Edmund Pery joins Roxi Petroleum

It was announced on 3 February 2010 that Edmund Pery (7th Earl of Limerick) has joined the board of Roxi Petroleum as a non-executive director.

He was described as follows in the Roxi Petroleum news release:

"Edmund Limerick has been involved in Central Asia and financing the oil and gas business for the last 18 years. He is a manager of the Altima Central Asia Fund which has invested in private equity in the oil sector in many countries in the region, and prior to that he spent many years in Deutsche Bank as a project financier and senior oil and gas investment banker in Moscow, London and Dubai.

Previously Edmund was a solicitor with Milbank Tweed in Moscow and Freshfields and Clifford Chance in London. His early career was spent in HM Diplomatic Service with postings in Paris, Dakar and Amman. He was educated in Oxford, London, Moscow and Paris and speaks Russian.

He is a non-executive director of Chagala Ltd, Saddleback Mining Ltd, GCRC 1 Ltd, a Governor of Ardingly College and a member of the Association of Conservative Peers."

Here are a number of links describing Edmund's pedigree:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Pery,_7th_Earl_of_Limerick

http://www.altimapartners.com/

http://www.chagalagroup.com/index.php?lang=eng

http://www.saddlebackcorp.com/board_directors.htm

http://www.roxipetroleum.com/PDFs/Rns030210.pdf