Board of Directors

Mr Sam Jarvis 

Non-Executive Chairman

Mr. Jarvis graduated with Honours in Engineering in 1995 and also holds a degree in Economics with a Finance Major. He was educated in South Australia. For the past 15 years, he has held senior roles with leading global oil & gas drilling companies. He has extensive experience in commercial management & development drilling with expertise in the upstream oil & gas value chain.

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Mr Daniel Lanskey 

Managing Director/CEO

Mr Lanskey joined the board of AXP Energy in December 2024 and was appointed MD/CEO in February 2025.

Mr Lanskey is an experienced executive who has held Senior Management positions and Director roles with public companies on the ASX, NASDAQ, TSXV and OTCQX exchanges. He has over 20 years’ experience in equity capital markets across a diverse range of sectors including oil & gas, resources, information technology and life science, where he has overseen multiple Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and capital raisings.

In the oil & gas sector, Mr Lanskey was a founder and Managing Director/CEO of Austex Oil Limited (previously ASX:AOK), from 2007 until June 2014.  During his tenure, the Company drilled over 50 successful oil and gas wells in Oklahoma and Kansas between 2009 and June 2014.  Austex was a licensed oil and gas operator in Oklahoma and Mr Lanskey was an integral driver of the business from startup to successfully operating a number of oil fields in Kansas and Oklahoma.  During this period he also oversaw consistent revenue growth, which rose to more than $US30M per annum by FY2014.

With his direct experience in the US oil & gas sector, Mr Lanskey’s skillset is ideally suited to advise on the delivery and execution of AXP’s stated strategy to extract value from its existing gas assets, capitalising on the fast-growing market for innovative gas-to-power solutions to provide cost-effective energy to commercial customers in the US market.

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Mr Stuart Middleton 

Non-Executive Director

Mr. Middleton has extensive resources experience in as the Group Executive for TDS Banpu Plc, Asian Energy Company (coal, oil, gas and pawer) with assignments in China, Mongolia, Indonesia, Australia and Thailand. He has also worked in the USA, Indonesia, Australia and Thailand. During his time in China, he was extensively involved in conventional and unconventional oil & gas drilling for CBM and oil/gas and has held advisory roles to both government and a major Asian Energy group relating to Asian American Gas Company on complex drilling operations.

Mr. Middleton was General Manager of the Baal Bone operation in Lithgow, Australia and served on the Oakbridge board in Sydney and the Queensland North Goonyella Pty. Ltd board in Mackay amongst other numerous board positions. He has extensive research as a chartered professional engineer and Registered Mine Manager. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering and a Master’s Commerce degree with double majors in Finance and Technology Management from The University of Sydney.

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Mr James Dack 

Non-Executive Director

Along with a highly distinguished career in the Australian residential property sector, Mr Dack has held senior management roles in both the private sector and the NSW government and is a recognised community leader.  As founding partner of one of Australia’s largest and most successful real estate firms, Mr Dack had a highly successful +25-year career in the residential property sector before establishing his own private investment company.
Prior to this, Mr Dack was a senior public servant where ultimately assumed responsibility for the NSW Public Hospital Payroll System in the Department of Health, after starting his career as a porter at St Vincent’s Hospital. 
As a sophisticated private investor since 2014, Mr Dack has made strategic investments across a diversified group of industries including technology, consumer goods and resources & energy. 
Outside of his business interests, he has a 40+ year association with the Police Citizens Youth Clubs NSW (PCYC), where he continues to sit on the Board of Directors. PCYC NSW is a registered charity which operates 66 clubs across the state with over 70,000 youth members to support young people at at-risk youth through direct engagement and community partnerships.
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