Managing Director, Samson Marin

Samson started his working career as an apprentice blacksmith with Barnet & Morton in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.

He has a City and Guilds Higher National qualification in pipe fabrication and welding and is also CSWIP-approved (Certification Scheme for Welding and Inspection Personnel) in welding inspection and radiographic interpretation.

After completing his apprenticeship, he focused on welding within the energy sector, working on power plants refinery construction, offshore jacket construction, and cross-country pipelines in the UK, Canada, Algeria and Indonesia.

In 1982, Samson launched his own company — Sarj Construction — and was predominantly involved in transmission pipeline maintenance for British Gas. When British Gas was privatised seven years later, Samson wound up Sarj Construction and soon after moved to Indonesia.

There he became involved in building gas and power plants, cross-country and subsea pipelines, both as a quality assurance and quality control engineer and as a construction superintendant. He worked with a wide range of companies, including Amerada Hess, Arco, Babcock and Wilcox, Brunei Shell, Conoco, Gulf Oil, Kodeco, Murphy Oil, SNC Lavalin, Stork Holland, and Swiber Offshore.

Samson is now based in Jakarta from where PT Samson-Marin Trenching Subsea — an approved foreign investment PMA company operating within Marin Group at Samson Marin — offers a full jet-sled trenching spread to markets in Indonesia and further afield across South-east Asia.

He enjoys historical research and playing golf.