APPOINTMENTS
A round-up of the latest appointments on the Tees business scene...
responsible for the execution of the FDB
strategic Global Business Change Portfolio,
and implementation of the companywide
Science and Innovation Strategy,
ensuring the business meets its global
vision, mission and challenging business
objectives.
As director of the National Horizons
Centre, she will be responsible for driving
the success of the £22.3m teaching,
research and training centre of excellence,
helping the region to meet the challenges
of the UK industrial strategy and growing
national and international links with
industry.
director.
The North-East is home to the largest
single cluster of process, chemical and
energy companies anywhere in the UK,
and the second largest in the whole of
Europe.
Amec Foster Wheeler and Worley – at
both companies he was vice president of
business development.
In his role, one of Mark Hobbs’ main
focuses will be delivering growth for px
Group in the upstream oil and gas sector
and using his knowledge of managing
mature North Sea assets to scale up px
Group’s activity in that area.
Mark joins px Group after 17 years
at Apache Corporation, the oil and gas
exploration and production company,
where he acquired considerable
experience in managing mature North Sea
assets.
Joanne Fryett, NEPIC
The industry body that represents the
chemical processing sector in the North-
East has made a senior appointment to
support its long-term growth plans.
Joanne Fryett joins Teesside-based
NEPIC – the North East Process Industry
Cluster – as business development
director and will oversee the company’s
membership engagement and growth
activity.
Joanne has spent more than 25 years
working in the region, building a reputation
for developing authentic relationships
across a wide range of business sectors.
Recognised as one of the go-to people,
Joanne has spent her career working
within public, private and voluntary sectors
across the North-East.
In 2019, NEPIC – based at the Wilton
Centre, near Redcar – formed a senior
management team to further support the
organisation’s ambitions in representing
and growing the largest single cluster of
process, chemical and energy companies
anywhere in the UK.
Joanne joins an experienced senior
management team that, headed up by
chief executive Philip Aldridge, includes
Dave Robson as technical director, Felix
O’Hare as supply chain director and
Louise Gwynne-Jones as communications
Garry Lewis and Mark Hobbs, px Group
px Group, the leading energy and
infrastructure solutions business, has
announced two major new additions to its
senior leadership team.
Garry Lewis joins px Group as chief
strategy officer and Mark Hobbs joins as
managing director, offshore oil and gas.
Garry will lead px Group’s business
development team and will have
responsibility for driving organic growth
across the entire business in the UK
and internationally, as well as exploring
potential acquisitions.
He joins px Group after nine years at
Andy Koss, Sembcorp
Sembcorp Industries (Group) has
announced that Andy Koss will succeed
Nomi Ahmad as the new head of its UK
subsidiary, Sembcorp Energy UK (SEUK),
from August 3.
Mr Ahmad will relocate back to
Singapore to take up an executive position
within the group.
Prior to joining SEUK, Andy held a
number of senior roles at the North
Yorkshire-based power production
company Drax for the past 15 years.
These include managing key
stewardship responsibilities as director of
strategy, head of investor relations, group
treasurer and head of risk.
In his last role as chief executive of
generation, Andy was instrumental in
the transformation of Drax into a leading
generator and supplier of renewable
energy.
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