Larry Duke Email & Phone Number

Houston, TX, US

Houston, Texas, US

SUMMARY:As the CEO of Invacor, I lead our strategic direction and operational excellence, driving growth as a premier provider of pipeline services in North America. My focus includes strategic M&A, team leadership, and customer-centric initiatives, resulting in high-performing teams, strong partnerships, and significant revenue growth.SCOPE OF ROLE:Lead.

Houston, Texas, US

Tulsa, OK, US

Seasoned Executive leading sales and services for the TDW’s customers in the Western Hemisphere with operations in the US, Canada, Mexico, and South America. Responsible for ensuring TDW delivers excellent customer service, adapting TDW’s strategy to customer needs, and managing the P&L performance of the Western Hemisphere Region. Executive champion for.

Tulsa, OK, US

P&L responsibility for all product and service lines.

Managing the Lufkin Beam Pumping product line through the most significant market downturn in decades. The Lufkin Beam Pumping Units, the world's most recognized brand, are sold and serviced worldwide with factories in Lufkin, Texas; Ploesti, Romania; and Comodoro, Argentina. Focused on driving the transformation of all aspects of the product line by.

• Handpicked to lead all product and marketing aspects of a massive integration project – GE’s $1.4 billion acquisition of Lufkin, the Artificial Lift icon in the Oil & Gas industry – a union that will transform the.
• Commercial intensity in operations, pricing, market analyses, branding, and marketing of the Lufkin product lines.
• Multi-generation product plans for Lufkin's products: Rod Lift Systems, Progressing Cavity Pump systems, Gas Lift and Plunger Lift systems.
• “Well life optimization”: leading a cutting edge software tool development program that will assist customers in their artificial lift selection by enabling production optimization over the life of the well.

Schenectady, NY, US

• Reassigned to GE Energy, based on early career in synfuels and successful commercialization of advanced technology for GE Aviation. Championed the program during a very difficult period, and eventually paved the way.
• New Sales Leads: Organized a “commercial solutions” team – Houston, Moscow, Bangalore, and Shanghai – that inserted GE into early-planning stages of the biggest projects worldwide.
• New Markets: Pioneered GE's integrated, biomass-to-power, clean energy product line. Pulled the team together and solved numerous technical challenges. SUCCESSES: Persevered despite the US market collapse for IGCC..
• Major Deal: Pioneered a breakthrough technology-sharing agreement – the first of its kind at GE Power & Water – that packaged risk so GE could do business in China. New agreement paved the way for a major deal in.

Cincinnati, OH, US

• Initially recruited by GE Aviation for sales support of engine-maintenance contracts. After 18 months, promoted to a new role – commercialization of R&D projects – that led to the development of breakthrough.
• First-Ever EU Funding for GEA: Won partial funding from German gov’t for an experimental near-net shape metal-fab process – called “cold spray”– with unlimited opportunities for commercial applications.
• Earned GE’s External Focus Award for negotiating GEA’s first-ever European-funded R&D deal. NEW RESEARCH INSTITUTE: Opened discussions with the University of Cincinnati and State of Ohio that led to a $161 million R&D.

Houston, TX, US

• Initially hired by Millennium Chemicals – recruited by a former boss for Quantum – into new role similar to reliability-engineering job at Quantum. Made immediate impact for Millennium by fixing widespread corrosion.
• Negotiated technology-licensing and partnership agreements with DARPA (US DoD), CSIRO (Australian government), and Stanford Research Institute (SRI).
• Planned the launch of a pilot plant near Baltimore – a DARPA-funded, proof-of-concept facility.
• Negotiated agreement with GE Aviation, which would be the top customer.

Dallas, Texas, US

Business Development Manager – technical sales – for a top manufacturer of Zirconium, Titanium, and special alloys: Recruited from Quantum based on successful collaboration during the pressure-vessel project. Left WC prior to ownership change and reorganization. Top Highlight, Monsanto Project: Monsanto’s weed-killer (“Roundup”) was causing extreme.

• Started as Reliability Engineer and Inspection Group Leader. Acquired expertise in metallurgy and fabrication methods using Zirconium. Top highlight, devised and implemented a plan to build the world’s largest pressure.
• Problem: Plant produced acetic acid, which was extremely corrosive and caused frequent failures to a pressure vessel – a breakdown every 18 months.
• Action: Researched the problem and proposed a 100% Zirconium pressure vessel (column). Wrote the business case – including all financial and engineering calcs – and led implementation.
• Results: Stopped plant breakdowns. Achieved ROI and payback. Improved safety (OSHA approval).

Bsme, Materials

Mba

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