Solo Oil Plc announced that it has strengthened its senior management team through the appointment of Romina Mele-Cornish as Chief Financial Officer and Doug Rycroft as Chief Operating Officer with immediate effect, with the expectation that they will be appointed to the Board in due course. Mrs. Mele-Cornish joins from Oil & Gas UK, a leading UK offshore oil and gas industry lobby organisation, where she served as Fiscal Policy Manager since 2017. In that role, she represented around 400 members on fiscal matters, shaped government policies and successfully negotiated complex legislative provisions that advance industry's interests.

Mrs. Mele-Cornish began her career at Deloitte in 2006, where she became an Assistant Director with a focus on upstream Oil & Gas. During this time, she worked in the Corporate Finance team, specialising in M&A deals and Capital Market transactions, and spent time seconded to BP's M&A team to provide guidance on transaction execution and legal agreements. After leaving Deloitte in 2014, she joined Oyster Petroleum, a Private Equity backed UKCS focused E&P company, in Business Development, and managed two A&D processes with a combined valuation of circa £150 million.

Mr. Rycroft has been acting as General Manager of Solo since being seconded by Gneiss Energy in March 2019. During this time, he has played an instrumental role in helping the Board to deliver on its strategic objectives in terms of rationalising the portfolio and driving new business development. Mr. Rycroft is an experienced operations manager and commercial negotiator having held asset management, business development and commercial roles across the upstream oil and gas industry and as a specialist energy advisor.

In 2017, Mr. Rycroft joined Gneiss Energy Limited ("Gneiss") where he held the role of Commercial Director specialising in M&A and capital raising advisory work for both public and private energy companies and successfully executing projects across a board range of geographies including the UKNS, Europe, Africa and Latin America. Prior to joining Gneiss, Mr. Rycroft joined Ophir Energy in 2012, where he managed their flagship asset in Tanzania, at a time when the company drilled up the major resource base to support the onshore terrestrial LNG development. The culmination of his commercial efforts in Tanzania was the divestment of 50% of the remaining stake in the project for USD 1.3 billion to Pavilion Energy.