Mr. Ebsary was the Chief Executive Officer, and a director of Oryx Petroleum Corporation Limited from 2010 until 2016. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of Addax Petroleum Corporation, an international oil and gas exploration and production company, for eleven years between 1998 and 2009. These two companies had operations throughout Africa and Kurdistan. He previously held various positions in project finance and treasury with oil companies Elf Aquitaine and Occidental Petroleum, both in France and the United Kingdom. He began his working life in multinational banking institutions in Canada and the United Kingdom, after graduating with an MBA from Queen’s University in Canada.