Cooper Gill
Business Development and Sales
Upstream
United States, Europe, Asia, South America
1. What is your profession? Or if you are retired, what was your profession?
Business Development
2. What are your areas of expertise?
Upstream: Reservoir Engineering, Technology, Completions, General Management, Geophysical, Sales, Commercial
Upstream Areas: Offshore, Onshore
3. Current Employer:
Biota Technology
4. Previous Employers:
OptaSense, Murphy Oil Corporation, Baker Hughes
5. How did you end up in the Energy Industry?
Dumb luck, career fair at UT and had great interview with my future director on campus. Black Gold the reality tv show was my only reference.
6. Why do you like working with Start-Ups?
The ability to set ambitious goals and hit them. Creating a new market, product, customer is really, really fun and you get to have pride of ownership.
Okay, now for some fun things about Cooper…
7. What are three of your interests outside of work?
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Family
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Camping
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Learning new topics
8. What are your top 3 accomplishments (personal or professional)? Don’t be shy! Give ‘em to us.
9. If I were a superhero, my superpower would be .
To go without sleep!
10. When I was 5, I was pretty sure I'd be a when I grew up.
Lawyer, so glad I was wrong and not sure why I wanted to be one.
11. If I weren't so damn good at what I do now, I'd probably be .
Selling something different
12. My favorite song is by .
"Gringo Honeymoon" - Robert Earl Keen
13. If I won the lottery tomorrow, I'd .
start a K-12 school that focuses on STEM and problem solving.
14. The best piece of advice I've ever been given is .
"Go to class and take care of business." My high school physics teacher
