Jose Mauro Ferreira

Business Development and Sales

Upstream

South America

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

Mechanical Engineer with MBA Executive Administration

2. What are your areas of expertise?

Upstream: Technology, Corporate Development, Mechanical Eng., Executive, Commercial, Sales, Supply Chain, Marketing

Upstream Areas: Offshore, Onshore

3. Current employer:

Diretriz Consultiva Empresarial (Guidance Consulting)

4. Previous employers:

TechnipFMC and FMC Technologies

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

Start as drilling engineer to support drilling bit technical sales, them completion and most of it subsea system

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

To have the opportunity to introduce new market solutions and help to expedite the success of this companies by leveraging my long business experience.

Okay, now for some fun things about Jose…

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

Family
Friends
Help people

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

I have built a long career in just one company achieving VP Commercial at TechnipFMC / FMC Technologies and collected many business awards.
I am proud of the legacy of people that I had the opportunity to form and contribute to their careers.
I participated in many new subsea solution introduced the market

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

Relationship

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 .

Product engineer development

12. My favorite song is

many

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

digital App to link skilled people/companies to market demand.

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

Focus on relationship, understand your cliente first, do not ask formal question that you do not know the answer.