EEEGR Board

After studying for an HND in Engineering at Dundee College of Technology, Mark began his working career in Aberdeen with Swire EPD in 1983. In 1984 a temporary assignment in Great Yarmouth became permanent and since then he has held senior Management and Director positions with former Crane & Stevedoring Business EH Clarke ('85-'90), Great Yarmouth Port Authority ('90-‘98) and Kvaerner (now Aker Kvaerner) since 1998, currently looking after the company's interests in the Southern North Sea. Mark has been an active Board Member of EEEGR since 2001 and is currently non-executive Chairman. Mark has extensive experience, knowledge and networks both in the energy industry and the East of England and is committed to further assisting the economic development of the region with EEEGR. Mark is also a Trustee of Petans Ltd and sits on the regional forum for the ECITB.

Mark lives in Norwich and having retired from playing National League Rugby with North Walsham several years ago he still keeps active either in the gym, on the golf course, playing tennis or trying to stay upright on skis!

Graham began his career as an Instrument Technician in the army where he served for seven years before leaving to seek employment within the local offshore oil & gas industry. Whilst working with local wellhead control companies Graham noted a gap in the market for a dedicated service company and during 1999 established Specialised Management Services to breach this gap. Graham sold SMS in 2004 and is now the Managing Director of new company 3Sun Ltd. The 3sun business provides control and instrumentation services particularly to the oil, gas and marine industry and is built around a network of close relationships within the industry supported by accredited QHSE systems.

Chief Executive Officer for Blue Sky Leisure, a family owned Norfolk business. Employing around 200 staff it operates holidays parks (Including Kelling Heath Holiday Park), the famous Zaks American Diners and a number of property interests. Ian is passionate about customer service believes in building good business through supporting and developing good people.

Ian is a Chartered Accountant, who has worked in various sectors. He owned, with his brother, hydraulic engineering business, Specialised Management Services until 2004 when it was sold to a PLC.

Ian is 38 and has two daughters, Evie (8) and Betsie (6) and a baby on the way; he is married to Jo. He likes his old cars. currently owning a Jaguar E-Type and Triumph Herald.

Doug graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1982 and has worked in drilling ever since. He learned his trade working as a drilling engineer and drilling supervisor in the North Sea and overseas for Marathon Oil, Shell and Conoco. Doug then spent ten years with Santa Fe Drilling, much of this time as Well Engineering Manager for the Southern North Sea. He was instrumental in hiring and training over fifty graduate drilling engineers and in drilling over 100 SNS wells for major Operators including Shell, BG and Gaz De France.

In 2004 Doug founded Fraser Offshore Ltd (FOL), a drilling project management company. Based at the Beacon Innovation Centre near Great Yarmouth, FOL provides expert teams of engineers, offshore supervisors and support staff who plan and drill offshore wells on behalf of oil company clients. With skills honed in the difficult drilling conditions of the Southern North Sea, FOL has grown to over 30 specialist employees. FOL now trains its own drilling engineers and offers its services internationally.

Doug believes that the East of England has a massive skills base in the growth areas of well construction and well servicing, and that local companies should capitalise on this resource to win work both local and overseas. He is a keen supporter of EEEGR as a catalyst for the use of this region's "old energy" resources for a head start in the "new energy" mix of renewables and nuclear power.

After 10 years with AMEC Oil and Gas Martin is currently the Business Development Director responsible for their Europe & West Africa business.

In his 21^st year in the Oil & Gas industry, and based in Aberdeen, Martin is a business and project management professional, who holds relationship based contracting close to his heart and invests much of his time in the development of key client/contractor relationships.

With close links to the Southern North Sea (where he spent much of his early career), Martin is convinced that for the basin to remain competitive for its potential 30 - 40 more years we must all collectively embrace significant changes to the way we operate.  Martin has a well developed network within the Oil & Gas industry and has delivered key note speeches to several industry events

Based in Aberdeen with his wife Anne and 2 boys, Elliot aged 7 and Zachary aged 5, Martin enjoys Trout and Salmon fishing and the occasional game of golf when work and marital constraints allow.