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CFO Appointment
CFO Appointment.
About this update from Sound Energy Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 7837P Sound Energy PLC 05 September 2017 \n\n5 September 2017\n \nSound Energy plc\n(\"Sound Energy\" or the \"Company\")\n \nCFO Appointment \n \n \nSound Energy, the African and European focused upstream gas company, is pleased to announce the appointment of JJ Traynor as Chief Financial Officer of the Company with immediate effect. \n \nIn his role as Chief Financial Officer JJ will lead the finance, commercial, business development and investor relations functions. It is intended that JJ will also be appointed as a Director of the Company at a future date, and a further announcement will be made, as appropriate, in due course. \n \nJames Parsons, Sound Energy's Chief Executive Officer, commented: \n \n\"We are delighted to welcome JJ to the Sound Energy team. He brings a wealth of experience, to the company, both in our industry, and with energy investors. Sound's strategy is delivering for our shareholders and JJ's appointment reinforces our commitment to building a strong management group with real industry experience. I am looking forward to working with JJ, particularly to build on our longstanding ties with our retail investor community and deepen our institutional shareholder following.\" \n \nNotes for editors\n \nJohn Joseph (\"JJ\") Traynor has 29 year's experience in oil & gas. He was Executive Vice President of Investor Relations at Royal Dutch Shell, and part of the finance leadership team there for 12 years. Prior to Shell, JJ was Managing Director of the award-winning oil & gas equity research team at Deutsche Bank. He began his career in 1989 as an exploration geologist at BP, spending 8 years in Mongolia, Norway, Vietnam and the UK. He has a geology degree from Imperial College, London, a PhD from Cambridge University, and he is an alumnus of the INSEAD advanced management programme. JJ holds UK and Irish citizenship. \n \n \nFor further information please contact:\n \n\n\n\n\nVigo Communications - PR Advisor\nPatrick d'Ancona\nChris McMahon \nAlexandra Roper\n \n\n\nTel: +44 (0)20 7830 9700\n\n\n\n\nSound Energy\nJames Parsons, Chief Executive Officer \n \n\n\[email protected]\n \n\n\n\n\nSmith & Williamson - Nominated Adviser\nAzhic Basirov\nDavid Jones\nBen Jeynes \n \n\...