Timothy Campbell

Timothy Campbell

Business Development and Sales

Upstream
 
United States, Canada, Europe

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

Advisor and Business Development, Oil and Gas

2. What are your areas of expertise?

Upstream: Technology, General Management, Operations, Drilling, Reservoir Eng., Commercial, Sales, Project Management, Marketing

Upstream Areas: Offshore, Onshore

3. Current employer:

Hart Services (my own small business)

4. Previous employers:

Bureau Veritas, Biota Technology, Excellence Logging, Weatherford, Baker Hughes

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

I talked to a company who were recruiting when I was at university. The description of what they did (field geologist) and the thought of being able to work overseas got me really excited. I spent the next seven years primarily working in various parts of West Africa. It was an incredibly enjoyable and fulfilling start to my oilfield career, full of challenges and needing to be resourceful in remote areas.

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

There is a freedom when working with startups - they are less constrained than large companies and there is the ability to be more entrepreneurial and cut through “red tape” - without cutting corners.

Okay, now for some fun things about Timothy…

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

  • Scale modelling - mainly aircraft and armor

  • DIY and home remodeling

  • Golf

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

  • Moving my customer (a supermajor) from position 5 to position 3 in our company (in terms of revenue) during the last bad downturn in the industry (during a time of 40% reduction in customer spend across the board). It’s the achievement of which I’m most proud.

  • Starting my own general contractor/handyman/remodeling company during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Cycling the MS150 eight times to raise money for Multiple Sclerosis.

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

Being able to clone myself to truly be able to multitask!

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

Policeman

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

Running a model shop. And holding classes on how to paint with an airbrush.

12.  My favorite song is               by           .

"The Robots" - by Kraftwerk

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

Model shop.

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

“It’s a ten cent phone call” - from Chris Bechtel at Weatherford. A great way to break a stalemate or not even allow one to start. Get away from email and just call someone. It’s served me well many times.