
Finlayson, who is a director of Lloyd’s Register, is the former chief executive BG Group and a former executive vice president and managing director with Royal Dutch Shell. He has nearly 40 years’ global experience and has led exploration and production ventures in Russia, Nigeria, Brunei, UK North Sea, Europe and Asia with BG Group and Shell, overseeing production of more than one million barrels of oil equivalent a day and directing several major capital projects.