Serica Energy plc announced that due to the length of service Tony Craven Walker shall be standing down from the Chair and the Board at the end of the forthcoming Annual General Meeting and that David Latin has agreed to take over as Chair from that date. David has been on the Board since the end of 2021 and brings enormous experience to the Company both as an Independent Director and shortly as Non-Executive Chairman. David has over 30 years' working in the upstream sector including senior roles at BP plc and the OMV Group where he led growth of a significant business in the North Sea, Africa and Australasia.

More recently he has developed his knowledge of private equity investing as a founder of First Alpha Energy Capital and of the energy transition via venture capital backed Talaria Technology.