Marcus Smedley
Strategic Sales, Product Strategy, and Operations
Upstream
United States, Europe, Asia, South America, Africa
1. What is your profession? Or if you are retired, what was your profession?
Oilfield Service Executive
2. What are your areas of expertise?
Upstream: General Management, Technology, Operations, Drilling, Mechanical Engineering, Executive, Commercial, Sales, Project Management, Supply Chain, Marketing
Upstream Areas: Offshore, Onshore
3. Current Employer:
Top secret information
4. Previous Employers:
Dril-Quip Inc., FMC Technologies Inc, FloaTEC LLC, Wood Group Pressure Control
5. How did you end up in the Energy Industry?
Started out as a design engineer for FMC in surface wellheads.
6. Why do you like working with Start-Ups?
Enjoy starting and growing businesses, Enjoy helping clients solve their problems.
Okay, now for some fun things about Marcus…
7. What are three of your interests outside of work?
8. What are your top 3 acomplishments (personal or professional)? Don’t be shy! Give ‘em to us.
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Building a subsea product line at FMC from scratch to a $50M business in a matter of a few years and having a team that would go to war with me.
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Booking and delivering Dril-Quip's largest every subsea production systems orders.
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Delivering my second child before we got to the hospital! Scary, but Awesome experience.
9. If I were a superhero, my superpower would be .
Mr. Positive Attitude - My philosophy is that there is only one thing in this world you can control, its your Attitude.
10. When I was 5, I was pretty sure I'd be a when I grew up.
Fireman. My dad was a fireman.
11. If I weren't so damn good at what I do now, I'd probably be .
Probably a handyman. I would love to be pro golfer, but alas I am just a hacker.
12. My favorite song is by .
"Layla" by Eric Clapton
13. If I won the lottery tomorrow, I'd .
start a Cattle Ranch
14. The best piece of advice I've ever been given is .
Life is what happens while you are making plans.
