McTiernan Appointed Non-Executive Chairman, Hurricane Energy

Steven McTiernan has been appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of the board of directors of Hurricane Energy plc, effective May 1, 2018. Dr. David Jenkins, who has acted as Interim Chairman of the Board since November 2017, will return to his previous role as Senior Independent Director on this date.

Steven McTiernan has over 45 years of oil and gas industry and investment banking experience. He was a non-executive director of Tullow Oil plc (TUWLF) for eleven years until December 2012, during its period of rapid growth, and served as its Senior Independent Director. 

He is currently Chairman of Kenmare Resources, a mining company listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange (Premium segment), where he has been on the board since 2013. He was an independent director at First Quantum Minerals Ltd until June 2012, and an independent director at Songa Offshore SE until January 2014.

His oil and gas industry experience includes roles at Iraq Petroleum, Amoco, BP and Mesa, and his banking experience includes senior roles leading energy teams at the Chase Manhattan Bank, NatWest Markets and CIBC. He holds an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge.