Management Bios

Thierry Pilenko is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Technip, a world leader in engineering, technologies and project management for the oil and gas industry.
Before joining Technip in 2007, he 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. 

Philippe Barril is Senior Vice President Offshore of Technip, a world leader in engineering, technologies and project management for the oil and gas industry. He also manages the activities of the Region A, one of the Group’s seven Regions covering Western Europe, Africa, India and Pakistan.
Before joining the Group in 2009 as Senior Vice President, Onshore-Offshore Products Lines and Technologies, he was Deputy COO of Entrepose Contracting.
Previously, Philippe Barril held various positions in the hydrocarbon industry where he gained a vast international experience. He was notably responsible for the Western Africa activities of Bouygues Offshore before having 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 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 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 was appointed Senior Vice President, Subsea in February 2011.  He is also 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).

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, 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.