty Ltd, North West Shelf Liaison Co. Pty Ltd, North West Shelf Australia LNG Pty Ltd, North West Shelf Shipping Services Co. Pty Ltd, Carbon Reduction Ventures Pty Ltd and Perth Centre for Photography. 

Robert is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators.  He holds an Honours Degree in Geography from Durham University in the UK and has completed Executive Education Programmes at Harvard Business School in the USA and Cambridge University in the UK.

Malcolm has 35 years of upstream oil and gas experience, mostly with Shell in technical, commercial and leadership roles across Asia and Australia. His Shell experience spans the exploration & production and gas & power businesses, participating in and leading exploration and M&A campaigns, and working extensively in LNG operations, business development and market development. More recently Malcolm led Senex Energy’s commercial and business development functions for the Cooper Basin oil and Queensland coal seam gas businesses. He currently provides consulting services to the energy industry and is an independent director on the board of Triangle Energy (Global) Ltd. 

Malcolm has a Bachelor of Applied Science (Geology) degree from the University of Southern Queensland and a Master of Science (Petroleum Geology) from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He is a Member of Australian Institute of Company Directors and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors Director Program.