As a management team, our focus is directed to building a balanced portfolio which creates long-term shareholder value, learning from our disappointing experience in jurisdictions such as Tunisia, to ensure that the Company is able to have a safe, long-term future of growth.
Andrea Cattaneo
Proven deal maker and government advisor with specific expertise in developing economies. More than 30 years of financial experience in capital markets and commodity trading between Western and emerging countries.
Andrea holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Genoa and a postgraduate degree in Taxation Law from the University of Bologna. He is one of Zenith’s founders.
Luca Benedetto
Luca joined Zenith as Finance Director of the Company’s Italian subsidiary in 2013, and was subsequently appointed to the position of Group Financial Controller. He was appointed to the position of Chief Financial Officer of the Company in 2017.
Luca Benedetto trained in Italy as a registered accountant with further education in IFRS accounting and consolidation at IPSOA Milan. He has more than twenty-five years of accounting, auditing and financial administration experience. He is a former Italian soldier and was deployed to Somalia as part of the Unified Task Force in Operation Restore Hope.
Dr. Dario E. Sodero
35 years of operational experience in North America, the Sub-Arctic, North Africa and the Middle East. Dario has served as an executive director in several TSX listed oil and gas exploration and production companies. Dario is a former Italian army officer in the Alpini Corps and holds a doctorate in Geological Sciences from the University of Turin, Italy.
Dr. José Ramón López-Portillo
An economist by background, José served as minister in the Mexican Federal Government and is a Former Independent Chairman of the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) Council in Rome. José Ramón studied economics at Universidad Anahuac and has a doctorate in political science and international relations from the University of Oxford. He holds dual Mexican and British nationality.
Sergey Borovskiy
Sergey is an accomplished executive with a track record in investment banking, M&A projects, and cross-border transactions. He has over 30 years of China and Hong Kong experience in founding and developing companies in a multilingual and multicultural environment. He is fluent in English and Mandarin. Sergey studied in China and holds a degree in Economics and an Executive MBA.
He has served as Non-Executive Director of Zenith Energy since 2017. He has also held, or currently holds, the following roles:
- Since 1993 Chairman of SCHI Group, an international trading, investment and manufacturing holding.
- During 2017–2019, he was CEO of Sanju Environmental Protection (Hong Kong) Limited, overseeing all international projects of Sanju Group.
- 2017–2018 Executive Director at Jutal Offshore Oil Services (public HK company).
- Since 2020 VP of Kaisun Holdings (public HK investment holding).