Head of Tax responsible for all the tax affairs of this rapidly growing investor in infrastructure. Cubico is owned by Ontario Teachers Pension Fund and Public Service Pension Investments and its primary focus is to invest in renewable energy. It currently has around $6bn in assets spread over 8 countries in Europe and Latin America.

I looked after the worldwide tax affairs of this FTSE 250 oil and gas exploration company. Licences are in sub-Saharan Africa with a number of local offices in Tanzania, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Kenya and Asia with offices in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Myanmar and supporting offices in London, Singapore and Perth, Australia.Work involves negotiating PSC's and PSA's, project work in developing terms for LNG plant development, mergers and acquisition work, including the acquisition of Salamander Energy plc and a range of blocks from Niko in Indonesia and the $1.3bn disposal of licence interests in Tanzania to Pavilion, farm-ins and farm-outs, contract review, transfer pricing, tax compliance and a wide range of day to day tax advisory work. I also chair an African tax discussion group for oil and gas companies operating across Africa.

PGS is a company which operates marine seismic vessels, onshore seismic crews and data processing on a worldwide basis. Turnover in the EAME region is approximately $800M. I was responsible for all aspects of the tax affairs of PGS throughout the area, including all tax planning, compliance and quarterly reporting work heading a two-person team. I also managed another two legal professionals and the financial accountant responsible for the statutory accounts. I had a departmental budget responsibility of approximately $900K. Key projects have been:Planning, coordinating and implementing a transfer pricing review and associated documentation;Numerous individual country project plans including Nigeria; Albania, Qatar. ..;UK aspects of a demerger of the FPSO business unit which was completed in June 2006;Transfer pricing negotiations with the UK competent authority for oil service companies in relating to vessel leasing; andHeavily involved in planning and implementing internal controls for the tax department to meet Sarbanes-Oxley requirements for quarterly reporting and initial work on defining requirements for the Senior Accounting Officer regulations.I was also heavily involved/instigated the setting up of an industrial discussion group for oil service companies to discuss common African tax issues which has now expanded to cover the Middle-East.I am also the Chairman of the PGS UK defined benefit pension fund - assets approx £42M.

Worked for this Fortune 500 US based oilfield services, military support and construction company as the corporate tax manager with responsibility for continental Europe and Africa, excluding Scandinavia. Work included responsibility for all aspects of tax planning, managing tax compliance, acquisitions and disposals, restructuring, review of contracts, cash repatriation policy, transfer pricing compliance and managing the effective tax rate. Main countries involved were Germany, Netherlands, Nigeria and Algeria with significant work in Italy; Key projects were: the disposal of a subgroup in a $1.1bn deal approximately $350m of which related to European assets;restructuring the group into a structure where the main two businesses were separated into separate legal entity chains with particular emphasis on Netherlands and Germany;setting up innovative financing schemes using BV1/BV2 structures saving approximately $4.5m of tax per annum;merger of a major division with a competitor using a tax planning idea which generated a NPV tax saving of approximately $1.5m. The combined worldwide value of the merger was approximately $200m;PFI work tax planning including:- a toll road in the Czech Republic with a projected revenue of $1.5bn involving discussions with partners on treaty shopping, thin capitalisation and transfer pricing issues; and- the Dublin Docks road tunnel in Ireland.lead consortium tax adviser for 6 train LNG plant project in Nigeria worth approximately $5bn including negotiating in meetings with the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service.

Worked for this US based international oil company in their UK tax department with a brief transition period when they were acquired by BP. Work included:Sole responsibility for the preparation, submission and agreement of the corporation tax, insurance premium tax and associated returns for up to nine group companies with a turnover of approximately £500 million. None of the companies had computations open for more than one year when I left.Full responsibility for all aspects of petroleum revenue tax compliance and tax planning on twelve fields. Tax planning initiatives resulted in tax savings of approximately £9 million in 1998;Provided international support in Dallas for the preparation of the US tax returns for European and Middle East companies over three years for approximately five weeks per year;Advising on the integration of a $1 billion acquisition into the UK corporate structure including preparation of a timeline of the various steps involved and work on the optimal way to structure the integration, including liaison with US tax experts;Reviewing of the monthly VAT return and dealing with any VAT planning;Undertaking a three month secondment to the planning department to develop a generic plan for future exploration expenditure to include in the long range plan and to provide support to the commercial department in deciding the merits of renegotiating gas sales contracts; andActive in numerous other areas including the industry PRT deregulation committee, emergency media response team, ideas programme committee member, and fire marshal.

Worked at Gatwick office. Wide range of typical Big 4 jobs, including as tax consultant on Virgin, Tokyo Electron Europe, Invensys subsidiaries, Qualified in the audit side and then transferred to tax.