Robert Sheppard

"Mr Sheppard joined Soma Oil & Gas in August 2013. He is a Non-Executive Director of the Blackrock Emerging Europe Trust since 2010 and is a Director of DTEK Holding BV, the largest private energy company in the Ukraine. Bob is also a senior adviser to BP on Russia and the FSU. He served on the Board of TNK-BP until 2008 and was President of Sidanco prior to the merger that created TNK-BP. In his 40 plus years in the energy business, Mr. Sheppard has been the President of Amocos operations in Argentina and Egypt as well as Managing Director of GUPCO (Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company) and was Amocos Vice President for the UK North Sea in the late 80s. Mr. Sheppard graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1972 and has a Bachelors degree in Physics and Mathematics. He graduated from the Columbia University Business School in 1991 with an Executive MBA degree."