Profiles

Tom Cross
Chairman

Tom Cross is chairman of Aupec Ltd and founder and chief executive officer of Dana Petroleum plc, an independent FTSE 250 international oil company. Mr Cross, a petroleum engineer and economist to training, has held senior positions with Conoco, Thomson North Sea and Louisiana Land and Exploration. Before founding Dana Petroleum he was Director of Engineering at the UK’s Petroleum Science and Technology Institute.  Mr Cross is a former chairman of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, an advisor to BBC Radio on oil affairs and chairman of BRINDEX (The Association of British Independent Oil Companies).

Donald Mackay
Managing Director

Donald MacKay is managing director of Aupec. He formerly held various senior international finance and operational positions with Unocal Corporation (now part of Chevron). A chartered accountant, he is a corporate finance and project finance specialist with over 25 years experience in the oil industry. He has extensive international work experience having worked in the Middle East, South East Asia and Africa as well as in the US and the UK.

Professor Alex Kemp
Non-Executive Director

Alexander G. Kemp is a director and founder of Aupec Ltd. He is also currently Professor of Economics at the University of Aberdeen. He previously worked for Shell, the University of Strathclyde and the University of Nairobi. For many years he has specialised in his research in petroleum economics with special reference to licensing and petroleum taxation issues. He has published over 200 books and papers in this field, including Petroleum Rent Collection around the World, Institute for Research on Public Policy (Canada). He was awarded the OBE for services to the oil and gas industry in 2006.

David Rose
Director

David Rose is a director and co-founder of Aupec Ltd. He worked with Professor Kemp during the 1980s on the University of Aberdeen oil and gas economics research programme. He was instrumental in developing Aupec’s economic modelling and forecasting expertise through the creation of a suite of computerised economic cash flow models. He became Aupec’s first executive director in 1986. From 2000 until 2008 he directed Aupec’s benchmarking services which have grown to be a significant aspect of Aupec’s business. Today he is developing Aupec’s valuation unit, providing services to the E&P and financial community.

David Reading
Director

David Reading is director of economics at Aupec Ltd. He began his career in government as an economic statistician, later becoming involved in the University of Aberdeen’s oil and gas economics research. With Professor Kemp he published papers on energy taxation issues in the North Sea and worldwide. As a consultant with Aupec he has undertaken commercial assignments for oil and gas companies and governments around the world.  He is a frequent instructor on Aupec led training courses and currently contributes to the University of Aberdeen’s Oil and Gas Enterprise Management MSc.

Linda Cross
Non-Executive Director

Linda Cross is a non-executive director of Aupec Ltd. She has extensive experience of the energy sector having worked initially for Conoco (now ConocoPhillips) and then spending over 11 years with Chevron (now ChevronTexaco), as a petroleum engineer and economist with a particular expertise in project decision risk analysis. Latterly she concentrated on strategic business planning and financial management. Mrs Cross has a wide range of business activities. She currently serves on the boards of a business strategy advisor in the energy sector, two food production companies and two companies involved in commercial property development.