Senior Management
Dr. Steve Moore is an E&P technical professional with 28 years’ experience at Shell, Maersk Oil and Mubadala Petroleum. He joined Energean in 2014. Previously Senior Vice President Technical at Mubadala Petroleum, where he managed all technical functions of the company worldwide, including G&G, reservoir, drilling, facilities, projects, operations, HSE and technology.
Dr. Moore has held increasingly significant roles across New Business Development, and Technical, Asset and Company Management, expanding from company to global level. Dr. Moore has worked extensively in the FSU, in the Middle East and South East Asia, as well as in the UK North Sea.
Dr. Moore holds a BSc (Hons) in Chemical Engineering and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Nick has been leading the commercialisation of Energean’s multi -tcf gas resources including the Karish and Tanin development in Israel since late 2016 while also developing and leading a number of other commercial and business development initiatives.
Following a 25 year career including senior commercial roles in international E&P companies, Nick built a successful practice advising a world-wide client base on sale and purchase agreements, upstream asset management, M&A, strategy and dispute resolution and arbitration.
Nick previously worked for Santos, BG Group, Star Energy plc, BHP Billiton plc and Centrica plc (formerly British Gas plc).
He holds a BEng (Hons) in Fuel & Energy Engineering from The University of Leeds.
Russell Poynter is an English Solicitor with over 25 years’ experience, having qualified in 1993 with a London city firm, after an 11 year previous career as a Chartered Mechanical Engineer.
After qualifying as a Solicitor, he initially worked as a UK Government lawyer with the Health & Safety Executive on supporting the UK Ministers in negotiating EU Directives, drafting of UK legislation and general policy and advisory work.
Since then, he has worked as in-house lawyer with an international engineering group and later, in the upstream and downstream businesses of various oil and gas majors, including Elf, Total, EON E&P and BP, finally joining Energean in 2018.
With the above companies, Russell has held positions of Head of Legal, Company Secretary, Head of HSEQS, Trustee-Director of several pension schemes; he was also Chairman of the Legal Committee of UK Petroleum Industry Association (UKPIA).
Mr. Mastrantonis joined Energean in 2011 as Human Resources and Administration Manager. From July 2016 until end 2017 he also served as the Managing Director of Energean Oil & Gas SA Greece and as a member of the board.
He manages HR and Admin, providing decision-making support and leadership along with management of business-critical, large-scale projects.
As of April 2020, Angelos is also the Managing Director of Energean Oil & Gas SA (Country Manager of Energean in Greece).
Mr. Mastrantonis obtained his business administration degrees (BA and MBA) from University of Staffordshire in the UK and an MSc in Human Resources Management from Athens University of Business and Economics.
Vassilis has been working in various leading positions of the E&P sector for more than 20 years, namely Electrical & Instrumentation Lead, Technical Services Lead, Engineering Lead, HSE Lead and HSE Regional Manager Greece and Adriatic. He is fully committed to delivering additional value to all projects through integrating Health Environmental and Safety in the entire chain of operations.
Vassilis is highly experienced in working in H2S environments, designing and implementing all necessary safety procedures. He is responsible for Energean’s climate change strategy and the policies to deliver Energean’s goal to become a net-zero emitter by 2050. He is certified as Head of Internal Inspections of ISO 9000/94 Quality Systems and as an IMO Port Facility Security Officer.
Vassilis holds a BEng and a MEng in Electrical Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a MSc in “Technologies in Environmental Legislation” from the Department of Environmental Engineering of Democritus University of Thrace
Ilia Rigas is the Head of CSR for Energean.
She has shaped the strategy for the sustainable development of the company and was in charge of publishing the first Sustainability Report for Energean.
Prior to Energean Mrs Rigas was involved in the shipping, real estate and tourism businesses where initially as a shipbroker for ELKA Shipping and Trafigura and later as an entrepreneur has wide experience of international business ethics, code of conducts and relationships with local communities.
Mrs Rigas studied Business Management at Richmond College in London.
Kate joined Energean in June 2018 as Head of Investor Relations and Equity Capital Markets. She has thirteen years of experience of the oil and gas industry, most recently as a Senior Equity Analyst with Macquarie, where she was responsible for covering the international E&P space.
Kate qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2009, having trained within Deloitte's Energy, Infrastructure and Utilities team. Kate has also worked as an oil and tankers analysts for Braemar Seascope, and as a management consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton.
Kate has a First Class Honours Degree from Oxford University.
Maria Joined Energean in 2018 from Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Bank where she was a Director in the Reserve Based Finance team.
Maria has over 12 years of experience in the oil and gas sector and has delivered multi – billion dollar financings for acquisitions and E&P companies worldwide.
Her particular expertise lies in development projects and emerging markets.
Maria has a Master’s Degree in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering from the Queen’s University of Belfast.
Mrs. Lena has 15 years of professional experience in Corporate Finance and Business Strategy. Her main expertise focuses on investment evaluation, project financing and business accounting.
In Energean she is responsible for the company’s accounting and tax compliance, as well as the group’s financial reporting to management, regulators and other external parties. She also coordinates with auditors and regulators for the review of books, records and internal controls.
Before joining Energean Oil & gas, she has held the position of Business Analyst in Remaco Management Consultants S.A. and Financial Accountant in Next Step Consulting.
Mrs. Lena holds a BSc in Business Administration and a BSc in Economic Science at Athens University of Economics.
Fred Riddiford is a Reservoir Engineering/ Project Engineering Technical Professional and Senior Manager who has worked on oil and gas-related projects for the past 40 years. He joined Energean in June 2016 as Reservoir Engineering Manager. As of April 2020, he is also the Manager of the Prinos Asset.
Mr. Riddiford previously worked in the Petro-Technical Group in Mubadala Petroleum as Vice President Reservoir Engineering (2013-2016) and Director Reservoir Engineering (2011-2013) in Abu Dhabi.
He began a 35-year career at BP as a Research Physicist before transferring to the E&P arm of the Company in 1984 as a Reservoir Engineer.
More recently, Mr. Riddiford developed the In Salah Gas (ISG) Field (1996-2004) as Team Lead and then Senior Reservoir Engineer and won a BP Helios Green Prize Award in 2005 for the ISG CO2 Re-injection Project, before taking his final position at BP as Technical Manager of the Growth/Technical Directorate (Middle East & South Asia SPU, 2004-2010).
Dennis Anestoudis is a Geophysicist with more than 20 years of experience. He first served in Energean as Team Leader from 2008 -2012. Prior to that, Dennis worked from February 1996 untill December 2006 in Schlumberger and later for one year in Hellenic Petroleum.
He joined Energean for a second time in 2016, after having worked as Team Leader Africa in Genel Energy.
Mr. Reboul-Salze is a production facilities engineer with 10 years of industry experience, mostly gained at Shell. He joined Energean in 2014, after leading the process engineering team in charge of Shell/AGIP KCO’s Kashagan field Start-Up in Kazakhstan, for over three years. Prior to that, he worked with Shell Upstream development teams to support new business development and “concept select” work focusing on facilities’ conceptual design and costing.
As Appraisal and Process Engineer, he worked on production operations and new facilities’ design and installation for four years in the Dutch and Southern North Sea production areas (mainly gas fields).
Before joining Shell, Mr. Reboul-Salze worked for two years conducting detailed engineering studies for Offshore floating structures with D2M Naval Architects.
He holds a Masters in Petroleum Engineering from the Institut Français du Petrole (IFP school) and a Masters in Engineering from Ecole Centrale Paris.