Jeremy Asher is Chairman of Agile Energy Limited, a privately held energy investment company, Chairman and CEO of Tower Resources plc, and Senior Independent Director of Block Energy plc, both AIM-listed oil and gas companies.Jeremy has had a career embracing both consulting to and running a variety of enterprises. Following several years consulting with what is now Oliver Wyman, he ran the global oil products trading business at Glencore AG, and then acquired, developed and sold the 275,000 b/d Beta oil refinery at Wilhelmshaven in Germany. As CEO of PA Consulting Group, he oversaw PA’s globalization and growth from 2,500 to nearly 4,000 staff, and negotiated and managed the integration of PA’s acquisition of Hagler Bailly, Inc. Jeremy was also involved in setting up a number of PA’s ventures including UbiNetics Ltd. and Meridica Ltd. In recent years he has served as a director of Oil Refineries Ltd, where he has also been a long-standing advisor; Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd; Better Place LLC (until 2010) where he also served as a director of the company's jointly owned Danish venture with DONG; and Process Systems Enterprise Limited (until 2008) where he was appointed by Imperial Innovations Ltd, the commercial arm of Imperial College where he served on the Engineering Advisory Board. Most recently, he served as a director of Pacific Drilling SA, a NYSE-listed drillship company, where he chaired the Remuneration Committee and, during the recent oil industry downturn, he also was a member of the Restructuring Committee.He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and the Harvard Business School, where he received his MBA with high distinction in 1981 and was designated a Baker Scholar, and he also served for many years as a member of the London Business School’s Global Advisory Council.