About us

Steven Brown has been the Managing Director of FMS since January 2018. Steven is a qualified Chartered Accountant and began his career at Simpson Forsyth where he completed his CA training. He then moved on to the parent company of FMS, First Tech Ltd as Group Finance Manager overseeing all financial, commercial and accounting aspects of a number of all companies within the group, subsequently becoming Finance Director in June 2016, prior to taking up his current role with FMS.

Steven has overall responsibility for all functions of the business and has lead the recent expansion of the business which has seen headcount double over the last two years.

Hailing from Orkney originally but now living in the North East of Scotland, Darren is an experienced mariner with a degree in business management and over 20yrs in the marine and offshore industries.

Initially starting his career in the merchant navy, predominantly on offshore vessels, Darren transitioned into marine related roles for Oil and Gas operators when his family started to grow and the shorter trips became appealing. Having spent time as a Marine Coordinator for Exxon Mobil (platform based) and Marine Control (FPSO based) with BP he took the plunge an came ashore into the world of consultancy and project management.

Since coming ashore Darren has worked his way up the ranks and previous to coming to FMS spent 5 years as Marine Manager for another large consultancy company/competitor. Darren has covered all aspects of Marine Consultancy in his time ashore from vessel assurance through to in house marine specialist support for Operators/Rig Owners. He has project managed hundreds of mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) moves and led the marine aspects of numerous long term mooring projects worldwide from both the onshore and offshore aspects.

Now with FMS, Darren is using his experience in management and the consultancy sector to develop our in house capabilities and service offerings.

Dave McGinlay, originally from Fort William in West Scotland, moved to Aberdeen as a semi-professional footballer in 1991. Since this time, he has worked in a variety of sales and business development roles in a number of oil service companies in Aberdeen.

Dave has been involved in the Mooring Industry for over 10 years, working for an Aberdeen-based company as Business Development Manager before joining First Marine in 2018 as Business Development Director. He is well-known in the industry for making connections and getting the job done. With an extensive network locally and abroad, Dave has been instrumental in building the First Marine Offering to the market in the UK and across the world.

After moving to Aberdeen from South London, Carl started his offshore career some 14 years ago as a Workshop Engineer. This was for a small marine consultancy Trident Offshore, better known today as Intermoor.

Carl then went on to work offshore in the role of Survey Party Chief for Intermoor on various positioning and construction projects across the globe. In 2013 Carl decided a career in project management was where his expertise would be best utilised. Accepting a role as Project Manager, at the world’s leading geodata specialist Fugro, and quickly found himself supporting energy industry giants Shell, BP and Total for their positioning, construction and ROV operations.

After 7 years of project management, an opportunity arose to grow his management and leadership skills in the role of Project Delivery Manager where he was directly responsible for supporting 5 project managers and 2 project surveyors in the day to day success of the positioning and construction support service line.

Carl was also involved in the world’s first remote FPSO heading control operation and the provision of survey services for the installation of the first turbine for the Kincardine floating offshore windfarm.

With such diverse experience in both onshore and offshore survey operations and project management, coupled with a strong history of providing a first class service to the industry, Carl is key to developing and expanding FMS’ survey and positioning services to the energy industry.

First starting in the Oil and Gas Sector in 1994 with Huntly Equipment Rentals, Paul is an industry veteran of 26 years.

Having worked up through the ranks from Photocopier to Materials Management and Purchase Control, Paul later took up the role of International Business Development and Marketing Manager at Balmoral group covering both their Wire Rope and Mooring divisions , which later became Viking Seatech in 2006 and he worked there until 2015, developing a large network of industry contracts, expanding the global footprint of the organisation. During this time several international partnerships were formed and grown as the company expanded.

Paul joined the First Tech group in 2015, working with First Integrated for 3 years before moving to FMS to return to the mooring sector to work as Sales and Marketing Manager responsible for the external image of the company on social media and supply chain relationships as we enter into a new era with diversification into the renewables sector and our much expanded rig moving and marine consultancy / engineering offering.

Born in London, Martin moved to Aberdeen at an early age and was already on the deck of a vessel as a teenager.

With over 25 years oil and gas experience with 18 years specifically in mooring equipment, Martin has evolved from grass-roots level at International Mooring Systems (George Craig Group) to key operational roles at Balmoral Marine and Viking Moorings (Operations Supervisor) where he was responsible for overseeing major contract requirements for key blue-chip clients and also worldwide chain inspection services (Technical Services Supervisor).

As Operations Manager for now over two years, Martin brings years of experience to FMS and looks to build his team to exceed client expectations.

After graduating from Subsea Engineering at The University of Aberdeen, Fan has worked for major marine engineering consultancy companies as a naval architect and subsea engineer in Aberdeen. With 10 years exposure to offshore oil & gas and renewable projects, Fan has gathered extensive experience in mooring design, structural analysis, offshore installations and project management.

Fan started his career at Interocean as a naval architect, mostly responsible for performing open sea and quayside mooring analysis; thereafter Fan was working for Global Maritime for 7 years as a senior subsea engineer; Fan was also involved in the UK’s largest nuclear power station installation project as an independent consultant.

Having joined FMS for almost a year now, Fan supports the team well by conducting the engineering services to the highest industry standard.