Ephindo Management Team

Sammy Hamzah
President & Chief Executive Officer

With over 20 years of general management experience, Sammy was formerly Unocal’s Senior Vice President. Previous senior management positions included Lafarge Cement and Siemens AG. Currently he is Vice Chairman in both the IPA and the Oil & Gas Permanent Committee at KADIN. He is a founder of the CBM Advisory Board.

Amrullah Hasyim
Chief Business Development Officer

Amrullah completed a total of 26 years with international service company Halliburton Energy Services, including a number of international assignments in USA, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Ras Al Khaimah and Iran. His background encompasses extensive operations, technology and business development  experience in onshore and offshore operations. He has been a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE), USA, since 1992.

Kamel Benaskeur
Chief Technical Officer

In addition to 23 years international oil and gas experience specializing in production, operations drilling and completions, Kamel has 6 years unconventional gas experience gained in senior management positions in North America, Canada and Australia. Prior to joining Ephindo in 2011, he served as subsurface advisor to the Santos CBM – LNG project in Brisbane.

Stuart Smith
Chief Financial Officer

Stuart has over 20 years of experience in the energy industry, most recently as an Executive Director with private E&P companies in the Triton Group. He spent 16 years in Investment Banking specializing in the energy sector attaining the role of Head of Asia-Pac Oil & Gas Research for Merrill Lynch. Stuart is a qualified Chartered Accountant (Australia), with several years of experience with a "Big Four" accounting firm.

Yosephin Dewi
VP Finance

Concurrently Josephine is CFO of Risco Energy. She is a specialist in accounting for PSCs, for deferred tax accounting and GAAP accounting for oil and gas ventures. Certified as a Management Accountant by the Australian ICMA, she was formerly with Deloitte Indonesia and EMP as Group Financial Controller before joining Risco Energy and assigned to support Ephindo.

Tim Moore
Senior Advisor G&G

Tim Moore’s 30 years in coal and CBM spans a range of experience, as a geologist at the US Geological Survey to Country Head and Director at Arrow Energy’s Indonesian business.  He has held consulting and research posts at the University of Kentucky, USGS, University of Canterbury (NZ), and at Coal Research Ltd (NZ) before specializing in coal seam gas at Solid Energy in 2002, prior to joining Arrow.

Eddy Sutrisna
Drilling Manager

Eddy joined Ephindo in 2011 and draws upon extensive experience over 15 years gained in drilling operations in Indonesia with leading multinational and major local oil and gas companies, including Santos and EMP as well as with geothermal specialist, California Energy. He completed a degree in Petroleum engineering from ITB.

Satria Djaya
VP Business Services

Satria has over 20 years of technical, business and leadership experience covering a number of roles during his time with Unocal and Chevron. He has extensive knowledge and skills that include HSE, IT, Supply Chain, Security and Risk Mangement, Organization Capability and Change Management, Production and Maintenance Management, Project Management and CSR.