Sandeep Kibey, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

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Enabling decarbonization for our customers through technology and partnerships. Leveraging ExxonMobil’s low carbon technology portfolio to help deliver decarbonization solutions to customers.

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• Served a team of 18 that delivered high-value, high-impact technology solutions to business units consistent with Corporation's strategic priorities. • Grew Lab capabilities strategically from 5 to 12 asset types, within 2 years; established team identity and purpose with relentless focus on value. • Enabled cost reduction and efficiency gains through drilling automation on rig sites at target price point through cloud, IoT, lab test capability build, real-time data stream collection/analysis. • Established uncompromising customer-facing orientation. Strengthened customer relationships through superior customer service, value delivery, strategic alignment and pivots. • Stewarded annual plans, budgets, targets, metrics, priorities and delivered on business commitments. Managed and drove strategic changes in the Lab in alignment with Corporate priorities.• Championed and promoted culture of innovation; streamlined operations, increased agility through focus on outcome, not outputs. Drove staff skill growth, staff development plans, and promoted positive org culture.• Redesigned section, streamlined operations to boost section productivity. Leveraged design thinking to drive employee engagement.• Strengthened and reinvigorated safety culture through focus on intent, clarity on management of change, process simplification, and right-sizing workflows. • Developed staff through cross-training/broadening opportunities; implemented skill definitions to facilitate long-term fulfilling careers.• Recruited key talents to grow skill mix, capability, and bench strength.

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• Transformed group of 9 engineers, researchers, engineers, professionals into a value-focused, customer-facing team through strategic pivots. High-graded team's research portfolio to focus on Corporation's high-value, core assets. • Managed a research portfolio valued at over $1.5B. Motivated team and enabled value-focused development, scale-up, and execution within a year. • Led cross-company product development effort, developed strategic roadmap, GTM strategy, and unlocked $180M NPV through delivery of industry-first field trials on next generation technologies within 12 weeks.• Developed and launched innovation culture pilot with leadership support to feed the research funnel with high-value ideas. Challenged and stopped value-sink efforts.

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• Coordinated globally to engage business units, commercial, procurement, and suppliers on vendor selection, and vendor tubular technologies evaluations for world-wide ExxonMobil drill teams. • Drove strategic growth initiatives on tubular goods purchase through building strategic corporate relationships with key suppliers; established trust and nurtured long-term relationships to achieve business objectives.• Led delivery of agile, fit-for-purpose, high-value tubular connection evaluations to world-wide business unit. Interfaced with vendor technical, sales, commercial managers and leaders to develop GTM roadmaps for partner needs. Interfaced with NOC partner counterparts to drive GTM roadmaps.• Delivered high-impact well integrity solutions to affiliates to maximize profitability.• Championed, led industry-leading, non-standard full-scale evaluation of emerging tubular connection technologies. Developed GTM strategy in collaboration with SMEs, BUs, vendors.• Established off-site Tubulars engineering team in India. On-boarded team, transferred workflows, empowered them to own programs within weeks of joining. Developed employees through relentless focus on team values, and culture.

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• Established new research programs in the areas of fit-for-purpose pipeline assessments and deep water riser design. Developed value proposition, strategic fit, market size assessments, resource requirements; drove internal alignment on near-term and long-term strategy.• Led deep water riser analysis; performed surveillance of third party analysis on behalf of the business unit; delivered on the design of the riser on-schedule and under budget.

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• Worked directly with Function Manager and Leadership team to develop and execute on the Function recruiting strategy. Delivered on recruiting targets ahead of schedule. Strengthened intern program. Delivered on talent acquisition, closed niche skills area gaps for the Company.

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• Led pipeline design research project team of four PhDs and two Lab professionals ($10MM budget). Scaled technology from Lab to the field. Developed research road map, stewarded deliverables, managed resources, capital budget. Delivered on technology development, scale-up, validation, readiness and commercialization within 2 years.• Delivered on business-critical support for design stage business milestones for a $40B pipeline project. Established intellectual property strategy, industry and regulatory engagement strategy; co-led industry engagement initiatives.• Drove alignment with customers and stakeholders on first commercial applications, value proposition, and commercialization plan. Delivered consulting support to PNG on deployment of the technology.

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• Developed predictive models for design of large diameter gas transmission pipelines in harsh arctic or seismically active regions. Anchored models to large-scale test data. • Supported PNG LNG onshore pipeline design stage efforts; developed design basis through advanced modeling and sensitivity analyses.• Managed internal and external stakeholder alignment. Served as Company representative on Joint Industry Project. Participated in industry conferences (Canada, Belgium, The Netherlands, US, Japan) as speaker, panelist and drove industry consensus on design requirements.

Stanford, California, Us

Champaign, Il, Us

Deformation twinning is observed in numerous engineering and naturally occurring materials. However, a fundamental law for critical twinning stress has not yet emerged. Through this work, we resolved this long-standing issue by integrating twin-energy pathways obtained via ab initio density functional theory with heterogeneous, dislocation-based twin nucleation models. Through a hierarchical theory, we established an analytical expression that quantitatively predicts the critical twinning stress in face-centered cubic metals without any empiricism at any length scale. Our theory predicts a monotonic relation between the unstable twin stacking fault energy and twin nucleation stress revealing the physics of twinning.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Munich, De

Stanford Executive Mba, Value Creation, Business Development, Corporate Strategy, Finance

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering

Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Exxonmobil Executive Development Program