James Thomas
James is a professionally qualified, entrepreneurial Oil Industry consultant, with a track record of building two international staffing services companies from start-up. Both companies were successfully transitioned by trade sales after reaching annual turnovers of $ 15 + million and a decade each of profitable growth.
Over his 30+ year career, James created a network of international blue-chip clients, successfully negotiated contracts for staffing services and developed long-term repeat business. His experience has been enhanced by 10 years of PMT assignments contracted to major oil companies and consultancies, recruiting on major projects in the North Sea, Americas & Mid East Gulf and South East Asia
Over the last decade this experience has been the foundation for Consulting to Staffing Companies in business development, confidential search, operations strategy review, organisation structure rationalization during the oi-price downturn and evaluation of and future planning of M & A opportunities.
OIL & GAS SECTOR EXPERIENCE & SUMMARY OF ATTRIBUTES
15 Years North Sea area EPIC projects experience and building recruitment service reputation
Further 20 Years overseas residency in the Middle East Gulf and Americas, successfully developing global business and building teams in Houston, U.K., Qatar and the UAE
Co-developed and launched a high-tech recruitment portal, building a global brand, a 40,000. C.V. professional database and securing Blue Chip client in 4 continents
Skilled at communicating at all levels while maintaining a C-Level client network
Extensive upstream EPC and ExPro experience plus PMT experience of mega downstream projects
Maintains strong international OpCo’s and sponsor / partner relationships
Intimate knowledge of both Client and Service providers’ strategic processes.
Senior Associate , James Thomas
BACKGROUND
Education
MBA
University of Aberdeen, '92
CNAA Pg.Dip Mgmt Studies
Robert Gordon’s Institute of Technology, '87
Languages
English mother tongue. Dutch good, French Fair
Activities & Affiliations
Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
Chartered Institute of Marketing
Other
Prepared & presented, jointly with Texas A + M University, a paper to the SPE annual conference on technology & resourcing in our industry
Active in U.K. restorative justice programmes with Social Enterprises and major charities
An ambasador for Resumefoundation.org and BridgeofHope.careers.