AJ Patel

Project Management and Business Development

Midstream, Clean tech

 

United States, Canada 

1. What is your profession? Or if you are retired, what was your profession?

Engineer

2. What are your areas of expertise?

Midstream:  Projects, Engineering, Operations, Corporate Development, Technology

Clean Tech: Engineering, Project Management, Technology

Types of Clean Tech: Solar, Nuclear, CO2 capture, Hydrogen

3. Current employer:

Williams

FMC Technologies, US Navy

5. How did you end up in the Energy Industry?

I grew up in the Houston area so the energy industry was always front of mind and interesting to me.

6. Why do you like working with Start-Ups?

The people are motivated and high energy.

Okay, now for some fun things about AJ…

7. What are three of your interests outside of work?

• Reading

• Golf

• Vacations

8.  What are your top 3 accomplishments (personal or professional)?  Don’t be shy!  Give ‘em to us.

• I have nice children (this is due to my wife not me but I was able to convince her to marry me)

• Submarine Warfare Pin

• Completed ~$1 billion worth of capital projects for the owners of my company

9.  If I were a superhero, my superpower would be               .

Ability to drive while sleeping, reading, or anything else besides driving.

10. When I was 5, I was pretty sure I'd be a                 when I grew up.

Astronaut

11. If I weren't so damn good at what I do now, I'd probably be                 .

Gangster Rapper

12.  My favorite song is               by            .

Don't have one. I like a lot of different music.

13.  If I won the lottery tomorrow, I'd          .

Tech Startup that develops an app for calculating a tip at a restaurant. It is called the "Guju Tip Calculator" no matter what number you type in to calculate the tip the answer is "0".

14.  The best piece of advice I've ever been given is                              .

Invest early in life and don't wait.