TACHYUS - Key Persons
Brandon Simmons is Executive Advisor of Tachyus. Brandon is also an angel investor and was previously an attorney at Hogan Lovells. Brandon's experience includes significant work for Silicon Valley companies and investors as well as projects in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. Before entering private practice, Brandon served as law clerk to Chief Judge JL Edmondson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Brandon received a JD from Stanford Law School and a BA from UC Berkeley.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President of Global Business Operations
Carlos Calad is Senior Vice President of Global Business Operations at Tachyus. He focuses on acquiring, on-boarding, and delighting national, international and regional operators globally.
Before joining Tachyus, Carlos was the COO at Lupatech, the largest Brazilian oilfield services company. During his 35 year career he has served clients in USA, Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil, Indonesia, Spain, Mexico, and Colombia and has held positions as VP of Marketing at Archer and Schlumberger Oilfield Services as well as management, commercial and technical roles across Schlumberger, where he managed a sales organization of over 200 people producing more than $2 billion in annual revenue and established value sharing contracts with Latin American NOCs.
Carlos completed postgraduate studies at Harvard, Columbia, and Stanford, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Universidad de los Andes.
Job Titles:
- Executive Advisor
- Professor
Dr. Jeff Spath is Professor and holder of the Stephen A. Holditch '69 Department Head Chair at the Texas A&M University. He has over three decades of operational and technical experience in reservoir characterization, numerical modeling and EOR. He is recognized as a global expert in production enhancement and field optimization.
He served as President of the Reservoir Management Group in Schlumberger and later as the CEO of the Texas Oil & Gas Institute. In 2014 he was elected as President of the Society of Petroleum engineers.
Fernando is Chief Executive Officer of Tachyus. As CEO of Tachyus, Fernando is responsible for leading the Company to continued success.
Prior to Tachyus, Fernando, held several consulting, sales and management roles across many countries. He started at Schlumberger and worked at other oil and gas services companies for over 16 years, with focus on reservoir/production engineering integrated solutions in the digital transformation space of the industry.
Fernando holds a MSc. in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M, USA and a Bs. in Geological Engineering from Escuela de Ingenieros, Colombia.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Technical Advisor
Dr. Leport is Co-Founder and Technical Advisor of Tachyus for its data science and reservoir modeling research.
Previously, as a Senior Research Scientist at Tesla, he worked directly with Elon Musk to create key technologies that ensure the safety and efficiency of the Model S battery. Francisco earned a Ph.D. in experimental neutrino physics at age 24 from Stanford University, where he built the world's most advanced neutrino detector, orders of magnitude more sensitive than any predecessor.
Ms. Eagan's experience includes 30 years with Royal Dutch Shell in the U.S., The Netherlands, and London. During this period, she served in various roles including VP Finance for Global Gas and Power, VP Finance for Commercial Operations in the Americas and Chief Financial Officer for Shell Oil Company.
Ms. Eagan holds a BS in Accounting from the University of New Orleans, an MBA from the University of Houston, and law degree from the South Texas College of Law.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder of Foro Energy
- Founder of Foro Energy
Dr. Moxley is a Precourt Energy Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. Joel is Co-Founder of Foro Energy, Biota Technology, and Rho AI. He is also a Founding Investor and Board Member of Rubicon Global and Zero Mass Water and an angel investor in over 30 early stage technology companies. He actively invests from a small institutional fund into pre-seed, seed, and Series A financing rounds as well as participating on the Investment Team of Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
Job Titles:
- Finance
- Senior Vice President of Finance
- SVP
Matt Elbert is the Senior Vice President of Finance at Tachyus. Matt heads the Company's finance organization as well as managing global business operations. He oversees financial planning, analytics and budget, capital allocation and procurement services.
Matt has over 15 years of experience in senior roles at Schlumberger and Enbridge leading large supply chain organizations both internationally and domestically. Matt was also the Chief Financial Officer at Butler-Cohen, a top design-build firm.
Matt completed postgraduate studies at MIT and INSEAD and holds a BA in International Economics from Washington University in St. Louis.
Job Titles:
- Chief Scientist
- Co - Founder
Dr. Sarma is Chief Scientist of Tachyus developing the fundamental modeling and optimization technologies underlying the Tachyus platform. He is a world-renowned expert in reservoir management, with multiple patents and numerous papers on the subject.
He has over 12 years of experience working for Chevron and Schlumberger. As a Staff Research Scientist for Chevron, he was responsible for their key simulation and optimization technologies. He received many awards including the Dantzig Dissertation award from INFORMS and Chevron's Excellence in Reservoir Management award.
Pallav holds a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering and a Ph.D. Minor in Operations Research from Stanford University.
Paul Orland is Chairman and Co-Founder of Tachyus. Formerly, he led the Tachyus engineering team as the founding CTO. In that capacity, he led the initial productization of Data Physics technology.
Paul designed and delivered the Tachyus HPC optimization platform, as well as web-based modeling and surveillance tools. He advocates for strongly-typed functional programming to build robust software on a start-up schedule, and he has hired a team of renowned experts in the F# programming language.
Before founding Tachyus, Paul worked on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft and built developer tools for the Azure cloud. He received a BS in Mathematics from Yale University and an MS in Physics from the University of Washington.
Dr. Barati has extensive experience acquired working as a consultant and in Schlumberger, Halliburton, Kinder Morgan, Inc. Morgan, and Chesapeake Energy.
He has received several SPE awards including the 2012 Petroleum Engineering Junior Faculty Research Initiation Award, the 2015 SPE Faculty Innovative Teaching Award, and the 2017 SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering Technical Editor Award for outstanding service.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Engineering
- Software Engineering Manager
Ryan Hilliard is the Vice President of Engineering at Tachyus. With more than 20 years' experience in full cycle software development, Ryan has led software teams of all sizes in the development of products for manufacturing, marketing and sales, energy, aerospace, pharmaceutical and automotive.
Prior to Tachyus, Ryan served as a director with Perficient; principle consultant with Headspring/Catapult Systems; solution architect with Ingersoll Rand. Earned a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Texas at Tyler.
Scott Nolan is a Partner at Founders Fund, where he focuses on investments in technology-driven companies across sectors including energy, biotechnology, aerospace, healthcare, and advanced manufacturing. Scott is a board member at Tachyus, Collective Health, Tribogenics, and two other companies currently in stealth mode.
Prior to Founders Fund, Scott was an early employee at SpaceX helping to develop the propulsion systems.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper won three successive national elections and was the longest serving Conservative Prime Minister since Canada's founding. For almost a decade, he led Canada through the world's most complex geopolitical, security and economic challenges and participated in the world's top forums including the G-7 and G-20, NATO, and the United Nations.
Tom formed CMEA Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund investing in energy, IT, life science companies, in 1988 with New Enterprise Associates. While at CMEA, Tom managed a total of $1.2 billion of capital across seven funds. Earlier in his career, Tom worked at Exxon Mobil for 12 years, eventually leaving as President of the Exxon Materials Division. Currently, Tom serves as Chairman of the Board of Codexis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDXS) and Intermolecular, Inc. (NASDAQ: IMI).