Folks, facts, orgs ...

ARM Oil and Gas, Atos Origin, GITA, AVEVA, Blue Marble, OpenGeo Consortium, CGGVeritas, Crown Minerals, CSC, CygNet Software, EMC, Enventure, Epsis, Expro, GE Oil and Gas, Appro, Midland Valley, Ikon, Palantir, Petris, Quorum, RPS, RigNet, Rose & Associates, Senergy, more ...

ARM Oil & Gas Solutions has opened a new office in Pittsburgh, headed up by Gary Stiegel, and will shortly be opening an office in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre lead by Andrew Strassner.

Atos Origin has set up offices in Egypt and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and appointed Samir El Awadi CEO for the region.

Robert Austin is now president of the Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA).

Trond Straume heads-up AVEVA’s new Operations Integrity Management center in Stavanger.

Victor Minor, CTO of Blue Marble Geographics has been appointed chair of the Coordinate Reference System Working Group of the Open Geospatial Consortium.

Denis Ranque is to sit on the CGGVeritas Board of Directors on behalf of the French Government’s Fonds Strategique d’Investissement.

Kevin Rolens, formerly of British Gas Group, Anadarko and Amoco, has joined Crown Minerals as new Petroleum Manager.

CSC has named Mark Rasch director of Cybersecurity and Privacy Consulting. Rasch was previously with the US Department of Justice, investigating cyber and high-technology crime.

CygNet Software has appointed Kevin Rowley VP of engineering. He was formerly with Invensys.

EMC Corp has appointed Jeetu Patel as CTO of the company’s Information Intelligence Group. Patel is a former partner of Doculabs.

Enventure Global Technology has appointed David Crowley President and CEO. Previously of Precision Drilling Oilfield Services and Schlumberger, Crowley succeeds Ray Ballantyne, who is retiring.

Todd Clark has joined Epsis as US Sales Manager, working out of the US Houston, Texas office. He hails from Polycom US.

Former Schlumberger executive Charles Woodburn has been appointed CEO of Expro.

GE John Lammas is VP and Engineering and Technology Leader for GE Oil & Gas.

Ronald D. Cayon has been appointed interim CFO of Geokinetics replacing Scott McCurdy who has resigned.

Greg Hess has joined Appro International, as a Business Development and Sales Professional.

Marcos Gallotti heads-up Ikon Science’s new Brazilian joint venture with Geonunes.

Josh Strasner has been appointed CEO for Logica’s operations in North America. Strasner was previously with EDS and BearingPoint.

Ivan Guerra has joined Midland Valley as structural geologist, and Joanne McMenemy is joining the marketing department.

Paul Ravesies has joined Northern Offshore as Senior VP, business development. He was previously with Pride International.

Robert Minson has been appointed by Palantir Solutions to oversee software implementation and prepare for Palantir’s expansion in Australia.

Petris Technology has appointed Jerry Martin, as VP Western Hemisphere, and recruited Greg Palmer and Stephan Dumothier as product managers.

Scott Leeds, President and co-founder of Quorum Business Solutions has assumed the title of CEO, succeeding co-founder Paul Weidman, who will remain Chairman.

Chief Commercial Officer, Perry Turbes, has assumed the title of COO.

RigNet has opened a service center in Dickinson, North Dakota.

Former BP VP of Geoscience and Exploration, Peter Carragher has joined

Rose &Associates as Senior Associate in Houston.

Graeme Simpson heads-up RPS’ new Abu Dhabi office.

Øystein Roti is MD of Senergy Norway. Richie Miller is president of Spectrum Geo. He was previously with CGGVeritas.

Roger Peterson has joined TTI Exploration as VP Human Resources, and David Jones as CIO.

Click here to comment on this article

Click here to view this article in context on a desktop

© Oil IT Journal - all rights reserved.