About Kosmos

Our People

Kosmos Energy’s senior management draws on deep technical expertise and a distinguished record of accomplishment to lead Kosmos with vision and discipline.

Andrew G. Inglis
Neal D. Shah
Richard R. Clark
Christopher Ball

Andrew G. Inglis

Chief Executive Officer
Chairman of the Board of Directors
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Neal D. Shah

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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Richard R. Clark

Senior Vice President
and Head of Gulf of Mexico Business Unit
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Christopher Ball

Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer
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Mike Anderson
Mike Anderson
Jason E. Doughty
Todd Niebruegge

Mike Anderson

Senior Vice President, Sustainability and External Affairs
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Jason E. Doughty

Senior Vice President and
General Counsel
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Tim Nicholson

Senior Vice President, Exploration
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Todd Niebruegge

Senior Vice President and Head of Mauritania-Senegal Business Unit
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Paul Tooms
Joe Mensah
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Paul Tooms

Senior Vice President, Technical Functions
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Joe Mensah

Senior Vice President and Head of Ghana Business Unit
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Tommy Fulford

Senior Vice President and Head of Equatorial Guinea Business Unit
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Our People

Kosmos Energy’s senior management draws on deep technical expertise and a distinguished record of accomplishment to lead Kosmos with vision and discipline.

andrewInglis

Andrew G. Inglis

Chief Executive Officer
Chairman of the Board of Directors
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neal

Neal D. Shah

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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richardClark

Richard R. Clark

Senior Vice President
and Head of Gulf of Mexico Business Unit
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christopherBall

Christopher Ball

Senior Vice President
and Chief Commercial Officer
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mikeAnderson

Mike Anderson

Senior Vice President, Sustainability and External Affairs
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jasonDoughty

Jason E. Doughty

Senior Vice President and
General Counsel
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Tim

Tim Nicholson

Senior Vice President, Exploration
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Todd Niebrugge

Todd Niebruegge

Senior Vice President and Head of Mauritania-Senegal Business Unit
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paul

Paul Tooms

Senior Vice President, Technical Functions
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joe

Joe Mensah

SVP and Head of Ghana Business Unit
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tommy

Tommy Fulford

SVP and Head of Equatorial Guinea Business Unit
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Andrew G. Inglis

Chief Executive Officer
Chairman of the Board of Directors

Andrew G. (Andy) Inglis joined Kosmos on March 1, 2014 as chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors. With more than 30 years of experience, he is one of the most respected upstream executives in the oil and gas industry. Mr. Inglis came to Kosmos most recently from Petrofac where he was chief executive of the Integrated Energy Services business and a member of the board of directors. Prior to Petrofac, he spent 30 years with BP, most recently as CEO of its exploration and production business. He was an executive director on the BP board between 2007 and 2010. From 2004 to 2007, he was BP executive vice president and deputy chief executive of exploration and production, with responsibility for BP's growth areas, including Azerbaijan, Angola, Algeria, Gulf of Mexico, Egypt, Trinidad, and the Asia-Pacific region. He is a former non-executive director of BAE Systems plc and TNK-BP Ltd. Mr. Inglis holds a master’s degree in Engineering from Pembroke College, Cambridge University. He is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Neal D. Shah

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Shah became Chief Financial Officer in May 2020. As Deputy Chief Financial Officer from November 2019 to May 2020, Mr. Shah led finance, treasury, investor relations, information technology and internal audit for the Company. He joined Kosmos in 2010, serving in a series of roles of increasing responsibility in finance, treasury, investor relations and international operations as head of the Equatorial Guinea business unit. Before Kosmos, Mr. Shah was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley assisting oil and gas companies. Mr. Shah earned his bachelor’s degree with honors in finance from the University of Texas at Austin.

Richard R. Clark

Senior Vice President and Head of Gulf of Mexico business unit

Richard Clark leads Kosmos’ Gulf of Mexico business unit. More than 25 of his 40 years in the energy business have been focused in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. In 1996, he was one of the founders of Mariner Energy, Inc., serving as Executive Vice President and a board member. In 2004, he was a founder of Deep Gulf Energy and served as President of the company from its inception until it was purchased by Kosmos in September 2018. He served as the 2019 Chairman of the National Ocean Industries Association. Mr. Clark has a Mechanical Engineering Degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He launched his career at Shell Offshore in 1979.

Christopher Ball

Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer

Christopher (Chris) Ball leads Kosmos' business development activities and commercial operations. Mr. Ball joined Kosmos in July 2013 after serving as vice president, business development for the upstream unit of Mubadala, a $50 billion investment company based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Previously, he was senior vice president of Occidental Development Company and president and general manager of Occidental Middle East Development Company, where he was responsible for business development activities in the Caspian, the Middle East, and North Africa. During his tenure at Occidental, Mr. Ball led and facilitated numerous successful new business activities including the company’s acquisition of concessions in Angola, Nigeria, and Suriname. He also worked in the commercial and mergers & acquisitions arena at Texaco in Houston, London, and New York and in upstream asset development and management at Amoco in London. Over his 20 year career, he has managed numerous multi-disciplinary teams that have generated, developed, and closed a number of exploration and production opportunities globally. Mr. Ball earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Brunel University in London.

Mike Anderson

Senior Vice President, Sustainability and External Affairs

Mike Anderson joined Kosmos Energy in March 2015 as Senior Vice President of External Affairs, Government Relations, and Security. Mr. Anderson has extensive leadership experience in several areas of government. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge gaining a double first in law. He joined the British Diplomatic Service in 1984 and served in Moscow, Geneva and New York, among other postings. He was also Chief of Staff to two Chiefs of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). In 2003, he moved into leadership roles in the UK home Government. He was Principal Private Secretary to the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice from 2003-2006, became the first Director General for Climate Change in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and then in the Department of Energy and Climate Change from 2007-2009, and served most recently as Director General within the Home Office where he was responsible for international policy and strategy as well as for Her Majesty's Passport Office and immigration policy.

Jason E. Doughty

Senior Vice President
General Counsel

Jason E. Doughty has over 20 years of legal experience in the international oil and gas industry. Prior to joining Kosmos in September 2011, he spent more than 11 years with ConocoPhillips in various leadership roles, including serving as deputy general counsel, Americas Exploration and Production. During his tenure with ConocoPhillips, Mr. Doughty was responsible for the company’s commercial litigation and international arbitration efforts; the Lower 48 and Latin America E&P legal group; and the Indonesia legal group. Previously, he was an attorney with ExxonMobil in Houston and a commercial litigation attorney in private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mr. Doughty earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Houston Law Center, a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Texas at Austin, and a bachelor of science degree in finance from Louisiana Tech University. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas.

Tim Nicholson

Senior Vice President, Exploration

Tim Nicholson has 30 years of energy industry experience delivering value through effective and efficient exploration and appraisal programs in the Gulf of Mexico, Southeast Asia, and West Africa basins.

Mr. Nicholson joined Kosmos Energy in 2018 and has been integral to the company’s infrastructure-led exploration (ILX) efforts over that period, primarily in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Equatorial Guinea. Prior to Kosmos, Tim worked at Cobalt International Energy in escalating roles culminating at Senior Vice President, Exploration and Appraisal where he served on the company’s executive committee. Tim and his team were responsible for several large discoveries in Angola (Cameia and Golfinho) and the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (Anchor and Heidelberg). Prior to Cobalt, Tim worked at Unocal in various leadership roles where he delivered discoveries in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (Knotty Head) and several in deepwater Indonesia.
Mr. Nicholson earned a master’s degree in geology from Northern Arizona University and a bachelor’s degree in geology from the College of Wooster.

Todd Neibregge

Senior Vice President and Head of Mauritania -Senegal business unit

Mr. Niebruegge leads our Mauritania and Senegal business unit and oversees our involvement in the Tortue LNG project. He has more than 25 years of experience in the international oil and gas industry, working on projects in Africa, Asia and Europe. Before joining Kosmos in 2013, Mr. Niebruegge worked for Hess Corporation in a variety of commercial and financial roles, including serving as director of finance for global production. He earned a bachelor of business administration degree in accounting from the University of Oklahoma.

Paul Tooms

Senior Vice President, Technical Functions

Paul Tooms joined Kosmos Energy in 2017. He was formerly Head of Engineering at BP E&P, where he was recognized for his many problem solving accomplishments. He has worked and lived in many different countries and spent the first part of his 38-year career drilling oil and gas wells. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Imperial College, London, and is also Chairman of The Welding Institute Council.

Joe Mensah

SVP and Head of Ghana Business Unit

Mr. Mensah joined Kosmos in 2015 and served as the Ghana Vice President and Country Manager until 2019. He previously worked for IBM Ghana, where he was the country general manager in charge of all aspects of the company's operations. During his more than 30 years with IBM, Mr. Mensah held a variety of leadership roles in sales and marketing before establishing IBM's presence in Ghana in 2009.

Tommy Fulford

SVP and Head of Equatorial Guinea Business Unit

Mr. Fulford leads our Equatorial Guinea business unit. He is a degreed Petroleum Engineer with 21 years of offshore experience in the Gulf of Mexico, West Africa, and Southeast Asia covering appraisal and early development work. His career has spanned a range of engineering and managerial assignments encompassing reservoir, production, facilities engineering, and project management. Since joining Kosmos in 2008, Mr. Fulford has been involved with the sanction and development of Jubilee and TEN in Ghana, as well as the recent gas discoveries of Tortue, Bir Allah, and Yakaar-Teranga in Mauritania and Senegal. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Texas Tech.