LONDON: Genel Energy plc has announced the appointment of Dr. Bill Higgs as Chief Executive Officer, and as a member of the Board of Directors, with immediate effect. Esa Ikaheimonen, Chief Financial Officer, has also been appointed to the Board.

Dr. Higgs joined Genel as Chief Operating Officer in October 2017, and has since led on the delivery and expansion of Kurdistan Region of Iraq oil business. Having 30 years of global exploration, development and operations experience, Bill is a qualified geologist with extensive expertise in all engineering and other technical and commercial aspects of hydrocarbon development and production.

As well as being an Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer for Ophir Energy plc and Chief Executive Officer of Mediterranean Oil and Gas,he previously spent 23 years at Chevron across a number of global roles.[the_ad id=”32940″]