President Energy Plc announced the appointment of Jorge Dario Bongiovanni as a non-executive director of the company. Jorge, an Argentine citizen, has some 39 years' experience in the oil and gas industry. After University in both Argentina and the United States of America, Jorge commenced work as a Production Engineer in Argentina, rising up the ranks to lead the initial upstream exploration and production operations for Repsol in South America, before going on to work for Petrobras in senior positions.

Jorge joined IFC in 2007 and was Principal Petroleum Engineer from 2010-14 based out of IFC's headquarters in Washington DC. After retirement from full-time employment in 2014, Jorge continued to provide consultancy services to IFC for a further two years until recently.