Michael Kirk

Biography

Mr. Michael Peter Kirk has been appointed as Executive Chairman of the Board of the Company, effective 1 April 2016. Mike Kirk was previously managing director of Weber Shandwick Square Mile, a financial communications consultancy until July 2005. He joined Weber Shandwick from Cazenove, the UK investment bank, where he worked in the corporate finance department for more than 13 years, four of those as a partner of the firm. Whilst at Cazenove, Mr. Kirk advised companies on a wide range of corporate issues including the demerger of Centrica plc from British Gas plc, the Lattice plc demerger from BG plc and the UK listings of John Wood Group plc and KBC Advanced Technologies plc. His early experience was in the energy and insurance sectors, having started his career at British Nuclear Fuels. Mr. Kirk was also formerly a member of the Primary Markets Group of the London Stock Exchange. An engineer by profession, Mr. Kirk has an MBA (Finance), a BSc (Hons) Chemical Engineering degree and an MSc in Nuclear Fuel Technology. Mike is currently non-executive chairman of First Wessex Housing Association and non-executive chairman of Portsmouth Water. Mr. Kirk was previously a non-executive director of both KBC Advanced Technologies plc and KSK Power Ventur plc

Research Interest

Chemical and Petrochemical