Aberdeen, United Kingdom - October 7, 2015, Aberdeen, United Kingdom - Wood Group, an energy services company, announces the appointment of Robin Watson as chief executive officer, effective January 1, 2016.
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Mr. Watson has served on the Board since 2013, initially as CEO of Wood Group PSN and, since April 2015, as Group chief operating officer.
Mr. Watson assumed the Chief Operating Officer role for Wood Group in 2015, having been an Executive member of the Wood Group Board since January 2013 and Chief Executive Officer of the Group’s PSN business since 2012. In 2014 he won the Institute of Director’s (IoD) ‘Global Director of the Year’ award and the IoD Scotland’s overall ‘Director of the Year’ award.
Mr. Watson has more than 25 years’ oil & gas industry experience, with the past 11 years spent in a variety of executive positions.
He is actively engaged with various industry and Governmental representative bodies; Board Member of Oil & Gas UK and the Oil & Gas Contractors Council, member of the Industry’s ‘Step Change in Safety’ Leadership Team and work-group Co-Chair. He holds a position of Visiting Professor at the Robert Gordon University.
Between 2011 and 2015, he was on the Scottish Business Board, which was a cross-industry leadership group chaired by the UK Government’s Secretary of State for Scotland. Prior to joining Wood Group, he worked for Petrofac and Mobil Oil, working both in the UK and internationally.
Mr. Watson is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer, a Fellow of both the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Energy Institute and holds a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) and an Honours Degree in Offshore & Mechanical Engineering.
He succeeds Bob Keiller who has decided to retire from Wood Group on 31 December 2015.
Mr. Keiller was Head of UK Operations for the Halliburton Production Services division between 2002 and 2004, becoming the Global Managing Director for the division in 2004. In 2006, he led the buyout of the division from Kellogg Brown & Root and laid down a unique identity and clear strategy for PSN. In 2010 he was instrumental in the sale of PSN to Wood Group.
In 2011, Mr. Keiller became the Chief Executive of the Wood Group PSN business, during which time he led the integration of PSN with Wood Group’s Production Facilities business to create the production facilities support business, Wood Group PSN. He was appointed Wood Group CEO in November 2012.
Mr. Keiller is a Fellow of the Energy Institute and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and former Chairman of the Entrepreneurial Exchange. ■
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