Nicholas Clayton
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Biographical Information
"Nicholas (dob 1963) was appointed a Non-Executive Director of Sterling in October 2009. Nicholas is chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration and Nomination Committees.
"Nicholas has provided strategic and corporate finance advice to a number of public and private oil and gas companies since January 2007. Between August 2005 and December 2006 he was Global Co-Head of Oil and Gas Corporate Finance for Canaccord Adams. For the previous 5 years he held the position of Global Head of Oil and Gas Corporate Finance for Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, the investment bank, having previously been Global Head of Oil and Gas Research between 1997 and 2000. Nicholas began his career at BP having obtained a first class honours degree in Business Studies, sponsored by BP, from Portsmouth Polytechnic in 1985.
"Nicholas serves as a Non-Executive Director of Circle Oil Plc and Alpha Petroleum Resources Ltd, as well as providing strategic advice to Geopark, an AIM-listed Company operating in Chile and Argentina."[1]