A highly experienced North Sea leadership team has been assembled possessing all of the key skills to manage the transition to clean energy

Almost 120 combined years of experience in North Sea energy and finance
50 total years of experience in engineering, geology and upstream operations
Almost 50 combined years of corporate and project finance experience
Some 36 total years of midstream/downstream operations experience

our leadership team

Jack Peck

Chief Executive Officer

Jack Peck

  • Former Managing Director, energy corporate finance at Société Générale

  • Former Managing Director, upstream at Société Générale

  • Former Senior Energy Banker at Mizuho

  • Former Head of Project Finance at BancaIntesa

  • Previous roles as Global Head of TMT at Banca Intesa; Head of TMT & Infrastructure at IBJ (Mizuho); Senior Energy Director at IBJ; Co-Head of Project Finance at Dexia; and energy, renewables & project finance banker at Bank of Scotland

  • B.Eng. Mining & Petroleum Engineering, MBA

Bjørn Inge Tønnessen

Executive Chair

  • Chair of OSE and TSE listed Questerre Energy

  • Deputy Chairman and Advisor for Geothermal Energy Nordic

  • Founder and former  CEO of Edge Petroleum

  • Founder and former CEO of Spike Exploration

  • Former Managing Director of Svenska Petroleum Exploration Norway & EVP in Svenska Group

  • Equity research experience at DNB and Handelsbanken

  • Offshore drilling experience at Baker Hughes

  • B.Sc. Petroleum Technology, MBA equivalent

Acting Chief Financial Officer

Mike Sparkes

  • Former CEO of CalEnergy Resources, having operations in the UK, Australia and Poland

  • Joined UK independent Sovereign Oil & Gas plc in 1989 

  • Took part in the migration of this business through to the now CalEnergy Resources, becoming part of the Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company group

  • Previous roles have included: Finance Director, Commercial Director, UK & Poland Business Unit Manager

  • Has led on: acquisitions & disposals, project financing, asset development, commercialisation and management, and decommissioning 

  • B.Sc. Managerial Sciences and a qualified accountant

Executive Director
Public Affairs & Communications

Dr Alex Williams

  • Lecturer in Politics (digital technology & political strategy)

  • Author of numerous books and articles

  • Extensive history across a wide range of media including newspapers (special report for the FT) and radio

  • Public speaking & lecturing engagements in the UK, Europe, & USA 

  • Previously a consultant in the legal sector for large UK & US law firms

  • BA Law Oxon, MA, PhD.

Chief Facilities Engineer

Mark Bracewell

  • Advisor to Tailwind Energy

  • From 2014-18 Mark was senior project manager at Centrica

  • Previously Mark held positions as delivery/ developments manager at Nexen Petroleum, Gaz de France, Genesis Oil and Gas and Mobil North Sea Ltd

  • Experience includes working with subsurface and operations group forecasting budget OPEX and upcoming capital projects

  • Worked both on GDFB’s southern basin gas assets, central north sea HPHT interests and worldwide including Mauritania, Algeria, Australia and Norway

  • C. Eng. M.I.Mech E

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