
Ivan Sandrea
Chief Executive Officer
Ivan Sandrea is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Westlawn Americas Offshore. Ivan has nearly 30 years of experience in the international energy industry. Prior to co-founding Westlawn Americas Offshore, Ivan founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Sierra Oil & Gas. Before founding Sierra, Ivan served in various technical, commercial, and executive roles at Equinor (formerly Statoil), BP, JX Nippon, EY, Energy Intelligence, OPEC, and Merrill Lynch.
In addition to his role at Westlawn Americas Offshore, Ivan serves in various advisory, board-level, or other associate roles at the Centro Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais (CEBRI), the Energy Policy Research Foundation (EPRINC), the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, and the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU).
Ivan received a B.S. in Geology from Baylor University and both an M.S. in Geological & Earth Sciences and MBA from Edinburgh University.