UK-based AnTech has hired Valentin Balaschenko as senior software engineer. Balaschenko was previously with InsoftGroup in Belarus.
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Aspen Technology founder and chairman Larry Evans is to retire. Stephen Jennings succeeds him as interim chairman while Mark Fusco has been named president and CEO. Fusco was previously president of Ajilon Consulting. Late last year the Aspen Tech audit committee announced it was to restate revenue and earnings for fiscal years from 2000 to 2004. At the board of directors’ request, CEO David McQuillin resigned.
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The latest 5.1 release of Blue Marble’s GeoTransform dev kit now supports GIS-based raster image reprojection and tiling. A free evaluation version is available.
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French consultants and service provider Georex Assistance Technique has appointed Thomas Gueant as manager of studies. Gueant previously worked GIS systems and petroleum system modeling.
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Brian Williams has been promoted to general manager of Geotrace’s Dallas seismic and reservoir services operations.
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Transzap has appointed Lon McCain to its board of directors. McCain was previously VP and CFO of Westport Resources before it was acquired by Kerr-McGee.
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SIM, the Norwegian visualization specialists has taken on Kristian Eide as software developer and Maj Karin Askeland as VP sales.
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Shell’s John Boardman is now chair of PIDX Europe, replacing Richard Wheeler.
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Pipeline software house Energy Solutions has appointed John Sherman as CTO. Sherman was previously with Landmark Graphics.
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Working Smart has hired Deborah Humphreville as Recruitment Account Manager. Humphreville was previously with Landmark Graphics.
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IDC’s new Energy Insights unit has identified the ‘leading trends that will impact energy industry IT decisions.’ These include volatile energy prices, improving finances and ‘geographic variation of market restructuring.’ IDC predicts that capital will flow to renewable technologies, upstream will invest in the digital oilfield and ‘energy/telecom convergence will re-emerge.’ US energy IT spending will exceed $22 billion in 2005.
Correction
Vaughn Miller’s company is Network Appliance not Network Applications as we wrongly stated in last month’s Oil IT Journal. Our apologies to all concerned.
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