Swire Pacific Offshore Reshuffles Management

Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO), a wholly owned subsidiary of Swire Pacific Limited, has named Ron Mathison a new managing director in Singapore.  

Ron Mathison has taken over the helm on Monday, September 21, 2015. Mathison has also been appointed as the director of John Swire & Sons (S.E. Asia) Pte Ltd, with effect from August 1, 2015.

Neil Glenn, the outgoing MD has stepped down from his role as managing director of SPO on Friday, September 18, 2015. He has also relinquished his position as director of the SPO board. Glenn will be moving on to his new appointment as the general manager, Europe for Cathay Pacific Airways.

SPO’s finance director, Nigel Gribble, has also stepped down from his role to undertake the role of chief financial officer in Altus Oil & Gas Services, a fully owned subsidiary of SPO in August. He is succeeded by Amyon Chaffey, who was with Cathay Pacific in Hong Kong, and was the finance director of The China Navigation prior to that.

SPO’s safety, operations and marine manning functions at head office in Singapore have also been restructured, and resources will be added to strengthen the team. SPO’s operations director, Ian Offland has been re-designated as safety and marine assurance director. There will also be new additions to his team, including Christopher Bowden as global head of marine manning, training and competence assurance, Grant Michels as competence assurance manager and Stuart Mooney as operations manager.