Jean-Philippe Laurès
Michael Wyllie
French, 1964 Chief Operating Officer
British, 1958 Chief Technology Officer
Jean-Philippe Laurès joined SBM Offshore’s Monaco office in 1990 as a structural engineer and subsequently performed functions of increasing responsibility within Engineering, Operations, Production & Marketing Departments. In 1997, he became a Shore Base Manager in Nigeria and in 1999 was appointed as Regional Marketing Director in Angola. He returned to Monaco office in 2001 and has held various managerial positions in the Engineering Department. In 2005, Jean-Philippe became Area Sales Vice-President of Marketing & Sales and in 2007 moved to SBM Production Contractors (fleet operations) where he held the position of Vice-President and in 2009 President of this operating segment. In 2010, Jean-Philippe was appointed to the SBM Offshore Board of Management as Chief Commercial Officer. In January 2012, he was appointed as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining the Company, Jean-Philippe was a Product Engineer at INDIKOM (Metravib Instrument), and a Section Leader at the Welding Institute (TWI). A graduate from INSA, Lyon, and PhD graduate from Tufts University, Boston.
Michael Wyllie joined the Company in 1995 as a senior process engineer, and subsequently worked in engineering management positions on several of the Company’s major FPSO projects. In 2000 he moved into engineering department management, and was appointed Chief Engineer in SBM Offshore’s Monaco office in 2002, a position which he held for 4 years. In 2006 he was assigned to a major bid as Proposal Director, before taking the position of Worldwide Director of Marketing & Sales in 2008. He was appointed to the Board of Management in January 2010, in the position of Chief Technology Officer. A graduate Chemical Engineer from Herriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in 1980, and a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, he has previously worked for Foster Wheeler Energy and Total.
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