Ian Vann
Ian Vann (61) is an experienced oil and gas industry professional and executive. He was ernployed by BP plc, major oil and gas company, for 30 years from 1976 to 2007. Mr. Vann served B P in a number of roles including General Manager International Exploration, General Manager Africa, VP Exploration, Group Vice President Technology and Group Vice President Exploration and Business Development. During the last ten years of his service with BP, Mr. Vann was responsible for all exploration activity throughout the global portfolio of the company.
Following his retirement from BP in 2007, Mr. Vann was appointed as non-executive director of Serica Energy PLC, an oil and gas exploration and production company listed in Toronto and London. Serica Energy is engaged is exploration and production activities in offshore NW Europe and in Indonesia.
In 2007 Mr. Vann was appointed Visiting Professor within the Dept of Geology at Princeton University and Visiting Fellow within the Princeton Environmental Institute.
In 2008, Mr. Vann was appointed to the Board of Directors of Spectraseis AG, a privately owned company based in Zurich, Switzerland, supplying innovative seismic data acquisition and processing services to the oil industry.
In 2010 Mr. Vann was elected as a Trustee and Board member of The Yard, a charity providing services for variously abled children and their parents in Scotland.
The particular skills and experiences that qualify Mr. Vann to serve as a director of Toreador Resources are his long and intensive experience of upstream oil and gas activities throughout the world. His experience spans deep familiarity with the petroleum geology of most of the world's oil and gas basins, with the broad expanse of oil and gas technology and with the political and economical aspects of the oil business.