John Wishart

Energy Director

John is responsible for defining the strategy for our Energy business and ensuring the business plans will deliver the strategic objectives on a global basis.

John is responsible for defining the strategy for our Energy business and ensuring the business plans will deliver the strategic objectives on a global basis. His role is to ensure active worldwide business development and that key customer service management is implemented. He is charged with making sure we have the right service portfolio to enable the Energy business to deliver on the objectives of Lloyd's Register and is responsible for the commercial, technical and marketing policies and practices that support the delivery of our energy strategy.

John joined the Lloyd's Register Group on December 1, 2011 from GL Noble Denton (GLND) where he held the position of group MD in 2008 and became President of GLND in January 2009 following the merger of ND with GL. In his role as President, John was responsible for positioning and growing their oil and gas business from a broad range of heritage organisations within their Group. 

Throughout his career of over 30 years, John has shown great leadership and entrepreneurship in engineering and EPC (Engineering Procurement and Construction) operations. He began his career in technical, project and leadership roles in upstream and downstream sectors, first with John Brown and then with BP. He later joined Genesis Oil & Gas Consultants and moved to the US where he became responsible for the operational management of their offshore and deepwater engineering applications. His move to Technip in 1998 saw him rise to the position of President and CEO and in 2007 where he was accountable for strategy, growth, operations and financial performance of Technip’s regional E&C business.

While John’s career has been heavily focused in the oil and gas industry, he has had exposure to the nuclear industry and also in the power and renewable energy sectors. He has a strong industry network and is accustomed to developing business with a range of stakeholders including government, IOC’s, NOC’s and service companies around the world.