Advance Energy plc announced the appointment of Mr. Stephen West as Chief Financial Officer. Stephen is a highly experienced Fellow Chartered Accountant (CA ANZ) and CA (ICAEW) with over 26 years of financial and corporate experience gained in public practice, oil and gas, mining and investment banking. Stephen has held several senior positions in oil and gas, and mining companies including most recently at PetroNor E&P Limited where he was Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer until his resignation in February 2020 after being instrumental in the successful USD 100 million merger of African Petroleum Corporation Ltd. and PetroNor E&P Limited in August 2019 and the subsequent integration of the two companies. He was also previously a Non-Executive Director of Apollo Consolidated Limited. He is co-founder and current Non-Executive Chairman of Zeta Petroleum plc and is also Non-Executive Chairman of TomCo Energy plc. Prior to 2002 Stephen worked in the banking sector including Barclays Capital London where he managed Global Finance Projects.