Tony Vermeire
Tony Vermeire (43) joins Toreador as Group Commercial Director from Houlihan Lokey, a mid-size US investment bank active in the US, Europe and Asia, where he was a vice president in the Paris office between 2005 and 2009, with a focus on financial restructuring in France and Belgium, transatlantic M&A and energy valuation.
Between 2003 and 2005, Mr. Vermeire worked as a Principal Consultant for the Wholesale Energy Markets Group at the PA Consulting Group in Paris. Previously, he worked for the commodities trading division of Goldman Sachs in London, where together with the principal investments division he worked on the acquisition of non-operated oil & gas fields and various electricity generating companies, as well as the valuation and restructuring of long-term energy agreements. Prior to 2000, he worked for a decade in the upstream oil industry at BP plc (as a natural gas specialist for the Chief Economist), Amoco Europe (business development in the UK, Netherlands and Romania) and at TOTAL SA (project evaluation, commercial development and lead negotiator for TOTAL's North Sea E&P division).
He is a member of the Royal Flemish Institute of Engineers and graduated magna cum laude with an M.Eng. degree in applied mathematics from the University of Leuven (Belgium). He also holds a joint M.Sc./ingenieur degree in petroleum economics from the IFP School (France) and the University of Pennsylvania (USA), and earned an M.B.A. with distinction from the London Business School (UK). He speaks English, French, Dutch and German.