Advisor to oversee the growth and development of Octagon Professionals-a successful manpower company engaged in recruitment, contracting and executive search for local (NL based) and international clients for longer 25 years. The company provides professionally skilled manpower covering financial, sales/marketing, IT/telecoms and oil/gas professionals.Advisor/Consultant to the Oil/Gas sector providing technical and commercial advice on mergers and acquisitions, oil/gas field development and economic evaluation, negotiations with National and International oil companies, downstream processing (LNG and GTL) and marketing. Advisor/facilitator on organisational competence development and business performance improvement covering any industry type/sector. Commercial viability of venture start-ups. Company merger integration advisor. GDPR advisor.Advisor to the Presidency and Government of Cyprus on all matters related to development of the oil and gas sector, offshore Cyprus. Provision of advisory services on East Med E&P activities to government entities in the region.Business development in Upstream oil and gas for Tulip Oil holding BV. Joint Venture set up and implementation advisor. Advisor on development and implementation of business (risk) controls covering organisational controls, financial controls, HR controls, QA/QC and HSE/risk analysis including independent verification and assurance processes as required by EU Directive 2013/30/EU

Various Technical, Commercial and Management functions.Business Development Manager and General Manager for major integrated upstream and downstream projects in Russia, Algeria, the UAE and India,Business Development Manager to develop business leads in Russia. General Manager responsible for the wining of the first oil/gas international tender in Russia. CEO of the only foreign JV to hold a Russian production license. Negotiation of PSC, Tax/royalty and margin upstream contracts.Senior Petroleum Engineer responsible for the technical and economic evaluation of major oil/gas developments in italy, Denmark, Spain, Argentina. Senior Petroleum Engineer coordinating the development of enhanced recovery technology in Oman. Assigned as a Quality Management Advisor to lead the development and implementation of Quality Management within the Shell Group-identified and led the development/implementation of business improvement through an integrated approach to management systems, QA/QC/QI, internal audit and organisational development.

Started my career in BP as a Process Engineer conducting process design studies for BP licensed processes- process innovation led to the granting of a process patent. Project Engineer designing, installing and commissioning high pressure flare tips for offshore North Sea, Brazil and Mexico- Marketed high pressure flare tips in Mexico and Brazil.Senior Planning Engineer conducting technical and economic feasibility studies to identify alternatives to fossil fuels. General Manager for a venture to develop and commercialise fifth generation computer technology covering VLSI, MMI and intelligent based systems (the 'Alvey' programme). Established partnerships with General Electric, British Aerospace and the the Royal Free Hospital as 'demonstrator' partners. Assigned by BP to the University Of Calgary to manage a large research budget to develop heavy oil recovery technology- this required me to serve as an Assistant Professor with teaching responsibilities in Chemical Engineering within the University. Assigned by BP to Petroleos de Venezuela as Principal Consultant for the development of heavy oil recovery and upgrading technology. Joint Venture Manager responsible for the development of BP's non operated North sea assets of BP-led BP's efforts to unitise Forties field with Shell/Esso.