Chief Executive Officer
CurrentRichard has over 30 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry and is a skilled upstream executive with wide ranging expertise in both developing strategic direction and executing projects. During his career, Richard has held various leadership roles giving him strong international knowledge and expertise working across geographies including US, UK, London, Brazil, Norway, Middle East, Caspian region and Kazakhstan. He has led a number of significant feasibility and concept selection studies for all manner of clients and has a keen interest in organisational decision quality.As CEO of io, he is heading up io’s vision and implementing change in the oil and gas industry. io is a new model of upstream consultancy that delivers much-needed certainty into the design and planning of oil and gas development by starting with the end in mind. Working in direct partnership with operators to reach their specific objectives, io provides the formidable combination of an independent consultancy offering a range of services. In engineering expertise it is unrivalled in its unique offer of deep sector knowledge and full field development expertise.