Roger Brown

CEO Seplat Energy

Mr. Brown was recently appointed Chief Executive Officer of Seplat Plc in August 
2020. He joined the company as Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director in 
July 2013. During his time at Seplat he was instrumental in completing the dual 
listing of the company on the main markets of the Nigerian and London Stock 
Exchanges, which was the first for a Nigerian corporate. He has also been 
instrumental in broadening the capital base of the company increasing Seplat’s 
footprint in Nigeria by acquiring oil and gas assets.

With a background in finance he is a qualified Chartered Accountant with the 
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. Mr. Brown has over 25 years’ 
experience, primarily focused on emerging markets with extensive experience in 
structuring energy and infrastructure transactions on the African continent. 

Prior to joining the Seplat he held the position of Managing Director of Oil and Gas 
EMEA for Standard Bank Group and prior to Standard Bank Group, Senior 
Manager in the Corporate Finance department of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Mr. Brown has extensive financial, accounting, M&A, debt and equity capital 
markets experience in the emerging markets space, and in particular the African 
oil and gas sector. He has advised on and provided capital to some of the largest 
and highest profile transactions that have occurred across the African Continent, 
including many of the asset divestments in the onshore Niger Delta undertaken 
by Shell, Total and ENI