Alexandre (Alex) Kosmala
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LinkedIn User
I worked with Alex as my customer when I was with Gerdau and he was with LB Foster. Alex was a true partner with me and the team. He was always looking for win-win opportunities and allowed his team to work alongside our team in a true collaborative environment. His leadership by utilizing transparency while working with us evoked others on both teams to be equally transparent, thus allowing us to truly find opportunities that could benefit both companies. I really enjoyed working with Alex and am looking forward to finding an opportunity to do it again, as a true partner.
Bertrand Theuveny
Alex, in his tenure as Product Champion for the espWatcher web surveillance service for downhole electrical submersible pumps - an important business to Schlumberger - led a multi-center team to collect requirements, define domain expertise and interface with the engineering groups to ensure proper delivery of the final product to the field operations. Alex' major contribution consisted in getting agreement between the various domain expert and translating the diagnostic logic into a feasible product under the constraints of a web based infrastructure being built in parallel. Alex also organized closely the launch and the commercialization of the product, after an efficient field test period which he coordinated with a large number of field locations through out the world. Alex is objective driven and knows also to balance the priorities properly in accordance to long term strategic directions. He has a good sense of what is good for business and a correct intuition about the general moves of the customers. Alex communicates well and efficiently and is quite reliable. People working with him appreciate his organized methods and logical approach to the solutions. It has been a pleasure to work with Alex, and his contribution was extremely critical to the project. Bertrand Theuveny, Schlumberger - Reservoir Answer Monitoring Architect and Product Champion of the Production Real Time Infrastructure in 2002-2005.
LinkedIn User
I worked with Alex as my customer when I was with Gerdau and he was with LB Foster. Alex was a true partner with me and the team. He was always looking for win-win opportunities and allowed his team to work alongside our team in a true collaborative environment. His leadership by utilizing transparency while working with us evoked others on both teams to be equally transparent, thus allowing us to truly find opportunities that could benefit both companies. I really enjoyed working with Alex and am looking forward to finding an opportunity to do it again, as a true partner.
Bertrand Theuveny
Alex, in his tenure as Product Champion for the espWatcher web surveillance service for downhole electrical submersible pumps - an important business to Schlumberger - led a multi-center team to collect requirements, define domain expertise and interface with the engineering groups to ensure proper delivery of the final product to the field operations. Alex' major contribution consisted in getting agreement between the various domain expert and translating the diagnostic logic into a feasible product under the constraints of a web based infrastructure being built in parallel. Alex also organized closely the launch and the commercialization of the product, after an efficient field test period which he coordinated with a large number of field locations through out the world. Alex is objective driven and knows also to balance the priorities properly in accordance to long term strategic directions. He has a good sense of what is good for business and a correct intuition about the general moves of the customers. Alex communicates well and efficiently and is quite reliable. People working with him appreciate his organized methods and logical approach to the solutions. It has been a pleasure to work with Alex, and his contribution was extremely critical to the project. Bertrand Theuveny, Schlumberger - Reservoir Answer Monitoring Architect and Product Champion of the Production Real Time Infrastructure in 2002-2005.
LinkedIn User
I worked with Alex as my customer when I was with Gerdau and he was with LB Foster. Alex was a true partner with me and the team. He was always looking for win-win opportunities and allowed his team to work alongside our team in a true collaborative environment. His leadership by utilizing transparency while working with us evoked others on both teams to be equally transparent, thus allowing us to truly find opportunities that could benefit both companies. I really enjoyed working with Alex and am looking forward to finding an opportunity to do it again, as a true partner.
Bertrand Theuveny
Alex, in his tenure as Product Champion for the espWatcher web surveillance service for downhole electrical submersible pumps - an important business to Schlumberger - led a multi-center team to collect requirements, define domain expertise and interface with the engineering groups to ensure proper delivery of the final product to the field operations. Alex' major contribution consisted in getting agreement between the various domain expert and translating the diagnostic logic into a feasible product under the constraints of a web based infrastructure being built in parallel. Alex also organized closely the launch and the commercialization of the product, after an efficient field test period which he coordinated with a large number of field locations through out the world. Alex is objective driven and knows also to balance the priorities properly in accordance to long term strategic directions. He has a good sense of what is good for business and a correct intuition about the general moves of the customers. Alex communicates well and efficiently and is quite reliable. People working with him appreciate his organized methods and logical approach to the solutions. It has been a pleasure to work with Alex, and his contribution was extremely critical to the project. Bertrand Theuveny, Schlumberger - Reservoir Answer Monitoring Architect and Product Champion of the Production Real Time Infrastructure in 2002-2005.
LinkedIn User
I worked with Alex as my customer when I was with Gerdau and he was with LB Foster. Alex was a true partner with me and the team. He was always looking for win-win opportunities and allowed his team to work alongside our team in a true collaborative environment. His leadership by utilizing transparency while working with us evoked others on both teams to be equally transparent, thus allowing us to truly find opportunities that could benefit both companies. I really enjoyed working with Alex and am looking forward to finding an opportunity to do it again, as a true partner.
Bertrand Theuveny
Alex, in his tenure as Product Champion for the espWatcher web surveillance service for downhole electrical submersible pumps - an important business to Schlumberger - led a multi-center team to collect requirements, define domain expertise and interface with the engineering groups to ensure proper delivery of the final product to the field operations. Alex' major contribution consisted in getting agreement between the various domain expert and translating the diagnostic logic into a feasible product under the constraints of a web based infrastructure being built in parallel. Alex also organized closely the launch and the commercialization of the product, after an efficient field test period which he coordinated with a large number of field locations through out the world. Alex is objective driven and knows also to balance the priorities properly in accordance to long term strategic directions. He has a good sense of what is good for business and a correct intuition about the general moves of the customers. Alex communicates well and efficiently and is quite reliable. People working with him appreciate his organized methods and logical approach to the solutions. It has been a pleasure to work with Alex, and his contribution was extremely critical to the project. Bertrand Theuveny, Schlumberger - Reservoir Answer Monitoring Architect and Product Champion of the Production Real Time Infrastructure in 2002-2005.
Experience
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Stage Completions
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United States
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Oil and Gas
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1 - 100 Employee
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Global Vice President of Business Development and Sales
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May 2023 - Present
Reporting to the CEO and part of the Senior Leadership Team. Stage is the first to market, most experienced with 10,500 sleeves installed and clear leader in single point and limitless fracturing sleeves technology. Operators are reporting that this technology allows for higher initial production, and reduced declines in the right applications. All in all, we avoid a lot of the complexity of the Plug & Perf systems and less equipment and people at the well site, allowing for a reduced well pad and more efficient operations (ESG). And it is a much simpler design than the mechanical ball activated designs - and truly limitless. Our existing customers see strong opportunities for simulfrac, extended reach wells, where there are limits drilling dissolvable plugs. The economics are looking better every day as Casing price keeps increasing. Show less
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Advanced Upstream Ltd.
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Canada
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Oil and Gas
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director - USA
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May 2022 - Apr 2023
Responsible for the US roll-out of a Canada developed and proven Infinite Stages OpenHole system: Sales and Operations. It is a breakthrough system as not ball dropped based: using an intelligent Dart to open the sleeves for frac. As such, the design is allowing for the same size bore all the way to the toe. Responsible for the US roll-out of a Canada developed and proven Infinite Stages OpenHole system: Sales and Operations. It is a breakthrough system as not ball dropped based: using an intelligent Dart to open the sleeves for frac. As such, the design is allowing for the same size bore all the way to the toe.
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AKC International
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Houston, Texas, United States
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President
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Sep 2020 - Apr 2022
Advising Companies as well as Private Equity Firms on: • Energy transition: Methane emissions control, CCUS, blue low-carbon and green Hydrogen • Strategy to setup in the European Union: how to best communicate and work with European companies • Strategy and initial legal groundwork to setup subsidiaries internationally Advising Companies as well as Private Equity Firms on: • Energy transition: Methane emissions control, CCUS, blue low-carbon and green Hydrogen • Strategy to setup in the European Union: how to best communicate and work with European companies • Strategy and initial legal groundwork to setup subsidiaries internationally
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Packers Plus Energy Services Inc.
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Canada
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Oil and Gas
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200 - 300 Employee
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Director - Western Hemisphere
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Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
New position created as the company was reorganized in 2 Hemispheres.• Reporting to CEO and presenting to the Board. Managing the US, Canada and Latin America and the newly formed Offshore Operations and Sales. • Bringing the countries together, improving the Balance Sheet (15% reduction in inventory over 4 months and consolidation/divestiture of Real Estate), growing Sales while addressing Quality of Deployment and Safety.• Mentoring and training District Managers with respect to Finance, People management and utilization, Quality, Safety. Show less
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Business Development and Sales Manager
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Mar 2019 - Dec 2019
• Transformed the Sales organization from opportunistic selling to small operators to systematically selling new Products and Services to the large operators (Exxon, Chevron, Oxy, Marathon, ConocoPhillips, Mewbourne) by going away from the “Lone Wolf” approach into a team of Sales/BD/Management looking after the large accounts. • Implemented and leveraged CRM to track revenue targets and forecast. Implemented a Price Book and standard Proposal templates to increase effectiveness. Created and deployed Sales Training. Show less
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Custom Builder
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Houston
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General Contractor - Residential Construction
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Nov 2017 - Feb 2019
Post Hurricane Harvey - General Contractor for the redesign and reconstruction of property in Houston: structural, carpentry, roofing, electricity, plumbing. Transformed the asset into a house ready for Architecture Digest. Working with FEMA and insurances to fund the project, while sourcing the different phases (structural, carpentry, roofing, electricity, plumbing) to sub contractors. Post Hurricane Harvey - General Contractor for the redesign and reconstruction of property in Houston: structural, carpentry, roofing, electricity, plumbing. Transformed the asset into a house ready for Architecture Digest. Working with FEMA and insurances to fund the project, while sourcing the different phases (structural, carpentry, roofing, electricity, plumbing) to sub contractors.
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LB Foster
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United States
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Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
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200 - 300 Employee
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Senior Vice President Energy and Construction
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Aug 2016 - Oct 2017
o Led 5 Business Units and 800 employees in Energy and Construction: over $300M in Sales including a JV - over half the company o Grew Sales from $198M in 2016 to $250M in 2017. Stock price more than doubled from $9 in 2016 to $24 one year later o A DTF Capital analyst commented Aug 4 2017: "Management has delivered strong performance all rounds. The most successful feat was a massive improvement in the Tubular and Energy Segment." Energy Business Units included: IOS (Downhole tubular and tools inspection and threading), Chemtec (Midstream and Downstream measurements and injection) and Protective Coatings (Pipeline Coating - long lengths and small special sections) Construction Business Units included: Piling and Bridge Board Director for LB Pipe and Coupling Joint Venture producing couplings for the oilfield, as well as equipment for the Construction field. Show less
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SALTEL INDUSTRIES
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France
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Oil and Gas
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1 - 100 Employee
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Executive Vice-President
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May 2013 - Jul 2016
Took break-through Expandable Steel Packer technology to the worldwide market and grew the Completions Segment globally servicing both the unconventional shale market and the higher end offshore and deep-water wells from North America to Brazil and Argentina, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. The company sold to Schlumberger in 2016. Took break-through Expandable Steel Packer technology to the worldwide market and grew the Completions Segment globally servicing both the unconventional shale market and the higher end offshore and deep-water wells from North America to Brazil and Argentina, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. The company sold to Schlumberger in 2016.
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Artificial Lift Company Ltd
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Houston, Texas, USA
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President and CEO
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Oct 2010 - Apr 2013
Private Equity owned. The Board was composed of a large Private Equity Firm, a Middle East fund and a UK founder. Featured in 2011 Who’s Who in Energy: Oilfield Services, Houston Business Journal • Developed “white paper” strategy and business plan and worked with strategic and financial private equity investors to raise capital. • Radically transformed the original UK-based prototype development start-up into a worldwide commercial deployment and support service company. Set-up mother company and children entities for the different countries and to host IP. • Hired and trained sales and operations professionals across 4 regions: North & South America, Middle East and North Africa, Europe and Africa, Asia-Pacific. Leveraged relationships with operators and distributors to increase revenue by 500%. Established Quality, Technology and People company-wide culture in the Engineering, Manufacturing, and Operations divisions. Achieved zero incident in Operations through strong Safety culture. The company sold to BakerHughes in 2022. Show less
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SLB
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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700 & Above Employee
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General Manager - Completions - East Asia
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Apr 2008 - Oct 2010
Received "Outstanding" Performance Review for:• Radically changed the sales and operations structure to diversify the revenue from one large core Completions project to a fast growing (over 200% growth) Sand Management, Reservoir Monitoring & Control and Core Completions operations. Established 3-year plan to capture true market size and segmentation, covering 6 countries (Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, and Philippines)• Managed the business profitably through recession and growth: from $27M in 2009 to $60M in 2010, growing to $145M in 2011• Positioned operations for Sand Management Services - growing revenue from $1M in 2008 to $25M in 2010 and over $80M in 2011 -: creating a true SMS organization with bases in Malaysia and Brunei, achieving strong Service Quality impact (received letter of commendation from Petronas) • Awarded large contracts between $40M and $60M with Majors, National Oil Companies, and Independent Oil Companies including 5-year Reservoir Monitoring & Control contract and Shell Gumusut Sand control contract – including Schlumberger BIGORANGE Stimulation and Frac vessel.• Achieved first penetration and positioned operations for long-term activity in new markets: Brunei, Thailand and Myanmar• Re-designed the existing operations bases for LEAN Show less
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General Manager - Advanced Lifting Services, North and South America
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Jan 2006 - Mar 2008
Developed road map and executed implementation of new Schlumberger service to complement and transform existing Artificial Lift product sales business. o Established the Artificial Lift Service as a differentiator to enable Schlumberger Artificial Lift $1.2B revenue Segment to exceed 15% YOY growth - Awarded long term service contracts with new operatorso Established business models, pricing and sales package for Business Development Managers/Sales Managers and Application Engineerso Presented and sold the service in all countries: USA, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexicoo Created and leveraged the North & South America Production Center of Excellence to deliver a world class production and reservoir/EOR service to operators. o Leveraged newly developed espWatcher Surveillance (data transmission and yellow alarm) to bring the data to Production and Reservoir experts Show less
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WorldWide Product Champion - espWatcher, Well Completions and Productivity
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Jan 2003 - Dec 2005
• Developed worldwide strategy, international service deployment and product integration for espWatcher as an enabler for Advanced Lifting Services. espWatcher is a Worldwide data transmission and integration system allowing web-based Surveillance and Diagnostics of Electric Submersible Pump (ESP) wells to optimize oil production and enable reservoir management• Achieved product commercialization in June 2005 - the result of a 3-year development effort with 6 different engineering centers around the world and 4 divisions.• Deployment: 600 wells, service used by 70 customers in over 20 countries. Presented and sold the service in each of the countries.• Established business models, implemented worldwide operations guidelines, developed price list, initiated opportunities and competition tracking • Developed marketing tools: bulletins with client endorsement, brochure with inserts, papers for professional society conferences, case studies, movie….• Set up training in the different training centers Show less
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Manager, Field Surveillance and Optimization Answer Products, Well Completions and Productivity
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Mar 2001 - Dec 2002
Part of the initial task force to leverage Schlumberger Production and Reservoir experts to offer services to complement the historical Completions and Artificial Lift Product Sales business.Helped create and staff new Production focused center in the UK (over 100 employees). Developed Production Well Test and Production forecasting software applications to be used by operators and/or internally.
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Engineering Product Line Manager -Intelligent Flow Control Valves, Well Completions and Productivity
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Jan 1999 - Feb 2001
Strategic project following Schlumberger entry in Completions following the Camco acquisition. Designed, introduced and commercialized Schlumberger first Flow Control Valves in record time (less than 9 months from paper concept to installation)Recipient of the "Performed by Schlumberger" President Gold Award Recipient of Hart's E&P 2002 Special Meritorious Award for Engineering Innovation
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Engineering Product Line Manager - Rotary Steerable Systems, Drilling and Measurements
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Jan 1997 - Dec 1998
Designed, introduced and commercialized the “Point the bit” PowerDrive Exceed Rotary Steerable System. The system is still in use today and generated over $10B for Schlumberger Drilling Segment.Managed $4M/year engineering budget, leading a team of 25 engineers: mechanical, electrical, software and control, manufacturing.Awarded Hart's E&P 2004 Special Meritorious Award for Engineering Innovation
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Real-time Task Force Manager, Drilling and Measurements
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Jan 1996 - Dec 1996
The group was designed as a task force addressing all communication issues between the different downhole tools being run as part of the drilling and measurements tool string, and communication to surface and interpretation systems. Reduced failures by over 90%.
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Engineering Manager, Drilling and Measurements
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Jan 1993 - Dec 1995
Managing engineers, designers, and technicians designing, testing and qualifying the Schlumberger IMPulse system – the slim hole MWD-LWD tool of choice still used by Schlumberger today. Awarded Drilling President's Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Success of Anadrill
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Design Engineer, Drilling and Measurements
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Jan 1992 - Dec 1993
Designing, testing and qualifying the Schlumberger PowerPulse system – the MWD tool of choice still used by Schlumberger today. Designed the modulator (data generation siren) and managed the power budget from power generation at the turbine/alternator to the motor and siren.Awarded Schlumberger President's Award
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Field Engineer and Field Service Manager, Drilling and Measurements
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Jan 1991 - Jan 1992
Became data communication and reliability expert for the North Sea sector. Ran first Schlumberger triple combo while drilling.Commendation from Drilling & Measurements President for internal cost analysisPetroleum Engineer International D&P Yearbook Award for Worldwide deepest MWD Measurements of Resistivity, Density and Neutron
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Engineering Intern, Drilling and Measurements
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Jan 1990 - Dec 1990
Designed and patented the mud pump cancellation system to allow the Schlumberger MWD systems to reach published record depths.
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Education
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MS, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering -
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management
Strategic Innovation Program, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services -
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electricité et de Mécanique (ENSEM)
Diplome d'Ingenieur, Mechanical, Power, Electrical, Control and Computer Science Engineering