ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
Prashant Soni
Technology strategist – Concept development and Technology
Prashant Soni has over 15 years of experience in Oil and Gas sector covering both technical and commercial aspect among other business strategy development and key customer management. He has a Master of Technology degree in ‘Offshore Technology’ along with a PhD in ‘Hydrodynamics of Slender structures’. He has held several management positions in the past and at present contributing to the technology agenda of the company. Thereby assisting in accelerating innovation efforts at Aker BP.
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
Fabrizio D’Antonio
Operative Maintenance Manager
Bio coming soon….
Youssef El-Sherif
Data Management Lead
Nina Brattetaule is the Director of Digitalization and IT in Archer, a global oil services company with a heritage that stretches back over 40 years. With her 20 years of experience managing and guiding businesses through digital transformation journeys, she is now dedicated to help drive the required changes within the O&G industry enabled by the availability and quality of data.
Originally a developer she soon found her true calling when her manager was curious enough to ask if she didn’t see herself better suited as a project manager. Taking a leap of faith and changing the direction early on she has had the opportunity to work with a broad specter of clients across the O&G value chain, from Operators to vendors, and industry organizations.
The secret to succeed with business transformation through digitalization enabling efficiency and quality through the availability of data where you are, when you need it (yes it`s Archer`s digital vision) – is People, Processes and Technology. Enabling a cross-functional collaborating environment across 40 locations globally and several different business domains in Archer is now her mission.
Nina Brattetaule
Director IT & Digitalization
Nina Brattetaule is the Director of Digitalization and IT in Archer, a global oil services company with a heritage that stretches back over 40 years. With her 20 years of experience managing and guiding businesses through digital transformation journeys, she is now dedicated to help drive the required changes within the O&G industry enabled by the availability and quality of data.
Originally a developer she soon found her true calling when her manager was curious enough to ask if she didn’t see herself better suited as a project manager. Taking a leap of faith and changing the direction early on she has had the opportunity to work with a broad specter of clients across the O&G value chain, from Operators to vendors, and industry organizations.
The secret to succeed with business transformation through digitalization enabling efficiency and quality through the availability of data where you are, when you need it (yes it`s Archer`s digital vision) – is People, Processes and Technology. Enabling a cross-functional collaborating environment across 40 locations globally and several different business domains in Archer is now her mission.
Luiz Eduardo
Upstream Technical Support Manager
Luiz Eduardo has over 20 years of experience working in the shipbuilding and oil and gas industries. He has held positions such as Coatings Technical Manager, Commissioning Engineer, Process Engineer, Operations Manager, Head of Fluid Laboratory Services, and Upstream Efficiency and Reliability Coordinator. His primary areas of expertise are O&G processing, water treatment, environmental control, metrology, and digitization in the O&G business.
He is graduated in chemical engineering and business administration, with a certificate in O&G process engineering and an MBA in Business Analytics and Big Data.
Luiz Eduardo currently works for PETROBRAS as the Upstream Technical Support Manager, where he is in charge of the digitization and optimization of O&G production operations, analysis and forecasting of operational risks and efficiencies, operational excellence, technical support for process engineering and fluid metering for O&G.
Luiz Eduardo is enthusiastic about disruptive technology as a means for promoting true organizational cultural changes. As a leader, he believes in an integrated and holistic approach including people, process and technology to achieve and sustain outstanding outcomes in the digital transformation journey.”
Carlos Pinuaga
Lead Data Engineer
Carlos has a degree in computer engineering and since 2018 has been working at Cepsa as a lead data engineer where his mission is to transform Cepsa to be a data driven company. He is Product Owner of the Data Democratization Project in which we make data available to all employees so that they can extract value from it.
Roshdi A. Osman
Cybersecurity Specialist
Roshdi Osman, CISSP, CISM, CRISC is a cybersecurity specialist, international speaker and business-oriented information security strategist with over 15 years of experience in security leadership roles at various organizations, including Fortune 500 companies. He specializes in devising strategies aimed at enhancing the overall security while ensuring alignment with business objectives .Roshdi has an excellent understanding of business and information risk management, balancing the need for business agility with information security in highly dynamic global work environment. As a visionary leader with strong skills in business management, Roshdi has established and implemented security strategies and roadmaps , adopting security frameworks and implementing core components to achieve an integrated GRC function.
Merijn Backx
IDT General Manager - Safety & Environment, Asset and Technology (SEAT
Merijn Backx has 26+ years of Shell experience delivering business outcomes that include engineering document management, finance analytics, sales and marketing insights, accounting efficiencies, procurement optimization, maintenance reliability, transforming & automating business processes and industry collaboration and ecosystems.
This track record has been established through a wide variety of IT application development, architecture, project management, operations and business interface assignments in Rotterdam, London, Kuala Lumpur, Houston and The Hague.
In his last role as VP of Enterprise IDT Strategy and Planning, he was accountable for developing Shell’s Enterprise IT Strategy, Planning, Competencies and Operating Model. He worked on Shell’s digitalisation strategy to help enable the net zero energy systems of the future.
Merijn is now IDT General Manager for Safety & Environment, Asset and Technology. He leads the digital transformation required to enable the asset of the future using technologies like digital twin, predictive maintenance and citizen development.
Jesús Ranz Abad
Head of IoT & Emerging Technologies
Jesus has a degree in Information Systems Engineering and more than 25 years experience in technology areas in public and private companies. Since 2009, he is dedicated to Internet of things technology occupying positions as a Head of Green IoT or Global IoT Engineering Head (at Atos).
Juho Korpela
Head of Digital Transformation
Juho leads Neste’s digital transformation and ensures that Neste gets the most out of modern technical capabilities.Juho is responsible for best practice methods, frameworks and processes are used across the digital teams for the consistent delivery of digital projects and proof of concepts
He has acquired his experience over the last 20 years from top-class technical vendors and large market-leading companies in several fields: Industrial digitalization, data & analytics, enterprise agile & lean, web, mobile and e-commerce
Jose Salcedo
CHU Transformación digital
Jose is a graduate in Chemical Engineering, and currently working in Digital Transformation at Energy Parks Cepsa. His mission is to achieve the digital transformation for the employees who are working in Energy Parks. He has a focus on data, data visualization and data democratization and accompanying the energy park’s employees.
Ionut Enescu
Vice President Integration 4.0
An engineer by profession, Ionut graduated as valedictorian from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the “Politehnica” University Bucharest in 2011. Since then, Ionut has worked in the oil & gas industry under various operational and management positions focusing on surface equipment maintenance. Currently, Ionut leads the 4.0 integration department within Dietsmann, one of the leading contractors for Operations & Maintenance in the energy industry. His work focuses on leveraging the operational experience accumulated over the years into developing digital solutions aimed at maximizing the effectiveness of O&M services.
Zain Isma Mohamed Lazim
Head (Data Architects), Enterprise Data, Group Digital
Zain is a graduate of La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia) in 1998 with a Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics) with Honors (Majoring in Communication Engineering). He began an internship and subsequently rose to the role of Sr. Design Engineer for Video products (VHS, DVD, BluRay) within ten years of service at Sony EMCS Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. He had a short one-year stint as a call center technical support agent at DirecTV before pursuing a Master of Applied Science (ICT: Telecommunications Technology) at the University of Denver, Colorado, USA, where he graduated in 2013. Shortly after, he joined MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia’s national applied research and development center under the Ministry of Science, Technology And Innovation, from 2013 to 2015, developing wireless sensor networks and IoT products. After completing the contracted duration at MIMOS, he had the opportunity to enhance further and build his knowledge of IoT while working at SHRDC, a human resource development training center focusing on practical hands-on training programs. He was entrusted to spearhead the development of IoT training program content at SHRDC in 2017 in collaboration with the Swiss Smart Factory research institute in Biel, Switzerland. By the time he joined Petronas in 2020, He had successfully contributed to and developed the setting up of the IoT lab (with industrial partners OMRON, Siemens, Balluff, and Hilscher), implementing Node-Red and protocols like MQTT, OPC-UA, and IO-Link, at SHRDC. He has also had the opportunity to complete multiple cohorts of hands-on IoT program trainees by 2020 at SHRDC.
His time since joining Petronas in 2020 has been focused on developing the IoT Reference Architecture while also developing and operationalizing a centralized IoT data platform for the Oil & Gas business use case. In 2022, a centralized real-time IoT data platform, which is also known as the Enterprise IoT Hub (EIH), first iteration was piloted and tested to enable secure access to real-time/near real-time IoT data between any location that has internet accessibility.
