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title: Jay Rampersad
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## **Jay Rampersad**

**Strategy, Operations and Change Leadership**

> Upstream
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> United States

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

Vice President of Operations

2. What are your areas of expertise?

Upstream: General Management, Operations, Sales, Project Management, I.T./Digital

Upstream Areas: Offshore, onshore

3. Current Employer:

Top secret information

4. Previous Employers:

Stratum Reservoir, Schlumberger (Various positions around the world)

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

I come from a small island in the Caribbean, but from a place that is quite industrialized. I always wanted to be an engineer and having been a boy scout for several years, I’ve always had a great love for the outdoors, and made friends from different countries at various jamborees. When Schlumberger called and invited me to start a job in Egypt and, moreover described a career where I’d spend more time in the field than in an office, and get to travel and interact with people from all over the world, I felt like I’d won the lottery and jumped at the chance!  

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

These are spaces where excitement, creativity and innovation exist, spiced with just a hint of fear of the unknown and a notable absence of bureaucracy. Start-ups are where you will consistently find passionate, focused, and dedicated people with optimism and positive outlooks for the future.

From a personal standpoint, I genuinely love helping and working with people, and whenever I can add diversity of opinion and feedback in places where I can actually witness the value of my input, I find it extremely rewarding. (And, maybe I get to meet the next Steve Jobs or Larry Page, along the way…)

> ## Okay, now for some fun things about Jay…

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

- Enjoying the great outdoors
- Running
- Cricket

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

- Growing the Wireline Business in the Caribbean/Guyana region by over 600% in 4 years.
- Raising three very different children, but all of whom are amazing, caring and trustworthy people.
- Getting over shin splints which limited my running to 2 miles, to completing a full marathon and five half marathons.

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

Always understanding the perspective and motives of other people.

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

I actually don't remember (!) It was definitely before 10 when I decided I wanted to be an engineer though...

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

Operating a commercial aquaponics farm, and training less fortunate people back in the Caribbean on how to utilize smaller land spaces to sustain themselves.

12.  My favorite song is               by            .

Hmmmm.... unfair question to ask a fellow from the Caribbean who enjoys soca as much as he enjoys Reggae or Hard/Classic Rock, 80s Pop, Alternative/Grunge: Depends on the day and the mood I'm in I suppose.

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

start a(an) Aquaponics company

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

Take time along the way to smell the roses (Be ever mindful of the present).