John Griffin

John Griffin

Business Development and Operations

Upstream
 
United States

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

Servant Leader

2. What are your areas of expertise?

Upstream

Upstream Areas: Offshore, Onshore

3. Current employer:

Buckskin, LLC

4. Previous Employers:

TechnipFMC, FTO Services, FMC Technologies, Bobby's Exxon

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

Interested in the travel and overseas living

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

Creative, first principles thinking, frugal and urgent decision-making

Okay, now for some fun things about John…

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

  • My family

  • Studying the Bible

  • Training horses

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

  • My family

  • FTO Services

  • Over a decade of coaching youth basketball and influencing kids to work hard and work as a team

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

Balancing the federal budget and having everyone agree it is a great idea

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

Kind and interesting person

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

A bookstore owner

12.  My favorite song is               by            .

I don't really have a favorite song

13.  If I won the lottery tomorrow, I'd           company. And, of course, still be a Villager.

Coffee

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

Remember that person is someone else's hero