Founder, Group CEO & President Thailand
Philip Askew
Philip leads the Avenir Energy Group companies as Founder & CEO and its Thailand Business as President. He leads the team to build a portfolio of traditional and new energy business in Thailand and SE Asia as well as driving value delivery and step-change performance for all stakeholders. Built on engineering, honed in business excellence and working with executive teams on strategies to deliver real change, he is now applying this capability for lower cost energy in SE Asia.
Philip was recently COO of an ENOC business building it from a startup to a large, successful digital energy business. Previously he was a Partner in Schlumberger Business Consulting and Accenture leading growth, Cost-out, Organisation and operational effectiveness projects across SE Asia and Australia. Before this he has worked for Shell, Boston Consulting Group, Carrier and Shell in Australia, SE Asia, North Asia, South Asia, GCC and the UK.
Philip has been passionate about Energy ever since he won a scholarship to attend Petroleum Engineering at UNSW in Australia 30 years ago. Philip also has an MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.
Quote: "Great things are possible if our employees are motivated, capable and our communities are engaged. Achieving this, then success for all stakeholders is not just possible, it is inevitable."