WE LIVE in strange, even desperate times and yet the energy industry is prospering. Anecdotally, while it remains next to impossible to borrow sensibly from banks although they would deny this, the healthy energy sector has other ways of financing its ambitions, notably via private equity.
IT WAS in April 1990 that Graeme Coutts walked into Expro Group in Aberdeen "to do a favour in between jobs" for the base manager at that time, Glyn Williams, who today heads private equity firm Epi-v
WTR's Willie Rennie is local to the north-east of Scotland, went to Aberdeen Business School and has logged more than 21 years in the oil & gas industry.