Aidan Heavey
Chief Executive Officer
Executive Director
A founding Director and shareholder of the Company, Aidan Heavey has played a key role in the development of Tullow from its formation in 1985 to its current international status as a leading independent oil and gas exploration and production group. A Chartered Accountant, he previously held roles in the airline and engineering sectors in Ireland.
Committee membership:
Nominations Committee.
Other directorships and offices:
Aidan is a director of Traidlinks, an Irish-based charity established to develop and promote enterprise and diminish poverty in the developing world, particularly in Africa. He is a member of the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Dublin.
Paul McDade
Chief Operating Officer
Executive Director
Paul McDade was appointed to the Board in 2006. Mr McDade joined Tullow in 2001 and was appointed Chief Operating Officer following the Energy Africa acquisition in 2004, having previously managed Tullow’s UK gas business. An engineer with over 25 years’ experience, he has worked in various operational, commercial and management roles with Conoco, Lasmo and ERC. He has broad international experience having worked in the UK North Sea, Latin America, Africa and South East Asia and holds degrees in Civil Engineering and Petroleum Engineering.
Ian Springett
Chief Financial Officer
Executive Director
A Chartered Accountant, Ian Springett was appointed Chief Financial Officer and to the Board in 2008. Prior to joining Tullow, he worked at BP for 23 years where he gained a wealth of international oil and gas experience. Most recently at BP, he was the group vice president for planning with other senior positions including commercial director of the supply and trading business, upstream CFO, vice president of finance, US CFO and a business unit leader in Alaska. Prior to joining BP, he qualified with Coopers & Lybrand.
Graham Martin
General Counsel & Company Secretary
Executive Director
Graham Martin is a UK solicitor and joined Tullow as Legal and Commercial Director in 1997 from Vinson & Elkins, a leading international law practice. Prior to that, he was a partner in Dickson Minto WS, a UK corporate law firm. He has over 30 years’ experience of UK and international corporate and energy transactions and has been the principal legal adviser to Tullow since its formation in 1985. He was appointed General Counsel in 2004 and Company Secretary in 2008.
Angus McCoss
Exploration Director
Executive Director
Angus McCoss was appointed to the Board in December 2006. He is a geologist with a BP sponsored PhD and, prior to joining Tullow in April 2006 as General Manager Exploration, he had 21 years of wide-ranging exploration experience, working primarily with Shell in Africa, Europe, China, South America and the Middle East. He held a number of senior positions within Shell including Americas Regional Vice President Exploration and General Manager of Exploration in Nigeria.
Other directorships and offices:
Angus is currently a non-executive director of Ikon Science Limited and a member of the Advisory Board of the industry-backed Energy and Geoscience Institute of the University of Utah.
Simon Thompson
Chairman
Simon Thompson was appointed as a non-executive Director in May 2011 and was appointed non-executive Chairman from 1 January 2012. He holds a degree in geology and brings a wealth of international investment banking and natural resources knowledge and experience, especially in Africa. From 1985, he held investment banking roles at N M Rothschild and S G Warburg. In 1995, he joined the Anglo American group where he held a number of senior positions including chief executive of the base metals division, chairman of the exploration division and chairman of the Tarmac Group.
Committee membership:
Nominations (Chairman) and Remuneration Committees.
Other directorships and offices:
Simon was appointed an executive director of Anglo American plc in 2005. Since leaving Anglo American in 2007, he has held a number of non-executive director positions. These currently include Newmont Mining Corporation (USA), Sandvik AB (Sweden) and AMEC plc (UK).
Steven McTiernan
Senior Independent Director
Steven McTiernan was appointed as a non-executive Director in 2002 and was appointed Senior Independent Director in 2008. Mr McTiernan began his career as a petroleum engineer, working with BP, Amoco and Mesa in the Middle East and the UK. In 1979, he joined Chase Manhattan Bank, where he became senior vice-president and head of the bank’s energy group based in New York.
Committee membership:
Audit, Nominations and Remuneration Committees.
Other directorships and offices:
From 1996 to 2001 Steven held senior energy-related positions at NatWest Markets and CIBC World Markets. He is currently principal of Sandown Energy Consultants Limited, a natural resources advisory firm based in London, and a non-executive director of First Quantum Minerals Limited.
David Williams
Non-executive Director
David Williams was appointed as a non-executive Director in 2006. A Chartered Accountant, he brings a wealth of public company experience to Tullow from many years with Bunzl plc where he was finance director until he retired in 2006, and prior to that as finance director of Tootal Group plc.
Committee membership:
Audit (Chairman) and Remuneration Committees.
Other directorships and offices:
David is the joint chairman of Mondi plc. He is also the senior independent director of Meggitt PLC and a non-executive director of DP World Limited, a Dubai quoted company, and is chairman of the audit committee at both companies. From 2007 to 2010, he was the senior independent director of Taylor Wimpey plc.
Ann Grant
Non-executive Director
Ann Grant was appointed as a non-executive Director in May 2008. She joined the UK Diplomatic Service in 1971; from 1998, she worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London as Director for Africa
and the Commonwealth, and from 2000 to 2005 was British High Commissioner to South Africa.
Committee membership:
Audit and Nominations Committees.
Other directorships and offices:
In 2005, Ann joined Standard Chartered Bank as vice chairman, Standard Chartered Capital Markets. She is a board member of the Overseas Development Institute and an independent trustee on the UK Disasters Emergency Committee.
David Bamford
Non-executive Director
David Bamford was appointed as a non-executive Director in 2004. With a PhD in Geological Sciences, he has had over 23 years’ exploration experience with BP where he was chief geophysicist from 1990 to 1995, general manager for West Africa from 1995 to 1998, and acted as vice president, exploration, directing BP’s global exploration programme, from 2001 to 2003.
Committee membership:
Remuneration Committee (Chairman).
Other directorships and offices:
David is a director or adviser to several small companies, including his own consultancy, and he writes regularly for journals such as OilVoice and GeoExpro. He co-founded Finding Petroleum and OilEdge as vehicles for online communication in the oil and gas industry.
Tutu Agyare
Non-executive Director
Tutu Agyare was appointed as a non-executive Director in August 2010. He is currently a managing partner at Nubuke Investments, an asset management firm focused solely on Africa, which he founded in 2007. Previously, he had a 21-year career with UBS Investment Bank, holding a number of senior positions, most recently as the head of European emerging markets, and a member of the investment bank board. Tutu brings a wealth of experience to the Tullow Board as the Group continues to expand its business in Africa. He has a degree in Mathematics and Computing.
Committee membership:
Audit and Remuneration Committees.
Other directorships and offices:
Tutu is a director of the Nubuke Foundation, a Ghanaian-based cultural and educational foundation.
