
Finance after a 28-year career at
BPplc. Les held a number of senior
roles at BP plc including chief
financial officer for BP plc Canada
and BP plc Middle East as well as
global head of business development.
Les holds a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry
from Herriot Watt University,
Edinburgh, and an MSc in Inorganic
Chemistry from Aberdeen University.
Current external roles
None.
Mike Daly
Non-executive Director
Age: 68
Tenure: 7 years
Appointment: 2014
Independent: Yes
Key strengths
Upstream business, exploration
andappraisal executive leadership,
business development, executive and
public company leadership, technology
and innovation, environment, health,
safety and sustainability.
Experience
Mike brings significant upstream
experience to Tullow from a 40-year
career in the oil and gas business.
Mike spent 28 years at BP plc where
he held a number of senior executive
and functional roles within the
exploration and production division
across Europe, South America, the
Middle East and Asia, including eight
years as head of exploration and new
business development. He also served
on BP’s executive team as executive
vice president exploration, accountable
for the leadership of BP’s exploration
business. Mike was a member of the
World Economic Forum’s Global
Agenda Council on the Arctic and has
served on the advisory board of the
British Geological Survey. He is a
visiting professor at the Department of
Earth Sciences, Oxford University. He
holds a BSc in Geology from the
University College of Wales and a PhD
in Geology from Leeds University. Mike
is also a graduate of the Program for
Management Development, Harvard
Business School, and in 2014 was
awarded The Geological Society of
London’s Petroleum Group Medal.
Current external roles
Non-executive director of Compagnie
Générale de Géophysique, a global
provider of geoscience and geophysical
services to the oil and gas industry,
where he is chair of the health, safety,
environment and sustainable
development committee and a
member of the investment committee.
President of the Geological Society of
London, a registered UK charity.
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Rahul Dhir
Chief Executive Officer
Age: 56
Tenure: 2 years
Appointment: April 2020
Independent: No
Key strengths
Upstream business, exploration,
development and operations,
executiveleadership, capital markets,
M&A, environment, health, safety
andsustainability.
Experience
Rahul brings substantial leadership
experience in the oil and gas industry
to Tullow, having founded Delonex
Energy, an Africa-focused oil and
gascompany in 2013. Prior to
establishing Delonex, Rahul spent
sixyears at Cairn India as chief
executive officer and managing
director. Under his leadership Cairn
India successfully completed a
$2billion IPO and grew to a market
value of nearly $13 billion with
operated production of over 200,000
barrels of oil equivalent per day.
Rahul started his career as a
Petroleum Engineer, before moving
into investment banking where he led
teams at Morgan Stanley and Merrill
Lynch, advising major oil & gas
companies on merger and acquisition
and capital market related issues.
Current external roles
Member of the International Board of
Advisors at the University of Texas
at Austin.
Les Wood
Chief Financial Officer
Age: 59
Tenure: 4 years
Appointment: 2017
Independent: No
Key strengths
Upstream business, corporate
finance, accounting and audit,
business development, risk
management, executive leadership,
investor and government relations.
Experience
Les brings considerable financial
andcommercial expertise to Tullow,
including major mergers and
acquisitions delivery, joining in 2014
as Vice President Commercial and
Board of Directors
Phuthuma Nhleko
Independent non-executive
Chair
Age: 61
Tenure: <1 year
Appointment: October 2021
Independent: Yes
Key strengths
Executive leadership, public company
governance and leadership, emerging
markets, engineering, investor
relations, corporate finance, business
development, risk management,
technology and innovation.
Experience
Phuthuma brings extensive emerging
markets experience to Tullow having
worked successfully across Africa
over the past three decades.
Phuthuma was Chief Executive of
MTN Group, the leading pan-African
telecommunications company, from
2002 to 2011. During his time with
MTN, the Group grew rapidly in Africa
and the Middle East, gaining over
185million subscribers to become
one of the largest listed companies
inAfrica. In 2013, Phuthuma returned
to MTN as a non-executive Director
and Chairman until 2019. This
included a period as Executive
Chairman from 2015 to 2017. He
remained part of the international
advisory board for the business until
August 2021. After stepping down
asChief Executive of MTN in 2011,
Phuthuma was a non-executive
Director at BP plc (2011–16) and
Anglo-American plc (2011–15).
Healso served previously on the
Boards of Nedbank and Old Mutual
inSouth Africa.
Current external roles
Phuthuma is Chairman of Phembani
Group, an investment group which
hefounded in 1994, and is
Chairman-designate of the
Johannesburg Stock Exchange Ltd.
Phuthuma is also a non-executive
Director of South African downstream
energy company, Engen Petroleum,
and a non-executive Director of
IHSTowers, the NYSE-listed
Emerging Markets Telecom
Infrastructure Provider.
Martin Greenslade
Non-executive Director
Age: 56
Tenure: 3 years
Appointment: 2019
Independent: Yes
Key strengths
Corporate finance, accounting and
audit, risk management and executive
and public company leadership.
Experience
Martin, a chartered accountant,
bringsextensive corporate financial
experience to Tullow from a 34-year
career in the property, engineering
and financial sectors in the UK and
across Africa, Scandinavia and
Europe. From 2005 to 2021 Martin
waschief financial officer at Land
Securities Group plc, a listed UK real
estate company. Previously, he spent
five years as group finance director
ofAlvis plc, an international defence
and engineering company. Martin
holds an MA in Computer and
Natural Sciences from Cambridge
University and is also a graduate of
the Stanford Executive Program,
Stanford University, California.
Current external roles
Martin is a board trustee of the UK
arm of International Justice Mission,
ahuman rights charity focused on
protecting the poor from violence and
ending human slavery.
Sheila Khama
Non-executive Director
Age: 64
Tenure: 3 years
Appointment: 2019
Independent: Yes
Key strengths
Extractives project and policy
reform,executive leadership,
corporate governance, business
development, public–private
partnership and sustainability.
Experience
Sheila brings to Tullow a wealth of
executive experience in the banking and
natural resources sectors across Africa.
Sheila served as the chief executive
officer of De Beers Botswana from 2005
to 2010, after which she served as a
director of theextractives advisory
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