EPI is an international consultancy operating across the globe with our divisional head offices based in the UK. One of our core strengths lies in our outstanding team. With many years of field, operational and technical experience across all disciplines, we have the knowledge and expertise to ensure excellence throughout the organisation.
Team

Ian Langley Chairman
Ian founded Air Energi, a specialist energy workforce solutions provider in 1988, becoming Group Chief Executive Officer in 1997. In 2008 Ian took up the role of Group Executive Chairman and in 2013 became the Non-Executive Chairman. He has overseen expansion through sustained organic growth and targeted strategic acquisition to grow the company to over 40 locations worldwide. Ian joined the EPI board in 2014 as Chairman. His wealth of experience and expertise will ensure EPI continues to expand its international operations worldwide.

Andy Smart CEO
Andy has been in the seismic industry for over 30 years, initially as a surveyor with GSI spearheading the use of GPS in the seismic industry. Andy then held various management positions with WesternGeco including Operations Manager, Country Manager and Global Operations Support Manager and was closely involved with the development and marketing of WesternGeco’s proprietary single sensor recording systems. After 24 years of dedicated service Andy left WesternGeco in 2008 to become a Director of Geophysical Exploration Management Ltd, a successful land seismic project management company. During Andy’s career he has worked around the world successfully delivering seismic projects in the most challenging environments.

Richard Thompson Managing Director of Hydrocarbon Energy Services
After graduating with a B.Sc. (hons) in Geological Sciences in 1997 (University of Leeds) and subsequent Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies in 2006 (Anglia Ruskin University), Richard worked as a geophysicist, both on and offshore, in high-resolution and 2D seismic acquisition and processing. He specialised in site investigation surveys and Landmark ProMAX processing systems, subsequently becoming Consultant Geophysicist on various 2D/3D surveys for leading contractors. From 2004 to 2007 Richard was Project Manager for a geophysical contractor on marine 2D seismic, continental shelf, site investigation and hydrographic surveys. Richard joined the EPI Group in 2007 and he now sits on the Board of Directors of the EPI Group with overview of all seismic operations.

Lee Clarke Managing Director of Sustainable Energy Services
Dr. Lee Clarke has over 25 years of experience in the energy industry, encompassing a wide range of executive management, commercial, operational, strategic, and consulting roles. As the Managing Director for Sustainable Energy Services, he is responsible for building and optimising EPI’s services and solutions for clients in the renewable energy and carbon net-zero sectors. Dr. Clarke has a proven track record of leading large, complex, and multi-disciplinary teams and projects. His experience spans major investor-owned utilities and the consultancy sector, where he has held numerous leadership positions and spearheaded some of the largest renewable energy development projects.

Marta Olczak Finance Director
After graduating in a master’s degree in economics, Marta went on to study accountancy and financial management, becoming a chartered certified accountant in 2009. Marta has worked in the finance sector since 2000, in various industries from property to a manufacturer supporting airlines, she brings her vast experience to EPI as Financial Controller.

Edward Moller Director of Business Development, Sustainable Energy Services
Edward Moller has over 25 years of experience in the energy industry, encompassing a wide range of offshore and onshore roles. Graduating from the University of Plymouth, England with an honor’s degree in Hydrography and Marine Technology, Edward worked offshore as a surveyor in various capacities before moving onshore holding roles from survey support through to commercial, operational, strategic and senior management roles.
At EPI, Edward is the Business Development Director for Sustainable Energy Services, responsible for building and optimising EPI’s services and solutions for clients in the renewable energy and carbon net-zero sectors. Edward has a proven track record of leading cross-sector teams, building and executed comprehensive strategies, and implementing tailored solutions helping organisations transition successfully into the green energy sector.

Dr Gehrig Schultz Business Development Geoscience Manager
Gehrig joins EPI with more than 30 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry as a Senior Executive in geoscience companies, he holds a PhD in Geophysics. Gehrig has an exemplary record as a business leader within the oil and gas exploration and production services industry and brings with him deep technical knowledge, together with great experience in development and commercialisation of new technologies. Gehrig is a proven executive manager and geophysicist with over 30 years in the industry. Over the past 20 years Gehrig has been responsible for growing several international seismic contracting businesses to turnovers in excess of $100MM per annum, most recently as CEO of Prospectiuni where he was responsible for increasing turn over from $30MM to $100MM.

Dr Matthew Watkinson Principal Geoscientist
Matthew is a geologist who specialises in sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, prospect evaluation, play fairway analysis, seismic, well-log, field and core analysis. With a wide global experience across four continents and including conventional and unconventional exploration and development projects, Matthew has built a track record of innovative technical analyses and helping clients to achieve their exploration goals. Matthew also holds post of Senior Lecturer in Petroleum Geology at Plymouth University, UK and chair of PDF Fellowship at Plymouth University. This experience ensures Matthew brings a strong ethos of collaborative learning to the EPI Group to continuously improve our capabilities.

Peter Van Baaren Chief Geophysicist
Peter van Baaren is a highly experienced seismic survey design geophysicist. After graduating from Delft University with a Master’s in applied geophysics in 1987 and his National Service, he worked as a field geophysicist on 2D and 3D crews working in various countries in Europe before moving to the Americas.
After moving out of the field, he has been involved in mainly designing complex land and transition zone seismic acquisition surveys in terrains encompassing mountains, arable land, urban areas, deserts, and transition zone for different sources from airguns, explosives to vibroseis and nodal/cable acquisition systems.
Working for a large integrated oilfield services company, with many talented colleagues, and being posted around the globe Peter has been at the forefront of applying technology to design surveys to overcome seismic imaging problems. This has included ultra-high channel count high productivity broadband vibroseis surveys to bespoke seismic surveys for mining. The key to these successful designs is his understanding of all the steps from acquisition to processing, combined with a very broad knowledge of seismic operations onshore, in the transition zone, OBN and marine. Currently at EPI Peter’s focus is on land, OBN, and marine seismic acquisition survey design leveraging the broader knowledge within the EPI group.
Peter has published a number of papers and is an active reviewer for the SEG and EAGE

Boff Anderson Land Operations Manager
Boff has over 33 years’ experience in the seismic and oilfield industry. The majority of this has been gained with Schlumberger group companies overseas, and specifically the Middle East. Boff started his career in land seismic and held positions of increasing responsibility a variety of operational, technical and management positions such as land party chief, land marketing manager, Regional sales managers, technical product champion and country manager. He spent two years as the Eastern Hemisphere Sales Manager for Schlumberger’s subsurface consulting group before working in the UK as the Europe and Africa Sales Manager for Schlumberger Geosolutions before joining the EPI Group in 2017.

Warren Miller Director of Business Development
Warren joined EPI in 2012 to continue helping expand the international sales presence. In 2013, he moved to the US where he was instrumental in opening the office in Houston. This important step in EPI’s growth ensured we tied closer links to the company’s US based clients, which have grown tenfold. Warren brings a wealth of business experience and knowledge in a variety of fields and has a proven track record establishing close links with clients and consultants alike. Warren now looks after International Business Development in a host of territories.

Ben Dyton VP Asia-Pacific
Ben began his seismic career at Western Geophysical in 1997 as an Observer. He has worked extensively in the main offshore oil and gas operating regions on projects in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, North & South America and South East Asia. He worked his way up offshore with WesternGeco, CGG and SeaBird to the role of Party Chief. The latter part of his offshore career was spent working in Australia, NZ and the wider SE Asia region. He started his onshore career as a rigging team supervisor and later took up the roles of Operations Manager followed by Sales and Marketing Manager at SeaBird Exploration. Ben has extensive first-hand, technical, safety, environmental and commercial knowledge which is delivering value to EPI clients.

James Woodyard Offshore Wind CSR Delivery Manager
James has a long history in the energy sector, starting out as a hydrographic surveyor, and working up to Party Chief and then Client Representative where he worked across the EU, USA and South America for renewable energy and hydrocarbon clients. Responsible for monitoring HSE compliance, data quality and stakeholder engagement, James’ experience led him to his most recent role as Geophysical and Geotechnical Project Manager for Orsted. He now brings his wealth of expertise to EPI, providing reassurance and support for our clients and consultants on projects for offshore wind.

Neil Roper Environmental Manager
Neil has worked within the energy industry for over a decade, gaining experience on offshore wind sites, cable laying operations and seismic surveys around the world; as a Lead Protected Species Observer, Lead PAM and Acoustic Buoy Deployment Specialist. He brings his deep understanding of regulatory guidelines and mitigation measures on a state, federal and international level to EPI, along with his experience in environmental assessments and analysis.

Spencer Chiu General Manager, Asia Pacific
Since gaining his Master of Engineering (MEng) from Imperial College London in 2005, Spencer has been involved in a number of projects as a Geotechnical Engineer focusing mainly on the Oil & Gas (O&G) and Offshore Wind Farm (OWF) industries within Europe. In 2010, he moved to Malaysia, which enabled him to expand his experience in the site survey and investigation market. Spencer has since been involved in over 100 projects both in both the hydrocarbon and offshore wind industries. At EPI, Spencer is currently the GM for Asia Pacific, looking after the company’s O&G and OWF businesses.

Jenni Nicholls Marketing & Sustainability Manager
Jenni started has worked in the industry since 1998, beginning as a graduate seismic processor for Svitzer – who became part of Fugro. She has worked globally, both on and offshore in areas such as South America, Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, West Africa and Indonesia. Jenni worked her way up to client representative, setting up her own consultancy to provide data processing, data QC and QA. She brings this wealth of technical and commercial knowledge to her role at EPI, achieving Carbon Neutral status in 2021.

Mark Oxlade Financial Controller

William Nash Operations Supervisor & QHSE Manager

Ed Goddard Marine Operations Manager

Ian Langley Chairman
Ian founded Air Energi, a specialist energy workforce solutions provider in 1988, becoming Group Chief Executive Officer in 1997. In 2008 Ian took up the role of Group Executive Chairman and in 2013 became the Non-Executive Chairman. He has overseen expansion through sustained organic growth and targeted strategic acquisition to grow the company to over 40 locations worldwide. Ian joined the EPI board in 2014 as Chairman. His wealth of experience and expertise will ensure EPI continues to expand its international operations worldwide.

Andy Smart CEO
Andy has been in the seismic industry for over 30 years, initially as a surveyor with GSI spearheading the use of GPS in the seismic industry. Andy then held various management positions with WesternGeco including Operations Manager, Country Manager and Global Operations Support Manager and was closely involved with the development and marketing of WesternGeco’s proprietary single sensor recording systems. After 24 years of dedicated service Andy left WesternGeco in 2008 to become a Director of Geophysical Exploration Management Ltd, a successful land seismic project management company. During Andy’s career he has worked around the world successfully delivering seismic projects in the most challenging environments.

Fiona MacAulay Non-Executive Director
Fiona studied at UCL (BSc Geology) and Reading (MSc Sedimentology) before beginning her career at Mobil North Sea Limited in 1985 then moving to Amerada Hess Ltd and later British Gas as Manager of International Geological Operations. More recently she has held the positions of COO for Rockhopper Exploration PLC, CEO of Echo Energy and now is chair of Independent Oil & Gas plc.

Bernard Dale Non-Executive Director

Georgina Wendon-Smith Non-Executive Director

Richard Thompson Managing Director of Hydrocarbon Energy Services
After graduating with a B.Sc. (hons) in Geological Sciences in 1997 (University of Leeds) and subsequent Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies in 2006 (Anglia Ruskin University), Richard worked as a geophysicist, both on and offshore, in high-resolution and 2D seismic acquisition and processing. He specialised in site investigation surveys and Landmark ProMAX processing systems, subsequently becoming Consultant Geophysicist on various 2D/3D surveys for leading contractors. From 2004 to 2007 Richard was Project Manager for a geophysical contractor on marine 2D seismic, continental shelf, site investigation and hydrographic surveys. Richard joined the EPI Group in 2007 and he now sits on the Board of Directors of the EPI Group with overview of all seismic operations.

Lee Clarke Managing Director of Sustainable Energy Services
Dr. Lee Clarke has over 25 years of experience in the energy industry, encompassing a wide range of executive management, commercial, operational, strategic, and consulting roles. As the Managing Director for Sustainable Energy Services, he is responsible for building and optimising EPI’s services and solutions for clients in the renewable energy and carbon net-zero sectors. Dr. Clarke has a proven track record of leading large, complex, and multi-disciplinary teams and projects. His experience spans major investor-owned utilities and the consultancy sector, where he has held numerous leadership positions and spearheaded some of the largest renewable energy development projects.

Marta Olczak Finance Director
After graduating in a master’s degree in economics, Marta went on to study accountancy and financial management, becoming a chartered certified accountant in 2009. Marta has worked in the finance sector since 2000, in various industries from property to a manufacturer supporting airlines, she brings her vast experience to EPI as Financial Controller.