Africa Oil Corp. announced the appointment of Dr Oliver Quinn as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Ms Joanna Kay as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary.
Dr Quinn brings 20 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry across technical, commercial and executive leadership roles. He began his career as a geologist for Shell. Dr Quinn has worked extensively across Africa, Americas, Asia and Europe in business development and asset leadership building and managing significant oil and gas portfolios. Most recently he was a member of the Senior Leadership Team at Kosmos Energy. Prior to that, he was a member of the Executive and Investment committees at Ophir Energy.
Ms Joanna Kay will join the company in late Q4 2023. Ms Kay is a senior lawyer with over 15 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry across a wide range of international jurisdictions. She will join from BW Energy where she is VP, Associate General Counsel and Company Secretary. She also has considerable experience both in private practice with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Andrews Kurth and Ashurst and as a lawyer with Tullow Oil plc.
