JHI was founded in 2011 by a highly dedicated, successful team with expertise in finding, financing and developing offshore plays. The company began its application for the Canje Block in 2013. Our decades of combined experience have allowed us to bring relationships with potential joint venture partners, service providers and investors to help secure JHI’s ability to fully develop our opportunities offshore Guyana.

Executive Team

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John Cullen, CEO & Director

  • 30 years experience in public company financing, corporate/ capital structuring and management

  • 20+ years corporate experience in Guyana petroleum exploration

  • Founded a number of public international resource companies following 15 years in the Canadian investment industry

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Andres Tinajero, CFO

  • Over 20 years experience supporting a broad range of industries, including oil and gas, mining, manufacturing and technology

  • Served as CFO and Vice President of Finance for several mid-sized public companies

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Frederick Cedoz, President & Director

  • Attorney specializing in energy industry mergers and acquisitions, structuring and financing international oil and gas projects

  • Over 15 years advising institutional investors on the politics of energy

  • Government clients have included: Nigeria, Sao Tome & Principe, Republic of Congo, Ecuador, the United States Department of Energy and the Canadian provinces of Alberta & Saskatchewan

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Richard Boyce, Executive Vice President & Director

  • More than 33 years in worldwide oil and gas development as geoscientist and engineer

  • Former Chief Geophysicist for Hunt Oil with significant deepwater exploration expertise including: Nigeria, Sao Tome & Principe, Sierra Leone and Togo

  • Led Hunt’s onshore Guyana exploration

  • Proven oil finder: >300 MMBO in Yemen adding 50,000 bbl to daily production

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Brian Maxted, Senior Advisor to the Board of Directors

  • Joined JHI in 2020 and brings over three decades of experience in providing strategic guidance to the Company

  • He is currently Director of Limatus Energy Advisory Ltd. and former Co-Founder and CEO of Kosmos Energy.

Business Team

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Scott Young, Vice President, Corporate Development

  • Expertise in natural resources finance

  • Extensive institutional finance networks in North and South America, Europe and Hong Kong

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Kevin Sylvester, Strategic Advisor, International New Ventures

  • Nearly 40 years of professional experience as a subsurface geotechnical specialist with both major and independent oil companies

  • Focus areas include: Guyana, North Sea, Russia/FSU, West Africa and the Middle East

  • Represents JHI in the European market

  • Works closely with senior management on identification of international new venture opportunities

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John Gorman, Strategic Advisor

  • 40+ year career in financial/corporate development capacities

  • hands-on experience and senior credentials in commercial bank resource exploration and production and asset-based lending and workout, domestic and international energy exploration asset acquisition and farmout, and technology and project consulting across the natural resource sector.

  • Worked with stakeholders, management, major industry partners, government officials and state oil and gas companies in over 50 OECD and non-OECD developed and developing countries.