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The CO-LaN organization has contracted with Malcolm Woodman to manage the development of its CAPE-OPEN test suite. He is also to work on a new certification process.

Jaxon Lang is to join fiber optic manufacturer AFL as COO. He was previously with FiberRise.

Knut Erik Spilling has ben promoted to CEO at Billington Process Technology.

Matt Schovee has been promoted to MD at energy-focused private equity boutique Black Bay Energy Capital. Grant McClure has joined as Associate. Christine Staples and Bill Harvey have been added to the strategic advisory board.

Lev Belskiy is geotechnical project manager at Bluefield Geoservices. Jonathan Bell and Dariusz Nowak have joined as geotechnical technicians.

The US Senate has unanimously voted to confirm Steve Owens as Chairman of the Chemical Safety Board. Catherine Sandoval was also confirmed as a CSB Board Member.

CCS developer Carbon America has named Cruz Gamboa as CFO and Craig Spreadbury as COO. Gamboa hails from General Electric, Spreadbury from Four Corners Petroleum.

Cognite has announced four appointments: Moe Tanabian (Chief Product Officer), Paul Lightfoot (SVP User Experience), Emmanuelle Camus (President for EMEA) and Liat Berger (Chief human resources officer).

Melanie Little has been named President & CEO of Colonial Pipeline Company. She joins from Magellan Midstream Partners and succeeds retiree Joseph Blount.

Doug Lawler is now President and CEO of Continental Resources. He was previously COO.

Jonathan Stone has joined the CybeReady executive team as VP Sales, North America.

Ben Taylor has joined Dataiku as Chief AI Strategist. He hails from DataRobot, prior to its acquisition by Zeff.ai.

Rosy Zuklic has joined Delek Logistics as VP Investor Relations and Market Intelligence. She hails from Phillips 66.

The US Environmental Protection Agency has hired Jahi Wise as senior advisor to the administrator and acting director for the greenhouse gas reduction fund program. He was previously a special assistant to the President for climate policy.

Eliis has named Stuart Walley to VP Middle East and Asia Pacific at its new location in Dubai, UAE.

Larry Kellner and John Harris have been named to the ExxonMobil board of directors. Kellner was formerly chairman and CEO of Continental Airlines. Harris is the former CEO of Raytheon International.

Flotek Industries has named Harsha Agadi interim CEO, succeeding John Gibson who has left to pursue a professional opportunity in renewable diesel. Bond Clement has been appointed CFO. He hails from PetroQuest.

Kim McHugh (VP Wells, Chevron) has been appointed Chair of the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers. She replaces Fawaz Bitar (BP) who has completed a four year stint.

Seppo Heino now heads-up MacGregor’s Global Services Division.

Mike Bennett is now Technical Director at the Object Management Group. He replaces Jason Smith who returns to his consulting and research career.

Opportune LLP has announced the promotion of Trent Determann to Partner. Kevin Cannon and Teresa Kroh have been promoted to Principal.

Pason Systems has appointed Ken Mullen to its board of directors. He was previously co-founder, President and CEO of Savanna Energy Services.

Lloyd Pirtle has joined startup Paxon Energy and Infrastructure as SVP Business Development & Operations. He hails from TD Williamson.

Quorum Software has appointed Jan Manning as Chief Information Officer. She hails from Forescout Technologies.

Arne Skorstad is taking on the new role of VP Energy Transition at Resoptima, with responsibility for carbon storage, abatement and geothermal. Philippe Mieussens has been named VP Services, overseeing and coordinating the company’s reservoir projects, on-site staffing and training.

Peter Herweck is to be the new CEO of Schneider Electric replacing Jean-Pascal Tricoire who becomes chair. Heweck was previously head of industrial automation.

The Texas Railroad Commission recently reported its Jan 2022 hiring of Alkesh Amodwala as its first Chief Data Officer. Amodwala was previously with General Motors.

Brad Kreger is now EVP Operations at Velo3D. Robin Stamp has been named Director of Solutions Engineering. Kreger hails from Thermo Fisher Scientific, Stamp from SpaceX, said to be ‘one of Velo3D’s biggest customers’.

W Energy Software, a provider of cloud-based accounting and ERP energy software has hired Rachel Collins as CEO, replacing Mike Crest who transitions to Executive Chair. Collins was previously with Insite360.

Williams has promoted Chad Zamarin to EVP Corporate Strategic Development.

Deaths

Renowned geophysicist Enders A Robinson has died. The ‘Father of Deconvolution’ established the Geophysical Analysis Group at MIT and was a founding member of seismic processing specialist Digicon. Read his obituary in the Boston Globe.

LF Energy Executive Director Shuli Goodman died following a long battle with cancer. Visit his memorial repository on the LF Energy GitHub site.

The Object Management Group reports the passing of Victor Harrison who served on the OMG Board of Directors from 2008-2014. Harrison was SVP with the OMG from 2014 to 2018 working notably on the US National Information Exchange MetaModel (NIEM) and UAF, the Unified Architecture Framework.

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