Executive Management

Alexander Urquhart joined ADNOC Drilling in 2018 as Deputy Chief Financial Officer and held the role of Chief Financial Officer from 2020, until his appointment as SVP of Finance and Control in 2022. Prior to joining ADNOC Drilling, he worked with BP for 23 years.

Alaina Ramsay joined ADNOC Drilling in 2018 as General Counsel. Before joining us, Alaina was General Counsel and Board Secretary at National Petroleum Services, where she was responsible for the company’s regional legal, governance and compliance matters, and prior to that also Associate General Counsel for Transocean with oversight of the Asia-Pac region.

Fuad Al Badi joined ADNOC Drilling in 2018 as Senior Vice President, Operations (Land). Prior to that, he served as Drilling Department Manager in ADNOC, where he was responsible for developing upstream drilling strategies, policies, short and long-term goals in order to enhance drilling activities, optimize drilling cost, maximize well quality and minimize drilling risks.

Ali Al Mahri joined the company in 2018 as Senior Vice President, Technical, with responsibility over Engineering, Projects, Maintenance, Business Development and Asset Integrity Departments. Prior to that, he served as Vice President, Drilling, in ADNOC Offshore with responsibility over their offshore and islands drilling activities in their various field concessions.

Emri Zeineldin joined ADNOC Drilling in December 2018 as Senior Vice President, Oil Field Services (OFS). Over the course of his career, Emri has held various senior positions within the Baker Hughes oil field services division, including Director and General Manager (then, BHGE) in the UAE and Yemen from 2017 to 2018.

Hamad Aljneibi joined ADNOC Drilling in January 2016 as Senior Vice President, Operations (Offshore), with oversight and responsibility over our offshore jackup, island rig and marine service divisions.

Ayman Bahnasawy has more than 22 years of experience working with multinational oil and gas operating, services and drilling organizations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with his most recent appointment being in 2019, as our VP, HSE.

Dr. Eisa Al Hammadi has been associated with ADNOC since 2013, and currently leads the Audit & Assurance Division within ADNOC Drilling as Vice President. With a doctorate in Corporate Governance, his professional experience encompasses key public and private entities along with financial institutions.

Iain Cracknell joined ADNOC Drilling as Vice President Communications and CSR in September 2021. Iain has almost 25 years' experience in the oil and gas industry. Iain previously worked at Seadrill for eight years, and prior to that spent 15 years at Total SA.