Graham Forbes

Graham Forbes is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry. Prior to joining Jersey Oil & Gas in 2021, Graham was the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Ithaca Energy from 2010 to 2020. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant at PriceWaterhouseCoopers before moving to ExxonMobil, where for over five years he worked on a variety of operational and acquisition-based projects. In 2002, Graham joined First Oil Group where, as Finance Director and then Executive Director, he helped develop the business into the UK’s then largest privately owned E&P company. Following his move to Ithaca Energy in 2010, Graham was instrumental in transforming the company into a major independent UKCS operator through both organic developments and multiple acquisitions. He has extensive quoted company and corporate finance experience, having completed various debt and equity market offerings and the US$1.2 billion sale and subsequent delisting of Ithaca Energy.