Directors and Management

P. Sterling. Chairman, President and Secretary

Mr. Sterling is an industrialist and the original architect of the Arctic Commons Oil and Gas Resource Claim and business plans.  

Mr. Sterling brings to AOGC extensive financial and operational management experience with technology, mining, oil and gas, as well as satellite and telecommunications companies. He has an entrepreneurial public company and technology-based senior management background. Over the past thirty years, Mr. Sterling has held CEO and principal stockholder positions with numerous public and private companies. 

In the 1980's Mr. Sterling became principal shareholder and-or CEO of five Australian based publicly listed industrial and minerals exploration/development companies. Along with his private companies, Mr. Sterling's group companies employed over 600 people on four continents.

The Sterling group built gold and diamond mines in remote South American jungle settings, discovered oil under the deserts of Western Australia and produced industrial minerals in Victoria.   Using the latest satellite imaging technology and the best geologists available, the group explored for and discovered minerals around the world. 

Mr. Sterling's company Kaomin NL discovered a $200 million dollar kaolin orebody near Ballarat in Victoria Australia and subsequently built a multi-million dollar state-of-the-art, computer controlled kaolin processing plant.  Mr. Sterling's public companies included Zanex Ltd., Kaomin NL., Cue Group NL,  Great Eastern Mines Ltd, and Condor Minerals and Energy Ltd.

Mr. Sterling identified the Arctic Commons abyssal hydrocarbons prospectivity in early 2006 and arranged for the Hydrocarbons Rights Acquisition program.