Board

Non-Executive Chairman

Michael Spencer is one of Britain's most successful entrepreneurs. He founded the financial broking firm ICAP in 1986, which grew to be the world's biggest broking firm and a constituent of the FTSE100. The business was renamed NEX and then sold to CME, the global financial markets group in 2018. Since then, Michael has become an active investor in a wide range of emerging businesses through his private family office, IPGL. He is Chairman of AIM-listed Chapel Down, Britain's largest winemaker, and Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies.

Chief Executive Officer

A native-born Alaskan, Max Easley has over thirty years of experience as an energy executive, balanced between domestic and international experience in the upstream industry. Over the course of his career, Max has held executive roles at BP, Apache Corporation and PETRONAS. Max has considerable technical and financial leadership skills that have yielded material value growth and differentiated competitive results everywhere he has been.

Max graduated from the University of Alaska in 1991 with a degree in Petroleum Engineering. Following his early days as an engineer on the North Slope of Alaska, he moved to the North Sea where he held a variety of operating and financial leadership roles. Following his subsequent time as CFO of BP Trinidad and Tobago, he returned to BP Alaska as SVP of Resource Management. Max joined Apache Corporation in 2016, became President of their Permian business in Midland Texas, and then SVP of Global Production in Houston. Max joined PETRONAS in 2022 as COO of their unconventional Montney gas business. Over the past decade, Max has become a recognized industry leader in the capital efficient appraisal, development and operations of unconventional assets in North America.

Max is a member of the Nominations Committee.

Non-Executive Director

David Wilkins has over 40 years of oil and gas upstream drilling, engineering and operations experience with Dowell-Schlumberger, Marathon Oil and Hilcorp Energy across international and domestic producing basins, including Alaska. He served as the Senior Vice President for Hilcorp Alaska from 2015 until retiring in 2022. During this time, Hilcorp drilled hundreds of wells in the Cook Inlet and North Slope basins, made several acquisitions of legacy producing assets and tripled production. He is a Petroleum Engineering graduate from West Virginia University (1985) and a lifetime member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. 

Non-Executive Director

Marty is a fifth-generation Alaskan with a distinguished career in public service and natural resource management. Marty served as Deputy Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs prior to transitioning to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), where she was appointed Deputy Commissioner overseeing oil and gas, mining, water, and parks, and later led Alaska’s gas line and energy policy efforts. After a period in the private sector with Linc Energy, she returned to the DNR where she served as Deputy Commissioner and acting Commissioner multiple times until her retirement in 2016. Marty later served as a Trustee of the Alaska Permanent Fund.

Marty is a member of the Remuneration Committee, Conflicts, Anti-Corruption and Anti-Bribery Committee ("the CACAB Committee") and Nominations Committee.