Getech, a world-leading locator of subsurface resources, is pleased today announced the following changes to the composition of the Executive Board. Chris Jepps appointed Interim CEO in January 2025 becomes CEO on a permanent basis. Simon Brown, appointed Finance Director (a non-Board role) in November 2024, joins the Board as CFO. Max Brouwers, Chief Business Development Officer, who was proposed to join the Board, now does so as an Executive Director. All three appointments commence with immediate effect.

Michael Covington, Chair of Getech, said:
"On behalf of the Board, I would like to congratulate all three on their well-deserved appointments. Each has deep understanding of, and alignment with, our business, our customers, and our operations and has delivered consistently for the Company and its stakeholders. Over the past six months, they have led the development and execution of a comprehensive turnaround plan, refocusing the business on its core oil and gas client base, streamlining the cost structure, and strengthening our leadership position in the evolving and potentially transformational global geological hydrogen sector. While early in the process, the Group is already in a significantly stronger position, benefiting from a more commercially aligned and focused team. These appointments reflect the Board's confidence in their leadership and mark the formation of a new executive team to drive the Company's future performance."

Chris Jepps has extensive energy industry, GIS and entrepreneurial experience. In his time as Technical Director at Exprodat he established the company's technical strategy and led its software design and development. Following Exprodat's acquisition by Getech in 2016, Chris joined as Products Director, becoming Group COO in February 2018.

During his near 7 years as COO, Chris led the company's product strategy with the aim of growing software revenues from Getech's core and emerging markets. Some of his key achievements in this time include enhancing its oil and gas workflow products to meet the changing needs of the energy market, migrating Globe from its legacy delivery model to a modern cloud-based architecture that enabled the launch of a subscription model to support wider energy transition adoption, and introducing cloud-based subscription models for its global gravity and magnetic data holdings to better serve the needs of Getech's mining customer-base.

Chris has a BSc in Geology from Imperial College, London, and is an alumnus of Esri's global Partner Advisory Council.

Simon Brown joined Getech in 2018 as the Company's Financial Controller moving to become Group Finance Director in November 2024. He has led the finance division and successfully implemented a series of projects to improve the financial reporting of the Company and established new protocols to enhance the security of the business. Simon has been a proactive and strong steward of the Company's working capital and liquidity, and has also been behind a significant improvement of Group IT systems and structures.

With 15 years' experience working in senior finance leadership roles within various complex, multinational PLCs and SME organisations, including previous Financial Controller roles at the advertising services company WTMS Ltd (a WPP group company) and specialist resourcing companies; Milestone Operations and Methods consulting.

Simon has a BA in Accounting and is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, having qualified in 2006.

Max Brouwers is a senior executive driving the energy transition with more than 25-years' experience. He started his career at Shell in 1996 and his last role there was Vice President Exploration for Europe, Russia and Caspian. In his time with Shell, he directed exploration & energy transition activities in more than 17 countries and delivered multi billion commercial deals. He also spearheaded the open-source industry standard cloud platform O-SDU and a digital start-up. He has a track record of forging partnerships with governments, national oil companies, boards and across directorates. He is the chair of the AAPG Energy Transition Forum, member of the UK Subsurface Taskforce and has an MBA plus an MSc in Geology.

Max joined Getech in October 2021 as Chief Business Development Officer, and has focused on natural hydrogen, critical minerals and geothermal as well as bringing considerable experience and networks in oil & gas.

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