JDR Appoints Andrew J. Norman as CEO (UK)

JDR, the leading provider of specialist high performance subsea cables and umbilical systems for the offshore oil, gas and renewables market announces that Andrew J. Norman will join the company as Chief Executive Officer on 19 September 2011.

Andrew joins from Dresser Flow Technology Europe, where he was President. Pat Herbert, JDR’s Chief Executive Officer for the last ten years will take on the role of Executive Chairman with on-going responsibility for JDR’s strategic direction and stakeholder management.

In April 2011, JDR Cable Systems (Holdings) Ltd. sold its Rotterdam based Marine Cables division to Fugro NV enabling the company to now fully focus on its Umbilical Systems and Subsea Power Cables business with the goal to further strengthening its market-leading position.

 Pat Herbert, Executive Chairman of JDR, said:

“JDR has undergone significant change in recent months as we have worked to ensure it is well placed to build on its position as the offshore energy industry’s Partner of Choice. With Andrew’s appointment, and our current senior management, I am confident we now have the leadership team to take JDR to the next stage of its development as we continue to enable our clients around the world operate in the most challenging of subsea environments.”

 Andrew J. Norman said:

“JDR’s reputation for market leading products and client service is recognised across the renewables and oil and gas industries. I am delighted to have the opportunity to work with Pat and the world class team he has assembled to exploit the significant growth opportunity that JDR’s provision of such a crucial component of the offshore energy business will continue to provide.”

Patrick Phelan, former Managing Director of the Umbilical Systems division has been named Managing Director-Commercial, with new additions to the team being Peter Sayles who joined JDR as Managing Director-Operations in Spring 2011 and Martin Boden newly appointed Chief Financial Officer in August 2011. Following these appointments, Bob Solberg will assume a non-executive role as a Director of the company maintaining continuity to the important contributions he has made over the last eight years in his role of Non-Executive Chairman of JDR.

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Source: jdrcables, September 08, 2011