Adrian DOUGLAS
Adrian Douglas was born in 1957 in England. He graduated
from Cambridge University in 1980 in Natural Sciences and
joined Schlumberger the same year as field engineer.
Adrian worked for several years in Well Testing before
cross-training in 1992 into Wireline Logging. Adrian was a
co-inventor of the “Pressure Derivative” Analysis technique
that now forms the basis of all pressure transient analysis
techniques in the industry. He was an author or co-author
of several industry publications on pressure transient
analysis.
Since 1986 Adrian followed a career specializing in
Marketing and Sales. He worked in many different countries
in Europe, Middle East and Latin America. In 1997 he was
Sales Manager for Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait Region
and before leaving Schlumberger in 2000 he was Marketing
Manager for the North of Latin America.
In
2000 Adrian established his consultancy business,
InnovoMark – Innovative Marketing, specializing in pricing,
commercial tendering and marketing training.
Adrian has also used his knowledge of price and market
dynamics to develop a unique method for analyzing futures
and options market, called “Market Force Analysis” for
which a US Patent has been filed.
Hugh
Alastair ('Short') ALLERTON
Short
Allerton started his career in 1968 with degrees in geology
(Leicester) and geophysics (Durham), exploring for minerals
and water in Africa and the Mediterranean countries. In
1971 Short began a 4-year research project at Cambridge
University developing a portable computer used at sea to
gather oceanographic geophysical data, providing supporting
evidence for the Plate Tectonic theory.
He joined Mobil in 1974 and was responsible for the
exploration and development geophysics of the Beryl Field
area in the North Sea. He moved to BP in Aberdeen three
years later and managed the exploration of the UK Central,
West Shetlands and Northern North Sea areas, as well as the
subsurface development of the Forties Field. Short went to
Brazil as BP’s Exploration Manager, returning to Aberdeen
in 1984 to build a geoscience Field Development Group,
responsible for the subsurface exploitation of all of BP’s
26 UK fields, both on and offshore. In 1985, he graduated
from the London Business School Executive Programme.
Short moved to BP Exploration’s London HQ in 1986 to become
Planning Manager, responsible for BP’s economic
evaluations. During this time, BP purchased both Britoil
(the UK national oil company) and Sohio. His team were
responsible for incorporating Britoil and Sohio into the
budget planning cycle and developing BP’s worldwide E&P
strategy. In 1989, he was appointed BP’s Chief
Geophysicist.
In 1990, Short left BP to help build a start-up oil
company, Kirkland Resources. Through a series of reverse
take-overs and mergers, the company became Dragon Oil,
listed on the London Stock Exchange with acreage in 56
licenses in the UK, Norway and Asia and production both on
and offshore in the USA. He resigned as Director in 1994.
Between 1995 and 2008, Short worked with Schlumberger as a
consultant Marketing Advisor and strategist, working with
Business Development teams in Europe, Former Soviet Union
countries, Latin America and Africa, creating new business
opportunities and alliances between the oilfield service
company and oil companies. In addition, he consults with
oil companies on their strategy development and evaluates
oil company targets for acquisitions.
Tony BOCOCK
Tony graduated from Cambridge, England in Engineering in
1980. He joined Schlumberger the same year. He worked
initially as a field engineer, but later held positions in
sales, marketing and operations management. Tony left
Schlumberger in 1989 to become a purchasing manager for
Valeo. In 1995 he joined Plastic Omnium as a purchasing
manager and was later promoted to purchasing Director. In
2000 Tony was recruited by Facom Hand Tools as Purchasing
Director. In 2002 Tony was a manager at the purchasing
consultancy of Solving International. In 2003 Tony
established his own consultancy business, Better Buying
Concepts Consulting and had contracts with major companies
such as Aventis and Danone to advise on improvements in
purchasing practices.
In 2006 Tony became a partner in the InnovoMark
consultancy. He brings with him a wealth of knowledge and
experience on the procurement side of the business.
Throughout the 1990’s many companies implemented
sophisticated procurement procedures which were designed to
get the lowest price from their suppliers for products and
services that met their minimum specifications. Many
suppliers have not formulated counteractive measures to
ensure their continued profitability. Tony has contributed
immensely to the InnovoMark products in the time he has
been with the company in bringing a buyers perspective to
the methodologies to ensure the best possible approach to
capture maximum profitability through the bidding
process.