Beach Energy CEO and leadership

Mr Engelbrecht joined Beach in September 2016 as Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for the finance, tax, treasury, information technology, contracts & procurement, insurance and investor relations functions. He is a Chartered Accountant with more than 19 years’ experience including in the oil, gas and resource sectors across various jurisdictions including Australia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Papua New Guinea and China.

He held the position of Chief Executive Officer of ASX-listed company, Carbon Energy, prior to his role with Beach. Prior to this he held various financial, commercial and advisory senior management positions at InterOil, Newcrest (formerly LGL), Harmony Gold and PwC. Mr Engelbrecht also has extensive experience in strategy and planning, capital management, debt and equity markets, M&A and joint venture management and operations.

A prominent and respected leader in the Australian Energy Industry

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Former Chair of Industry Advisory Board at ACEPT (Australian Centre for Energy & Process Training)

Mr Kay joined Beach in May 2016 as Chief Executive Officer and was appointed Managing Director in February 2019. Mr Kay has over 25 years’ experience in oil and gas and prior to joining Beach, served as Executive General Manager, Strategy and Commercial at Oil Search, a position he held for two years. In that role he was a member of the executive team and led the strategy, commercial, supply chain, economics, marketing, M&A and legal functions.

Prior to Oil Search, Mr Kay spent 12 years with Woodside Energy in various leadership roles, including Vice President of Corporate Development, General Manager of Production Planning and General Manager of Commercial for Middle East and Africa. In these roles Mr Kay developed extensive leadership skills across LNG, pipeline gas and oil joint ventures, and developments in Australia and internationally.