McDermott International, Inc. (NYSE: MDR) announced today that Samik Mukherjee has been appointed to serve as the company’s new Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective July 3, 2018.
Samik Mukherjee, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, McDermott International, Inc.
“Samik possesses tremendous experience and knowledge of our industry and has a strong track record of driving operational excellence on a global scale,” said David Dickson, President and Chief Executive Officer of McDermott. “I am confident that he will effectively leverage our integrated, end-to-end solutions to help McDermott grow and win new business, execute our projects on time and on budget, and develop strategic, long-term relationships with our customers.”
As the COO, Samik will be responsible for globally leading McDermott’s operations covering the four geographic areas. He will also oversee McDermott’s key product lines and services to ensure internal strategy and decisions are based on a strong understanding of customer needs. Samik has more than 25 years of experience in operations as well as commercial and strategy roles, having served in leadership roles for the upstream and downstream oil and gas industry around the world. He also has extensive experience in process technologies.
Prior to his appointment as McDermott’s COO, Samik was the Executive Vice President of Corporate Development, Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions, Digital and IT for TechnipFMC. He joined Technip in 1998 in The Netherlands, and during his career with the company, he led the business unit for Africa, served as managing director in India before moving to France to serve as the global head for subsea business and strategy, and later as the Senior Vice President of the Europe, Middle East, India and Africa region for onshore-offshore.
Samik holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University in The Netherlands, a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and has completed the Harvard Business School Executive Program on Aligning and Executing Strategy.
About McDermott
McDermott is a premier, fully integrated provider of technology, engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry. For more than a century, customers have trusted McDermott to design and build end-to-end infrastructure and technology solutions—from the wellhead to the storage tank—to transport and transform oil and gas into the products the world needs today. Our proprietary technologies, integrated expertise and comprehensive solutions deliver certainty, innovation and added value to energy projects around the world. Customers rely on McDermott to deliver certainty to the most complex projects, from concept to commissioning. It is called the “One McDermott Way.” Operating in over 54 countries, McDermott’s locally focused and globally-integrated resources include approximately 40,000 employees and engineers, a diversified fleet of specialty marine construction vessels and fabrication facilities around the world. To learn more, visit www.mcdermott.com.
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