PARKMEAD GROUP - Key Persons


Colin MacLaren

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
Colin has over 37 years of experience in commercial law and joined the Parkmead Board of Directors in May 2020 as a Non-Executive Director. His most recent role was as a Partner at Brodies LLP, a top 50 UK law firm and one of the largest in Scotland. Colin brings a wealth of experience to the Parkmead Board of Directors. His extensive legal and commercial knowledge, including across the land and property arena, will be valuable to Parkmead as we grow our portfolio beyond the oil and gas sector to include onshore renewable energies. Colin holds a LLB law degree from the University of Aberdeen.

Donald Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Group Financial Controller
  • Member of the Senior Operations Team
  • Group 's Financial Controller
Donald is the Group's Financial Controller. He has over 10 years of experience primarily in the energy sector and has extensive knowledge of IFRS. Prior to joining Parkmead, Donald worked for another leading independent oil and gas company. Donald qualified as a chartered accountant with PwC and is a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS).

Henry Steward

Job Titles:
  • Group Commercial Manager
  • Member of the Senior Operations Team
Henry has extensive technical, financial and commercial experience in the upstream energy sector. He is responsible for leading the Group's business development as well as driving forward the commercial aspects of Parkmead's existing assets. Since joining the Group, Henry has played an key role in the strengthening of Parkmead's portfolio through acquisitions and organic growth in the UK and Netherlands. This is in addition to his support with Parkmead's recent portfolio optimisation and UKCS offshore licencing round success. Henry holds an honours degree in Geology and Petroleum Geology from the University of Aberdeen, a postgraduate qualification in Decommissioning, and is a Fellow of the Geological Society.

Mr Andrew Smith - Secretary

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Director
  • Company Secretary
Andrew has over 16 years of experience in commercial property and land. He joined the Parkmead Group in January 2019 as Group Asset Manager heading up the Land, Property and Renewables Division. Following a career in private practice and holding the role of Associate Partner at Ryden LLP, he has advised many private developers, investors, local authorities, government agencies and blue chip institutions on all aspects of commercial property and land. His experience and knowledge in this sector will be vital to the expansion of the groups onshore LPR Division. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Land Economics degree and is also a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Paul Ramsey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Operations Team
  • Subsurface Team Lead
Paul is a senior geoscientist with over 13 years' operator experience in the oil and gas industry spanning a diverse range of exploration and development projects from mature to frontier basins across Africa, Latin America and the UK. He has held technical and leadership roles at Perenco, Chariot Oil & Gas and most recently Siccar Point Energy, working on the Cambo and Rosebank field developments, West of Shetland. Paul holds a first-class honours degree in Geology and Petroleum Geology from the University of Aberdeen, Masters of Petroleum Geoscience with distinction from Imperial College and is a Fellow of The Geological Society.

Robert Finlay

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
Robert has over 30 years of experience as a corporate adviser to a range of companies quoted on the London Stock Exchange AIM and Main Market, including a number of energy companies. He is currently a Director in the corporate advisory team at Shore Capital. His earlier career included roles as Head of Corporate at Stockdale Securities and Head of Corporate Finance at Canaccord Genuity. Robert is Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee at Parkmead.

Thomas Cross - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chartered Director
  • Executive Chairman
  • Petroleum Engineer
Tom is a Chartered Director and petroleum engineer with extensive energy sector experience, spanning projects in more than 20 countries. Tom was the founder and Chief Executive of Dana Petroleum plc through until its sale to the Korea National Oil Corporation in 2010. Prior to Dana, he held senior positions with Conoco, Thomson North Sea, Louisiana Land and Exploration and was Director of Engineering at the UK Petroleum Science and Technology Institute. Tom is a former Chairman of BRINDEX, the Association of British Independent Oil Companies, a former adviser to the BBC on energy affairs and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors.

Tim Coxe

Job Titles:
  • Engineer
  • Member of the Senior Operations Team
  • Managing Director, North Sea
Tim is an engineer with over thirty years' experience across the upstream and manufacturing industries in a range of technical and senior management positions. He has worked in a range of Consultancies, Construction Contractors and E&P's in all areas of the upstream lifecycle, from heading up early stage development portfolios, through to decommissioning projects in North West Europe, Africa, North America and Asia. He has also previously consulted to Private Equity and Investment Banks providing due diligence expertise on upstream deals. Tim re-joined Parkmead Group in late 2019 and is accountable for the company's HSE, Subsurface, Drilling, Production Operations and Development Project functions.