Kenneth Gerard Pereira is an engineer by training and has several years of oil and gas field experience in North Africa and Europe with a leading multinational oil and gas services company, Schlumberger Overseas S. A. He also has significant prior sector experience in the start-up and turn-around of companies engaged in the sector.

He co-founded Sapura Group of companies in 1997 and involved in the growing of Sapura organically and through acquisitions until 2008.  He served at Sapura as the Service Manager overseeing service of telecom products and Senior Manager, General Manager, Group Corporate Planning and Vice President. He was deeply involved in many key aspects of the implementation of this project.

He was also intimately involved in successful joint venture negotiations with a French multinational organization for the transfer of technology in relation to the localization and development of local capability in the area of defence radio-communications.

Since 1997, he served as Vice President of Energy Sector Projects and initiated the building of the oil and gas services business under Sapura Energy Sendirian Berhad. He served as the Chief Operating Officer of SapuraCrest Petroleum Bhd since 2002, where he oversaw day-to-day operations and was very involved in the successful execution of several medium-scale capital projects (USD250 million or less).

He also played a key role in negotiating long term strategic joint ventures with European and Indian multinational corporations. Pereira has over 29 years of international experience in the Oilfield services sector and technology management. He served as Chief Financial Officer of De Novo Ventures and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.

Prior to Hummer Winblad, Mr. Pereira served ten years as Chief Financial Officer of American Industrial Partners. His roles with these firms included all administrative functions, investor relations, fund raising, portfolio company assistance, and transactional negotiation and closing.

In addition, he served accounting and financial roles at Ernst and Young, Oryx Ventures, and Transamerica Corporation. He now serves as a Director of Hibiscus Petroleum Berhad and Director of Hibiscus Energy Pte Ltd (Singapore) and Hibiscus Ventures Sdn Bhd.  

He served as a Non-Executive Director at Ecofuture Bhd from July 30, 2009 to June 11, 2010. He served as a Director of Interlink Petroleum Ltd from October 3, 2008 to November 21, 2011. He has managed the Malaysian Indoor Hockey Team on two occasions at international tournaments.

Pereira now serves as Managing Director of Hibiscus Petroleum Berhad. Pereira serves as an Executive Officer of Sapuracrest Petroleum Bhd. Mr. Pereira served as Chief Financial Officer of Saints Capital. He served as the Managing Director of Interlink Petroleum Ltd. from August 4, 2009 to October 14, 2011.

He completed a Doctoral Programme conducted by the University of South Australia in which he researched the subject of the 'Start-up, Survival and Growth Strategic Actions of Initially Small Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Companies. Pereira is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of California. He has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering with Honors from Bath University, United Kingdom in 1982 and a Masters degree in Business Administration from Cranfield University, United Kingdom in 1993.