Arturo Valencia

Arturo Valencia

Executive Leadership and Business Development

Midstream, Downstream, Upstream
 
United States, Middle East, Europe, Mexico, south America, Asia

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

ME, MBA, GELP

2. What are your areas of expertise?

Midstream:  Operations, Projects, I.T./Digital, Technology

Downstream subsegment:  Retail 

Downstream disciplines: Digital, Operations

Upstream:  Technology, Operations, Facilities Management, I.T./Digital

3. Current Employer:

Top secret information

4. Previous Employers:

TechnipFMC, FMC Technologies, Flowserve, John Crane

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

After working on turbomachinery engineering that was applicable to all the industrial segments I was recruited in FMC Technologies to lead Latin America. 

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

Because that is where the newest technologies are being developed on an unbiased manner, focusing on how to solve the new problems of the world with a new approach rather than trying to use the same old methodologies and technologies to new challenges.

Okay, now for some fun things about Arturo…

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

  • Tennis

  • Woodworking

  • Emerging talent development through coaching and mentoring

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

  • Developed the vision, long term strategy and technology road map to transform a product selling business unit into a successful solution, value added selling organization by developing a solution based on the pyramid of integration from the products and hardware up to the systems integration with the customers' global ERP systems.

  • Led the definition and implementation of corporate strategy to penetrate the North America shale production facilities market that resulted on the development from concept to commercialization , commissioning and start up of the first ever modular automated production facility reducing customer's CapEx by over 30%, field deployment and start up (faster first oil) by over 35% and reduction on furtive green house emissions from the production facilities in over 50%.

  • Developed the upstream D&C market in Latin America implementing new drilling time saving technologies and commercial models that resulted on opening of the Argentina and Brazil operation and strengthening of Mexico and Colombia creating hypergrowth of the business unit under my responsibility and establishing as the second-to-none leadership position in the market.

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

Time traveling - Not to look ah

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

An Engineer.... and I did it!

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

A software coder.

12.  My favorite song is               by            .

Mozart's Magic Flute - "Queen of the Night aria".

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

Non-profit business mentoring company to help neighborhood small business to thrive.

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

Always behave following your values, with the highest ethical compass and unquestionable integrity so that you don't have to hide any action from anyone.