John joined Aker Solutions in January, 2013, as Senior Vice President of Strategy, Technical Sales and Marketing for the North America Region.
Prior to Aker Solutions, John held two positions at the same time with Willbros, those being SVP International Operations , as well as SVP Upstream Strategy, Sales and Marketing, the later added to his role as Willbros’ strategy shifted to North America and operations expanded into all the US shale oil and gas areas including the Eagle Ford, Marcellus and Bakken.
Prior to Willbros John was with Global Industries for two years as the Business Unit Vice President of Middle East and North Africa/Mediterranean Region and later as Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer worldwide included management of the company’s entrance into the deepwater market and construction oversight of two state-of-the art deepwater derrick/pipe lay vessels and worldwide Business Development. He was a member of the Executive Team.
John’s experience also included six years as Vice President for Technip from 2002 to 2008 where he was responsible for acquiring and sponsoring deep water and downstream projects, as well as enhancing the company’s strategic client relationships worldwide.
John’s 37 years of oil and gas experience began in 1978 with Brown & Root Marine, later known as Halliburton Brown & Root and then KBR, serving over 25 years on a variety of large offshore projects, including engineering, manufacturing, fabrication, installation and hook-up & commissioning operations. He was promoted to executive level positions in corporate business development the last four years as Commercial Vice President covering strategic client account management of all key clients contracting across Halliburton Energy Services, Landmark Graphics and KBR upstream business units.
John was born and raised near Ocean City, New Jersey, graduated with a B.Sc in Civil Engineering from WVU-Institute of Technology in 1978, is married with two sons and two grand-daughters, and enjoys every type of hunting and fishing, shooting sporting clays and playing golf.