A Politics graduate from the University of Hull, Malcolm has over thirty years’ experience of working in Corporate Affairs, Marketing and Business Development, mainly in the energy, environmental and creative media sectors.

After university he worked in Recruitment where he managed the marketing for two companies and set the sales record for both organisations before leaving to take a short assignment with the BBC in the Middle East. He then joined a start-up TV production company as Head of Scripts, developing children’s animation with an environmental theme. In this role he published a full colour story book, probably the first to be designed and printed directly from computer disk, and he also wrote and produced a weekly cartoon strip which was syndicated across the UK.

The company was an early adopter of computer animation technology, then in its infancy, and this led to an ambitious programme to establish a training facility and production centre on Merseyside in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University. As well as planning this development, Malcolm was part of a successful lobbying effort to secure European Community funding. During this time, he was also required to act as company spokesman following the infamous James Bulger murder, which was partly blamed on children’s TV content.

Malcolm left TV to join an award-winning children’s theatre company which combined commercial productions with Theatre in Education programmes targeting racism, bullying and substance abuse. He was managing the British Cartoon Festival when he was recruited to co-ordinate an on-going political campaign against tax increases on behalf of the UK oil and gas industry.

The Fiscal Campaign of 1997-1998 was the first successful campaign against tax increases waged by the industry and involved a radical departure from more formal and established industry campaign techniques. The Fiscal Campaign was followed by a further successful campaign which secured an industry exemption from the Climate Change Levy. The value of these two campaigns to the industry was estimated at around $4.5 billion each.

Following the two campaigns, Malcolm joined the UK Government’s Oil and Gas Industry Taskforce (OGITF) as the Industry Co-ordinator. OGITF was a large and complex enterprise featuring all the operators as well as their entire national supply chain. The OGITF involved hundreds of commercial organisations, trade bodies and trades unions as well as five government departments. In addition to managing the messaging and co-ordination for this large alliance, Malcolm was also responsible for providing complete corporate affairs support for the steering committee made up of twenty CEOs from the largest organisations in the sector. The OGITF was one of the largest successful change management projects ever attempted in the UK and was designed to adapt the UK Continental Shelf to more challenging economics as the province matured. The Task Force successfully re-organised all aspects of the industry, including the fiscal regime, the licensing process, technology development, safety, supply chain management and recruitment.

Malcolm then joined Sasol Chevron, a joint venture between Sasol of South Africa and the Chevron Corporation designed to develop and operate world-scale Gas to Liquid plants with a Capex of $1 billion plus. In this role he supported the ORYX GTL development team in Qatar and served on the management team of EGTL in Nigeria, where he was required to manage a highly complex, sensitive and volatile stakeholder scenario. He was instrumental in helping to commercialise GTL technology and successfully positioned Sasol Chevron as the joint GTL sector leader alongside Shell.

In addition to project development, he also played a major role in proving and promoting Gas to Liquids fuel with a series of award-winning tests and events. Most notably, he won the Petroleum Economist’s ‘Communications Team of the Year’ in 2008 after being Runner-up in 2007. Demonstrations included developing and organising a trans-Africa/Arabia expedition, which went from a paper proposal to a fully equipped expedition rolling out of the gates in just six weeks. He also created and organised a race between international Rugby star Bryan Habana and a cheetah which made headlines around the world, played a major role in keeping the cheetah off the endangered list and was voted the number one human/animal event by the BBC.

During this time, Malcolm also worked with the European Commission on fuel regulation and the development of a sustainable transport future for Europe. He was one of the founding team of the Alliance for Synthetic Fuels in Europe (ASFE) which included Shell, Renault, Volkswagen and Daimler.

When the Sasol Chevron joint venture was dissolved, Malcolm set up his own successful consultancy and has since worked on a wide variety of assignments around the world for a range of multi-national organisations and state energy companies, as well as companies in the engineering, environmental and tourist sectors.

Notable highlights include a successful world record attempt in 2012, participation in the development and rollout of a new and revolutionary well control training programme for the global drilling sector, participation in the development of the EU’s Extractive Industries Waste BREF (Best Available Technique Reference), the successful development of GTL facilities in Uzbekistan and the Caribbean, the development and rollout of a major marketing offering for one of the world’s premier engineering companies and a complete operational review and report for one of the largest companies in the energy sector. He has also made numerous corporate videos for some of the largest companies in the world.

On the basis of his exposure to the full range of project challenges in Africa, the Middle East, North America, Central Asia and the Caribbean, Malcolm has presented at multiple international conferences and seminars, including the London and Oxford Business Schools and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He is a widely published author on clean and alternative fuels and the development of a sustainable global energy future and he is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.