Bringing the World’s Hidden Resources into View
Bringing the World’s Hidden Resources into View
Dr. Mark Davies is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Metatek. He has led the Company from inception through its growth into a small-to-medium enterprise, with responsibility for corporate strategy, intellectual property oversight, capital raising, strategic partnerships, and international operations. Dr.Davies has over 30 years of experience in academia and the geoscience industries, including hydrocarbons, mining, and natural hazards. Prior to founding Metatek, he served as Chief Scientist at a technology-driven data acquisition company, where he led the development of proprietary exploration interpretation and data integration workflows and managed strategic relationships with major energy companies, government and sovereign entities, defence-related organisations, and key technology suppliers, including Lockheed Martin. Dr.Davies has advised hydrocarbon and mining companies on geophysical exploration strategy and technology adoption and has overseen the development and protection of proprietary platforms and intellectual property. He has published extensively in the geosciences and has contributed expert content (writing and presenting) to international media outlets including the BBC, National Geographic, Channel 4 (UK) and Discovery Channel. Dr.Davies holds a Bachelor’s degree with honours in Geology from the University of Wales, Cardiff; a D.E.A. in Volcanology, Magmatology and Atmospheric Physics from Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France; and a PhD in Volcano Geophysics from the School of Earth Sciences at The Open University.
Nicholas joined Metatek at the beginning of 2022 as Chief Financial Officer. Nicholas has spent over 20 years providing strategic and corporate finance advice to public and private companies focused on the natural resources and energy sectors. Nicholas’ previous role was as the Chief Financial Officer of a private power generation business, where he worked closely with the private equity owners to realise a successful restructuring and sale of the business. Before this, he was the Chief Financial Officer of a publicly listed oil and gas exploration and production company for six years. Prior to his role as a Chief Financial Officer, Nicholas spent 13 years in investment banking, advising on mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets transactions, mainly in the global resources sector. Nicholas is a chartered accountant by profession having qualified with Pricewaterhouse Coopers.
Sarah is responsible for corporate matters and human resources and is a highly experienced Company Secretary. She has over 25 years’ experience working within the oil and gas industry, starting her career with a geophysical consultancy. Sarah has experience in company mergers and acquisitions, through the sale of consultancy service companies to an airborne acquisition company. Sarah is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Rob has over 25 years’ experience in seismic exploration, primarily for offshore hydrocarbons.
Robert’s career has included roles onshore and offshore spanning processing, project management, sales and operations. From 2020-2025 Robert was EVP, Operations at a seismic exploration company with responsibility for health, safety, environment and quality, assets, project delivery and technology development across all global operations including wind farm development, environmental monitoring, hydrocarbons and CCS. Over the same period Rob served on the board of OGF, a Japanese seismic company. Rob holds a BSc in Geology and Geophysics from the University of Durham and a leadership diploma from IMD in Lausanne.
Philip is a seasoned professional in consulting and energy transition with over 35 years’ experience in this sector.
He spent 13 years working for Petroleum Geo-Services where he held several senior roles in geophysical operations through to executive positions such as President for PGS Asia Pacific. Before joining Metatek, Philip worked independently as a consultant and served as the Director of Pact Services Pte Ltd. In this role, he offered strategic management and business expansion advice to clients in the APAC markets.
With over 30 years’ experience, Phil brings a wealth of experience in airborne and marine operations and non-seismic geophysical data acquisition, QC and processing techniques. He led nine field seasons in Antarctica, acquiring a variety of geophysical datasets including magnetics and radio echo-sounding data as well as gravity as part of the British Antarctica Survey’s programme of exploration on the Antarctic Peninsula and Ronne Ice Shelf. Phil has a degree and PhD in Geophysics (EM Induction) from the University of Edinburgh.
Gary has over 25 years’ experience within the potential fields industry specialising in gravity and gravity gradiometry instrumentation, processing and analysis. At Metatek he collaboratively develops techniques that enhance the quality and use of potential field data to improve the understanding of sub-surface geology. Previously, he was a founding member of a technology driven airborne data acquisition company and headed geophysical software development. Prior to that, he worked as a senior project engineer for Oxford Instruments, modelling the magnetic fields around superconducting components. Gary has a degree in Physics from the University of Birmingham, a D.Phil in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford, and graduate certificates in Geology from the University of London.