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Chief Business Development Officer Behzad Kazerani joined EnerMech in early 2020.

With over 25 years’ experience in the global oil and gas industry Behzad has extensive experience working across the downstream, upstream, midstream and LNG sectors. 

His expertise covers engineering and design, business development, opportunity pursuit, partnership agreements and commercial models working in senior positions with business such as KBR, Petrofac, IHI and most recently with Houston-based Halff Tritex.

EnerMech has strengthened its executive team with the appointment of Sandeep Sharma as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

Sandeep is the former CFO of Stork, the mechanical, electrical and repair services business which employs 18,000 staff in 100 countries, and previously was Finance Director at Bombardier Transportation.

He joins EnerMech on 1 January 2020 along with newly appointed Chief Executive Officer Chris Brown as the business gears up for major global expansion following its acquisition last year by The Carlyle Group.

Headquartered in Aberdeen, EnerMech employs 3,500 staff across 40 locations in the UK, Norway, the Middle East, Caspian, Asia, Africa, Australia and Americas, working on large-scale projects across the oil and gas, LNG, renewables, defence, power, infrastructure and petrochemicals sectors.

EnerMech CEO, Doug Duguid, said: “EnerMech will start the new decade on a strong footing with Chris Brown and Sandeep Sharma at the helm as they build on the very strong foundations established over the last decade.

“We are delighted to have recruited two first class individuals with broad ranging international experience who will develop and deliver an ambitious business growth programme with the full support of The Carlyle Group.”

Sandeep Sharma added: “EnerMech is a well-respected business and I was fully aware of the excellent progress it has made in global energy sector over the last 11 years. I look forward to taking up this great opportunity to help shape EnerMech’s business strategy which will deliver sustainable and profitable long term growth.”

Current CFO and founding EnerMech director, Michael Buchan, will remain with the business until March 2020 on a part-time basis and retiring CEO Doug Duguid will continue in an advisory capacity during a planned transition period.

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Planned expansion offshore and in mainland UK, alongside rolling out EnerMech’s services portfolio across continental Europe, is part of a new strategy to consolidate our footprint in traditional oil and gas sectors, while securing market entry in to new territories and sectors.

The appointment of General Managers for specific geographic regions is a central plank of this strategy and David Logan has been promoted to take on the newly created General Manager role in Aberdeen.

David, who joined EnerMech in 2011, has held a number of operations management and business line lead roles and most recently was Central Support Group Manager.

David said: “The newly created General Manager roles give us a much better operational oversight than we have had previously. My objective is to leverage our market advantage in being able to provide a varied but integrated service offering to best suit our clients’ requirements.

 “We believe we have a lot more to offer to the Aberdeen and North Sea market. By continually investing in our Howes Road facility in Aberdeen, in updating and modernising our equipment fleet, and focussing on staff development and training, we are in a strong position to further increase our presence in the UKCS.

“Our reputation for adding value through technology, innovation and customer focus is paying off. Transferring this ethos to other markets such as onshore, renewables and defence has already seen early successes for us and we expect to make significant inroads in to these sectors.”

Global integrated mechanical and electrical services company EnerMech has announced the appointment of industry heavyweight Christian Brown as its new Chief Executive Officer. 

A highly experienced, successful and well regarded business leader, Chris was previously CEO of global engineering and construction company, Kentz, where he successfully led the growth from a small AIM listed business to a $2.5bn (£1.9bn) revenue FTSE 250 company before its sale and integration into SNC Lavalin in 2014.  More recently, Chris held the role of Corporate Development Officer with SNC Lavalin where his success included the $2.67bn (£2.1bn) acquisition of WS Atkins in 2017.

Prior to this Chris held senior leadership roles within US Fortune 500 companies Kellogg Brown & Root and Foster Wheeler with tenures working across Europe, Africa, Middle East, APAC and the Americas.

EnerMech’s Chairman, John Kennedy, who led the search process on behalf of its private equity owner, NASDAQ listed The Carlyle Group, said: “After a thorough and rigorous search process we are delighted that Chris Brown has agreed to join EnerMech as its CEO.  Chris has an exceptional track record in growing and improving international service based businesses with an emphasis on customer relationships. He is a people and customer centred individual with a strong history of creating highly engaged teams, which ideally suits him to EnerMech’s entrepreneurial culture.  I am personally very pleased that we have been able to attract someone of Chris’s calibre and track record to lead the business as it enters its next phase of development."

EnerMech founder Doug Duguid returned to the CEO role in September on an interim basis after his initial replacement, John Guy, stood down from the role for personal family reasons.  Doug, who will leave the Aberdeen-headquartered business following a planned transition period, said: “Chris Brown was the stand-out candidate to take on the role of CEO and to drive our business on to the next level of international growth. His credentials are impeccable and include 30 years’ experience in the LNG, oil and gas, refining, and petrochemicals industries, where he has consistently delivered high growth and positive shareholder returns.

“Chris is intimately familiar with the market that EnerMech operates in, and there are many strong parallels between his time as CEO of Kentz and our planned growth strategy. He shares our company culture, which is centred on entrepreneurship and on putting the client central to all we do, and I am confident EnerMech will thrive under his leadership and realise its potential as a global services provider to the energy and infrastructure sectors.”

Chris Brown added: "I am excited to lead the second phase of EnerMech’s development and to build on the strong foundations established by Doug Duguid and his management team.  The company has been through a period of rapid growth over the past 10 years and with the support of The Carlyle Group there are no limits to our future ambitions.”

Chris Brown’s appointment as EnerMech CEO is effective from 1 January 2020.