Roy was appointed CEO in March 2020. He is based in London and has over 35 years of technical, commercial and managerial experience in the international energy industry and was previously Partner, Head of Technical, at Kerogen Capital, a specialist oil, gas and energy private equity fund with over $2 bn in assets under management across several funds. He will remain on Kerogen’s Technical Committee as an operating partner.

Prior to Kerogen, Roy trained as petroleum engineer with BP and a number of independent oil companies. He also spent 14 years in consulting and advisory roles to the energy industry, latterly as Managing Director of Consulting at RPS Energy, which included reserves and resource auditing, and technical and advisory roles throughout West Africa, including Cameroon.

Roy is a Chartered Petroleum Engineer, a Fellow of the Energy Institute and a Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He holds a BSc (Honours) from the University of Wales and a MBA from the University of Durham.