Aidan Joseph Heavey (born 1953) is the founder of Tullow Oil, one of Europe's largest oil businesses.
From Castlerea, Co. Roscommon and educated at Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare and at University College, Dublin, Aidan Heavey trained with R. J. Kidney & Co. from 1974 to 1978 when he qualified as an accountant.[1]
He left R. J. Kidney & Co. in 1979 to join Aer Lingus as a Financial Controller before joining Tullow Engineering in 1981: it was there that he founded Tullow Oil in 1985 building it through a series of acquisitions into a major international oil business.[1]
Heavey's salary at Tullow Oil is £679,450 as of 2010[2] and his 2009 bonus was £859,274.[3]