Showing posts with label David Farr Emerson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Farr Emerson. Show all posts

Saturday, December 21, 2019

Key energy industry interviews of 2019

As the current oil and gas trading year approaches its end, here are some of the industry interviews conducted by The Oilholic over the course of 2019 with C-suite executives around the world. The list includes group CEOs and Chairmen of Emerson, Hunting, IndianOil, OMV and Wintershall Dea. Most, but not all, of the interviews were published either on Forbes or Rigzone

John Rudolph, President of Honeywell Process Solutions 

Luca Volta, Marine Fuels Venture Head at ExxonMobil

David Farr, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Emerson

John Markus Lervik, Chief Executive Officer and Cofounder of Cognite

David Gilmour, Head of BP Ventures

Andreas Thorsheim, Cofounder and CEO of Otovo

Karl Johnny Hersvik, Chief Executive Officer of Aker BP

Rainer Seele, Chief Executive Officer of OMV

Greg Scheu, Head of Group Service & (former) President - Americas region at ABB

Jim Johnson, Chief Executive Officer of Hunting Plc

Rusty Hutson, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Diversified Gas and Oil 

Jason Urso, Chief Technology Officer at Honeywell Process Solutions

Sanjiv Singh, Chairman of IndianOil Corporation

Mario Mehren, Chief Executive Officer of Wintershall Dea

Here's to many more C-Suite chats in 2020. Keep reading, keep it 'crude'!

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© Gaurav Sharma 2019.

Monday, March 18, 2019

Meeting & greeting Emerson's inimitable boss

Before the Oilholic called time on CERAWeek 2019, this blogger had the absolute pleasure of meeting and greeting David Farr, the inimitable Chief Executive and Chairman of energy industry vendor Emerson Electric (NYSE:EMR) on the sidelines of the event on March 13. 

Farr, who has been Emerson's boss since 2000, has overseen the company's market valuation double under his stewardship. In a wide-ranging discussion, the industry captain touched on Emerson's performance, the Industry 4.0 challenge, change management, and more. 

No conversation would have been complete without touching on the portfolio shake-up that Farr has brought about at Emerson, and the unsuccessful bid for Rockwell Automation that did not turn out to be so bad in the end!

Ultimately, it all bottles down to corporate agility, and Farr said Emerson's two broad business streams - Automation and Commercial and Residential solutions - encompassing a diverse range of brands and businesses is working out pretty well. 


That's all for the moment folks! Keep reading, keep it crude!

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© Gaurav Sharma 2019. Photo: David Farr (left) with Gaurav Sharma on March 13, 2019 at CERAWeek in Houston, Texas, USA.