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AMEC Paragon has named John Harrower Senior VP Operations at its Americas oil and gas business.

Baker Hughes has named Andy O’Donnell VP Western Hemisphere operations. Derek Mathieson is VP Products and Technology. Martin Craighead is Senior VP and COO. Art Soucy is VP Supply Chain.

Bhushan Bahree has joined CERA as a Senior Director Middle East. Bahree was previously with the Wall Street Journal and Medley Global Advisors.

Ramy Kozman is managing CGGVeritas’ processing and imaging hub in Cairo.

Gary Yesavage has been appointed president of Chevron Global
Manufacturing
. He was previously manager of Chevron’s El Segundo refinery.

David Hager, formerly COO of Kerr-McGee is now VP E&P for Devon Energy.

Dan Shikiar is heading up Energy Navigator’s new office in Denver, CO.

Roy Dowd is VP Construction with ENGlobal Corp.

KJ Tan heads up Enventure’s new office in Beijing.

FMC Technologies has elected Claire Farley and Thorleif Enger to its board. Farley is advisory director at Jeffries, Randall & Dewey and Enger is a former CEO of Yara International.

GE Oil & Gas has appointed Shaun Kelly as Canadian Regional Sales Leader for its PII Pipeline Solutions division.

Lee Parker is now Executive VP Operations with Geokinetics.

Industrial Defender has named James Blaschke VP Worldwide Sales and TC Lau VP of Professional Services.

David Liddle is now operations director and Tony Zaccarini is the new business development manager of the UK Industry’s Technology Facilitator.

Wayne Hampel has joined James W. Sewall Co. as VP Marketing & Sales. Hampel hails from Rolta International.

Ron Brinkman has been appointed Senior Staff Geophysicist in the Minerals Management Service’s Resource Evaluation Office. David Trocquet is the new District Manager in New Orleans.

Ole Christian Lappen is now Sales Director in Octaga. Lappen comes from Nokia’s Trolltech unit.

Mehdi Belrhalia is Business Development Managerhas in OpenSpirit’s Abu Dhabi, UAE office. Belrhalia was previously with Schlumberger Information Solutions.

Perficient has appointed John Hamlin and David May to its board. Hamlin is president and managing partner of Bozeman Limited Partnership and May is co-founder and portfolio manager of Austin-based Third Coast Capital.

Geoservices has appointed Jean-Pierre Poyet as CTO.

John Dick has been named VP Europe, FSU and Africa with Sensornet. Dick hails from Baker Hughes.

Tektonisk has changed its UK trading name to ShareCat Solutions Ltd. to align with its flagship ShareCat software.

Claus Kampmann is to retire from the position of Chairman and Director at TGS-Nopec. His ‘likely’ replacement is retiring CEO Hank Hamilton. Robert Hobbs now becomes CEO. Hobbs joined TGS last year from Marathon.

VisionMonitor has hired David Pierce as Executive Director of Sales and Marketing. Pierce was previously with Primavera.

Suhaka Consulting, an oil and gas database management company, has changed its name to Wofda, LLC. The company is headed up by Dave Kotowych (president) and Brenda Sigurdson (VP Operations). The pair co-founded A2D Technologies in 1993.

Gil Weisberger is directing John Wood Group’s new Mustang operating unit in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Richard Slack has been appointed to the WellPoint Systems board. Slack is also president and CEO.

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