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Douglas Stroud, Senior Vice-President, Global Commercial (Advisory Board Member)
Canyon Offshore
Mr. Stroud is Senior Vice-President, Global Commercial for Canyon Offshore, Inc., a Helix ESG subsidiary (NYSE:HLX) He has worked
in the offshore industry since 1976 in a variety of roles including Operations, Sales and Management. He is currently responsible
for managing all Commercial Activities and Contracting for Canyon Offshore Global Services and serves as an executive officer
of the Corporation. Mr. Stroud is a “Fellow” of the Marine Technology Society (MTS), a past Board member of the Association of
Diving Contractors, and has served as; the Vice-Chairman of the MTS ROV committee, a member of the MTS Manned and Unmanned Submersible
Committee, National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) Technical Policy Committee and served 8 yrs. on the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC)
Board of Directors, including 2 yrs. as Vice-Chairman, representing the Marine Technology Society from 2004-2012.
Nicolas Tcherniguin, Group Development Manager - Business & Technology Offshore
Technip Corporate Services France
Nicolas TCHERNIGUIN is Group Development Manager in the Offshore Business Development & Technology division within the
TECHNIP Corporate organization in Paris. He has a French degree of civil engineer as well as two Masters of Science degrees in
structure reliability and steel construction. He joined TECHNIP in 1992, prior to holding this position, he has been successively a
project engineer on offshore projects in different places such as UAE, Malaysia and South Korea and hold different responsibilities and
position in the Technology Corporate division in both the Offshore and Subsea segment.
Christophe T’Joen, Flow Assurance Engineer
Shell Global Solutions
Christophe T’Joen holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Ghent University in Belgium. Following his Ph.D. he worked as a
post-doctoral research at the Delft University of Technology, studying the thermo-hydraulics of the supercritical water cooled nuclear
reactor. He joined Shell in 2012 as part of the Multiphase Flow team in Amsterdam as a Flow Assurance Engineer. His work mainly
focused on low temperature assessments and experimental studies on the Severe Slugging Loop facility looking at Smart Choke
operation and multiphase flow splitting. Recent experimental work focused on heat traced piping testing together with ITP InterPipe.
Moez Trabelsi, R&D Engineer
ITP InTerPiPe
Moez joined the offshore industry in late 2014 as R&D Engineer with ITP InTerpipe. He has worked on the development of multiple
Pipe-in-pipe subjects such as the qualification of subsea components for Electrical Heat Traced Flowline and ageing properties of PIP
for HP/HT fields. Moez holds an Engineering degree from ENSTA ParisTech, with a specialization in offshore energies.
Christina Tzotzi, Flow Assurance R&D Engineer
FORSYS Subsea
Dr. Christina Tzotzi is a Flow Assurance R&D Engineer Working at Forsys France on R&D projects focused on proposing innovative flow
assurance solutions (e.g. hydrate management, multiphase flow). She is a Project Manager for the JIP: Hydrate Plug Management
using Active Heating with Exxon, Woodside and Total and responsible for new subsea developments. Previously, she has worked as
Postdoctoral fellow at IFPEN working on multiphase flow models development. Christina has a Ph.D Specialization in Multiphase Flow
and significant active participation and publication to scientific journals and presentations to peer-reviewed scientific conferences.
Carlos Viale, Pipeline Inspection Engineer
Total
Carlos is a mechanical engineer and graduated from the “Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires” in Argentina. Carlos has worked for
Repsol-YPF in Argentina for four years in the Integrity Department (onshore). He then moved to Total (in the Argentinean subsidiary)
where he worked for four years in piping and pipeline engineering. He was expatriated to France where he worked for six years as a
Rigid Pipeline Specialist, providing assistance to assess and solve integrity issues and giving also assistance to Projects from a design
point of view, both onshore and offshore.
He has taken a new assignment in Congo since January 2016, working as a Pipeline Inspection Engineer.
Alberto Villar, Offshore Export Cable Lead Engineer
AV Energy
Alberto Villar was born in Spain, in 1981. He received his engineering degree in electrical engineering from the University of the
Basque Country, Spain, in 2008, and a M.Sc degree in Offshore and Ocean Technology from Cranfield University, UK, in 2014. In
2008 he joined the engineering department of the EPC Contractor Global Energy Services joining in 2010 the offshore team in the
transmission and distribution division of Mott MacDonald consultancy. Since 2015 he has been with Iberdrola Engineering and
Construction where he is currently the Offshore Export Cable Lead Engineer. He is a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology and a
former board member of the Next Generation CIGRE UK, the Council on Large Electric Systems.
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