VAALCO ENERGY INC (EGY)
Sector: Energy
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Sector: Energy
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Director information for EGY
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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| EGY | Director; Member of the Audit Committee; Chair | 52 | ["Over 25 years of experience in mining, banking, telecoms, mergers and acquisitions and international finance","Chief Executive Officer of ACT Afrique","Chairman of the board of directors of Airtel Money Gabon","Board member of Gabon Power Company","Executive president of the board of directors of Gabon Angel Investing Network","Member of the Board of the Fonds Gabonais d’Investissements Strategiques","Director of Investment Banking for Standard Bank PLC","Group Corporate Finance Manager for Celtel International","Held various roles at Citibank Gabon"] | ["Audit","Compensation","ESG","Strategic","Ethics and Good Governance Committee","Audit Committee","Risk Committee","ESG Committee","Strategic Committee"] | 2026 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Mr. Nze-Bekale joined the Board in 2022. He has over 25 years of experience in mining, banking, telecoms, mergers and acquisitions and international finance. Mr. Nze-Bekale has served on numerous boards and as a senior executive across his career. He currently serves as an independent director on the Board of Orabank Gabon, where he is also the Chairman of the Ethics and Good Governance Committee and serves on the Audit Committee and the Risk Committee. Mr. Nze-Bekale is the Chairman of the board of directors of Airtel Money Gabon, a role he began in 2021. He was appointed to the board of directors of Gabon Power Company, the Gabonese sovereign wealth fund s vehicle dedicated to developing PPPs in the utilities sector, in January 2024. He also began serving as the executive president of the board of directors of Gabon Angel Investing Network in 2021. From 2012 to 2020, he was a member of the Board of the Fonds Gabonais d Investissements Strategiques, Gabon s sovereign wealth fund. He has also served on the Boards of several Gabonese mining companies. Mr. Nze-Bekale has been Chief Executive Officer of ACT Afrique, a leading advisory firm in West Africa and based in Dakar, Senegal, since 2017, and an executive member of the board of directors since 2020. ACT Afrique provides strategic advisory and investment banking expertise to governments as well as to public and private entities in West Africa. Prior to joining ACT Afrique, from 2012 to 2017, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Societe Equatoriale des Mines, the national mining company in Gabon, which he helped create to manage Gabon s investments in the sector. Prior to that, he was Director of Investment Banking for Standard Bank PLC based in London from 2008 to 2011 and Group Corporate Finance Manager for Celtel International from 2005 to 2008. Fabrice began his career at Citibank Gabon, where he rose to become the Head of Corporate Banking. Mr. Nze-Bekale is a Gabonese national and holds a Master s degree in Finance and Financial Engineering from the University of Paris-Dauphine (France) with a Master of Business Administration from the London Business School (UK). Mr. Nze-Bekale s significant experience in the areas of mining, banking, telecom and finance, his service in various director and executive roles, and his knowledge of Gabon and other West African countries make him a valuable resource for the Board.