NED reminder10 Jul 2022 21:59
The Board is pleased to announce the appointments of Mr. Tom Evans and Mr. Alistair Jury as Non-executive Directors with immediate effect.
Tom has 33 years in the industry and the City starting his career as a financial executive with Extel Financial Ltd, before moving to Corporate Broking at Barclays de Zoete Wedd Ltd; before he then transferred to the Global Resources lending team of Barclays Capital Ltd project financing resource projects across the globe. He moved to London with RBC Dominion Securities Limited as a specialist resources equity salesman, before joining CIBC World Markets Limited as a director focusing on resource equities from an institutional sales and trading perspective. Tom founded Bishopsgate Capital Management Ltd in 2000 dealing in institutional fund management and hedge fund strategies for CTA funds; Bishopsgate was merged with Athanor Capital Partners Ltd where he assumed the role of Chief Investment Officer, expanding all the combined entities FSA regulated permitted businesses. He established TME Consulting creating UCITS compliant umbrella structure to be marketed to both retail and wholesale clients. He was CEO and founder of the Caplain group created to acquire stockbroking and wealth management entities and Aerarius PCC Ltd (Guernsey) fund structure for European investment strategies. In 2017 he joined Pennpetro Energy plc (PPP) initially as a consultant and then latterly as CEO, he successfully led a pre IPO funding round before introducing the company to the standard segment of the London Stock Exchange. Since listing PPP the company has moved from a passive investor to a 100% working interest and operator in Gonzales, Texas; creating a technical hub in Houston. Tom recently led the company into its first foray outside of North America by acquiring an 80% working interest in the Saouf permit in Tunisia. Financial Services Authority (UK) Ltd previously approved for the following control functions - CF1 Director, CF3 Chief Executive, CF8 Appointment & Oversight, CF27 Investment Management. Away from listed and regulated environments Tom, in recent times, has focused on private companies and intellectual property developing energy transition, carbon capture, green/ blue hydrogen production, and waste to energy corporate enterprises globally.
Alistair has over 25 years' experience in the energy industry in a variety of finance and commercial roles with ExxonMobil, Unocal, Murphy, Svenska Petroleum and a number of AIM and business start-ups in the energy sector.
He sits on the Board of several UK and overseas energy and consulting companies and is an associate of Columbus Energy Partners involved in evaluating renewable and sustainable energy projects worldwide.
He is a Fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and has a degree in Geology from University of London.
The Audit and Remuneration Committees comprise both of the two new Non-executive D