Managing risk provides opportunity
After 30 years in energy, leading businesses from small startups to multi-billion-dollar operations, I am now focused on supporting companies that are mission-focused on the transition to energy that is truly sustainable. That’s energy that is affordable, reliable and resonant with climate and other natural capital factors. I understand the need for balance of demands of the world today, and therefore am ready to work on multiple solutions to make the apparently incongruent and complex work to benefit of all.
I bring technical, commercial and leadership skills to bear on governance, strategy, risk and financials. As a student of adaptive leadership, I work the biggest challenges we face from both technical and values perspectives in order to realize the triple bottom line of societal benefit, environmental stewardship and profit to investors.
I prefer to work from within an organization, having a vested interest in the outcome, so. Company Board and Advisory Group roles are best for me and those that I work with. While I enjoy learning and influencing learning on how we should go about the energy transition, I am even happier when I am in action.
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Current assignments
Managing Director & Chief Technologist, CausewayGT: A new geothermal energy company, with a mission to decarbonise industrial and commercial heat.
Non-Executive Director, Senergy Innovations Ltd: Senergy is developing a revolutionary polymer solar thermal panel that offers a renewable form of heating that can reduce carbon emissions and tackle fuel poverty.
Senior Advisor, Promethean Energy Corporation: Promethean is a development and production company focused on advantaged oil in the US Gulf of Mexico, resonant with the energy transition.
Adjunct Full Professor, School of Earth Sciences, University College Dublin: Aiming to support education and research in Irish and international geoscience as it relates to societal benefits such as energy provision.
Advisor, Plan C Advisors: Plan C provides the insights and frameworks business leaders need to catalyze climate resiliency across their organizations. Plan C identifies areas of greatest threat, and uncover opportunities for value creation.
Capabilities
assets
Using his multidisciplinary, full-value chain experience and skills, Simon is able to deduce business risks and opportunities from a variety of upstream settings. His geoscience background allows Simon to intuitively find upside opportunities, even in “tired” assets. These perspectives provide value to boards, investors and those considering divestment or acquisition of new assets or mergers between companies.
organization
Using his strategic acumen and working experience of multiple organizational models, Simon is able to set up E&P businesses at a variety of scales and maturity. Simon takes an "integral" approach to this design work, considering both system and culture aspects of the organization.
strategy
Applying his passion for improving business performance through the integration of values-based leadership and systematic management with operational excellence, Simon offers both individual coaching and strategy development to boards and senior executives looking to improve their operations and business performance in an engaging, systematic and sustainable manner.
Investment
Simon invests in oil, gas and energy himself and is building a personal portfolio in investments in the sector, using his own experience and savvy. He is familiar with a number of key research and analysis tools. This knowhow helps investors, companies and institutions make decisions on where to put their precious capital.
risk
Based on the foundations of operational excellence, Simon can provide advice to senior executives and boards wishing to improve both personal and process safety performance of their operations, beginning with “control room to board room” engagement, understanding, management and mitigation of risk. Simon can also provide structure to a company’s management of all risks, not just operating.
integration
Simon has always been fond of complex problems that require integral thinking to produce solutions. At this stage of his career, Simon welcomes opportunities to put those integrating skills to work in settings such as boards, advisory councils and the like. His way of being is always found as warm, collaborative and caring by colleagues.
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”
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