Archives: Speakers

Saeed Mubarak is the Chairman of SPE Digital Energy International Technical Section (DETS), a member in the advisory Committee of SPE Data Science and Engineering Analytics (DSEA), and an industry advisor for Texas A&M University SPE student chapter. He has served in numerous international technical steering, advisory board, program committees member, and in the SPE International M&I awards advisory committee.

Saeed has twenty-eight years of Petroleum Industry and has served the industry in various capacities that span across local and international levels, technical and administrative, simple to leadership roles. He was an SPE international distinguished lecturer, a panelist, keynote or invited speaker and discussion leader of in numerous events held in 20 counties including conferences, workshops, forums, symposia and social events.  He has developed several technical courses and workshops, mostly about digital oil fields and challenging paradigms.  He is also a recognized as a thought provoking author who has published tens of articles to promote innovation and challenge conventional wisdom within & beyond the digital energy and intelligent field including a book titles: “Any Version of History is just a Story”.

He is currently an intelligent fields and petroleum engineering consultant at Saudi Aramco, based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He began his career in 1992 with Saudi Aramco where he worked as Reservoir, Production, Drilling & Completion, Facilities, Knowledge Management, and Intelligent Fields engineer and specialist. He has led several important teams including the strategic team managing the world’s largest intelligent fields in Saudi Aramco.

His contributions to industry were recognized by renowned technical, governmental and social authorities. He is recipient of several recognitions including the 2009 SPE Regional Management and Information award, 2012 WorldOil Innovative Thinker award, 2013 Saudi King’s award for innovation and the 2014 SPE international award for management and information. He also earned the 2011/2012 SPE Saudi Section “Community Service Award” for his contribution to Social programs. He was a finalist in 2016 WorldOil Lifetime Achievement award, and the recipient of the international 2019 SPE Distinguished Service Award, and the 2019 SPE Distinguished member award.   Saeed holds a bachelor degree in Chemical engineering and a master degree in petroleum engineering, both from KFUPM and he has graduated from Saudi Aramco Technologist Development Program as Realtime Reservoir Management and Intelligent Fields specialist.

Pascale Favre was appointed Head of International Business Line, Technology Lifecycle Solutions (TLS) at BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions in July 2019. She is responsible for the overall strategy, organisation and management of TLS activity globally. She is also responsible for the promotion of products and services that help partners and clients with their transition to net zero.

Previously, Pascale held several leadership roles at BNP Paribas Factor, Dell and Siemens Financial Services. She joined BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions in 2012 as International Key Account Manager where she managed a portfolio of global technology accounts.

Andrew Denton is Alfa’s Chief Executive Officer and leads the Group. Andrew joined the company in 1995 and became a member of the Board of Directors in 2003 as Sales and Marketing Director. He was made Chief Operating Officer in 2014 and became CEO in September 2016. Andrew is also director and joint founder of the Leasing Foundation, an organisation that supports the leasing and asset finance industry through charitable activities, research and development.