Andy Tidey, head of performance improvement at Wood Mackenzie, has a curriculum vitae far removed from most oil and gas professionals and perhaps from many of his colleagues in the respected Edinburgh-based consultancy.
The rowing-loving Englishman spent years working for UPS, Argos and KPMG before, indirectly and then directly, getting involved in the oil and gas business.
Born in 1966 in Aldershot, southern England, his family moved around a fair bit — including a two-year stint in Malaysia in the early 1970s — because his father was in the British army.
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