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(click to expand profile) Keith Willey is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Strategic and International Management and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. Keith comes with a strong background of strategic management and entrepreneurship. As a graduate Chemical Engineer Keith’s career began in technical roles and later marketing and strategy roles in industry with both BAT plc and Siddall Consultants. He has been a Principal in venture capital as an Executive Director at Sussex Place Ventures and founded The Centre for Scientific Enterprise. He is currently a non-Executive Director of a listed media business Vitesse Media plc and of a private Management Buy-In firm, Abacus Partners Ltd. In addition to advising GET Keith is an advisor to Appliansys Ltd, a UK based technology company and a confidential cutting edge complex event processing software business.
Vikram Rao is an Executive Director of RTEC and comes with an experience of more than 30 years with Halliburton, a leading energy service company. His last role with Halliburton was as Chief Technology officer. During his tenure with Halliburton, Vikram also held executive management positions in research and development, product launch, reservoir studies, and sales and marketing. He joined the company in 1974 as a senior research engineer. Vikram has served the industry with his more than 40 publications and has been awarded 24 patents in fields that include non-ferrous metal refining, alloy formulations, and oil and gas technology. Vikram earned a doctorate degree and a master's in engineering from Stanford University, and holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India.
David Woodward is an International oil industry exploration and production business leader, having over 37 years industry experience, the majority with BP, where in his last role as President of BP Azerbaijan, he was responsible for BP's business in Azerbaijan, Georgia and E. Turkey successfully delivering the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli full field, Shah Deniz stage 1 and BTC/SCP pipelines developments amounting to $20bn gross investment and producing 600 mbd by end 2006. His last role was as Chief Operating Officer of Mubadala Oil & Gas responsible for the operations of the MOG businesses in the Far East M. East and N. Africa amounting to over 300 mboed net working interest. Since May 2009, by choice, he is working in a part-time capacity supporting the senior management team in the development and implementation of a strategy to build the "premier eastern-hemisphere independent". Before that he was Chief Executive Officer of the Aabar Petroleum Investment Company, Abu Dhabi Responsible to the Board for the strategic direction and management of the company which was listed on the Abu Dhabi stock exchange in 2005. He is also a Non-Executive Director of the Wood Group. He completed a Programme for Management Development from Harvard Business School and an MSc in Physics from the University of Sussex. He has been awarded the Order of Honour, Georgia, Order of Glory, Azerbaijan, and the Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.
Adil is an energy executive with 26 years in the energy and private equity industries. He has been the Chief Executive Officer of the GCC Energy Fund, a private equity firm making investments in the energy and power sectors in the Middle East. Before that, he spent 20 years in the oil and gas industry, with Schlumberger, the world's leading oilfield services company, holding senior executive positions, including Worldwide President of the Wireline and Drilling Divisions. Based in Dubai, Adil speaks Arabic, English, French, German and Norwegian.
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