Gordon joined Welligence in March 2025 and currently leads the Sub-Saharan Africa Research team.  He is responsible for the team’s regional coverage, promoting thought leadership reports, investment/M&A trends and key producing country analysis.  

Prior to Welligence, he spent over 15 years in various upstream petroleum engineering roles, working for Talisman Energy, Repsol-Sinopec and most recently Apache North Sea.  Gordon holds a master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University and an MBA from the University of Edinburgh.