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Borr Drilling, University of Cambridge, Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, Digital Guardian., DNV GL, Energistics, Engage Mobilize, Foster Marketing, FutureGeo, Digital Twin Consortium, LYTT, McDermott, Metegrity, Pason Systems, Petrofac, PPDM, ProPetro, PTC, Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, SEC-DERA, TechnipFMC, Sword Venture, IOGP, INPEX, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.

Christoph Bausch is to succeed Francis Millet as CFO at Borr Drilling. He was previously with Weatherford.

Clare Shine was named Director of The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). She succeeds Polly Courtice.

President Trump has appointed Bruce Walker as Senior Advisor at the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB).

Cybersecurity VP, Tim Bandos, is now Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Digital Guardian.

Former Telenor CEO Jon Fredrik Baksaas is DNV GL’s new Chair of the board.

Guilhem Dupuy (Total) is now an Energistics board member.

Lisa Miller (Spearhead) has joined the Engage Mobilize Board of Directors.

Mackenzie Lee has been named as a digital associate at Foster Marketing. She is a recent graduate from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Tom Backhouse’s Terrafirma company has launched ‘FutureGeo’, to ‘inspire a generation of geoscientist [ ... and form a ... ] modern, inclusive, diverse and connected geo-community’.

Autodesk, GE Digital, and Northrop Grumman have joined the Digital Twin Consortium as founding members. Membership now approaches 150.

Daryn Edgar is now LYTT’s new CEO.

Neil Bruce has been appointed to the McDermott board.

Martin Fingerhut is now Metegrity’s CEO. He succeeds Adrian Met who continues as Chairman.

Dick Alario has stepped down from his short-term role as Executive Vice Chairman of DistributionNOW. He continues as director.

Celine Boston has been appointed CFO at Pason Systems. She hails from CES Energy Solutions.

Sami Iskander is Executive Director of Petrofac replacing retiring co-founder Ayman Asfari. Asfari is now non-executive director.

David Hood (geoLOGIC systems), Jamie Cruise (Schlumberger) and Ali Sangster (IHS Markit) have been re-elected to PPDM’s board of directors. Sue Carr (Katalyst Data Management), Kolleen Kidd (retired), and Daniel Perna (EPAM) are now members of the board.

David Schorlemer is now ProPetro’s CFO succeeding, Darin Holderness, who is leaving the company. Schorlemer hails from Basic Energy Services.

Troy Richardson has been appointed EVP and COO at PTC. Mike Bethea heads the new PTC Location in Mexico.

RRC Commissioner Wayne Christian has been appointed to Vice Chairman of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission.

Mike Willis, newly appointed Associate Director in the SEC Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA), will lead the SEC’s new data office.

TechnipFMC has named Arnaud Pieton President and CEO-elect, Technip Energies. Jonathan Landes has been promoted to President, Subsea. Margareth Øvrum (Equinor) is now member of the board of directors.

Douglas Frisby is to lead as Business Unit Director for US operations at the newly opened Sword Venture office in Houston.

Adri Postema (JIP33) is now the IOGP’s Engineering Director.

Shusuke Katori has been appointed General Manager EMEA at INPEX London. Hideharu Yonebayashi is now Project General Manager, Abu Dhabi Projects Division.

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The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate is hiring. The ten vacant management positions include IT development and operations, finances and joint services, data management, shelf analysis and other ‘technical disciplines’. More from the NPD.

This article originally appeared in Oil IT Journal 2020 Issue # 6.

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