Paddy Spink
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Paddy Spink has over 40 years experience in the oil and gas industry. He joined Carlyle in 2012 as a senior advisor and operating executive and represents Carlyle on a number of portfolio company boards as well as providing advisory services mainly focused on Carlyle’s upstream activities.
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Prior to joining Carlyle, Paddy spent nearly 25 years with Perenco in roles in exploration, subsidiary manager and latterly in business development. He was also a member of Perenco’s Executive Committee which oversaw the running of the Perenco group.
In his early career Paddy fulfilled a variety of geological and petroleum engineering roles with Deminex, Elf Aquitaine and Shell.
Paddy is a graduate in Environmental Sciences from the University of Lancaster.