Dr Kenneth Gerard Pereira
Managing Director, Hibiscus Petroleum
Dr Kenneth Gerard Pereira is the Founder and Managing Director of Hibiscus Petroleum Berhad. He listed Hibiscus Petroleum on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia on 25 July 2011.
Dr Kenneth has 33 years’ experience in the upstream oil and gas industry in the services as well as the exploration and production sectors. He began his career with Schlumberger Overseas in 1983 as a Field Service Engineer working in Asia and Europe. He joined the Sapura Group in 1990, and in 1997, was appointed Vice President of Energy Sector Projects where he initiated the building of the oil and gas services business. In 2003, when the Sapura Group successfully acquired Crest Petroleum Berhad, he became the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of SapuraCrest Petroleum Berhad. From 2009 to 2011, Dr Kenneth became Managing Director and a shareholder of Interlink Petroleum Ltd, an oil and gas exploration and production company listed on the Mumbai Stock Exchange. He sold his interests in Interlink Petroleum to a Singapore-based listed company in 2010.
He holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Engineering from the University of Bath, United Kingdom, an MBA from Cranfield University, United Kingdom and a Doctorate in Business Administration from the University of South Australia, Australia. His doctorate research topic was entitled “Start-up, Survival and Growth Strategic Actions of Initially Small Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Companies”.