2019 Annual Meeting Speakers

H.E. Salim Al Aufi

Undersecretary for the Ministry of Oil & Gas, Oman

Er. Salim Al Aufi has a Masters in Petroleum Engineering from HeriotWatt University. He Joined Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) in 1992, and progressed within the organization in different technical and leadership roles, which culminated in him…

Reem Al-Ghanim

Diversity & Inclusion, Saudi Aramco

For over 20 years, I’ve held a number of roles/positions in HR, Training and Development and recently with Upstream, these include Head of D&I, Head of Women Development, Head of Internal Mobility, Head of Career Planning and Consultation, Head…

Awadh M. Al-Maker

Executive Vice President, Shared Services, SABIC

Mr. Al-Maker is Chemical Engineer graduate from King Saud University, College of Engineering back in 1989. In August 1989, he joined SABIC at manufacturing affiliate in Jubail, KEMYA, where he held various posts at different times, last of which…

Mohammad Y. Al Qahtani

Senior Vice President – Upstream Saudi Aramco

Mohammed Y. Al Qahtani was appointed Senior Vice President – Upstream in January 2016. His responsibilities include exploration, petroleum engineering, drilling, oil and gas operations, unconventional resources and upstream research and development…

Khalid bin Khalifa Al Thani

CEO, Qatargas

Mr. Khalid bin Khalifa Al Thani has been the Chief Executive Officer of Qatargas Operating Company Limited (Qatargas) since May 30, 2010. He recently spearheaded the successful integration of the State of Qatar’s two liquefied natural gas (LNG)…

Datuk Md Arif Mahmood

EVP & CEO Downstream, PETRONAS

Datuk Md Arif Mahmood has held the key positions of Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Risk, Vice President of Oil Business. He has also held other various senior management positions in PETRONAS Gas Berhad, Engen Petroleum Limited,…

Muqsit Ashraf

Senior Managing Director Global Energy Lead, Accenture Strategy

Background andEducation: Previously, Head of North America for Schlumberger Business Consulting and Principal at Booz & Company working at intersection of operations & energy. Published numerous articles in industry magazines,…

Bakhrom Ashrafkhanov

Acting Chairman of the Board, Uzbekneftegaz JSC

Experience: 1994 - 1998: Representative in Central Asia "AIG Trading Group" 1998 -2000: General Manager Uzbek-American Insurance Company "UzAIG" 2000 - 2002: First Deputy of the Head of State Inspection of Insurance Supervision …

Eirik Barclay

Chief Executive Officer, Yinson Production

Mr. Eirik Barclay was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Yinson Production on 3 January 2014 following the acquisition of Fred. Olsen Production ASA, where Eirik had been the CEO since 1 January 2012. Eirik has worked in the offshore oil…

Gordon Birrell

Upstream Chief Operating Officer- Production, Transformation and Carbon, BP

Gordon Birrell is currently BP Upstream Chief Operating Officer: Production, Transformation and Carbon, and a member of BP’s Upstream Executive Team. Gordon’s global portfolio includes accountabilities for: • Safety and Environmental…

Fabio Massimo Bombacci

Chairman & CEO, Elettra Investimenti

After graduation in Business Administration from the LUISS University (Rome) in 1983, he joined Irvin Aerospace Spa as a controller being first promoted to General Manager and than to Chief Executive Officer in 1991. From 2000 to 2003 he was in…

Harry Brekelmans

Projects & Technology Director, Member of the Executive Committee, Shell

Harry Brekelmans is Projects & Technology (P&T) Director and a member of the Executive Committee of Royal Dutch Shell plc. As P&T Director, Harry oversees an organisation that delivers Shell’s major oil and gas projects, provides…

Arnaud Breuillac

President Exploration & Production, Member of the Executive Committee, TOTAL

Arnaud Breuillac TOTAL - President Exploration & Production, Member of the Executive Committee Arnaud Breuillac, 60, graduated from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon in 1981. He joined TOTAL in 1982 and has served in various positions in its…

Mark Brownstein

Senior Vice President of Energy, Environmental Defense Fund

Mark Brownstein is Senior Vice President of Energy at Environmental Defense Fund, and a member of EDF’s executive team. He leads the organization’s work on electricity, oil and gas, and transportation. The goal of the program is to deliver tangible…

Amy Chronis

Houston Managing Partner, Deloitte LLP

Amy Chronis is a Senior Partner in Deloitte’s Center for Energy Solutions and the Managing Partner of Deloitte LLP’s Houston practice. She has more than 30 years of experience serving public and private enterprises from emerging businesses to…

Helima Croft

Managing Director & Global Head of Commodity Strategy, RBC Capital Markets

Helima is a Managing Director and the Global Head of Commodity Strategy at RBC Capital Markets. She specializes in geopolitics and energy, leading a team of commodity strategists that cover energy, metals and cross‐commodity investor activity…

Alessandro Decio

Chief Executive Officer & General Manager, SACE

Alessandro Decio is the CEO of SACE. He started his career at IMI Capital Markets in London, where he worked for over five years at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, after a MBA at Insead and an experience with McKinsey. He…

Paul de Leeuw

Professor Paul de Leeuw, Director Oil & Gas Institute, Robert Gordon University

Paul has worked for over 30 years in the oil and gas industry and has worked for a number of companies, including Shell, Marathon Oil, Amoco, BP, Venture Production and Centrica Energy. His broad business and deep commercial background include…

Renato Donnarumma

Corporate Engineering & Energy Manager, Acs Dobfar Group

Graduated at Politecnico of Milan in 1992 and, since then worked for Acs Dobfar, in the pharmaceutical field, as engineering responsible for an increasing number of sites. From 2001 until 2004 Renato was plant manager in a fermentation site in…

Newton José Leme Duarte

Executive President, COGEN, Associação da Indústria de Cogeração de Energia

40 years of experience in the electrical sector dedicated to the companies Siemens and General Electric. Electrical engineer, graduated from Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo – USP, in 1997 took the International Management…

Richard Dyson

CEO, io oil & gas consulting

Richard Dyson is CEO of io oil & gas consulting, strategic consultants and advisors to the oil & gas sector, providing business planning, project feasibility, conceptual design, consortium development and supporting M&A activity.Richard…

Tarek El Molla

Minister of Petroleum & Mineral Resources, Egypt

Received his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering Cairo University in 1986. Joined Chevron (Egypt) in Jan. 1987. Worked in different fields and held various positions in Engineering, Operations, Planning, Sales and Marketing. In 1998, he became…

Richard N. Frommer

President and Chief Executive Officer, Great Western Oil & Gas Company

Mr. Frommer has over 35 years of experience in the oil and natural gas industry. Mr. Frommer has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of GWOC LLC since February 2013. From May 2002 to November 2012, Mr. Frommer was Senior Vice President…

Neil Gilmour

Vice President CP Integrated Gas, Projects and New Energies, Shell

Neil Gilmour is Vice President CP Integrated Gas, Projects and New Energies and has been on-seat since May 2016. Before joining CP, Neil led the Upstream/Integrated Gas (IG) part of the BG Group Integration Team. Previously he was Head of…

Hendrick Gordenker

Chairman, JERA

Mr Gordenker became Chairman of JERA Co., Inc. in April 2016. He acted as senior advisor to JERA from its founding in April 2015 until becoming Chairman. Mr Gordenker has long involvement in Japan and global energy. He lived in Japan in the…

Rajnish Goswami

General Manager LNG Marketing, ANADARKO

General Manager, LNG Marketing, SE Asia, Indian Sub-Continent & Middle East Mozambique LNG Rajnish Goswami was named General Manager, LNG Marketing of Mozambique LNG in June 2017. In this role, he is responsible for commercializing Mozambique…

Mark Gyetvay

Chief Financial Officer & Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, NOVATEK

Mark Gyetvay is the CFO and Deputy Chairman of the Management Board at NOVATEK. From 2003 to 2014, he was a member of NOVATEK’s Board of Directors and served as the Chairman on the Strategy and Investment Committee. He was responsible for listing…

Petteri Härkki

Managing Director / Regional Director Asia I, Thermal Power & Renewable Energy, Pöyry Energy Ltd

Mr. Petteri Härkki is Managing Director Pöyry Thailand in charge of the Thermal power and Renewable energy business in most of the Asia Pacific region. Petteri has been working for Pöyry since 1995, first in Europe, then in Singapore and for the…

Gretchen Haskins

CEO, HeliOffshore Ltd.

Gretchen Haskins is the CEO of HeliOffshore Ltd., a company dedicated to global offshore helicopter safety. She is an aviation industry leader in safety performance improvement and an internationally-recognised expert in human factors. She has…

Karl Johnny Hersvik

CEO, Aker BP

Karl Johnny Hersvik (born 1972) has been CEO of Aker BP since May 2014. Prior to joining Aker BP, he served as head of research for Statoil. Mr Hersvik has held a number of specialist and executive positions with Norsk Hydro and StatoilHydro. He…

Liv A. Hovem

CEO, Oil & Gas, DNV GL

Liv A. Hovem has more than 25 years of experience in international management, technical advisory, verification, classification, engineering, development and research in the oil and gas and maritime industries. Her technical background is risk and…

Masato Katsuki

Executive Officer, Yokogawa Solution Service Corporation

Masato Katsuki was appointed executive officer of the Japanese region company, Yokogawa Solution Service Corporation, part of Yokogawa group, in April 2017. He joined Yokogawa Hokushin Electric Corporation in April 1986 and has worked for Process…

Phil Kirk

Chief Executive Officer, Chrysaor

Phil qualified as a chartered accountant with Ernst & Young in 1991 before joining Hess in 1996. He served in a variety of roles including Head of Finance, North West Europe. After leaving Hess in 2002 he set up CH4 Energy with two other ex…

Yao Li

Founder & CEO, SIA Energy

Yao is the founder and CEO of SIA Energy with 20 years of energy industry experience. SIA Energy is a China-focused energy consulting firm offering insight and data on Chinese energy policy, markets and players, covering the full oil and gas value…

Sudhir Mathur

Chief Executive Officer, Cairn Oil & Gas – Vedanta Limited

As CEO of Cairn Oil & Gas, Sudhir Mathur has been instrumental in defining the organisation’s strategy and its growth story. Domestic exploration and production of oil and gas has been an imperative for the Indian economy, and Cairn is…

Christophe McGlade

Senior Energy Analyst, Directorate of Sustainability, Technology & Outlooks, International Energy Agency

Christophe is a senior energy analyst in the Directorate of Sustainability, Technology and Outlooks of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Christophe joined the IEA in 2015 and leads the oil and gas analysis within the World Energy Outlook series…

Farhan Mujib

President, Hydrocarbons-Delivery Solutions, KBR

Farhan Mujib is KBR’s President, Hydrocarbons-Delivery Solutions and is responsible for Offshore Hydrocarbons and Onshore Hydrocarbons (including LNG/GTL, Oil & Gas, Downstream, and Industrial Services) in the Americas and the Global Project…

Ethan Novek

Founder & CTO, Innovator Energy

Ethan Novek is an award-winning chemical engineer with multiple granted utility patents. He received his first issued utility patent at the age of 16 and published his first peer-reviewed journal article in the American Chemical Society journal…

David O’Connor

Head of Global Projects, Global Projects Organization, BP

David currently serves as BP’s Head of Global Projects, accountable for the delivery of all Upstream projects across the world. He manages an annual budget of around $10 billion gross that covers onshore, offshore and deepwater projects. Prior…

Michael Olson

Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera

Michael Olson is the founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Cloudera. He began his career in the relational database industry, and has held technical and executive positions at Britton Lee, Illustra, Informix and Oracle, among other companies. He…

Meg O’Neill

Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer, Woodside Energy

Meg O’Neill is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer forWoodside Energy, based in Perth, Australia. She assumed this position in May 2018 and is responsible for Woodside’s global logistics, drilling, production, HSEQ, reservoir…

Sameer Parasnis

Managing Director, Energy & Natural Resources, STIFEL

Sameer Parasnis is a Managing Director in the Energy and Natural Resources Group at Stifel. Mr. Parasnis has significant transactional experience across the energy sector and has led numerous public and private debt and equity transactions and…

Alessandro Puliti

Chief Development, Operations & Technology Officer, ENI

Born in Florence on June 23, 1963, he was appointed as Chief Development, Operations & Technology Officer on 18 September 2018. Experience He joined Agip spa’s Reservoir Department in 1990 as a Reservoir Geologist and was involved in the…

Pratima Rangarajan

Chief Executive Officer, OGCI Climate Investments

Dr. Pratima Rangarajan is the chief executive officer of the newly-formed investment company, OGCI Climate Investments. Jointly funded by 10 Oil and Gas majors, OGCI Climate Investments (CI) intends to invest $1 billion over the next ten years…

María Victoria Riaño

President & CEO, Equion Energia Limited

Ms. Riaño is President and CEO of Equion Energia Limited, the private oil and gas exploration and production firm that resulted from BP’s divestment of Colombian assets to Ecopetrol (NOC) and Talisman Energy (now Repsol), starting 2011. Prior to…

Michael Sabel

Co-CEO, Co-Chairman and Founder, Venture Global LNG, Inc

Michael Sabel is a Co-CEO, Co-Chairman and Founder of the Company. Mike has over 24 years of experience in capital markets’ transactions including initial public and secondary offerings, public and private M&A transactions, and private equity…

Allen Satterwhite

President, Chevron Pipeline & Power, Chevron

Allen Satterwhite is president of Chevron Pipeline & Power business unit. In this role, he is responsible for providing technical, commercial, operational, and energy management support services that allow the pipeline and power functions to…

Eldar Sætre

President & CEO, Equinor

Mr Eldar Sætre was appointed President and CEO of Equinor in February 2015. Mr Sætre joined the company in in 1980 and has been in several management positions in the company, mainly in the fields of accounting and finance. He was Executive vice…

Steve Sedgwick

Anchorman, CNBC

Steve Sedgwick co-anchors CNBC's flagship program "Squawk Box Europe" having spent three decades in and around financial markets, first as a trader and then as a journalist. Steve has attended high levels international events for CNBC for over a…

Amrita Sen

Chief Oil Analyst, Energy Aspects

Amrita Sen is the founding Partner and Chief Oil Analyst at Energy Aspects. Amrita leads Energy Aspects’ analysis and forecasting of crude and products markets. Her specialism is in energy commodities, particularly oil and oil products. Amrita’s…

Monika Simões

Founder & Managing Director, Energy Dialogues LLC

Monika Simões is the founder and managing director of Energy Dialogues LLC, a global alliance and network of senior-level decision makers, thought leaders and other key stakeholders from the private and public sector of the energy industry. …

Andrew Smart

Global Client Account Lead and Industry Managing Director for Oil & Gas, Accenture Resources

Andrew is both a Global Client Account Lead and the Industry Managing Director for Accenture’s Global Energy business. As such he is responsible for defining how Accenture’s services should be tailored and developed to best serve our Oil and Gas…

Dwi Soetjipto

Chairman, SKK Migas

Dwi Soetjipto was inaugurated as the Chairman of SKK Migas on December 3rd, 2018. Prior to joining SKK Migas, Mr. Soetjipto held several top management roles in State-Owned Enterprises. He served as President Director PT. Pertamina (Persero) …

Tarek Souki

SVP LNG Marketing and Trading, Tellurian

Tarek Souki joined Tellurian as Senior Vice President – LNG Marketing and Trading in August 2016. Sincejoining, he has created the marketing team tasked with commercializing the Driftwood Project. Additionally,Tarek has overseen the build out of…

Alix Steel

Co-anchor, Bloomberg Daybreak Americas

Alix Steel is the co-anchor of “Bloomberg Daybreak Americas,” Bloomberg’s flagship morning show focused on the important financial and global news of the day. Steel also anchors the weekly show “Bloomberg Commodities Edge,” a thirty minute program…

Shanker Trivedi

Senior Vice President of Enterprise Business, NVIDIA

Shanker Trivedi has 30+ years of experience in senior executive roles in the U.S., the U.K. and India. Shanker is currently Senior Vice President of Enterprise Business, for NVIDIA Worldwide Field Operations. He has led worldwide sales and…

Alexandra Tudoroiu-Lakavičė

Senior Policy Manager, COGEN Europe

Experience: Alexandra Tudoroiu-Lakavičė leads COGEN Europe’s advocacy and regulatory work on electricity markets, climate policy and renewable energy She manages COGEN Europe’s Market Intelligence and National Policy work, producing…

Gordon Welsh

Head of Business Group, UK Export Finance

Gordon had an extensive career in banking in the UK and the USA before joining UK Export Finance. Gordon also spent three years with Airbus in its customer sales financingteam before taking a year’s secondment to work with the UK’s Secretary of…

Paul Wheelhouse

Member of Scottish Parliament, Minister for Energy, Connectivity and the Islands, Scottish Government

Born in Belfast, Paul was raised in Edinburgh, attending Stewart's Melville College. He has an honours degree in Economics from the University of Aberdeen and an MBA from University of Edinburgh. He has lived in Berwickshire since 2000. ‪Paul is…