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Kamel El Kholy

Investor at Med Angels

City Of Westminster, England

Overview 

Kamel El Kholy is a Strategic Projects Director at Schlumberger, with a background in managing global digital technologies and leading innovative energy transition projects. He has held various key roles at Schlumberger, including Chinese JV Managing Director and Regional Strategic Program Manager. El Kholy has a strong track record in business strategy and project management, having worked in roles such as Business Development Manager and New Technology Development Manager within the energy industry.

Work Experience 

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Schlumberger

  • Business Development Director

    2021 - Current

    Working closely with the headquarters team, sourcing and executing acquisitions and partnerships in the fields of green hydrogen, carbon capture and solar energy. Completed 3 transactions, contributed to revamping the growth strategy of these companies and currently supporting them in securing a multibillion-dollar market share in the MENA region. Influenced the Egyptian government’s policy on incentivizing green H2 developers, heavily contributed to their carbon capture and storage regulation roadmap, geothermal development strategy as well as the introduction of a digital sustainability platform for energy efficiency and emission reductions. Signed 4 MOUs with governments, carbon storage developers and industrial emitters. Secured 600M$ of O&G deepwater contracts in the East Med by introducing new business models.

  • Regional Sales and Service Delivery Manager

    2019 - 2021

    Led multiple virtual and agile teams during Covid to secure and deliver 800M$ of deepwater services in Africa by building strong partnerships with multiple clients including BP and Shell in Angola, Egypt, Senegal and Mauritania. Innovative business models and the latest drilling and completion technologies were introduced ensuring full alignment with clients and resulting in top quartile performance and healthy profit margins. Overcame Covid challenges of labor union strikes, customs clearance delays and travel restrictions by leveraging digital capabilities including remote operations technologies.

  • Regional Sales and Service Delivery Manager

    2017 - 2019

    Led multiple teams to secure and deliver 4 projects in Egypt, Kuwait and Qatar worth 1 billion $. In Egypt, delivered an industry benchmark of 2.3 years from discovery to first gas by introducing cutting edge technologies to the BP deepwater project of Atoll. In Kuwait, introduced a new digital transformation project (digital oilfields) that increased KOC northern production by 30% serving as a showcase for production enhancement projects worldwide. In Qatar, oversaw the delivery of projects for Shell and ExxonMobil with high operational efficiency.

  • Global Digital Portfolio Development Manager

    2015 - 2017

    Based in company headquarters, responsible for standardizing the process of turnkey projects. Formulated the company’s drilling digital strategy and launched several software digital projects. This included a well construction digital platform (DrillPlan) that replaced more than 25 applications and facilitated sharing data and insights between departments to better design and execute development campaigns leading to an estimated 30% efficiency gains in field development costs.

  • Chinese JV Managing Director

    2014 - 2015

    Formulated the joint venture strategy and lead several M&A deals. Successfully penetrated the highly competitive Chinese land market. Restructured the joint venture organization to ensure alignment between partners during strategy implementation. Delivered 3 projects after negotiating field development agreements with the CNPC worth $400M and healthy profit margins.

  • Turnkey Project Manager

    2013 - 2014

    Successfully started up the first technical limit turnkey project with Saudi Aramco in the geologically complex deep gas wells delivering a step change in well delivery. This success triggered the launching of similar projects taking the BU annual revenue from zero to $500M.

  • Turnkey Project Manager

    2010 - 2013

    Delivered highly complex turnkey wells to Pemex with best in basin performances utilizing HTHP state of the art technologies and overcoming logistical challenges and community issues. This success tripled our market revenue in the South of Mexico. This success tripled our market revenue in the South of Mexico to an annual revenue of $300M.

  • Operations Manager

    2007 - 2010

    Successfully turned around a business transformation project that the Libyan National Oil Company was close to cancelling due to poor performance. Upon the implementation of the project recovery plan, the results were a step change in well delivery. Started up operations in Tunisia to deliver state of the art technologies. Delivering technical limit performance and dominating market share for the high-end services with healthy profit margins.

  • Global Drilling Business Development Manager

    2004 - 2006

    Based in the technology center, revamped the strategy of a new acquisition and delivered exponential growth. Formed a technology development JV with BP, Shell and Statoil to develop an ultra slim advanced drilling system. Successfully commercialized 3 new products. The portfolio I managed, improved the company's overall profitability by 10%.

  • Sales and Service Delivery Manager

    2002 - 2003

    Converted Saudi Arabia in one year from not having any advanced rotary steerable drilling systems activity into the biggest advanced drilling systems market worldwide delivering more than 50 million dollars of annual with very high profit margins.

  • Field Engineer

    1999 - 2002

MA

Med Angels (Mediterranean Angel Investors)

  • Angel Investor

    2021

SV

Sequence Ventures

  • Investment Advisor and Investment Committee Member

    2022 - 2024

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