The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
I am a senior asset operations and operational excellence leader with over 35 years of experience across upstream and midstream oil & gas assets, including offshore and onshore operations, sour gas, and large international joint ventures. I am known for bringing structure, discipline, and calm leadership to complex, high-risk environments. I thrive in challenging conditions and multicultural settings, where safety, integrity, and performance must be delivered simultaneously. I am uncompromising on ethics, safety, and compliance, and I am respected for getting results while keeping teams aligned and engaged. Across Shell and multiple international ventures, I have built deep expertise in: • Asset operations, maintenance, and integrity • Operational excellence and change management • Production planning, optimisation, and hydrocarbon accounting • Turnarounds, shutdowns, and integrated activity planning • Data quality, digitalisation, and decision support • Contract, stakeholder, and joint-venture management • Competence development and leadership of large, diverse teams I have operated in some of the industry’s most demanding environments, including Syria, Iraq, Kazakhstan and Russia, Oman, Malaysia, Australia, and the Netherlands. My assignment in Iraq significantly strengthened my resilience and ability to deliver sustainable improvements under security, political, and operational constraints. Experience in smart fields and digital initiatives has further sharpened my ability to translate data into better decisions, resulting in tangible cost savings, improved reliability, and safer operations. Available for interim, turnaround and rotational leadership assignments globally with traveling on project basis.
Following a 35-year international career with Shell and its joint ventures, I am exploring senior leadership opportunities in energy and infrastructure where I can help organisations improve operational performance, strengthen asset integrity and operational assurance, and lead complex transformation programmes. Available for interim, turnaround and advisory assignments worldwide on project basis.
Following repatriation from Kazakhstan, supported transition activities while evaluating senior leadership opportunities within Shell during the company's organisational restructuring. • Provided operational advice and knowledge transfer where required. • Supported succession and transition activities following completion of the Kazakhstan assignment. • Prepared for the next international leadership assignment while assessing strategic career opportunities.
Senior operational leadership role in one of the world’s largest gas and condensate fields. Accountable for the safe operation, maintenance, and integrity of ~500 wells (sour gas/condensate, high-pressure gas injection, water disposal and monitoring) and roads, power and pipeline networks. • Responsible for in-field pipeline systems, flowlines, manifold stations, block valve stations, satellite production stations, and in-field infrastructure • Ensure regulatory compliance, asset integrity, and environmental protection under ROK legislation • Lead inspection, refurbishment, modification, and modernisation programmes • Coordinate across drilling, workover, production, projects, inspection teams, contractors, shareholders, and authorities • Emergency management Key achievements • Achieved 16 years LTI-free milestone (July 2025) • Strengthened asset integrity oversight and quality handovers in a complex JV environment
Led production services (250 staff) across 4 asset teams in one of the world’s largest gas and condensate fields • Accountable for fiscal metering, power generation & distribution (140 MW), waste management (recycling), and production excellence • Provided production accounting, optimisation, planning and laboratory services • Oversaw operations readiness & assurance services (projects and major modifications) • Contract Holder for ~60 contracts covering utilities, chemicals, fuels, safety, maintenance, and operations services Key achievements • Led 34 kt/d production improvement initiative • Implemented Front Line Barrier Model-based competence assessment for field staff In 2025 KPO produced 374 kboe/d.
• Designed and rolled out Shell’s global Venture Set Up & Exit framework for Exploration • Supported strategy framing, venture readiness reviews, and risk workshops • Established learning structures and communities of practice • Worked across global functions and major ventures to improve ways of working • Applied the 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) to embed sustainable improvements Impact • Delivered practical roadmaps supporting ventures from strategy through exit • Developed and implemented venture readiness and execution discipline globally
• Provided specialised integration and improvement support to the Prelude FLNG facility • Led cross-functional improvement initiatives in planning, scheduling, and execution • Supported leadership teams with strategic and operational decision-making • Integrated business processes and tools toward best-in-class operations Impact • Improved alignment between planning, execution, and support functions in a complex offshore LNG operation
• Led integrated activity planning, production forecasting, and hydrocarbon accounting across four assets • Responsible for production reporting, invoicing reconciliation, and mismeasurement management • Contract Holder for Shell Services contract • Business Opportunity Manager for legacy custody-transfer metering projects Key achievements • Delivered certified fiscal metering systems for customer delivery • Operated successfully in a hostile environment, strengthening organisational resilience • Contribution to one of the world’s largest gas flaring reduction projects