Prospex Energy plc has appointed Andrew Hay as an independent non-executive director (NED), with immediate effect.
Mr Hay is a graduate of Oxford University with more than 30 years’ experience as a banker in London and New York, covering corporate banking, the debt and equity capital markets and international M&A.
He is currently a senior adviser at London corporate finance firm Smith Square Partners.
Formerly he was chairman of LGB Corporate Finance and before that built and led the corporate finance business of Edmond de Rothschild in London.
Mr Hay previously held senior positions at ING Barings and Schroders, including two years in New York.
He led the North American corporate finance and capital markets origination activity of Barings until 1997.
Until May 2017, Mr Hay was a NED at oil and gas company Aminex plc and was a NED at Independent Oil & Gas plc until February 2018.
He is currently a NED of the holding company of Lloyd George Advisory, a specialist India and Asia focused emerging market fund management business.
Since 2020, Mr Hay has been the senior NED and chair of audit committee at Great Western Mining Corporation plc.