MAZARINE ENERGY - Key Persons


Alix Borch

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Baptiste Masi - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operations Officer
  • Member of the Management Team
Baptiste Masi has 20 years of experience in the Oil and Gas industry. He is currently Chief Operations Officer & New Business Development at Mazarine Energy. Baptiste joined Mazarine Energy during the first quarter of 2017 as New Business Development Director. He started his career in 2004 with Perenco (an independent Oil and Gas company with gross production of over 400,000 boepd) where he held a number of positions in operations, initially as Field Engineer and subsequently as Site Manager & Offshore Installation Manager in Turkey, DRC and Gabon. Baptiste then transferred to a Business Development position at Perenco HQ before becoming Operations Manager of the DR Congo subsidiary. Mr Masi is a graduate of Arts & Metiers Paristech and holds a MSc in Petroleum Engineering and Project Development from IFP School in France.

Corné Melissen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Edward van Kersbergen - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Founder
  • Member of the Board
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the Management Team
Edward van Kersbergen is founder, shareholder and Chief Executive Officer of Mazarine Energy. He also serves on the Investment Committee of Simmons Private Equity II L.P., the private equity division of Simmons & Company International. Edward has founded, invested in and managed a number of companies active in the oil and gas and alternative energy segments. He recently served as Executive Chairman of Xodus Group, the global upstream oil and gas consultancy, where he helped triple the company's business in two years' time. In July 2013 he sold his majority shares in Xodus to the Japanese engineering company Chiyoda. Edward began his career in 1988 with Shell working on offshore drilling rigs, as a well-site operations engineer. Following various technical and commercial roles for Shell companies in 1998 Edward joined Premier Oil in Singapore. After a spell with RDS - Resource in Aberdeen as Business Development and Petroleum Engineering Director, he was co-founder and CEO of subsurface consultancy Horizon Energy Partners in 2001, which was sold to SGS in 2008 . In 2006, he founded Oyster Energy, a co-investment company for gas assets in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. This venture was sold to Elko Energy in 2009. Edward is a graduate in Physics from Delft University of Technology in Netherlands.

James Maquire - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board

Paddy Spink

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Renaud Laneyrie

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Country Manager Tunisia

Spencer Coca

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Country Manager Romania
  • Gas Executive
Spencer Coca is an accomplished oil and gas executive with extensive expertise in both fast-track, successful development of green fields and large brown field re-habilitation projects. Based on a strong technical background in the development and production domains of hydrocarbons, encompassing the entire spectrum of on- and offshore fields, Spencer has successfully managed large-scale subsurface organizations and investment projects. His experience includes restructuring processes in privatized NOC's, relationship management with regulatory agencies, resources and reserves evaluations, M&A and divestments, and investment advisory for financial institutions. Having worked on more than 300 fields on three continents over the last 25 years, Spencer has acquired a vast knowledge in clastic, carbonate and fractured basement reservoirs, ranging from heavy oil to gas condensate. Before joining Mazarine Energy, Spencer held positions as CEO of Leap Energy Europe, Director of Reservoir Division with OMV Petrom and various subsurface roles with Shell International.

Valery Konyushenko - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Finance Officer
  • Member of the Management Team