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title: Sanjay Paranji
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## **Sanjay Paranji**

**Technology and Business Development**

> Midstream, Downstream, Upstream, Clean tech
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> Middle East, Europe, United States

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

CEO

2. What are your areas of expertise?

Midstream: Engineering, Operations, Technology, I.T./Digital, Corporate Development, Executive

Downstream: Process Engineering, Digital, Operations

Upstream: Reservoir Engineering, Asset Management, Technology, General Management, Corporate Development, Operations, Facilities Management, Drilling, Completions, Executive, Project Management, I.T./Digital, Marketing

Upstream Areas: Offshore, Onshore

Clean Tech: Technology, Commercial, Engineering, Corporate Development

Types of Clean Tech: Solar, Wind, CO2 capture, Hydrogren

3. Current employer:

Xecta Digital Labs

4. Previous employers:

Anadarko Petroleum, Schlumberger

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

Was curious about geopolitics around oil and how it shapes/shaped the world

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

Love being a coach, mentor, and solving problems

> ## Okay, now for some fun things about Sanjay…

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

- Cricket
- Astronomy
- Music

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

- Rose up through the corporate chain of command to an executive position, taught me about luck & opportunity
- EMBA at Rice with a Jones scholarship while managing a full-time job, rough times
- Father of a young boy who teaches me new things every day

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

eradicate poverty

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                .

A physicist working on origins of the universe

12.  My favorite song is               by            .

"Summer of 69", "Mad at Gravity" - Burn

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

Universal vaccine

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

Never give up