During his career in the oil and gas industry, David’s professional focus shifted from understanding fluid mechanics to making life-altering decisions on billion dollars projects. His functions evolved from performing well operations on offshore platforms, to leading total upstream efforts in the U.S. as a vice president at Subsurface since 2015. His wealth of experience in managing highly technical international teams, has given him a special ability to foster over-performing teamwork by turning cultural diversity into assets. His thorough exposure to all aspects of the oil and gas business on four continents has lead him to focus on the next revolution in the industry: he currently leads ground-breaking artificial intelligence applications to optimize energy developments.