Management & Organization

Thierry PILENKO
Chairman and CEO

Before joining Technip in 2007, Thierry Pilenko was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Veritas DGC, a seismic services company based in Houston. While at Veritas DGC he successfully managed its merger with the Compagnie Générale de Géophysique.
Prior to this appointment, Pilenko held various management and executive positions with Schlumberger where he started in 1984 as a geologist. He held several international positions in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia before becoming President of Schlumberger GeoQuest in Houston and subsequently Managing Director of SchlumbergerSema in Paris until 2004.
Thierry Pilenko holds degrees from France’s Nancy School of Geology (1981) and the IFP School (1982). He serves on the Board of Directors of Hercules Offshore (USA). Since April 2012, Thierry Pilenko is also a member of the Supervisory Board of Peugeot S.A. (France).

Philippe BARRIL
Executive Vice President
and Chief Operating Officer Onshore/Offshore

In his current role since July 2011, Philippe Barril joined Technip in 2009 as Senior Vice President, Onshore-Offshore Product Lines and Technologies before being named Senior Vice President Region A (one of the Group’s seven Region’s covering Western Europe, Africa India and Pakistan). Prior to this he held various positions in the hydrocarbon industry including stints at Entrepose contracting and Bouygues Offshore as well as a first experience at Technip from 2002 to 2005 as Senior Vice President Africa-Mediterranean Sea Offshore and Subsea.
Philippe Barril is a graduate of Ecole Centrale Lyon (1988).

John HARRISON
General Counsel

John Harrison brings extensive international experience to Technip having started his career in 1991 at the international law firm Clifford Chance, working consecutively in their London, New York and Paris offices. From 1998 onwards he held senior legal positions in Airbus and in the EADS Group.
Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales since 1993, John Harrison completed his academic studies at the University of McGill, Montréal, Canada. He holds a Bachelors (LLB (Hons)) and Master (LLM) of Laws degree.

Thierry PARMENTIER
Human Resources Director

Thierry Parmentier joined Technip in March 2008 as Senior Vice President International Staff Management and was named Director of Human Resources in June 2009.
Prior to joining Technip and over a twenty-year period, Thierry held various senior HR positions at Schlumberger, Atos Origin and Faurecia.
He holds a Masters degree in law from the University of Paris II.

Frédéric DELORMEL
Executive Vice President
and Chief Operating Officer Subsea

Frédéric Delormel joined Technip’s Executive Committee as Senior Vice President, Subsea in February 2011. He was subsequently named Executive Vice President and COO of the Group’s Subsea Division in July 2011. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of Technip in Brazil. Frédéric’s 30-year career includes management positions within large, international companies such as Groupe Lazard, Groupe Flo and Compagnie des Wagons Lits et du Tourisme, in addition to Technip. He began his career within the Group at Coflexip (acquired by Technip in 2001) with a five-year stint as Project Engineer, then Project Manager before earning an MBA from INSEAD in 1987. He also holds a degree in civil engineering from the Ecole des Mines (ENSMIN).

 

Nello UCCELLETTI
Senior Vice President Onshore

After receiving a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Naples, Nello Uccelletti joined Technip in 1978. He has spent his entire career within the Group in positions including Manager of Technip Italy's Engineering Department and Middle East Business and Projects Units. In 2001 he was given the responsibility of Technip Group's Middle East Business and Project Units. From the end of 2005 he was in charge of all Business Development Activities for Technip Italy including the Middle East, Southern and Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia and South America. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Technip Italy in April 2007, and Senior Vice President, Region B in October 2007. In July 2010, he became Senior Vice President Onshore.

 

Julian WALDRON
Chief Financial Officer

Julian Waldron, a graduate of Cambridge University, started his career at the investment bank UBS Warburg where he spent 14 years. He then worked at Thomson where he was Chief Financial Officer from 2001 and interim Chief Executive Officer from March 2008 to August 2008.
He joined Technip in October 2008, as Chief Financial Officer.

 

The Executive Committee prepares decisions for submission to Technip's Board of Directors, concerning, in particular, the approval of the accounts, the definition of the objectives and budgets, the strategic orientations and the acquisitions or sales of assets and companies. It is also consulted on plans and recommendations for internal auditing, IT and telecommunications, human resources and asset management issues.

The Chief Operating Officers (COOs), are responsible for the entire operational organization of their respective division covering the business and all execution resources.

Reporting to the COOs are:

• 7 Regions that are fully accountable for projects and client relations;
• an integrated business unit in charge of Subsea assets and technologies;
• 9 Product Business Units providing expertise to the Regions

The Group's corporate divisions –Finance and Control, Human Resources, General Counsel and Communications, QHSE, Security, and Risk Management– support the Regions and Business Units and report to the Chairman and CEO.

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