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Koen van der Perk, Senior Vice President Commercial
Seaway Heavy Lifting
Koen van der Perk serves as a senior executive for Seaway Heavy Lifting, a global player in the field of offshore transportation
& installation in the oil & gas, renewable energy and decommissioning sectors. Koen has a background and excellence in
commercial contracts and business management. In 2009, he joined Seaway Heavy Lifting. He started as a contracts supervisor
within the Contracts Department, and was promoted to contracts manager in 2010, manager of the Contracts Department in
2011 and commercial manager in 2012. He finally became senior vice president commercial in 2013. Koen leads the sales group for Seaway
Heavy Lifting, consisting of the business analyses, business development, proposals and contracts departments. Prior to working for Seaway
Heavy Lifting, Koen spent five and a half years at Heerema Marine Contractors, where he served as a contracts manager for an EPIC project, as
well as a contracts engineer within the legal department.
Philippe Perreau, Director – Technologies Innovations Projects (5+ Year Advisory Board Member)
GEP AFTP
Since 2009, Philippe Perreau has been appointed GEP-AFTP Director , Technologies Innovations Projects and Director of R&D
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Philippe Perreau, 60, holds a Master of nuclear physics and an engineering industrial diploma from the University Paris-Sud
Orsay.
He joined IFP in 1982 as research engineer in the Drilling Division where he participated in various projects. In 1990, he joined IFP office
in Singapore as Head of upstream industrial development. In 1992, he returned to the drilling Division, where he was in charge of project
“Retrieving data during drilling”. In 1998, he was Deputy Commissioner General of CEP & M (Committee of Petroleum and Marine Studies). In
2007, he was appointed
Director of IFP SME’s Relations Division. In 2006 and 2007, Philippe Perreau was also Chairman of the French section of SPE (Society of
Petroleum Engineers).
Geoff Proud, Consultant (5+ Year Advisory Board Member)
Over 30 years experience in the subsea sector of the oil business from Operator & Service Company sides of the fence.
Presently advising SME’s on strategy to meet the current market & to maximise overseas investment opportunities. Recently
assigned to Vietnam’s first deepwater development for Talisman Energy, as the Top Tensioned Ris-er, Tree & Wellhead Delivery
Manager. The field utilises a TLWP, the first for Vietnam producing to a FPSO tied back to existing infra structure. Previously with
EON the German power conglomerate since they entered the North Sea as an Operator following their acquisition of Caledonia
Oil & Gas. On the service side worked with Halliburton & Global Marine Integrated Services on the new millennium era fashionable integrated
service contracts before moving to Expro to complete the conceptual work for the AX-IS deepwater intervention system. Oil career began with
Shell’s diverless UMC project from construction to installation & operation before moving to BP for its West of Shet-land forerunner DISPS.
Mike Read, President
Teledyne Oil & Gas
Mike Read is the President of Teledyne Marine, a group of 23 product brands and the President of Teledyne Oil & Gas, a division
of Teledyne Technologies, a group he formed six years ago.
Prior to this, Mr. Read was President and CEO of Ocean Design Inc. (ODI), until the successful acquisition by Teledyne in 2009.
For the previous twenty years, Mr. Read worked for the Raychem Corporation and ultimately served as the Director of Research
and Development of the Telecommunications and Power Division.
Mr. Read has a High Honors degree in Chemistry and Polymer Engineering, holds five patents in product design and has completed executive
education programs at the Harvard Business School and Insead Business School in France.
Mr. Read serves on the Board of Directors of PESA, Deepwater Europe and Team Volusia, CEO Alliance of Daytona Beach and the Executive
Advisory Board of Florida Atlantic University.
Ken Richardson, Executive Vice President of Energy Project Development (5+ Year Advisory Board Member)
ABS
Vice President Energy Project Development Kenneth Richardson has been with ABS since 1982. Over his 30-year career, he has
held a range of engineering and management positions within ABS and ABS Group and has been active in industry associations,
including the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He earned his BS in
Mechanical Engineering and MS in Ocean Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, and attended the
Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School.
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