Alasdair Kinnaird-Rowe

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.