Panelist: Marie-Hélène
Marie-Helene Ben Samoun joined The Boston Consulting Group in 2006. Her work is focused in the oil and gas industry, specifically in upstream operations. Marie-Helene leads the digital oil and gas topic for North America, which includes digital strategy, roadmap, and capabilities. Before coming to Houston, she spent five years in Brazil in the São Paulo and Rio offices, acquiring relevant experience in deepwater plays. Marie-Helene is a core member of BCG’s Global Advantage practice and leads BCG’s inclusion initiatives in the Houston office. Marie-Helene advises oil and gas companies on digital transformation, large-scale supply chain, capex, and opex optimization programs, as well as energy transition. She has worked with clients in Brazil, France, and the US to help their senior leaders successfully implement critical change initiatives.
Panelist: Maurice Nessim
Maurice Nessim, president of WesternGeco, is a member of the SEG Foundation Board of Directors and Board Member of the International Association of Geophysical Contractors (IAGC). He has a BSc and an MSc in physics, nuclear physics, and geophysics, and has won several prestigious awards and patents, including the Schlumberger Chairman’s Award.
He has authored and coauthored more than 25 technical papers that have been presented at various international conferences. He has been an SEG active member since 1991, and is a member of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, Society of Petroleum Engineers, and American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
Nessim served as 2015–2016 SEG Director at Large and, in 2017, was elected board member of the SEG Foundation and chairman of the IAGC. In 2018, Nessim was appointed as a board member of the Houston-based Technology Collaboration Center, an organization that fosters collaboration across technology sectors — including space, medical, and energy — to address real-world problems.
Nessim has more than 35 years of oil and gas industry experience in various technical and management positions. He joined WesternGeco as a geophysicist in 1981 and has served as area vice president for the Middle East and Asia, area vice president for North and South America, and global vice president of operations. He was vice president of marketing and technology for the Schlumberger Reservoir Management group and president of Schlumberger PetroTechnical Services. He was also a cofounder of the Sea Exploration Association and founder of the Schlumberger Area Geophysicists program to develop petrotechnical expertise. He was named to his current position as WesternGeco president in 2015.
With Schlumberger’s foundation of the Geoscientists without Boarders® (GWB), Nessim has been one of the key drivers over the past decade championing GWB’s mission to support the humanitarian applications of geoscience around the world through promoting the message as well as through funding at both the personal and corporate levels. GWB also supports academia with more than 500 undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students in countries around the world participating in global projects.
Panelist: Dave Wisenteiner
Dave Wisenteiner is a senior-level business and strategy leader experienced in revenue turnaround, partnership monetization and strategic business development in Fortune 500, small market, and start-up environments.
He has successful experience in market and product strategy, business development and sales management as well as individual contributor roles; experience leading teams ranging from 5 to 25 sales, marketing, and sales operations employees; experience with significant global quota and budget responsibility; consistent record of achievement.
His management experience includes global, national, and regional geographies; established relationships with key business development partners that include Sprint, FedEx, Qualcomm, UPS.
His product experience includes Oil and Gas, Power & Utilities, High Performance Computing, GPU, enterprise software, services, outsourcing, transaction management, document expediting and action sports.
His strategy experience includes global strategy formulation, strategy scaling, team creation, training, launch/evaluation and change management.
Panelist: Darryl Harris
Darryl has over 25 years’ experience in exploration and production working for Shell and Woodside in Australia and Malaysia. His recent roles at Woodside include Head of Development Geoscience, Chief Geophysicist and Head of Subsurface Excellence. Since 2019 he has been Woodside’s Subsurface Technology manager focussing on new technologies and workflow optimisation for improved and more efficient decision making for traditional hydrocarbon subsurface workflows but increasingly, how these might translate to new energy opportunities.