Africa Energy Corp. announced the appointment of Garrett Soden as president and chief executive officer effective July 4, 2017. Mr. Soden replaces James Phillips who has elected to retire.

Garrett Soden has extensive international corporate development experience as a senior executive and board member of various public companies in the natural resources sector. He has worked with the Lundin Group for the last decade. Mr. Soden is currently a non-executive director of Etrion Corporation, Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd., Panoro Energy ASA and Petropavlovsk PLC.

Previously, he was chairman and CEO of RusForest AB, CFO of Etrion and PetroFalcon Corporation and a Non-Executive Director of PA Resources AB. Prior to joining the Lundin Group, Mr. Soden worked at Lehman Brothers in equity research and at Salomon Brothers in mergers and acquisitions.