Matthew Kay

Matthew Kay was the chief executive and managing director of Beach Energy for 6 years until November 2021. Prior to that, he was the executive general manager of strategy and commercial at Oil Search, a position he held for two years, where he was a member of the executive team and led the strategy, commercial, supply chain, economics, marketing, M&A and legal functions. Prior to Oil Search, Mr Kay spent 12 years with Woodside Energy in various leadership roles including vice president of corporate development, general manager of production planning leading over 80 operations professionals, and general manager of commercial for Middle East and Africa.

Mr Kay developed extensive leadership skills across LNG, pipeline gas and oil joint ventures, and developments in Australia and internationally.