ECONOMY
TAP hires Ian Bradshaw as new Managing Director
Baku, January 7, AZERTAC
Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP) confirms the appointment of Ian Bradshaw as its new Managing Director starting on 1st February 2015 in Baar.
Kjetil Tungland will return to Norway after having headed the joint venture project for over four and half years and having completed his Statoil secondment with TAP. Kjetil joined TAP in April 2010 and successfully took the project to selection in June 2013.
Ian joins TAP from the BG Group where he has worked since 2005 in various senior executive positions. His most recent position was Senior Vice President for Capital Projects, overseeing the delivery of the Group’s global project portfolio.
Prior to this, Ian was Senior Vice President for BG in Australia, playing a leading role in successfully taking the QCLNG mega-project to the BG Board for final investment decision.
Ian’s career spans thirty four years of technical and commercial experience in the global oil and gas industry in both project and corporate roles. After reading Engineering Science at Durham University, he spent fifteen years in a number of technical and project management positions with Shell, based in the UK, Netherlands, Malaysia and Norway. During his time at Shell, Ian’s responsibilities included working for Shell’s commercial portfolio in the UK North Sea as Senior Business Development Manager, responsible for delivering the 10-party SEAL pipeline agreements.
Following this, Ian broadened his commercial experience in the downstream, where he became Supply, Operations and Trading Manager for Shell Gas Direct (UK Gas & Power Marketing & Trading Company) which became part of Shell Energy Europe.
In 2008 Ian completed the Senior Executive Programme at Columbia University in New York and is a fellow of the Institute of Directors.