Election to Equinor's board of directors
June 05 2018 - 1:06PM
In a meeting in the Corporate Assembly of Equinor ASA
(OSE:EQNR, NYSE:EQNR) on 5 June 2018 Anne Drinkwater and Jonathan
Lewis were elected as new members to Equinor's board of
directors.
Furthermore, the nomination committee re-elected Jon Erik
Reinhardsen as chair and Roy Franklin as deputy chair of the board
in addition to re-election of Jeroen van der Veer, Wenche Agerup,
Bjørn Tore Godal and Rebekka Glasser Herlofsen as
shareholder-elected members of the board of directors.
Anne Drinkwater was employed with BP in the
period 1978 to 2012, holding a number of different leadership
positions in the company. In the period 2009 to 2012 she was chief
executive officer of BP Canada. A British citizen, she has
extensive international experience, including being responsible for
operations in the US, Norway, Indonesia, the Middle East and
Africa. Through her career Drinkwater has acquired a deep
understanding of the oil and gas sector, holding both technical
roles, and more distinct business responsibilities.
In recent years she has served on the board of Tullow Oil plc in
England and Aker Solutions ASA in Norway. She has now stepped out
of these boards. Through her role as managing director of BP Norway
and board position at Aker Solutions she has acquired a good
understanding of the Norwegian oil and gas sector.
Jonathan Lewis joined as Chief Executive
Officer to Capita in December 2017; having previously spent 30
years working for large multi-national companies in
technology-enabled industries. Lewis came to Capita from Amec
Foster Wheeler plc, a global consulting, engineering and
construction company, where he was CEO from 2016-2017. Prior to
this, he held a number of senior leadership positions at
Halliburton, where he was employed in the period 1996 to 2016.
Lewis has a PhD, Reservoir Characterisation. A British citizen, he
has broad international experience, including from Norway.
Lewis has previously held several directorships within
technology and the oil and gas industry and has an existing board
membership with Heriot-Watt University, Industrial Advisory
Board.
The election of shareholder-elected members to the board of
directors enters into effect from 1 July 2018 and is effective
until the ordinary election of shareholder-elected members to the
board of directors in 2019.
Contacts:
- Tone Lunde Bakker, chair of the nomination committee
- All enquiries to be directed through Equinor Corporate Press
Office, Bård Glad Pedersen, +47 918 01 791.
This information is subject of the disclosure requirements
pursuant to section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading
Act.