Leadership Team
Charles Daly
Mark Waddington
Mark Waddington
Chairman
- Experienced oil executive with extensive knowledge of supply, refining and trading issue
- Europe, FSU, the Mediterranean and the Middle East
- Founder member of IPE, Channoil Broking and Channoil Consulting
- Lectured worldwide
- Heavy fuels and marine bunkers
- Expert Witness
Mark Waddington
Mark Waddington
Mark Waddington
Chief Executive Officer
- Senior downstream oil commercial, strategy and project manager
- UK and European B2B fuels marketing expert
- Advice on conventional fuels, biofuels and renewables value chain
- Market entry, business portfolio and supply chain development
- Expert Witness
Vincent Couffon
Vincent Couffon
Vincent Couffon
Senior Associate
Supply, LPG, Retail
- Market and portfolio analysis, including regulatory reviews
- Downstream expert - supply, wholesale, aviation, LPG and retail businesses
- M&A business lead and investment economics
- Joint venture expert - local and international partnerships
- Risk management
Kirsten Dibley
Vincent Couffon
Vincent Couffon
Office Manager
- Accounts & Administration
- Client presentations and reports
- Contracts
- Travel
Oil & Gas Team
Andy Mills
Leon Haywood
Chris Brown
Commodity Trading & Risk Management
- Over 30 years' experience in trading and risk, managing a wide range of commodities including energy, biofuels, agriculture, petrochemicals and metals
- Price risk identification and price risk management
- Wide ranging experience of physical trading and logistics
- Training and coaching across a wide range of organisations
- Highly experienced expert witness
Chris Brown
Leon Haywood
Chris Brown
Refining Commercial and Technical Expert
- Refining operations and economics
- Oil storage and distribution analysis
- Investment appraisal and transaction support
- Expert witness and litigation support
Leon Haywood
Leon Haywood
Leon Haywood
Supply & Trading Expert
- Crude & product trading expert
- 30+ years' experience in Middle East and Africa
- Supply chain, pricing expertise
- Risk management skills
- Expert witness experience
Zoe Young
George Tatham
Leon Haywood
Supply & Refining Expert
- Expertise in refining, oil feasibility studies (refineries and terminals), due diligence, valuations and techno-economic studies
- Market studies: oil products, petrochemicals and gas/LNG
- Pricing studies and crude oil valuation
George Tatham
George Tatham
George Tatham
LPG & Africa
- Business development strategy
- Sales, marketing and distribution including market analysis and designing of channels to market
- Infrastructure development feasibility
- Regulation and pricing policy
- Capital raising and financial planning
- Biomass business development
- Liquid fuels and LPG logistics expert
Glyn Johnson
George Tatham
George Tatham
Petrochemicals Strategy, Technical & Commercial Due Diligence
- Petrochemicals, commodity and speciality polymers, fertilisers
- Projects in areas as diverse as polyolefins in FSU and vinyls in North Africa
- Strategy roadmaps for the Government
- Technical/commercial consultant in major European JVs to cracker/downstream development in KSA and acquisition of cracker complex in Gujarat, India
- Crude & product trading expert
- 30+ years' experience in Middle East and Africa
- Supply chain, pricing expertise
- Risk management skills
Richard Johnstone
Richard Johnstone
Richard Johnstone
Training, Supply & Trading, Contracts
- Crude oil & petroleum product marketing, purchasing and trading
- Advising on commercial aspects of crude oil & product sales and purchases
- Training in all aspects of international oil markets, supply and trading
Energy Transition Team
Oliver Mace
Paul Beckwith
Paul Beckwith
Biofuels Expert
- 30 years of experience
- Passionate about biofuels
- Led and implemented ambitious biofuels agenda for large oil company.
- End-to-end biofuels value chain
- In-depth regulatory expertise on biofuels.
- Expert in compliance with mandates and optimisation of biofuels targets.
- Feedstock choices.
- Conversion technology
- Financial and market analysis
- Regular speaker in many global biofuels conferences
Paul Beckwith
Paul Beckwith
Paul Beckwith
Fuel business and biofuels veteran
- Development of strategies for the energy transition, renewables, and circular economy
- Investment opportunity appraisal, commercial negotiation, and due diligence
- Leadership of biofuels start-up businesses
- Commercialisation of new technology
- Deep expertise in conventional fuel and biofuel technology
- Techno-economic evaluation of new conversion technologies
- Maximising value creation in conventional fuel and biofuel value chains
Giles Clark
Paul Beckwith
Mark Waddington
Solar Expert
- Nearly 15 years of experience in Executive and Board roles - Solar Photovoltaic companies
- Extensive M&A and project finance experience, through series of solar deals, including the delivery of successful exits for private equity investors.
- Broad industry expertise including development, construction and EPC asset management, financing, M&A work
- Significant consultancy and advisory experience
Mark Waddington
Mark Waddington
Mark Waddington
Biofuels
- Commercial, strategy and project manager
- UK and European B2B fuels marketing expert
- Advice on conventional fuels, biofuels and renewables value chain
- Market entry, business portfolio and supply chain development
- Extensive consulting experience
Vincent Couffon
Mark Waddington
Vincent Couffon
Mobility & Customers
- Strategy & market analysis
- 30 years in BP
- Supply chain
- JV & Partnerships Management
- Risk management
- Financial valuation & energy economics
- Project management
- B2B and B2C
- Extensive consulting experience
- Passionate about energy transition
Jiska de Groot
Mark Waddington
Vincent Couffon
Energy & Development Specialist
- Energy access, low-carbon technologies and energy transitions expert
- Transformation & change management including capability enhancement for the off-grid energy access
- Implementation strategies for off-grid energy technologies in developing economies
- Design and implementation of Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) strategies
- Capacity building programme strategy design and implementation for the off-grid and low-carbon sectors.