CORO ENERGY - Key Persons


Ewen Ainsworth

Job Titles:
  • AIM Company Director
  • Chief Financial Officer ( Non - Board Seat )
  • Senior Management
Ewen is an experienced AIM company director. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of Corcel Plc and CEO of Discovery Energy Limited, an advisory, consultancy and investment company and has worked in a variety of senior and board-level roles in the natural resource sector for over 30 years, most recently as Finance Director for San Leon Energy and Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. He qualified as a chartered management accountant, before moving into leading commercial roles. He holds a degree in Economics and Geography from Middlesex University, and is a member of the Energy Institute.

James Parsons - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Accountant
  • Executive Chairman
  • AIM Chairman
James Parsons, Executive Chairman, has over 20 years of experience in the fields of strategy, management, finance, and corporate development in the energy industry. Mark Hood, Chief Executive Officer, co-founded Global Energy Partnership Ltd, and has vast experience in the utility scale energy projects. Marco Fumagalli, Non Executive Director, is Managing Partner at Continental Investment Partners SA, a Swiss-based fund. Stephen Birrell, Non-Executive Director, has worked in the upstream oil and gas industry for over 35 years with a particular focus on gas developments across multiple jurisdictions. The structure of the Board ensures that no one individual or Group dominates the decision-making process. James is an experienced AIM Chairman with over 20 years' experience in the fields of strategy, management, finance and corporate development. He is currently Executive Chairman of Corcel plc, Executive Chairman of Ascent Resources plc and Non-Executive Chairman of Echo Energy plc James is a qualified accountant and has a BA Honours in Business Economics

Leonardo Salvadori

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director - Oil & Gas ( Non - Board Seat )
  • Senior Management
Leonardo has over 30 years of international exploration, business development and general management experience. He has worked in Libya and Norway as an explorationist and in Italy with exploration and new ventures roles, focusing on international asset evaluations, portfolio development and corporate acquisitions, with a specific focus on the Middle East, Africa, Asia and North Sea. From 2001 to 2006 Mr Salvadori headed up large exploration departments operated by Eni in Indonesia and Egypt. In 2006, he left ENI to join Dana Gas Egypt, where he worked for nine years covering top managerial roles in exploration, business development and general management. In November 2015 Mr Salvadori joined Apennine Energy SpA.

Marco Fumagalli

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
  • Managing Partner at Continental Investment Partners SA
Marco Fumagalli is Managing Partner at Continental Investment Partners SA, a Swiss-based fund and cornerstone shareholder in Sound Energy and Echo Energy. Marco is a well-known Italian businessman who was previously a Group Partner at 3i. Marco is a qualified accountant and holds a degree in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan. He is a Non-Executive Director at Sound Energy and Echo Energy.

Mark Hood

Job Titles:
  • NON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Mark was appointed to the Board in March 2021 following the acquisition of Global Energy Partnership Limited and assumed the role of Non executive director in August 2022 after a transitional period as CEO. Prior to joining Coro, Mark co-founded Global Energy Partnership Ltd. He has over 20 years experience in utility scale energy projects at all stages of development and asset transition. Mark has delivered projects for BP and Cairn Energy in locations including Bangladesh, Rajasthan, Greenland and Algeria He is a qualified Project Manager with PMP and a MSc in Project management

Michael Carrington

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director - Renewables ( Non - Board Seat )
  • Senior Management
Michael co-founded Global Energy Partnership Ltd and has over 30 years experience of energy efficiency and clean tech generation in the built environment, including strategic management, acquisition integration, research & development commercialisation, project origination, due diligence, and project pre-development across Europe, UK and ASEAN countries.

Stephen Birrell

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
Stephen is highly experienced geoscientist who has worked in the upstream oil and gas industry for over 35 years with a particular focus on gas developments across multiple jurisdictions with Britoil, BP and Elf and Sterling Resources, where he discovered and initiated the development of the Black Sea gas field complex, Ana/Doina in Romania. Stephen has a BSc Honours in Applied Geology and is a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.