Roughneck Camp 2024

Lee Tillman is chairman, president and CEO of Marathon Oil Corporation and chairman of the Marathon Oil Corporation Board of Directors. He joined the Company in August 2013.

Prior to joining Marathon Oil, Lee served as vice president of engineering for ExxonMobil Development Company (a project design and execution company), where he was responsible for all global engineering staff engaged in major project concept selection, front-end design and engineering. He served as North Sea production manager and lead country manager for subsidiaries of ExxonMobil in Stavanger, Norway, from 2007 and 2010, and as acting vice president, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company from 2006 to 2007. Lee began his career in the oil and gas industry at Exxon Corporation in 1989 as a research engineer and has extensive operations management and leadership experience that has included assignments in Jakarta, Indonesia; Aberdeen, Scotland; Stavanger, Norway; Malabo, Equatorial Guinea; Dallas and New Orleans.

Lee sits on the board and the executive committee of both the American Petroleum Institute and the American Exploration & Production Council. He is a member of the Chemical Engineering and Engineering Advisory Councils of Texas A&M University and is a member of the National Petroleum Council and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He serves on the board of directors of the Houston Area and Southwest Region of the American Heart Association and is a member of the Celebration of Reading Committee within the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation, and a member of the advisory board of Spindletop Charities

Lee earned a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Auburn University.

Todd Bush is an Energy entrepreneur and Managing Director of Decarbonfuse.com, a leading resource on industrial decarbonization. He is passionate about understanding market problems and identifying opportunities with data.

This past year, Tom started Fuse Markets with the Decarbonfuse.com newsletter to build a resource for executives, engineers, and investors to find capital, build projects, and discover opportunities.

Previously, Tom founded Energent Group, a data-driven SaaS for energy logistics insights, and exited the company to Westwood Global Energy. While at Westwood, I led their onshore energy team.

Tom has advised 20+ venture-funded and bootstrapped startups on market entry into energy, software, oil & gas, solar, utilities, logistics, rail, and the intertwined energy value chain. Managed $5 million to $50 million programs at a major energy companies, ranging from data analytics, competitive intelligence, trading, and operations to environment and safety solutions.

He also led and consulted on international energy transactions for commercial due diligence on equipment, technology, and services related to conventional, renewable, and new energy sources.

As President of the Energy Workforce & Technology Council, Molly Determan is a leader in the development and management of the association’s strategy and activities to promote the energy services and technology sector of the oil and gas industry.

Determan advocates on behalf of the energy workforce and speaks frequently on workforce, culture, leadership, HSE and supply chain. Additionally, she oversees Energy Workforce Committees, including those focused on leadership development, best practice sharing and benchmarking, as well as the acclaimed State Department Houston Energy Course.

Determan has bachelor’s degrees in Journalism and German from Samford University in Birmingham, AL. Determan serves on the World Oil Editorial Board, Success to Significance Host Committee for Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council, and is a member of Rotary International. She was named an E&P Magazine “40 Under Forty” honoree in 2021, and HBJ’s Women Who Mean Business Award in 2023.

Mo Chahal is asset manager, Williston and Rockies, in the Gulf Coast & Rockies business unit for ConocoPhillips.

Originally from the U.K., Chahal has 20 years of experience working in a variety of technical and management roles across the U.S. and Europe. He has held leadership positions in operations, subsurface development and appraisal, corporate planning and strategy and capital projects, supporting offshore conventional, LNG, onshore unconventional and EOR assets.

Chahal earned a Master of Engineering degree with honors in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, London in 2003. He is also a Chartered Engineer in Europe and a Project Management Professional.

Maziar is currently a Petroleum Engineer at Iron Orchard Operating, a unique private player in the Permian Basin. His expertise spans upstream energy strategy, midstream infrastructure, public policy, geopolitical risk, data analytics, and software development. At Iron Orchard, Maziar specializes in production operations, acquisitions and divestitures (A&D), and all digital technology efforts, leveraging his broad experience to drive innovation and efficiency.

Before his current role, Maziar served as a Senior Consultant at S&P Global Commodity Insights' Upstream Technical Consulting practice in Houston, TX, where he led client engagement in M&A due diligence and thought leadership initiatives. His work involved close collaboration with public/private C-suite executives and government officials drawing on his diverse industry experience.

Maziar actively contributes to the professional community as a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Gulf Coast Section. He is the Young Professionals representative of the US National Committee to the World Petroleum Council (WPC Energy) and is recognized as a Future Energy Leader by the CERAweek Future Energy Leaders Program. Additionally, he serves as the President of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) Petroleum Academy Alumni Network.

Maziar started his professional career by laying a diverse foundation, initially working as an Energy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy in Washington, D.C., where he focused on natural gas regulation and international engagement. His early involvement in the energy industry began at the age of 16 with internship roles at Shell Oil Company, Bechtel Corporation,  and later TimkenSteel at the university level. Maziar received his B.S. Petroleum Engineering from the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston with additional minor in Energy & Sustainability from the University of Houston Honors College.

By documenting her nontraditional career on Instagram and YouTube as a fresh chemical engineering graduate from McGill University, the then-Wireline Field Engineer quickly rose to virtual stardom, sharing her passion for the industry and encouraging young girls to explore oil and gas careers.

Her authenticity and openness about the struggles and challenges of working away from home struck a chord with viewers, and her audience skyrocketed. Massiel holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from McGill University and has spent the last 11 years working at SLB. She started her career in the field, transitioned to a sales role and is now the communications manager for one of the divisions. She is the co-founder of Flipping the Barrel, a movement in the energy space that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion in the industry.

Luis Alcoser is GM of Future Energy within for Chevron Technology Ventures where he leads the Future Energy Fund investment activities in the areas of hydrogen, CCUS, mobility, energy storage, distributed power, energy efficiency, carbon markets/offsets and circular economy. During his 12 years working in venture capital & innovation, Luis has led origination, evaluation, piloting/qualification, scale-up and spin-out of novel technologies & investment opportunities in the energy, digital and hard tech spaces.

Prior to joining Chevron, Luis spent 20 years holding various upstream engineering, operations, business development and venture capital leadership roles with BP, Shell, Noble Energy and Schlumberger where he led upstream projects in conventional and unconventional plays across the continental U.S., deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Israel, Russia, Malaysia, Equatorial Guinea and Angola.

Luis holds a B.S. degree in Natural Gas Engineering and an M.E. degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University, an MBA and Master of Finance degrees from Tulane University as well as a Law degree (J.D.) from the University of Houston.

Kimberly Krieger is the Vice President of Midstream at bpx energy, BP’s US Onshore oil and gas business, where she is accountable for the safe and sustainable gathering and processing of over 380,000 bpd equivalent production while delivering the Permian infrastructure buildout, doubling system capacity by mid-2025.  As part of the bpx Executive Team, Kim is delivering on a shared vision to disrupt US Onshore Operations with rapid innovation and game changing technologies. Aligning with BP’s vision on the energy transition, Kim’s engaged her organization with a strategic plan to sustainably reduce emissions from operations while continuing to maximize value.  

Prior to joining bpx energy in 2014, Kim held several leadership and operational engineering roles with BP in Alaska, Trinidad, and the Gulf of Mexico that helped shaped the leader she is today.  Kim enjoys mentoring, innovation, and values lifelong learning to stay on the leading edge.  She serves on the board of directors and executive committee for the Texas Oil & Gas Association and the board of trustees for Houston Christian High School.  She holds a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Wyoming and is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program.  Kim and her husband, Andy Krieger, work to balance their careers and treasure family time with their teenage daughters.

Entrepreneur. Dreamer. Scientist. Kevin has spent 25 years on the front lines of the energy innovation in numerous executive leadership roles across the industry. Starting his career in as a roughneck on the oilrigs of Northern Alberta he grew through the ranks until he was Chief Executive of Canada’s oldest drilling company. In the midst of the pandemic and negative oil prices, he began Canada’s first energy technology venture studio and Alberta’s first energy venture capital fund backed by some of the largest energy companies in the work, as CEO of Avatar Innovations.

Accomplished in corporate strategy and governance, capital planning, marketing, technology and intellectual property management, Kevin’s leadership has led to the creation, financing and execution of some of the first fully computerized drilling rig in Canada, the first long-reach horizontal well in the Canadian arctic, numerous joint ventures with Canada’s Indigenous peoples fostering Economic Reconciliation in remote communities and the creation of the Calgary Energy Transition Center. 

Having led a major corporation through the disruption of the Canadian energy industry, Kevin is uniquely positioned to lead Avatar Innovations’ ambitious plan unlocking energy transition solutions inside oil and gas for investment, commercialization and scale. Kevin holds a Bachelor of Science from McGill University and a Masters of Business Administration from the Haskayne School of Business and currently serves on board of directors of Energy Safety Canada and the steering committees of both the Clean Resource Innovation Network (CRIN) and the Energy Futures Lab (EFL). Kevin was named by the Globe & Mail Newspaper as one of the “Top 50 Global Changemakers working in Canada” in 2023.

Kevin Dooley is a carbon transport engineer working at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) leading the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management’s carbon transport program that supports the de-risking of the movement of carbon across all modes of transport.  Prior to the DOE, Kevin has over 10 years industry experience spanning from downstream refining, upstream O&G major capital project development, midstream pipeline design and integrity management, and marine scheduling in support of international crude trading. Kevin has a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from the University of Texas.

Wood’s Katie Zimmerman is a prominent energy industry leader highly experienced in engineering and technical solutions for energy transition.

Named one of the industry’s Top 50 women in hydrogen by the Hydrogen Economist and a Woman Who Means Business by the Houston Business Journal, Katie is an expert in hydrogen and carbon capture - two of the world’s fastest growing clean energy solutions.  

Based in the world’s energy capital, Houston, Texas, Katie’s own career story began in oil and gas as a process engineer for offshore and shale market sectors. Seeing the opportunities for new energies to achieve net zero, Katie now plays a leading role in developing solutions for decarbonisation to reduce emissions and helping the world’s energy companies effectively deliver major clean hydrogen and carbon capture projects. 

Justin Lo, technical manager of Chevron’s Enterprise AI organization, is responsible for leading the acceleration of building and scaling traditional AI and generative AI capabilities across the company. Prior to his current role, he was the head of the data science and analytics organization comprised of data scientists, machine learning engineers, and business intelligence analysts. This includes rapidly building and delivering the analytics portfolio and developing solutions across Chevron’s globally distributed business units.  Justin joined Chevron in 2013 as a data scientist focused on business problems in Chevron’s North America upstream businesses before moving into technical people leadership roles with increasing responsibilities over time.  He received bachelor’s degrees in biomedical engineering and liberal arts Plan II from the University of Texas in Austin. He also holds a doctorate in biomedical engineering from Duke University.

Jordan Zweig is the Senior Vice President and CHRO of ChampionX (NASDAQ: CHX) with the privilege of leading human resources (HR) since June 2020. ChampionX is a global leader in chemistry solutions, artificial lift systems, and highly engineered equipment and technologies that help companies drill for and produce oil and gas safely, efficiently, and sustainably around the world.

Jordan has immersed himself in energy, industrial and healthcare organizations for more than 30 years and has extensive global experiences living and working in complex geographies around the world. Prior to his current role, Jordan led HR for Ecolab’s Institutional division, Ecolab’s founding operating business. He started his Ecolab’s career as the Vice President and Head of HR for Nalco Champion based in Sugar Land, Texas.

Prior to joining Ecolab, Jordan worked for General Electric for close to 14 years in various HR leadership positions working in their Supply, Oil & Gas and Healthcare business divisions in Turkey, Italy, the United Kingdom, as well as the US. He began his formal HR career at Rotorex, Inc. and progressed to HR Leadership roles with Graham Packaging Company and Monsanto Company.

Jordan achieved a B.S. degree in Business Administration and an M.S. degree in Industrial Relations from West Virginia University, where he now serves on the university’s John Chambers College of Business & Economics Advisory Council. Jordan also serves on the Board of Trustees at the Post Oak School and is an Advisor for Colleva, whose mission is to improve soft skills by applying advanced technologies.

Based at the company’s global headquarters in The Woodlands, Texas, Jordan resides in Houston with his wife, Christi, and son, Ethan.

As Chief Digital Officer of Baker Hughes’s Oilfield Services and Equipment (OFSE) business segment, Jim Brady directs the development and execution of the organization’s digital strategy leveraging 35 years of oil and gas industry experience. An electrical engineer by trade, Jim started and spent 32 years of his career at Schlumberger, working his way up from a wireline systems engineering to the vice president of digital operations. Jim also held executive roles in hardware, software and IT, while in WesternGeco, SIS, WesternGeco, and global IT. 

Prior to joining Baker Hughes, Jim was CTO - Energy at EPAM, where he directed technology and solution strategy for the Energy Software and Services division, working with companies on their own digital transformation. Prior to EPAM, he was CIO at Katerra, a Silicon Valley construction technology startup. Jim earned a bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and economics at the University of California and holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas with a research specialty in Computer Architecture and Computer Vision.

Jeff Miers is the Global Director of Partnerships and Alliances for the Energy & Utilities Industry Business Unit (IBU) at Amazon Web Services (AWS), based in Houston. At AWS Jeff works with traditional oil and gas, renewable energy producers, and utility customers and partners on solutions to key business and operational challenges.
Prior to joining AWS, Jeff was a Managing Director at Accenture where he spent 27 years leading consulting and systems implementation projects with clients through all aspects of the energy industry, including upstream, downstream, oilfield services, deregulated gas and power.

Jeff serves as a member of the board of directors for Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas, Spring Spirit and the Galveston Bay Foundation, and previously served on the board of the Houston Golf Association.
Jeff holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin with highest honors.

Janice is the CEO and Co-Founder of Kanin Energy, a company developing projects that convert industrial waste heat into clean baseload power.

Prior to Kanin, Janice was an early employee and Director at Generate Capital, a project finance investment firm that focuses on investing in renewable energy projects. There she built North America’s largest portfolio on anaerobic digestions assets. Her role spanned across deal execution, origination, market development and asset management. Prior to Generate Capital, Janice worked at NRG, one of America’s largest power producers. Janice was integral in the implementation of their renewable microgrids business line. Janice is also the co-founder of Student Energy, a non-profit which is today’s largest global charity dedicated to educating and uniting post-secondary students on energy issues.

Janice is a licensed Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) in Canada. She holds a Master of Science in Sustainability Management from Columbia University in New York, where she received an Earth Institute Fellowship. Janice also has a Master’s in Accounting from the University of Saskatchewan, and double majored with a BA in Philosophy and BComm in Accounting from the University of Calgary.

After serving in the United States Marine Corps, Jake dove headfirst into the oil and gas tech scene in 2013 co-founding some of the first cloud-based tech startups and later co-hosting the first podcast in oil and gas. Now, Jake is a cofounder at Digital Wildcatters and spends most of his time at the intersection of Energy and Tech.

Andy leads Enverus’s Commercial Intelligence team, which produces research about energy companies’ valuations, forecasts, and strategies. He directly covers large-cap E&Ps, engages industry and institutional clients, and contributes to product development. Andy joined Enverus in 2019 after spending the previous decade working for other energy-analytics and E&P firms. He is based in Houston.

Ms. Alexander is Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for Coterra.

Ms. Alexander is a proven Human Resources leader with a history of building effective organizations and leading high-performing teams. She brings a wealth of experience from extensive corporate and consulting leadership. 

Prior to joining Coterra, Ms. Alexander was Chief People Officer at Rent the Runway from 2021 to 2023. In addition, she was at McKinsey & Company from 2009 until 2021 in roles of increasing responsibility, including Associate Partner. 

Ms. Alexander holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and an MBA from Harvard Business School. 

Ms. Alexander currently serves as a board member for Teach for America Houston and the Buffalo Bayou Partnership. She enjoys her busy (and hectic) life as a mom of 3 young girls.

Amir Hermes is the New Energy Business Development Manager for SLB, located in Houston, a position he assumes since April 2023. 

Prior to this role, Amir held various Technology Development and Management positions including most recently Product Line Manager for SLB’s North America Offshore business, based out of Houston, Texas.

He started his career with Schlumberger in 2003 in France and has worked since then internationally in the Middle East, the United States of America, the North Sea and Continental Europe, holding roles in several business functions including Engineering & Manufacturing , Operations, Sales, and Marketing. 

Amir holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Ecole Centrale Paris in France and a Master’s in Management of the Energy Industry from the Heriot Watt university in United Kingdom.