Francois Lafferriere

Chief Operating Officer at Eliis

Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

About

Over 25 years of experience in sales of software and services for the upstream oil&gas industry : - Combine strong technical background in IT, Geology, Geophysics, Data Science and Engineering with business development skills and multi-cultural team management. - Demonstrate entrepreneurial spirit and discipline to create and grow sustainable business. - Always looking for new potential high growth business ventures in Energy. Specialties: Data Sciences, Geosciences, Geology, Geophysics, Engineering, Upstream, Software, Management

Experience

  • Eliis (8 yrs 7 mos)
    • Chief Operating Officer
      Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

      With PaleoScan™, the earth model is built while interpreting the seismic volume in a fully integrated 3D environment. It offers a complete range of tools and applications to work at exploration or development scale with an unprecedented level of resolution. Result are used for stratigraphic, structural and quantitative interpretation, from exploration to reservoir characterization.

    • Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)
      Feb 2023 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

    • VP Latin America
      Jan 2018 - Feb 2023 · 5 yrs 2 mos

  • Board Member at Kognitus | Business insights powered by AI & Analytics
    Dec 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 8 mos

    - Helping companies to gain actionable insights from their data through a wide range of Data Science and Analytics consulting services. - Driving research and development of next generation applications that turns human expertise and data into digital knowledge to support better and faster decisions. - Exploring and developing business and R&D opportunities at the intersection point of the petroleum and the information technology industries.

  • Business Development Director Latin America at SIGMA3 Integrated Reservoir Solutions
    Jan 2012 - May 2018 · 6 yrs 5 mos

  • Business Development Director LAM at Austin GeoModeling, Inc
    Dec 2009 - Dec 2011 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Strategic Consulting Director Latin America at Paradigm
    Jan 2007 - Aug 2007 · 8 mos