Nathan Reservoir

Nathan Reservoir

Head of Strategy, Oil & Gas

Midstream, Downstream, Upstream
 
United States

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

Strategist, Corporate & Business Development Manager

2. What are your areas of expertise?

Midstream: Corporate Development 

Downstream: Refining, Corporate  Development

Upstream: Corporate Development, Commercial, Project Management, Sales

Upstream Areas: Onshore, Offshore

3. Current employer:

Top secret information

4. Previous Employers:

TechnipFMC

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

Started my career at the Latin-American investment vehicle of a large European Utility conglomerate, where I worked on an LNG project. I came over to the U.S. to get my MBA and seemed to unintentionally gravitate towards Energy because of it's global scale and intricately connected geopolitical dynamics.

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

Being one that lacks the technical ability to come up with the underlying technologies that push innovation, I am drawn to working with those that have that mastery and and apply my expertise via commercialization and business frameworks that can enable these innovations to prosper and scale into tangible successful businesses.

Okay, now for some fun things about Mr. Reservoir…

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

  • Geopolitical relationships and conflict.

  • The unstoppable train of progress and our feeble human efforts to derail it.

  • Any global form and expression of sports activity.

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

  • Writing, producing and directing a play while in college.

  • Playing 1st division Rugby in Chile.

  • Husband to one, father of four.

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

Tele-transportation

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

Firefighter

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

Novelist

12.  My favorite song is               by            .

"Fearless" by Pink Floyd

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

start a publishing company

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

Be careful with what you wish for.