Until mid 2009, Marcus held the role of Senior Vice President in the BP corporate headquarters covering Upstream E&P and Downstream Refining businesses. Since leaving BP and joining Dana he has held advisory roles to a range of E&P companies and the financial sector. He previously held the position of Director and Business Unit Leader, BP Exploration Operating Company Limited for BP's North Sea businesses covering UK, Norway and the Netherlands.

In a career of 27 years he has held a number of business leadership, functional and technical roles within Exploration & Production and Group Corporate Centre. His experience includes managing large-scale multi-disciplinary teams in operational, major project, research & development arenas. A significant proportion of his career has been spent outside the UK and Europe with assignments in the US, Australia, China and Indonesia. He holds a BSc (Hons) and PhD, and is an alumnus of Harvard University. He is also a visiting professor at Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University.

Mr Baek has worked for KNOC as a petroleum engineer since 1988. He has held various key roles in exploration and production of oil and gas around the world since then. Until early 2012 he was Vice President of the Europe and Africa Business Department and he worked as General Manager & Managing Director of the Nigerian Office focusing on exploration offshore Nigeria prior to joining Dana as Chief Strategy officer. He graduated from Seoul National University in 1985 and holds an MSc in petroleum engineering from Seoul National University. He also has been a qualified professional engineer in Geophysics since 1998.

Paul has over 32 years of international Exploration and Production experience. He spent over 18 years with Shell in technical and managerial roles in Europe and The Middle East, and most recently held senior management roles for Hess Corporation in Libya and latterly Russia.

He has 25 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry including 17 years working for Total in Aberdeen.

Based in Aberdeen, David holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics and has been a qualified accountant for 20 years.

Nick joined Dana in 2008 from Shell where he was working in Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia. Nick has considerable experience in exploration and appraisal, having worked as a geophysicist for 15 years with Conoco (UK) Ltd and then Enterprise Oil, mainly in Ireland, where he was part of the Corrib discovery and development team. Nick then joined Shell, where he held a number of exploration management positions, covering the company’s assets in the Philippines and Malaysia. In addition he looked after its interests in deepwater Borneo and the joint venture company Carigali Shell Mutiara Petroleum. He also spent a period as subsurface manager for Shell’s Malampaya gas field in the Philippines.

Since joining Dana, Nick has worked in the Cairo office, initially as Exploration Manager, and now as Managing Director and Country Manager.

John joined Dana in 2003 from Shell, where he was subsurface manager and deputy project manager on the Corrib development in Ireland. Prior to that, he was responsible for Enterprise Oil’s non-operated activities (exploration, developments and production) in the Central North Sea and Southern North Sea. Enterprise Oil was acquired by Shell in 2002. He has over 30 years upstream experience gained with Shell, BP, Enterprise Oil and Dana, including periods working in the UK, Africa and South East Asia. He has worked on most aspects of the upstream oil and gas business, including as a petroleum economist and in business development.

Q: What does your role as Director, International Exploration and New Ventures at Dana involve?
A: There are two parts to my role. Firstly, I am responsible for coordinating Dana’s international exploration and new ventures activities in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, but excluding those countries where Dana has an existing business unit (UK, Netherlands, Egypt and Norway). I also maintain an overview of exploration activities across the whole Dana Group. Secondly, I am responsible for ensuring high standards in the geosciences (geology, geophysics and petrophysics) across the Dana Group, from frontier exploration, through appraisal and development to mature field production. The latter requires close collaboration with John Baillie, Director of Reservoir Management and Technology, and I also depend heavily on support from the Group Chief Geologist and Group Chief Geophysicist.

Q: What are the best bits of your job?
A: The technical and geographical variety and challenges; exploration and appraisal successes; working as part of a competent, fully integrated, team.

Q: And the worst bits?
A: Administration and the inevitable exploration disappointments.

Q: What's the most useful piece of business advice you’ve ever been given?
A: An officer always leads from the front (given by a distinguished General in the British army).

Q: And the worst business advice?
A: I can’t recall being given any bad business advice.

Q: When you were young, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A: A vet.

Q: What's your favourite place to go on holiday?
A: I don’t have one favourite. Botswana, Nepal, China, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Scotland, France and many others.

Q: What or who makes you laugh?
A: The comedian Paul Merton.

Q: If you had to describe working at Dana in three words, which would you choose?
A: Active, varied and interesting.

Paul joined Dana in 2005 in operations and development management. He has nearly 30 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry in the UK, United States, South East Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He has broad management expertise in both onshore and offshore operations, and holds a BSc in Physics and Mathematics and an MSc in Engineering Project Management.

Q: What does your role as UK Managing Director at Dana involve?
A: My role involves managing the UK business unit to grow returns through resource exploitation, reserves addition and production growth. I have day-to-day accountability for management of all aspects of the business in the UK and manage the resource base of the company to deliver the five-year business plan. To do this it’s important to create an environment in which people are comfortable working and which encourages them to achieve their potential.

Q: What are the best bits of your job?
A: Being able to build and shape the UK business for Dana and to set direction for the company in the UK. It’s not often you get the opportunity to put together a team of people to set up a new business unit but that’s effectively what we’ve been doing here. I think watching people at every level in the organisation grow into their roles and seeing what they can achieve when they work together is great motivation and I am looking forward to seeing what we can do when we really put our minds to taking this company to a different level.

Q: And the worst bits?
A: Not being able to spend as much time as I would like, and need to, with the people who work for me. It’s too easy to get out of touch with what’s happening on a day-to-day basis in different areas.

Q: What's the most useful piece of business advice you’ve ever been given?
A: A good piece of advice that applies to all things in life is ‘when you’re in a hole, stop digging!’ In terms of business advice, ‘remember everyone in a company has a role to play and no matter how large or small it may appear to be we all rely on each other so never be dismissive of someone else’s contribution.’

Q: And the worst business advice?
A: Any advice that tells you there is only way of doing something!

Q: When you were young, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A: Do we ever really grow up? Apart from the obvious little boy things – professional footballer, astronaut – I think I always wanted to be an engineer. Apparently I displayed all the normal traits – I took everything apart to see how it worked and sometimes even managed to put things back together again!

Q: What's your favourite place to go on holiday?
A: There’s so much choice, but it has to be anywhere where there is some heat and sun. France is great and last summer it was New York and then the West Coast of the States.

Q: What or who makes you laugh?
A: The British sitcom, Outnumbered, which has received critical acclaim for its semi-improvised scripting and realistic portrayal of family life. It’s such a simple but clever format, and…the kids remind me so much of my own in their interactions with each other! Not sure I should be admitting that though?

Q: What's your favourite film and why?
A: Probably ‘The Italian Job’ (it’s those Minis, really). Not sure I have a favourite at all as it depends on what I have seen recently. I enjoyed ‘Inception’ and now I just need to find someone who can explain it to me – was it a dream or what?!

Q: With which historical or fictional character do you most identify and why?
A: My kids told me to say the cartoon character Scooby-Doo as he makes great sandwiches.

Q: If you had to describe working at Dana in three words, which would you choose?
A: Dynamic, different and decisive - I think?!

Reidar joined Dana in March 2011. He has more than 30 years' North Sea operations and general management experience from international exploration and production companies and service companies. Prior to joining Dana he worked with Petro-Canada, Procon Drilling Services, DNO Heather and Unocal International.

Q: What does your role as Managing Director at Dana involve?
A: Providing leadership for Dana’s activities in the Norway including exploration, development and production. I also have a strong focus on our safety culture where we make Zero Harm a reality at all our work sites, while maximising the profitability of the business and delivering profitable growth.

Q: What are the best bits of your job?
A: What I enjoy most is working with a great, highly committed and experienced team of people who make sure the job we are hired for gets done. Everyone is proud of their job and makes sure that we deliver what we promise safely, professionally and effectively.

Q: And the worst bits?
A: There are no bad bits to my job.

Q: What's the most useful piece of business advice you’ve ever been given?
A: Be solution oriented rather than problem focused, and think positive!

Q: And the worst business advice?
A: There’s no such thing as bad business advice. In hindsight all experience is useful experience and provides a reference point for other situations.

Q: When you were young, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A: At one point in time I wanted to be an airplane pilot.

Q: What's your favourite place to go on holiday?
A: My favourite holiday place is my cabin up in the mountains in Norway. It’s quiet, peaceful and the nature is great.

Q: What or who makes you laugh?
A: Good jokes make me laugh and happy people make me smile!

Q: What's your favourite film and why?
A: Any James Bond movie. Exciting plots, beautiful women, nice locations and plenty of action.

Q: With which historical or fictional character do you most identify and why?
A: No specific person – but I do admire people who believe in their cause, care for others and don’t give up achieving their ambition and objective.

Q:  If you had to describe working at Dana in three words, which would you choose?
A: Safe, challenging and enjoyable.

Jintae joined Dana in 2011, a year after KNOC’s acquisition of the business. In 1988 his career with KNOC started in the accountancy department, where he was involved in all aspects of finance and treasury. Subsequent roles included exploration and production audit team leader, budget team leader, finance manager for CLJOC (a joint venture between Conoco Phillips, Petro Vietnam and KNOC) and latterly deputy general director for finance for Zhambyl Petroleum.

Q: What does your role as Deputy Chief Financial Officer at Dana involve?
A: In the last year I’ve been focusing mainly on transition management, ensuring Dana’s finance function is aligned with KNOC’s.

Q: What are the best bits of your job?
A: I’m constantly learning and being challenged. Before my secondment, I had no experience of European and UK financial practices. I find it very satisfying to be developing new skills and expanding my knowledge.

Q: And the worst bits?
A: There aren’t really any parts of my job that I dislike. I see every challenge as an opportunity.

Q: What's the most useful piece of business advice you’ve ever been given?
A: Work hard and always do your best.

Q: When you were young, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A: I didn’t have a specific career in mind, but I looked up to my father and wanted to be like him when I grew up. He was an incredibly hard worker, he was dedicated to his family and he made a lot of sacrifices in order to give his children the best start in life.

Q: What's your favourite place to go on holiday?
A: The Isle of Skye. The scenery is breathtaking.

Q: What or who makes you laugh?
A: My colleagues. We work hard but we have fun too!

Q: What's your favourite film and why?
A: The Last of the Mohicans. The story takes place in 1757 during the French and Indian war when France and Britain battled for control of the North American colonies. During the war the French called on native American tribes to fight against the British colonies. It’s a very powerful story, with an amazing soundtrack.

Q: If you had to describe working at Dana in three words, which would you choose?
A: Challenging, aspirational and ambitious.