Executive Committee

Frances Ward

Chief Financial Officer

Frances is a qualified accountant with over 15 years’ senior management experience within the international oil and gas sector.

Her previous experience includes 11 years at Nexen Energy (now part of CNOOC) in various senior finance roles in their London and Calgary offices.

Frances joined Star Energy in 2017 as Group Financial Controller, then assuming overall responsibility for the finance function as Finance Director in July 2020 and was appointed as CFO in September 2022.

Ross Glover

Chief Executive Officer

Ross was appointed CEO in 2024, having been COO since 2023 and before that responsible for both new business and project development since he joined the Company in 2017.

Prior to joining Star Energy, he ran a UK based renewable energy project development company with a focus on onshore wind. Ross started his career in Southern Africa managing capital projects in the mineral processing and mining sector. After moving to the UK in 2003, he worked for one of the UK’s largest public sector leasing and managed equipment services companies where he was responsible for corporate acquisitions, disposals and structured finance.

Ross holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from Warwick Business School.

Thamala Perera Schuetze

Group General Counsel
Executive Director – Croatia Geothermal

Thamala is a General Counsel with 25 years’ experience. She is also responsible for Star Energy’s Croatian Geothermal business.

Prior to Star Energy’s reverse takeover in 2011, she served as General Counsel for the European Infrastructure Group of PETRONAS, with a primary focus on gas storage. During her career she has held (among others) positions at the regulator, Ofgem and at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in the telecoms sector. She is a member of the Bar of England and Wales and holds an LLM in European Law from King’s College London.