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 Dr. Gabriel “Kapo” Simonian Managing Director and founder of Simco << back to Personnel |
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Kapo Simonian has worked for more than 25 years
in the oil industry. After receiving his Bsc and Ph.D. in geology
in the UK in 1975, he worked as a geologist in the Middle East, in
Cyprus, Oman and Iran. Returning to the UK in the 1980's he established
GAPS Geological Consultants Ltd., a well known London based company
which employed 45 professionals. In 1993 GAPS was merged into Scott
Pickford plc, a London Stock Exchange quoted geophysical consulting
company, where he became a main board director until the sale
of Scott Pickford plc, in early 1997, to Core Laboratories Inc. While at Scott Pickford Kapo mainly worked for, and was a Director of an affiliate Drake Resources Ltd., a junior oil company developing energy projects in Poland (gas production and power generation), and Ukraine (oil and gas exploration and production). During this period he attended the Corporate Finance course at the world famous London Business School. |
Since the establishment of Simco in 1996, he has run the company as Managing Director and is actively involved in all Simco's mandates. In particular Kapo has headed up the Simco teams handling its West Africa deep water license management and transactions mandates, and has worked alongside Simco's clients in determining the deal structuring. | |