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President/Chairman
- Chuck Shreve
Robert C. (Chuck) Shreve, Jr. currently serves as the
President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Avatar. He has over
nineteen years experience in accounting and financial management with
heavy emphasis in the oil and gas industry and the real estate development
industry. Mr. Shreve also has technical certifications in the technology
field and over seventeen years in PC based, network and AS400 systems.
Mr. Shreve received his BBA from the University of Texas at Dallas. As
a Certified Public Accountant, he is a member of the American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants, the Texas Society of CPAs and the Dallas
Chapter of the Texas Society of CPAs.
Director - Allen D.
Farris
Allen D. Farris was
appointed to the board of directors on September 24,
2004. Mr. Farris is currently the Chief Financial
Officer of Eland Energy, Inc. and has held that
position since December of 1999. Mr. Farris has
thirty years of accounting and financial experience
including financial reporting, treasury management,
cash forecasting and budgeting, financial
forecasting and modeling, computer system
installation and maintenance, income tax planning,
and maintaining banking relationships. His
experience also includes both public and privately
owned companies covering a broad range of industries
at levels including Chief Financial Officer,
Treasurer, Controller, and Tax Manager. Two
specific areas of his expertise include all phases
of the petroleum and real estate industries. Mr.
Farris holds a Bachelor of Business Administration
degree in Accounting from the University of Texas at
Austin and a Master of Science degree in Accounting
from Texas Tech University. He is a Certified
Public Accountant and a member of the American
Institute, Texas Society, and Dallas Chapter of
CPAs, and a member of the Dallas Chapter of the
Petroleum Accountants’ Society.
Director - Stephen A.
Komlosy
Stephen A. Komlosy currently
serves as Managing Director
of London & Boston Investments PLC, a major shareholder
of Avatar. Mr. Komlosy currently resides in England.
In 1967, Mr. Komlosy incorporated a family-owned business
that had a property portfolio of £14m by 1993.
Two other property companies were sold to public companies
in 1985 and 1987. Of these, one had undertaken three
substantial industrial developments with gross assets
exceeding £7m, whilst the other had gross assets
of £11m. In 1981, he co-founded Branon PLC, a
quoted industrial holding company selling bonded oil
drilling and pipe handling equipment to North Sea oil
operators; the large-scale manufacture of dumper trucks
for the Ministry of Defense; and the manufacture of
road planners and oil consoles. At Branon, he had specific
responsibility for establishing its oil and gas purchasing
associate, Covendish Petroleum, PLC, which purchased
140 producing wells in Ohio, USA.
Director - John J. May,
F.C.A.
John May is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants. He is a director of The Small Business
Bureau Ltd and The Genesis Initiative Ltd, with responsibility
for policy. These companies lobby Government on business
matters affecting small and medium sized enterprises.
He is also the senior partner of a boutique London
based chartered accountancy practice specializing in
SMEs. Currently he is director of the Aim listed Netcentric
Previously, he was finance director of MyVal.com plc,
now Interactivity plc, whose shares are traded on AIM.
He was formerly a senior partner with the leading
accountancy practice of Howarth Clark Whitehill, serving
eight years on its managing board and for nine years
being chairman of its Thames Valley offices. In his
capacity as UK national marketing partner and head
of its property consultancy arm, he was also a director
of its UK and International Associations. He has also
held Directorships in a number of diversified businesses
both in the UK and internationally.
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