| Pierce
Onthank
President
Pierce Onthank, age 44, serves as President, Secretary, Treasurer
and one of two Directors of the Company. Mr. Onthank is currently
the sole officer and succeeds Georg von Canal, William Aber and
Dean Smith in that regard. Mr. Onthank received a BA in economics
from Denison University. He served as the investment broker for
the Company from 1998 until 2001. In addition to raising millions
of dollars for American Energy Group Ltd., he has specialized in
oil and gas investments for his previous clients. With over 20 years
of experience in the securities business, Mr. Onthank has held senior
positions in investment banking firms and has managed high yield
net worth and institutional portfolios. Mr. Onthank began his career
in the Merrill Lynch training program and subsequently became a
limited partner with Bear Stearns. Later he became a Senior Vice
President at Drexel Burnham Lambert, where his primary responsibilities
were to manage the private client group, which was involved in both
public and private investments for individual and institutional
accounts. Mr. Onthank moved on to serve as a Senior Vice President
at Paine Webber and later at Smith Barney Shearson where he managed
the investments of institutional and individual clients. Before
becoming President of American Energy Group Ltd. he co-founded Crary
Onthank & O'Neill, an Investment Banking Company, in 1998.
Dr. Iftikhar Zahid
Director
Dr. Iftikhar Zahid, age 45, serves as the remaining Director of
the Company. Dr. Iftikhar Zahid was educated at The Dow Medical
College, Karachi University in 1979. In 1981, he joined the police
services of Pakistan. In 1988, he resigned from governmental services
as a Superintendent of Police. Between 1988 and 1996, Dr. Zahid
served as an advisor and consultant to several multi-national organizations
doing business in Pakistan. In 1996, Dr. Zahid joined the Company
as a Resident Director/Country Manager of the Pakistan Office of
Hycarbex-American Energy, Inc. In June 2001, he was promoted to
Vice-President and Resident Director and joined the international
board of The American Energy Group Ltd. as a director. Since the
sale of Hycarbex-American Energy Inc. by the Company, Dr. Zahid
has been managing the Company's 18% royalty interest in the Yasin
Block and serves as liaison officer to American Energy for the region.
Karl Welser
Director
Welser, age 51, has been actively involved in private real estate
and finance ventures since 1999. After attending business school
in Zurich, Mr. Welser joined Bank J. Vontobel in 1971 which specialized
in private financial management. In the late 1970s Mr. Welser attended
the Zurich Management School where he obtained his Economist KSZH
degree. From 1980 through 1998, while employed at Zürcher Kantonalbank,
Bankinstitut and UBS in Zurich, Switzerland, respectively, Mr. Welser’s
primary activities included analysis of the securities markets.
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