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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Managing Director operating in the Oil and Gas space. If you think a Managing Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Keith Moorhouse
Managing Director – ATR of Centurion Group
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About Centurion Group: Centurion Group is an Aberdeen headquartered specialist rental equipment provider primarily to the offshore global oil & gas industry.
Ignacio Gimenez
Managing Director Europe and Middle East, BP Ventures of BP
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About BP: BP delivers heat, light and mobility products and services to people all around the world.
Richard Leigh
Managing Director of Focus Assured
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About Focus Assured: Focus Assured is a consulting firm dedicated to creating and delivering genuine value for clients’ businesses.
Jorge Pikunic
Managing Director, Centrica Business Solutions of Centrica
Jorge is Managing Director of Centrica’s international Distributed Energy & Power business, established to deliver distributed energy solutions for large energy users as part of a more flexible energy landscape. He joined Centrica in 2010, first heading up the Group’s strategy team before taking over as Managing Director of British Gas’ Smart Metering business, where he lead the roll-out of smart meters to over one million residential customers. Born in Venezuela, Jorge is an engineer and holds a MSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering. He was also a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford before joining McKinsey & Company where he advised a number of institutions in energy and other sectors. He has also worked for Procter & Gamble and PDVSA (Venezuelan national oil company), and was a Board Director of Smart Energy GB.
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About Centrica: Centrica is a multinational energy and services company developing innovative solutions, offers, and products.
Ian Podmore
Regional Managing Director EMEA & Asia Pacific of A-Gas
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About A-Gas: World leader in the supply and lifecycle management of refrigerants, blowing agents, industrial gases, halon and fire suppressants.
Paul Ward
Co-Founder & Managing Director of BoilerJuice
Paul Ward is Co-Founder & Managing Director at BoilerJuice.com.
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About BoilerJuice: BoilerJuice was created by a group of friends who wanted to make ordering heating oil easier
Mark Lord
Managing Director of Aztec Oils
Managing Director and Founder of Aztec Oils Ltd. Lubricant Manufacturer based in Bolsover Derbyshire. As a major local employer Mark was keen to get involved in a local sustainable energy project and put his business skills and local knowledge to good use.
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About Aztec Oils: Aztec Oils is the specialists in high performance lubricant manufacture and distribution.
David Fletcher
Group Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of GEV Global
David Fletcher is the Chief Executive Officer & Group Managing Director at GEV Wind Powe
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About GEV Global, GEV Wind Power: GEV GROUP is one of the UKs leading specialist engineering and access companies
Simon Illingworth
Managing Director and CEO of Blue Ocean Seismic Services
Simon Illingworth is the Managing Director and CEO at Blue Ocean Seismic Services.
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About Blue Ocean Seismic Services: Blue Ocean Seismic Services specializes in low cost and reduced carbon emission ocean bottom seismic acquisition.
Toni Miszewski
Founder & Managing Director of AnTech Ltd
Toni Miszewski is a Founder & Managing Director at AnTech Ltd.
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About AnTech Ltd: AnTech delivers Directional Coiled Tubing Drilling Services to Oil & Gas Operators
Elizabeth McGrath
Managing Director of Natural Resource Governance Institute
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About Natural Resource Governance Institute: NRGI is an independent and non-profit group that works to ensure that countries rich in oil, gas, and minerals achieve sustainability.
Duncan McDougall
Managing Director of Glacier Energy Services
Duncan McDougall is the managing director of Glacier Energy Services.
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About Glacier Energy Services: Glacier Energy Services offers specialist engineered solutions to the oil & gas industry and global energy sectors.
Oliver Morgan
Founder & Managing Director of Universal Fuels
Oliver Morgan is a Founder & Managing Director at Universal Fuels.
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About Universal Fuels: Universal Fuels supplies heating oil, gas oil, marine gas oil, kerosene, DERV, diesel, and red diesel in the U.K.
Oliver Morgan
Founder & Managing Director of Universal Fuels
Oliver Morgan is a Founder & Managing Director at Universal Fuels.
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About Universal Fuels: Universal Fuels supplies heating oil, gas oil, marine gas oil, kerosene, DERV, diesel, and red diesel in the U.K.
Patrick Thorpe
Managing Director of Spiro Control
Patrick has a career that spans more than 25 years working in industrial process control. He has specialist knowledge in the application of advanced process control to ethylene production and gas processing. He has also worked in a diverse range of industries including food, mining, energy, chemicals and polymers. Patrick trained as an application engineer with Exxon Chemical before moving to Predictive Control where he was involved in product development and application. Foxboro subsequently acquired Predictive Control’s technology and he led the integration with Foxboro’s distributed control system. He has also worked as an advisor with Aspen Technology. Prior to founding Spiro Control, Patrick co-founded Aptitude, a technology leader in advanced process control. In the role of operations director, he built a team of engineers located in the UK and India, leading the development of a commercial system identification software. Patrick holds a PhD in Chemical Engineer from Loughborough University.
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About Spiro Control: Spiro Control delivers process data analytics and real-time control applications embedded on edge devices that ingest real-time plant data.
Patrick Thorpe
Managing Director of Spiro Control
Patrick has a career that spans more than 25 years working in industrial process control. He has specialist knowledge in the application of advanced process control to ethylene production and gas processing. He has also worked in a diverse range of industries including food, mining, energy, chemicals and polymers. Patrick trained as an application engineer with Exxon Chemical before moving to Predictive Control where he was involved in product development and application. Foxboro subsequently acquired Predictive Control’s technology and he led the integration with Foxboro’s distributed control system. He has also worked as an advisor with Aspen Technology. Prior to founding Spiro Control, Patrick co-founded Aptitude, a technology leader in advanced process control. In the role of operations director, he built a team of engineers located in the UK and India, leading the development of a commercial system identification software. Patrick holds a PhD in Chemical Engineer from Loughborough University.
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About Spiro Control: Spiro Control delivers process data analytics and real-time control applications embedded on edge devices that ingest real-time plant data.
