John Conlin, Chairman, Independent Non-executive Director
Mr Conlin is a petroleum engineer and has over 34 years experience in the oil and gas industry; spending 28 years at Shell in various senior management and operational positions. During that time he also gained significant experience outside Shell through secondments to Maersk, Woodside, Sakhalin Energy and Exxon Mobil. He was also Head of Petroleum Engineering for the Central North Sea with Shell Expro where he gained extensive exposure to the Rotliegendes play types which form a core part of Aurelian’s business.
John has served as a non-executive director at Hardman Resources and Delphian Technology and was chairman of Fuelture Limited. He is currently chairman of AIM-listed Nautical Petroleum.
He holds a BSc (Hons) from Edinburgh in Chemical Engineering/ Mathematics and completed the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard and the Shell Strategic Leadership Programme at INSEAD.
John joined the Board in March 2010 and became Chairman at the conclusion of the 2010 Annual General meeting. He is Chairman of the Audit committee and a member of the Remuneration committee.