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Kadme has appointed Alan MacDonald as sales manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Mike Lang has been named Honeywell’s VP and CIO. Lang was previously VP and CIO of the Honeywell’s Automation and Control Solutions business.

Tatitlek Corp. unit GeoNorth has hired Jason Knier as GIS Programmer/Analyst

Dan Heintzelman, currently CEO of GE Energy Services, has been named CEO of GE Oil & Gas, succeeding Claudio Santiago who is to retire in December.

Fugro’s GRL subsea simulator and visualization systems unit has appointed Simon Marr as Business Development Manager. He was previously Sales Manager at VisualSoft, a subsea digital video and visualization company.

Ray Topping, previously interim director, has been confirmed as director of Fiatech. Prior to joining the organization, Topping was Executive VP with CH2M Hill.

Andrew Gould is to retire as Schlumberger’s CEO. He will be succeeded by current COO Paal Kibsgaard. Earlier in his Schlumberger career, Kibsgaard was president of reservoir characterization.

Schlumberger’s Business Consulting unit has appointed Adnan Shihab-Eldin and Claude Mandil to its ‘Energy Institute’ think tank. Shihab-Eldin is former Acting Secretary General and Director of Research at the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Mandil was Executive Director of the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA).

Spectra Logic has appointed Steve Mackey to the role of VP sales for Europe and Africa. Mackey hails from Quantum.

TerraSpark Geosciences has appointed Lisa Qualls as Senior Sales Specialist. Qualls was previously with Tsunami Development.

Chairman Graeme Coutts is to retire from Expro Group. Charles Woodburn is the new CEO and a search is on for a new Chairman.

Hari Koduru has joined Energistics as Senior Technical Advisor, where he will be providing technical analysis and support to the Energistics special interest groups. Koduru was previously with Canrig Drilling Technology.

Sven Treitel, Steven Constable, Gary Mavko, Richard Cooper, Lucy MacGregor and Michael Frenkel comprise Rock Solid Images’ newly-created Technology Oversight Board.

Barco has appointed Steve Leyland as Senior VVP and General Manager of its Control Rooms and Simulation division.

Adam Anderson is the new VP investor relations for Baker Hughes. He succeeds Gary Flaharty, who joins the company’s supply chain organization.

IDC Energy Insights had hired Lamia Lafdil as senior analyst in its Dubai office and Usman Sindhu as senior research analyst at its Framingham, Massachusetts HQ.

Aker Solutions’ wholly-owned subsidiary, STEP Offshore and Chris Pianca have formed a new joint-venture, STEP Oiltools.

Linda Cook is now a member of the KBR Board of directors. Cook retired from Royal Dutch Shell in 2009, where she served as Executive Director, Shell Gas and Power. She also serves on the Corporate Boards for The Boeing Company and Cargill, Inc.

Midland Valley has appointed Mara Bellavita as support geologist and Duncan Jamieson as marketing geologist.

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