About

Alasdair Kinnaird-Rowe chairs the board of Kestermoor Energy Services Limited. He has led the board since 2016, four years after the company was founded, and oversees strategy, risk and the governance that holds the group to the same standard in Accra, Aberdeen and every field base.

Alasdair spent more than three decades in upstream oil and gas, most of it in project finance and general management in the North Sea and West Africa. He has chaired the boards of an international operator's regional subsidiary and a North Sea drilling contractor, and he sits on Kestermoor's audit and HSE committees.

He is known for asking plain questions about safety culture and cash before anything else. He splits his time between Aberdeen and the board's quarterly meetings in Accra.

Eleanor Strachwell joined the board as an independent Non-Executive Director in 2019 and chairs its audit and risk committee. She provides the external challenge that a growing company working in several jurisdictions needs, particularly on financial controls, anti-bribery compliance and supplier due diligence.

Eleanor qualified as a chartered accountant and spent most of her career as an audit partner, advising energy services and engineering groups on listings, restructurings and cross-border reporting. She now holds non-executive roles in the engineering and logistics sectors.

At Kestermoor she reviews the half-year accounts with the Head of Finance, sits in on the annual ISO 9001 management review, and visits a field base each year to see how the controls work in practice.

Kwabena Owusu-Ampofo is Managing Director of Kestermoor Energy Services Limited. He has run the company since 2014 and is responsible for its results, its client relationships and the way its teams deliver across West, Central and East Africa.

Kwabena trained as a mechanical engineer at KNUST in Kumasi and began his career commissioning gas and water pipelines in Ghana. He later managed field services contracts for an international operator and a regional drilling contractor, where he learned that a safe, well-planned job is nearly always a profitable one.

He leads from the Accra operations headquarters and spends a large part of each month at the Takoradi, Luanda, Pemba and Mombasa bases. He chairs the executive committee and signs off every major bid personally.

Seun Adebanjo-Reid leads field operations at Kestermoor. He is responsible for planning, mobilising and supervising every pipeline pre-commissioning, hydro-testing, pigging, nitrogen purging and coil tubing support job, and for making sure each one finishes safely, on programme and to specification.

Seun joined in 2015 as a field supervisor in Takoradi and worked up through project and area management. Before Kestermoor he spent six years on flushing and testing crews with an international pipeline contractor, working onshore and offshore in Nigeria and Angola.

He now runs the job planning process from Accra, with supervisors in all four field bases reporting to him. His rule is that no crew mobilises until the method statement has been walked through on site.

Adaeze Mensah-Coker is the QHSE Manager of Kestermoor Energy Services Limited. She signed the company's Health, Safety and Environment Policy Statement and Quality Policy Statement on 25 February, 2026, and she is accountable for the management system behind both.

Adaeze joined in 2017 and built the ISO 9001:2015 quality system from the ground up, then extended it to cover HSE reporting, permit to work, incident investigation and contractor assessment at every field base. Earlier in her career she worked as an HSE adviser on onshore pipeline projects in Ghana and Nigeria.

She audits each base twice a year and reports directly to the Managing Director, so that safety findings reach the executive committee without being filtered.

Willem Strydom-Ross heads Marine Services, which manages the vessels and work boats Kestermoor uses for offshore and coastal pipeline work. He is responsible for vessel selection, crewing, marine assurance and the day-to-day readiness of the fleet.

Willem qualified as a deck officer and served for ten years on offshore support vessels and anchor handlers out of Cape Town and Aberdeen before moving ashore as a marine superintendent. He then spent several years managing charters for a North Sea vessel operator.

He joined in 2018 and brought a formal vessel inspection regime based on IMCA guidance. He works between the Takoradi and Mombasa bases, where he checks each hired vessel against the client's marine requirements before it sails.

Njeri Kimathi-Odhiambo leads Procurement and Supply Chain. Her team buys and moves the pipe, valves, fittings, nitrogen and consumables that every job depends on, and manages the registered supplier list that clients and tender panels review.

Njeri joined in 2016 from a regional logistics group in Mombasa, where she ran customs clearance and project cargo for offshore operators. She has since built Kestermoor's supplier qualification process, which checks each vendor's certificates, insurance and safety record before it is approved to quote.

She works between Accra and Mombasa and negotiates frame agreements with equipment makers such as Belcrane Turbines and Caldavex Valves. Her priority is that equipment arrives at the base before the crew does.

Callum Brackenridge is Head of Engineering. His team writes the method statements, test procedures and calculations behind each job, specifies the pumps, pigs, nitrogen units and coil tubing equipment, and reviews every procedure before it goes to a client.

Callum worked in pipeline integrity and commissioning engineering in Aberdeen for twelve years before joining Kestermoor in 2017 to set up its Aberdeen engineering office. He previously designed hydro-test packages for a North Sea contractor and an international operator.

He works closely with Operations on lessons learned after each campaign, and he maintains the company's equipment calibration and test certification programme. He divides his time between the Aberdeen office and the Accra and Takoradi bases.

Imogen Tarrant-Hale is Head of Finance. She is responsible for management accounts, statutory reporting, treasury and tax across Kestermoor's UK and African entities, and for the costing behind every tender and contract.

Imogen trained with a major UK audit firm and moved into energy services finance, where she led a group's multi-currency consolidation and a bank refinancing. She joined Kestermoor in 2020 to introduce monthly project-level reporting, which now gives each field base a clear picture of its margins.

She works with the Chairman and the audit committee on the annual accounts and manages relationships with the company's banks and insurers. Imogen is based in Aberdeen and travels to Accra each quarter.