Board of Directors

After eight years of marine engineering, Leo joined the oil industry in 1976, initially working as a roughneck and derrickman. He quickly realised that he enjoyed the technical side more and continued as a subsea engineer, subsea supervisor and drilling equipment engineer for Neddrill, Sedco and Sedco Forex on deepwater semi-submersibles and drill ships. In 1986 he started up ModuSpec, an independent rig inspection company that provided services that were unavailable at the time. With quality as its main driver, the company gradually became the largest, most reputable provider of independent rig inspection services in the industry. Leo retired in 2012 after a career spanning 44 years in the marine and offshore industry, giving him time to follow his dream of circumnavigating the globe in his sail boat.

In the midst of the industry downturn, the idea came about to start a new independent rig inspection business. This prompted Leo to come out of retirement and help establish ModuResources, which has since become part of the MR Group of companies.

Arie started his career as a Marine Engineer with Nedlloyd before joining Neddrill where he progressed through the ranks, being involved in major upgrades and conversions of floating drilling units before joining SEDCO (now Transocean).

Arie joined ModuSpec as a senior surveyor in 1986 and set out to Singapore in 1992 to establish the Singapore ModuSpec Asia Pacific office which grew into a major regional hub with offices and agencies across the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Austral Asia region.

In 2008 he became the ModuSpec regional Senior Vice President for Asia Pacific and the Middle East within LR Drilling Integrity Service. He later transferred to the LR Drilling Integrity Service office in Houston where he led the Drilling Technology group for two years.

With over 30 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry - in both the drilling and production sectors - and industry experience in well over 20 countries, Steve holds an electrical engineering trade qualification, a Master’s degree in drilling engineering from UNSW, and a Bachelor’s degree in business from USQ. He also studied Indonesian and Korean languages.

Steve‘s positions in the industry included rig electrician, tourpusher, company man, drilling/commissioning engineer and senior project engineer. Steve formed Horizon Resources in 2006 which provides engineering teams for many newbuild and conversion projects and is now a part of MR Group. He maintains a keen interest in well control training through MR Well Academy worldwide.

Duco holds a degree in Marine Engineering, a Bachelor’s degree in Energy Technology and a Master’s degree in Maintenance and Safety Management.

At the start of his career, Duco gained valuable experience as a Maintenance Management Consultant, managing and leading large-scale projects around the globe with international operators, NOCs, drilling contractors and service companies. After establishing a service line in maintenance management services, his interest and focus turned to managing operational teams in Asia Pacific, the Middle East and later in Europe, Africa and Russia.

Duco gained most of his leadership experience as Managing Director/CEO of the largest independent rig inspection business in the oil and gas industry. After subsequently holding several leadership positions at a large energy consultancy, compliance and inspection business, Duco became globally responsible for commercial development within the same organisation as Director.

Being married with Sara de Haan who shares with him a background in oil and gas, Duco has two daughters, loves to travel and as how he would describe it, possesses all the traits of a true Petrolhead!

He started his financial career with an industrial/medical equipment manufacturer in various roles (Corporate and Production) and with the worldwide leading provider of lighting solutions. Wilco subsequently moved to the upstream oil and gas industry, joining the largest independent rig inspection business in 1998 as Group CFO. A couple of years after being acquired by a large energy consultancy, compliance and inspection business, he moved into a commercial controller role for their Energy business. In his current role within the MR Group Wilco is responsible for financial, fiscal, risk and compliance matters. Wilco holds a Bachelor degree in Economics.