Dr Rex William Gaisford CBE

Dr Rex William Gaisford CBE

Non-executive Director

Rex, aged 70, has worked in oil and gas businesses worldwide for over 35 years. During his career to date he has been CEO, MD, director, project manager, engineer and negotiator,with many large international oil companies and led major multi-billion dollar exploration, development and production operations world-wide as well as opened up new business opportunities in the UK, US, Denmark, Norway and Brazil.

During an intense period of 20 years he has been inter alia, Managing Director & Executive Vice President for American independent oil company, Amerada Hess International, and Project Director & General Manager Engineering for Britoil Plc. Rex was very active on the organisational aspects of the industry, publishing and presenting many technical/managerial papers. He was the founder and original chairman of the CRINE initiative which revolutionised key aspects of the UK oil industry. The CRINE message rapidly then spread across the world. In 1995 he was appointed a Commander of the British Empire (CBE). 

For the last ten years, Rex as CEO of consulting company RCM Consulting Limited, has been an adviser to, and taken active roles in, the international energy industry.