Over 16 years of hands-on international experience. No shortcuts, no borrowed credibility — every lesson learned on location, under pressure, with real stakes.
The Approach
Clients engage Frontier Energy Advisors because they need someone who will tell them what they need to hear — not what they want to hear. Every engagement starts with an honest assessment of the situation, a clear-eyed view of the risks, and a practical path forward. No inflated timelines, no vague deliverables, no hiding behind complexity.
Built on Trust
The relationships that matter in this industry are built over years of showing up, delivering, and being straight with people. Most of the operators and companies we work with today are organisations we have worked alongside for a decade or more. That track record is not something you can manufacture — it is earned one well, one campaign, one market entry at a time.
May 2026 – Present
Director — Frontier Energy Advisors
Cape Town, South Africa
Independent upstream advisory practice built to deliver straight-talking, execution-focused advice. Market entry, operational implementation, local content compliance, cost estimation, and workforce development across Africa's upstream energy sector. The practice was founded on a simple principle: be useful, be honest, and get the job done.
Dec 2025 – May 2026
Regional Director, Sales & Operations Africa
Innovex · Cape Town, South Africa
Full P&L responsibility across Sub-Saharan Africa. Led sales strategy, business development, and operational delivery across Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, and Angola. Managed complex multi-country tender processes and client relationships from initial engagement through contract award and execution.
Feb 2025 – Jul 2025
SVP Technology
Fishbones AS · Norway / International
Senior leadership of global technology strategy, product development, and commercialization. Responsible for translating field-proven operational insight into technology direction — ensuring that what gets developed is what actually works in the field, not just what looks good in a boardroom presentation.
Feb 2021 – Feb 2025
VP Global Operations
Fishbones AS · Norway / International
Built and led the global operations function from the ground up — people, processes, logistics, safety systems, and supply chains — across Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Eight direct reports. Delivered multi-continent campaigns for major IOCs and NOCs, often in remote and high-pressure environments where the margin for error was zero and excuses were not an option.
Feb 2017 – Jan 2021
Global Operations Manager
Fishbones AS · International
Scaled operational capabilities across multiple continents simultaneously. Responsible for building Fishbones' Africa presence from the first job through to an established multi-country business — managing everything from partner selection and local content compliance to crew logistics and equipment supply chains. If something needed doing, it got done.
Nov 2013 – Jan 2017
Field Operations Engineer
Fishbones AS · Norway / Africa / Middle East
Joined Fishbones as an early employee during the company's build-out phase. Delivered field operations across Africa and the Middle East — frequently as the sole company representative on location. This is where the foundation was laid: understanding what actually matters when equipment and people need to perform under pressure, far from any support structure.
Jul 2012 – Oct 2013
Mechanical Field Engineer
Baker Hughes · Africa / International
Field engineering across multiple African markets. Exposure to large-scale oilfield service operations and the discipline of delivering technical work on time, on spec, in difficult environments — with a major service company's reputation on the line.
Jan 2010 – Jun 2012
Turbine Engineer
Eskom · South Africa
Engineering foundation in large-scale power generation. Instilled a rigorous approach to mechanical systems, operational safety, and the real consequences of getting things wrong in high-stakes environments. The starting point for a career built on understanding how things actually work.
