Board & management

Europa is run by an experienced Board and management team with a proven track record of successfully identifying and monetising new upstream opportunities.

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William Holland

Chief Executive Officer

Appointed: Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer June 2022; Chief Executive Officer March 2023

William has more than 30 years experience within the upstream sector. He started as an engineer with Halliburton focused on North Sea and West Africa operations before moving into upstream banking at Macquarie Bank. From 2013 he ran a successful consulting business which advised energy companies on commercial, financial and M&A matters before joining Europa in 2022. William has significant experience in corporate acquisitions, establishing and growing small market capitalisation E&P companies, debt and equity financing, balance sheet restructuring and investor relations. William’s experience includes 4 years of upstream operational activity whilst living in West Africa, followed by 15 years of investing in West African businesses and numerous M&A activities.

William holds a B.Eng (Mech) from Warwick University and a MBA from Edinburgh Business School (Heriot-Watt University).

Committee memberships: Risk (Chair), Strategy (Chair), ESG, Nominations

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Bo Krøll

Non-Executive Chairman

Appointed: Non-Executive Director December 2024; Chairman February 2025

Bo started his career as a geophysical engineer working for Schlumberger and later moved on to Maersk Oil and Gas. He has spent most of his subsequent career working as an entrepreneur who has founded and successfully built multiple companies.

He was formerly Chairman and CEO of SeeReal Technologies, a leading engineering and design house within the field of Holographic 3D Displays which has built a Holographic Display Patent Portfolio comprising more than 500 patents. Prior to this, he held board level roles at several data management companies. Notably, he was a significant early shareholder in ID Quantique, a leading quantum encryption company where he worked as Non-Executive Director and Chairman. Earlier, he co-founded IFX Group PLC, which provided financial information services on mobile terminals across Europe, Singapore and South Africa, and after nine years of rapid growth he successfully sold the business. He was also CEO of Boersinformation Telecom A/S where he renewed the data and software product line, doubled turnover, and then sold.

Bo holds a Baccalaureate from Holte Gymnasium and a Master of Science from the Technical University of Denmark.

External roles: None

Committee memberships: ESG, Remuneration, Nomination, Strategy, and Technical.

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Simon Ashby-Rudd

Senior Independent Non-Executive Director

Appointed: December 2023

Simon has over 35 years’ experience within the upstream energy sector including investment banking roles at large financial institutions including Standard Bank where he was Global Head of Oil & Gas. He was the founding European partner at Tristone Capital, a leading UK boutique M&A and equity advisory firm ultimately acquired by Macquarie Bank. Simon has significant global experience in advising energy companies on corporate strategy and capital structuring and has spent much of his career focused on Europe and Africa.

Simon holds a B.Sc in Economics from University College London.

External roles: Chairman DeepTech Recycling Limited, NED Prospex Energy PLC

Committee memberships: Audit (Chair), Nomination (Chair), ESG, Remuneration, and Strategy.

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Dr Eleanor Rowley

Independent Non-Executive Director

Appointed: April 2024

Eleanor has nearly 30 years experience in the upstream energy business. She started her career with Shell as a Geoscientist working in multiple international assignments, rapidly progressing into technical leadership roles with BHP Billiton, Cairn India and Dana Gas, before becoming Vice President Exploration for MENA, Caspian and Southern Europe for TotalEnergies. She is a proven hydrocarbon finder leading teams to discoveries in India, Cyprus, Egypt and the UAE and making new country entries in both exploration and discovered resource opportunities, including in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Currently Eleanor is Managing Director of Capricorn Egypt Ltd an LSE listed oil and gas producer with operations in Egypt, where she is overseeing exploration and development investments in the range of $150 m in 2026. Concurrently she sits on the Board of the joint venture company, Badr El Din, with gross production of >55 kboe/d and gross annual expenditure of >$300 m.

Eleanor holds a BA in Earth Science from Oxford University and a PhD in Geophysics from Cambridge University.

External roles: Managing Director, Capricorn Energy (Egypt)

Committee memberships: Remuneration (Chair), ESG (Chair), Technical (Chair), Audit, and Strategy.

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Alastair Stuart

Chief Operating Officer

Alastair has over 30 years of experience in operational, commercial and technical roles in the energy and IT sectors. He has been a consultant working with Europa since 2012. As a 1982 graduate of Herriot Watt’s Masters programme in Petroleum Engineering, he began his career with Total CFP in Paris before joining Enterprise Oil in 1986, shortly after it was established, where he focussed on projects in the North Sea and the Far East. He was later promoted to New Ventures Manager, where he led the evaluation and progression of new ventures in South America, Eastern Europe and the Far East. After ten years with Enterprise, he worked briefly with Hardy Oil & Gas, before setting up his own consulting group in 1998 which developed processes and systems for managing capital allocation across large portfolios of investments in the oil & gas, pharmaceutical and venture capital sectors.

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Jamie White

Chief Geologist

Jamie has worked in the oil and gas industry for nearly 30 years, including at Anadarko Petroleum, Serica Energy, African Petroleum, Calvalley Petroleum, and Vermilion Energy. He has worked in basins all over the world but primarily North, East and West Africa, the North Sea, onshore Europe and the west off Britain/Ireland. He has supervised exploration, new ventures, appraisal and development projects across the spectrum but with a primary focus on exploration, appraisal and new ventures for medium and small sized independents.

Jamie is a proven oil and gas finder and has contributed to multiple discoveries across the world. He has worked extensively in new business development. With Europa, Jamie has worked to unlock the potential of the company’s EG-08 licence in Equatorial Guinea as well as continuing its efforts to farm out its offshore Ireland acreage. He holds a BSc in Geology from Durham University and an MSc and DIC from Imperial College London in Petroleum Geoscience.

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