Management & Directors

Michael C. Judson, ICD.D, Chairman & CEO
Mr. Judson has been a founder of numerous private and public companies. He has organized and overseen the investment of more than $200 million in oil and gas exploration and production, mineral exploration and mining in North America, Europe and Africa. Mr. Judson became Chairman and CEO of Record Resources in 2020 following its restructuring. Through his financial advisory, Judson & Cie, Mr. Judson counselled Record Resources during its set-up in 2014 and during its re-listing as a public company in 2022. He is also a director of T5 Oil and Gas Limited, Dublin. Mr. Judson graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor of Arts and received the Loyola Campus Medal for leadership in student affairs. He graduated from the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) and the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University Directors Education Program and became an Institute-certified Director (ICD.D).

Alain Mizelle, President & COO
Mr. Mizelle holds a Ms. (Geology) and Msc. (Engineering) Mining from Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a former petroleum geologist with Energy Africa Ltd (acquired by Tullow Oil & Gas).  Mizelle was involved with the exploration and development of the offshore and onshore oilfields: Nkossa, Moho-Bilondo, N’Soko, Haute Mer in Congo-Brazzaville and over 20 oil blocks onshore and offshore Gabon. Mizelle helped guide Energy Africa’s farm-in of Blocks F&G in Equatorial Guinea which included the discovery of over two billion barrels of oil at the Ceiba-Okoume complex. He also advised on Energy Africa’s entry into the Kouilou Block the result of which saw the company participate in the development of the M’Boundi field in onshore Congo-Brazzaville. Mr. Mizelle was the founder of GGPC (Gulf of Guinea Petroleum Corp) and co-founder and director of FirstAfrica Oil Plc which, following US$100 million financing, developed the EOV and Epaemeno assets in Gabon. As founder and owner of privately-held Prevail Energy Ltd, Mizelle negotiated and acquired a 20% interest in the giant, MKB (Mengo-Kundji-Bindi) asset in onshore Congo. Alain has negotiated and signed PSC’s and JOAs in West Africa and is well versed with all aspects of E&P projects negotiation, management and operations. He is currently a director of T5 Oil and Gas Limited, Dublin.

Robert Kramberger, Vice-President, Investor Relations & Capital Markets
Robert Kramberger has more than twenty-two years of capital markets and corporate marketing experience in the oil and gas and mining industries. Mr. Kramberger was instrumental in the raising of more than $200 million for three natural resource issuers listed on the TSX and TSXV. Mr. Kramberger is a career-entrepreneur and has expertise in all aspects of public company disclosure and shareholder relations. He is also a skilled financial strategist and tactician. 

David  A. Johnson, Corporate Secretary & Legal Counsel
David Johnson is an attorney specializing in corporate law, commercial and securities law. David manages commercial transactions concerning both public and private companies. Mr. Johnson has several years’ experience at the senior management, board level and general counsel in a variety of companies across several industries including mining and mineral exploration. David received a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) from Queen’s University, a Master of Urban Planning (M.U.P.), Bachelor of Common Law (LL.B.) and a Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) from McGill University. He became a member of the Quebec Bar and has since completed the Directors’ Education Program at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and has been certified at the Institute of Corporate Directors, (ICD.D). 

Robin Sutherland, Director
Mr. Sutherland was Exploration Manager for Tullow Oil during the discovery and appraisal of Ghana’s Jubilee Oil Field in 2007. The field was co-developed by Kosmos Energy, Anadarko, and Tullow. Jubilee was considered one of the largest oil discoveries of its kind in West Africa. During its peak it was producing over 110,000 barrels of oil per day. Sutherland was also instrumental in the discovery and appraisal of the TEN oil fields in Ghana and exploration and appraisal campaigns across the east African rift, including the South Lokichar basin in Kenya, before becoming Tullow’s General Manager Exploration Africa in 2015. Sutherland is presently a director of Invictus Energy Limited. He is joined there by well-known oil and gas executive, John Bentley, the leader of the management team that launched Cape Town-Energy Africa Ltd in 1995. Sutherland joined Energy Africa in 1997 as a specialist geophysicist and was instrumental in making several important hydrocarbon resource discoveries prior to the acquisition of Energy Africa by Tullow in 2004. In 2020, Robin launched a successful consultancy business, assisting companies with exploration, appraisal and development of Africa’s extensive natural resources. During this period he co-founded the Mozambique-Southern Africa Power Project designed to utilize Mozambique’s gas resources to generate power locally and across southern Africa.

Bill Torr, Director
Mr. Torr started his career as finance manager with Engen Exploration and its North Sea investments and operations at the Alba and Britannia fields in the early 1990s. Engen Exploration division became Energy Africa in the 1996 and was sold to Tullow Oil, Dublin, in 2004. Torr had been company secretary at the inception of Energy Africa and became its Chief Financial Officer in the four years prior to its sale. During his period with Energy Africa, Torr was responsible for raising financing for oil and gas asset development in Equatorial Guinea, the North Sea and elsewhere. He was also responsible for funding the acquisition of the M’Boundi oil and gas block located onshore in the Republic of Congo. M’Boundi was subsequently developed by Maurel & Prom, Paris, and, later sold to ENI. Production there reached 56,000 barrels of oil per day. At Energy Africa, Torr was involved in defending the company against a hostile takeover bid from the Malaysian national oil company, Petronas. Following the Petronas action, Energy Africa was acquired by Tullow. Subsequent to the Tullow Oil takeover, Torr became General Manager for Tullow South Africa and was responsible for its local operations as well as involvement in commercial issues in different African countries. Torr exited Tullow in 2015 and joined Africa Energy Corp (AEC), a Lundin group company comprised of many former executives from Energy Africa and Tullow. During this period, Torr was involved in a review of opportunities and assets in and beyond Southern Africa, including acquiring an interest in Block 11B/12B located off the South African coast operated by Total Energies, Paris. This acquisition led to the subsequent discoveries of the Brulpadda and Luiperd gas and condensate fields. Torr, since 2019, has been a financial and commercial consultant based in Cape Town, South Africa, for both AEC and Africa Oil Corp (Meren).

Nathalie Kavanagh, Director, Interim CFO
Nathalie Kavanagh has over 25 years’ experience as a Chartered Professional Accountant. After completing her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration at l’École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in 1992, she joined Richter LLP’s audit division and for 10 years worked in their Montreal and Toronto offices. She later joined their tax practice as a Senior Manager within the Estates Group.  Coming from an entrepreneurial background, Mrs. Kavanagh has owned and managed a family business for 8 years and has been a finance executive for owner-managed companies. She currently works as CFO of a residential real estate group in Montreal.

Dr. Paul Craig, Director
Dr. Craig has been involved with oil & gas exploration in Alaska, USA, since 1993 with private and public companies. Dr. Craig’s Great-Uncle, Roy Turner, was the founder of the Turner Oil Company and subsequently served as Governor of Oklahoma. Dr. Craig and his companies acquired and sold half of the one-billion barrel Umiat Oil Field (Alaska North Slope); an interest in the Badami Oil Field (through ownership in Savant Alaska, LLC); and, several other major oil and gas prospects. Dr. Craig is presently active developing geothermal prospects in Alaska in a private company. Dr. Craig is also board-certified in clinical neuropsychology – practicing in Alaska since 1980.  He is a Clinical Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Craig was elected to serve as the Treasurer of the American Psychological Association where he was responsible for oversight of a $115 million dollar annual operating budget during the 2008 financial crisis. Dr. Craig and Michael Judson were founding directors of Record Resources.