Jon was appointed Chief Executive Officer on 1 June 2016. Prior to this he had been employed in a number of senior roles at Halliburton Company Inc since 1996 – most recently as a Senior Vice President and member of the Halliburton Executive Committee, with responsibility, since 2014, for leading its largest division, Completion & Production. Prior roles included leadership of the Europe/Sub-Saharan Africa Region (the largest operating region outside North America) and the Drilling and Evaluation Division.

He joined Halliburton following nine years in academia, where he was NERC research fellow at the Royal School of Mines at Imperial College in London and Conoco Lecturer in Petroleum Geology at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh.

Term of office
Jon was appointed Chief Executive Officer on 1 June 2016 and has no fixed term of office. His service contract is terminable on six and twelve months’ notice by him and the Company respectively.

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