Randall Reich

Business Development and Continuous Improvement

Upstream

United States, Asia, Europe, Mexico

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

Operational Leadership

2. What are your areas of expertise?

Upstream: General Management, Corporate Development, Operations, Facilities Management, Supply Chain, Project Management

Upstream Areas: Offshore, Onshore

3. Current employer:

Top secret information

4. Previous employers:

Cameron, a Schlumberger Company, FMC Technologies

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

Working with FMC in their defense business and corporate headquarters led to an opportunity in FMC's oil and gas business.

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

Ability to apply larger company best practices into a dynamic and purposeful environment.

Okay, now for some fun things about Randall…

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

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

Being part of raising 3 great and successful kids
Identifying and developing numerous personnel to c-suite talent
Learning and deploying lean in-depth enough to apply to a large job shop environment and achieve dramatic improvements

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

Power of persuasion

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

race car driver

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

an investment banker

12. My favorite song is by .

"Blinded by the light"

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

Venture capital fund

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

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