Eden is the Executive Director of ORPHEUS and has overall responsibility for the trading and operational platform, delivering crucial supplies to industrials across Southern Africa.

Eden’s educational and technical skills include a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Quantitative Methods and Business Management from UNISA, and Trading Oil on International Markets from Cambridge University. Eden has been in the Oil and Energy industry for over 15 years, with past experience working as both an operator and trader in London, Geneva, Singapore and Dubai for OMV, Addax and Arcadia and locally in South Africa for Kepu.

Krishnan sits on the board of ORPHEUS, with a broad remit to cover investment and strategic decision making. He started his career working in M&A for upstream and midstream energy assets while based in Kuwait. He subsequently ran all private debt and private equity strategies for a multi family office since 2010, before co-founding the African focused commodities and logistics group << DUCAT >> in 2014. He holds a First Class Degree from Cambridge University in Modern History and a MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics. He has also studied at the University of Chicago (Booth Business School).

Andy founded EPIQ in 1999, where he is still the CEO, as a hydrocarbon removal, remediation and cleaning company with over 50 projects successfully completed across 6 geographies. He previously was a feedstocks trader for Shell International, Head of fuel oil and feedstocks trading at Enron Europe, Phibro UK (Salomon Brothers) and J Aron UK (Goldman Sachs). He subsequently founded EPIQ as contracting company based in Beirut with a global remit. He has a BSc(Eng) in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College of Science and Technology, and Management Diploma (Shell) from HenleyManagement College.

Peter has a BSc Honours degree in Engineering Technology, is a UK registered Chartered Engineer, Chartered Energy Engineer, Chartered Manager, and a member of the UK Engineering Council, the Energy Institute, the Institute of Engineering & Technology, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He has more than 40 Years of experience managing multiple projects in offshore and onshore design, engineering and construction in the fields of oil and gas processing, pipelines, LNG, FLNG, FSRU’s, FPSO’s, CTL, GTL, CNG, LPG, H2, N2, O2, NH3, Naphtha, petrochemical, water treatment, pharmaceutical plant, power generation and Industrial design. Peter has worked in various design and engineering management roles for Foster Wheeler, Fluor and Worley in South Africa since 1982, including projects at Sasol I, Secunda, Caltex, Sapref, Genref and Natref refineries as well as many of Eskoms power stations, including, Matla, Dhuva, Kendal, Kriel, Matimba and Lethabo. In 2009 he worked as Project Engineering Manager for Foster Wheeler on the Sasol I Fischer Tropsch Wax Expansion Project and in 2011/12 as Project Engineering Manager for Worley on the WP Transnet New Multi Product Pipeline Project. (NMPPP). He has also worked in a technical and managerial capacity across the Middle East, North Africa, North and South America and Asia for Rolls Royce Energy, Chiyoda and Baker Hughes. He is currently the Chief Engineer and Chief Technical Officer of the Lavar Group advising on technical aspects of offshore hydrocarbon exploitation in the Eastern Mediterranean with clients including Chevron, ENI, Saipem and Total. He is currently Project Managing the development of Worley's Pseudo Dry Gas Project and is in charge of the design methodology and fabrication of the test module that is being built in Larnaca Cyprus in association with the Cyprus Hydrocarbons Company (CHC), Intecsea, Scottish Enterprise and other international E&P operators, including Petronas, BP and Shell.