RE: Cbaron Hamilton7 Apr 2026 12:38
Indeed. And let's not forget Wilkins either. Very accomplished board steering this for significant value creation. Even if they are motivated by there own substantial holdings, i don't think shareholders will mind that at all.
Michael Spencer is one of Britain's most successful entrepreneurs. He founded the financial broking firm ICAP in 1986, which grew to be the world's biggest broking firm and a constituent of the FTSE100. The business was renamed NEX and then sold to CME, the global financial markets group in 2018. Since then, Michael has become an active investor in a wide range of emerging businesses through his private family office, IPGL. He is Chairman of AIM-listed Chapel Down, Britain's largest winemaker, and Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies.
David Wilkins has over 40 years of oil and gas upstream drilling, engineering and operations experience with Dowell-Schlumberger, Marathon Oil and Hilcorp Energy across international and domestic producing basins, including Alaska. He served as the Senior Vice President for Hilcorp Alaska from 2015 until retiring in 2022. During this time, Hilcorp drilled hundreds of wells in the Cook Inlet and North Slope basins, made several acquisitions of legacy producing assets and tripled production. He is a Petroleum Engineering graduate from West Virginia University (1985) and a lifetime member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.