Born in New Zealand in 1963, Geoffrey Turbott is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand.

From 1981 until 1989, he worked for various chartered accounting companies in New Zealand, and from 1991 to 1995 he worked for Neste (renamed Fortum) in London in various financial roles.

Since 1995 Mr. Turbott has worked with public companies controlled by the Lundin family. In 1998 he was appointed Group Finance Controller of Lundin Oil AB a Swedish upstream oil and gas exploration and production company with worldwide operations in the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Libya, Sudan and Papua New Guinea. Lundin Oil AB was listed on the Stockholm and Nasdaq exchanges. In 2001, Lundin Oil AB was acquired by Talisman Energy and Mr. Turbott was appointed VP Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Lundin Petroleum AB which was spun off to shareholders of Lundin Oil AB.