Holger Temmen
Chief Executive Officer

Education: Diplombetriebswirt qualification (Economics degree) from Fachhochschule Muenster, Germany in 1990.

Career: Holger Temmen joined the DEUTAG Group of Companies in 1990 as a Financial Controller. In the early years he travelled widely implementing new financial and reporting structures in several different international locations. In 1998 Holger became Head of Finance and Control for DEUTAG International and in 2000 Managing Director, DEUTAG Europe. In 2001 he was promoted to Director, Finance and IT for KCA DEUTAG Drilling Group Ltd. He was appointed to the board of Abbot Group in 2005, responsibe for the business development and commercial functions in the KCA DEUTAG group of companies. In January 2008 he became CEO of Abbot Group and KCA DEUTAG Group of companies.

Brian Taylor
Chief Operating Officer

Education: BSc(Hons) in Civil Engineering, 1978.

Career: Worked as a civil engineer in tunnelling, dam construction, hydrology and water supply.

Joined Shell in 1981 and converted to petroleum engineering. Worked in various petroleum engineering, drilling operations and commercial roles, principally in the UK and Middle East. Left Shell in 1995 to join KCA DEUTAG in Aberdeen, initially as Operations Manager. Joined the board in 1996 as Operations Director. Appointed Managing Director of KCA Drilling UK Ltd in 2001. Appointed KCA DEUTAG Group Director - Northern Business Unit in 2007 with responsibility for UK, Europe, Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Additionally responsible for RDS, KCA DEUTAG's Engineering and Projects Division.

External roles: Board member of Oil and Gas UK Ltd. Member of PILOT.

Education: Trained at KPMG from 1989 to 1995, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1992.

Career: Mark Walker joined KCA DEUTAG in 1996 as Financial Manager, and worked his way up through the company, becoming Finance Director of KCA DEUTAG Drilling Group in 2007.

Education: BA in Business Studies, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Career: Neil has extensive drilling sector experience, initially joining the oil industry in 1989 to work for Bawden Drilling (now Noble Drilling) in Aberdeen and subsequently joining Smedvig Drilling (now Seadrill) in both Aberdeen and Stavanger working in contracts management and marketing roles, responsible for bidding, negotiating and administering a wide range of platform drilling, jack-up and semi-submersible, integrated services and EPC engineering contracts.

Neil joined KCA DEUTAG as Commercial Director in 1996, when the company was primarily involved in North Sea platform drilling operations for three clients - with a remit to develop a strategy to grow the company in both the North Sea and internationally both organically and by acquisition -subsequently helping the company to more than double in size by 2001, with a number of flagship contracts in Azerbaijan, the UK North Sea and Libya.

Neil then relocated to Houston as VP, successfully establishing the US office and winning major contracts in Sakhalin Island and Angola, before transferring back to the UK in late 2003 as Group Director Business Development.

In 2004 Neil put his entrepreneurial skills into practice, developing, building and subsequently operating an award winning Extreme Sports Centre in Aberdeen, under a Social Enterprise model and also establishing, with partners, an innovative restaurant, music and arts venue in the city.

Neil rejoined KCA DEUTAG in June 2008 as Director, Business Development and Commercial with worldwide responsibility for these functions.

External Roles: Neil is a Director of the youth charity Transition Extreme Sports Limited and of his other business interests.