Block Energy plc has appointed Jeremy Asher as a non-executive director with immediate effect.
Mr Asher is currently chairman and CEO of E&P company Tower Resources plc and owner of upstream oil and gas investment company Agile Energy Ltd.
He was previously a director of Pacific Drilling SA, where he chaired the remuneration committee, deputy chairman of Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd, and a director of Oil Refineries Ltd.
Following several years as a management consultant, Mr Asher co-headed the global oil products trading business at Marc Rich & Co AG (now Glencore plc) and then with partners acquired, developed and sold the 275,000 bopd Beta oil refinery at Wilhelmshaven in Germany.
Between 1998 and 2001, he was CEO of PA Consulting Group, and since that time has been an investor and director in various public and private companies.
Jeremy has a BSc (Econ.) Mathematical Economics & Econometrics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an MBA from Harvard University, where he was a George F Baker Scholar.
He was a member of the London Business School’s Global Advisory Council and of the Engineering Advisory Board of Imperial Innovations, when it was the commercial arm of Imperial College, London.
*Block Energy added that it was looking to appoint a further independent non-executive director.