Management Consulting Advisory Team

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Management Consulting Advisory Team

Management Consulting Advisory Team

Syntillica's highly experienced advisors are a hand-picked team of experts from the Energy Industry.

They have founded and operated businesses in the oil and gas industry so truly understand the challenges you face day to day.

They combine their management experience with modern business theory and apply it to address your individual organisational challenges.

All advisors and consultants can work either individually or in integrated teams for multi-disciplinary projects.

Below is a list of the core advisory team

For further information or to discuss your consultancy needs

please use the contact form/email or phone.

CVs are available upon request.

Management Consultancy Advisor

Industry experience
- Principal level consultant
- 38 years’ oil industry experience
- Co-founded and grew a successful consultancy and software business culminating in working at board level in a diverse and expanding global business
- Subtle but powerful leadership and management skills that have engendered the development of aligned and highly collaborative and talented teams to deliver quality services and achieve robust business growth
- Recognises the pitfalls of growing businesses, providing strong perspective, supporting individuals, teams and organisations to develop
- Recognises the benefits of having clear strategies, plans and processes in a business while also being sufficiently flexible and decisive to respond to unpredictable opportunities and threats which inevitably manifest themselves during a Company’s life.
- Understands the importance of properly managing and developing people and communicating across an organisation to both convey a strong sense of purpose and to look and listen for the views and ideas of staff to encourage the creativity that a thriving business needs.
- A key strength is the ability to bring out the best in people, no matter what level in an organisation they are working. By listening carefully to individuals’ perspectives, he assesses the challenges that they or their organisation face, and works them together to identify how they might find a solution.
- Organizational and technical expertise. PhD in Geology
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Management Consultancy Advisor

Industry experience
- Principal level consultant
- 36 years industry experience
- Co-founder of successful consulting business growing to 15 staff in 18 months and turnover of £1m.
- Previously worked for one of the Big Four consulting houses.
- A highly experienced Management Consultant with a track record of adding value to clients across a wide range of sectors and companies. Focused on helping clients deliver their business objectives and fulfilling their potential.
- Using a breadth of management and leadership experience in Strategy Development and Implementation; Organisational and People Development and Effective Change Management
- Understands what makes organisations work, concentrates on the business model and on the empowerment and development of people, in order to deliver sustainable success.
- Business Delivery and Performance Improvement
- Ability to review and understand an organisation and the working of the business model. Identifying the key issues and critical success factors, working with management teams to develop and implement agreed plans and actions.
- Strategic Planning and Implementation
- The development and implementation of appropriate business strategy based on strategic analysis at both industry and company level. Working with Directors and shareholders to draw out and agree the fundamentals with the business, set out the direction and focus upon competitive advantages.
- Organisational Change and Development
- The development and implementation of organisational change, working at a strategic level. Leading and supporting senior management teams, with structured implementation and creating buy in.
- Learning and Development
- Supporting individuals, teams and organisations, enabling them to fulfil their potential through learning. Working from Board level to potentially all parts of an organisation to implement the learning and development strategy and improve the effectiveness of individuals and teams.
- MBA Qualified
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Management Consultancy Advisor

Industry experience
- Principal level consultant
- 22 years oil industry experience
- Management of all aspects of Syntillica business: leadership, projects, financial, commercial, strategy, operations, IT, marketing, human resources, communications, innovation and change. Creative and resourceful.
- Trainer for professional managers in every aspect of business practice from all over world in multiple industries gaining a thorough understanding of diverse business challenges and how to manage them.
- Over twenty years experience of managing international, multi-discipline technical teams in a range of business environments: London, Abu Dhabi, Kuala Lumpur, Houston, Stavanger, Aberdeen, Milan, Guildford.
- Eight years’ parallel experience as tutor on postgraduate MBA and undergraduate BA for Open University Business School covering leadership, strategy, business initiatives etc.
- Previously manager of large groups (up to 30 technical staff) developing new business, breaking into new territories, using new technologies, facilitating new approaches to business processes.
- Project managed complex projects including seismic, subsurface (exploration and development – geology, geophysics, reservoir engineering, petrophysics, geomechanics etc.), commercial (e.g. Due Diligence, M&A, CPRs) multi-disciplinary liaison (including subsurface, drilling, facilities and alternatives).
- Hands-on management of 100+ technical projects for clients globally e.g. BP, Shell, Total, Statoil, Chevron, Conoco, Exxon, Sonatrach, Hess, ADNOC, KMG and numerous smaller independent operators.
- Wide geographical technical experience. Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Far East, NSA.
- Seismic data processing specialist with experience in 1D, 2D, 3D, 4D and Land, Marine, OBC and Transition Zone services.
- MSc, MA & MBA Qualified.
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