Jorge Aliaga

Mr. Aliaga holds a degree and a PhD in Physics from the School of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the same University. He is an Independent Researcher at CONICET, and since 2006 is the Dean of the School of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires.

Tristán Alberto Armaretti

Unconventional Resources Manager at Petrobras Argentina S.A.
Mr. Armaretti holds a degree in Physics from the National University of La Plata and in Oil Law from the University of Buenos Aires.
He is also a Reservoir Engineer graduated from the French Institute of Petroleum in Pau.
He held different positions at AUSTRAL, Petrobrás Energía S.A. and Total Austral

Santiago Bellomo

Santiago Bellomo is responsible for the Education Department at YPF Foundation. He holds a PhD in philosophy and is an educational management specialist. He held several management positions in different universities and has published articles and books related to educational philosophy.

Sebastián Bigorito

Mr. Bigorito holds a degree from the School of Economic Sciences, University of Buenos Aires. His post-graduate studies were focused on sustainability, including Natural Resources and Energy Economics, Social Assessment of Investment Projects, International Trade and the Environment, Environmental Law and Governance.

He participates in international forums regarding Sustainable Development and CSR, now deeply rooted on the global agenda. These include: the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the International Standard Organization (ISO) in which he was the expert appointed by Argentina for a six year period during which the ISO 26000: Guidance on Social Responsibility was developed.

Sebastián is a frequent keynote speaker on sustainability and he is the author of several publications, articles and opinion columns on TV and the print media.
He spent his career in the academic field in the main higher education centers in his country and currently serves as professor and trainer on Corporate Sustainability.

He was Board member of several organizations including the Fund for the Americas, the Argentine Network of the United Nations Global Compact and is member of the Advisory Committee of the OECD Guidelines.

He is currently member of the IRAM Board of Directors (Argentine Institute of Standards), Member of the Board at FUNDES Argentina and member of the Small Grants Programme Board, UNDP-GEF.

Since 2005 he is the Executive Director at the Business Council for Sustainable Development- Argentina (CEADS), entity that brings together over 70 leading companies, and local branch of the WBCSD.

Richard Brown

Is a Canadian citizen and holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University. He joined Schlumberger as a Wireline Field Engineer in 1992 and has held several field and managerial positions within Schlumberger’s Wireline organization. He has extensive international experience including management positions in Peru, Colombia, the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, and the UK, Dutch  & Norwegian sectors of the North Sea. In 2006 Mr. Brown was appointed Vice President of Wireline Operations covering Europe, Africa and the Caspian Sea. Between 2009 and 2013 Mr. Brown was General Manager for Schlumberger Oilfield Services covering Argentina, Bolivia and Chile and deeply involved in supporting the Argentine Unconventional activity. In May of 2013 Richard assumed the role of Vice President of Unconventional Resources – Latin America for Schlumberger.

Carlos Bulgheroni

Carlos Bulgheroni born in Rufino, Santa Fe in 1945. He graduated as a lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires in 1969. Chairman of Bridas Corporation is member
of many institutions and councils both in Argentina and abroad. Among them: CARI - Argentine Council for International Relations, the Federal Police Foundation (Founder and Senior Vice President), the Argentina Chamber of Commerce (Full Member of the Board), the Teatro Colon Foundation (founding member), FIEL - Economic Research Foundation Latin America, the Stock Exchange of Buenos Aires Mediterranean Foundation, U.S. & Argentina Caucus; CSIS - Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington) and CSIS Senior Advisor Initiative for Human Space Exploration (Human Space Exploration Initiative), the International Committee of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington) and the Peres Center for Peace.

It is also a founding member and former President of CEAR - Argentine-Russian Business Council and has served on the Business Advisory Board WTO (Geneva), President of the Mercosur European Business Forum and member of the Executive Board of the ICC - International Chamber of Commerce in Paris.

Carlos Colo

Carlos Agustín Colo is a Geologist with over 30 years experience in Exploration and Production. He is currently Exploration Line Manager and previously served as Technical Department Director, Las Heras Economic Unit Director and General Manager in Colombia, mainly in business management at YPF.
Mr. Colo participated from IAE’s School of Business, Business Administration Program. He is author and co-author of several papers presented in various congresses and was invited as guest speaker at SPE, IAPG and University conferences. He is member of the Argentine Association of Geology

Miguel Di Vincenzo

Mr. Di Vincenzo is currently Business and Technology Development Director at Serva Group in Houston, Texas. He started his career in 1986 at Servicios Especiales San Antonio where he held several operations and managerial positions in Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Venezuela. In 2000 he joined Pride International in Houston, Texas as Service Operations Director for the USA and Mexico. In 2007 he continued his career at San Antonio International where he became Vice- president for the Business and Technology Development Division for Latin America in the Services and Drilling areas.
Di Vincenzo holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Mar del Plata and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Stanford, California.
He is IAPG Houston Director and Chairman of the Intervention and Coild Tubing Association (ICoTA), Latin America.

Héctor Domínguez

Weatherford Unconventional Project Manager.
Geologist from the National University of Córdoba. Mr. Domínguez has over 30 years experience in the industry. He worked in several service companies in different departments mainly focused on Formation Assessment and Business Development.

Mary Esterman

Mary Esterman is currently Executive VP at Flargent, company owned by Medanito group where she is Director.

Ms. Esterman is a Chemical Engineer from the University of Buenos Aires. She holds postgraduate degrees in Oil and Gas Treatment and Processing from US Universities and an MBA from the Universidad Austral, Argentina.

She developed her professional career in the area of ​​oil and gas, participating and leading engineering and construction projects not only in Argentina but throughout Latin America.

Eduardo Eurnekian

Eduardo Eurnekian is a businessman and entrepreneur born in Argentina in 1932.
He is currently Chairman and CEO at Corporación América, First Vice- president, Argentine Chamber of Commerce, member of the International Chamber of Commerce Executive Board, Chairman of the Inter-American Council of Commerce and Production and Chairman, Raoul Wallenberg International Foundation.
Mr. Eurnekian started his career in the textile industry and later diversified his business towards communications and multimedia. He is shareholder and operator of one of the main television channels, four radios and two newspapers in Argentina. He was also founder of the first cable TV company in Argentina.
Since 1998 Corporación América has become a global holding comprised of leading airport operations companies (51 terminals in Argentina, Italy, Armenia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Uruguay), infrastructure development projects, mining, financial services, energy, agriculture, wineries, nanotechnology and chip manufacturing. Additionally, Corporación América is leading the Aconcagua Bioceanic Venture, a world class railway project that will cross the Andes by means of a low clearance tunnel, linking Chilean
ports with South America’s most productive regions.

Sebastián Galeazzi

Mr. Galeazzi holds a degree in Geological Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires (1989) and a Masters in Geology and Geophysics from Rice University, Houston (1994). He started his career in the development and exploration division at Astra Capsa and then in 1997 joined Total S.A. in Paris where he became part of exploration teams mainly in the Middle East and in North and West Africa. In 2002 he was appointed Head of Exploration and Geology in Aberdeen and since 2009 he is Exploration Manager at Total Austral S.A. promoting, among other projects, the exploration of unconventional resources at Vaca Muerta.

Miguel Galuccio

Miguel Galuccio is Argentinean and was, until April 16th, the highest Latin American executive in the managing team of Schlumberger, the world’s leading company in oil and gas services based in London.
Galuccio has more than 20 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry. He was president and responsible for the creation and operation of “Schlumberger Production Management”, and led companies and work teams in the United States, Middle East, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Russia and China.
His leadership capacity, strategic vision and international experience will enable the new YPF to recover its protagonism in the oil and gas industry in Argentina and Latin America

Marco Gardini

Marco Gardini has 18 years international experience as a geologist in the oil and gas industry. Since 2010 he is Exploration and Development manager responsible for the administration and technical validation of geosciences studies (development, delineation and exploration) of all Medanito S.A projects. Mr. Gardini supervises a team of 15 technicians and geoscientists. He previously worked as Reservoir Geologist in Libya and Indonesia and was Head of several projects and studies throughout different basins in the world including Austral, Athabasca (Canada) and Preowei (Nigeria). After that he became Geology Manager at Total Austral until 1995. He then joined Medanito S.A.
After receiving a degree in Geological Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires in 1992, he worked as volcano expert at the National Geology Service and then joined the oil industry.
He is married with Silvia and they have two children (twins).

Pablo Gatto

Mr. Gatto is an Industrial Engineer and holds a degree in Production Management (UADE).
Since 2005 he is Partner and Industrial Director at LINK Chemical s.a., chemical technology company, oil and mining industry supplier.
Engineer Gatto is an Associate Professor at UADE in the Departments of: Administration, Managerial Development and Operations Logistics and Management, he is also associate professor at UCES in the Departments of Operations and Quality, Containers and Packaging.
He is member of IAPG’s Committees of Quality and Excellence and Technological Innovation.
Pablo is former Quality, Safety and Environment Director at Química TRUE s.a. (industrial chemistry sector) and also former Partner and Director at Prochem s.a. (automotive sector).

Gabriela González

Mrs. González holds a degree in Geological Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires since 1996. She started her career as a reservoir geologist in Tecpetrol where she worked for 5 years developing marginal areas at the Neuquén and Golfo San Jorge Basins. She then joined Pan American Energy and worked in different secondary recovery projects as well as in production optimization of different blocks within the area of Cerro Dragón. In 2006 she joined Petrobrás and moved to Bolivia as a geologist at the Activo San Alberto, Tarija Basin. In 2009 she returned to Pan American Energy as a Geology Manager. Since 2011 Gabriela is the Unconventional Reservoir Manager within the Vice Presidency for Exploration at PAE.

Ruben Ignacio Gonzalez

Currently leading the unconventional reservoirs project for Chevron Argentina. Geologist with more than thirty years in the oil industry, working in exploration, development and production. In Chevron since 1999, and previously in Petrolera San Jorge and YPF, mostly in Neuquen, Austral and Cuyo basins in Argentina.

Bernard Gremillet

CTO (Chief Technology Officer) at YPF since June 2012.
Vice- president and Director at Y-TEC in 2013
Mr. Gremillet is a French Engineer, and also holds a degree in Math and Mechanics.
He worked for 22 years at Schlumberger, was Vice- president for Latin America and also Marketing and Product Development Vice- president for the Schlumberger group.
Mr. Gremillet worked at YPF from 1997 to 2000, being Corporate Services and Downstream Vice- president.

Marcelo Guiscardo

Engineer Guiscardo has over 35 years experience in the oil sector. He has vast knowledge of the oil and gas industry and is an expert in strategic development, key element for growth using new technologies. Since 2003, Mr. Guiscardo has been Director at QM Equipment S.A.
He previously served as:
Chairman at GDM International, international consulting company focused on the oil industry and Chairman at Pioneer Natural Resources, Inc.
Chairman at San Antonio.
Vice- president at Pride, E&P Services.
Business Development Vice- president, YPF S.A.
Exploration and Production Vice- president, YPF S.A.
Mr. Guiscardo also held different positions at Exxon Company USA and Exxon International (currently ExxonMobil) where he was technically responsible for Production and Exploration in the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen), France, Thailand and Ivory Coast.
Engineer Guiscardo is a Civil Engineer graduated in May 1979 from the Rutgers College of Engineering.

Larry Irving

For over 25 years, Larry Irving Jr. has been intricately involved in the Oil & Gas markets. Through his extensive experience in sales, marketing and P&L

 management, he has focused on developing and implementing strategies to solve customer’s challenges. Larry began his career at Daniel in 1984 as a sales rep in Corpus Christi, he went on to positions of increasing responsibility including Director of Sales for Germany, Director of Sales & Marketing – Europe, Director of Sales for the Americas, VP of Gas Products and VP of Sales, North America. Larry has a BBA in Marketing from the University of Houston, and a MBA in Finance and International Business from the University of St. Thomas, in Houston. Currently, Larry is the Vice President of the Oil & Gas Industry for the PlantWeb Solutions Group at Emerson Process Management.

George E. King

George E. King is a registered professional engineer with over 40 years of experience since joining Amoco Research Center in 1971.  His technical work has provided advances in foam fracturing, production from unstable chalk, underbalanced perforating, sand control reliability, gas shale completions and fracturing. Currently, he is working with new technologies for the oil and gas industry. He holds degrees in Chemistry from Oklahoma State University, as well as Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa, where he also taught completions and workovers for 11 years at night as an adjunct professor.  He has written 65 technical papers and was awarded the 2004 SPE Production Operations Award and the 2012 Engineer of the Year award from the Houston Region of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers . He is Apache’s Distinguished Engineering Advisor.

Víctor Leopoldo Linari

Licensed in Geological Sciences National University of the South.
Geophysics Graduate Institute of Petroleum Exploration, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Cuyo. Over thirty years in the industry in Geosciences discipline.
He has held jobs at Halliburton, Pioneer Natural Resources, Apache, Tecpetrol and currently serves as Advisor in Americas Petrogas Geosciences both unconventional and conventional resources .
He has taught courses at the University of Buenos Aires, Catholic University and other

Ricardo Livieres

Mr. Livieres holds a PhD in geosciences from the Clausthal University of Technology, Germany.
He joined ExxonMobil in 1998. Throughout his career he held several technical and administrative positions and led various exploration projects in different countries.
He is currently Operations Manager at ExxonMobil Exploration, Argentina, focused on unconventional reservoirs exploration and drilling operations in the Neuquén basin.

Dr. K. J. (KRIS) Nygaard

Is the Senior Stimulation Consultant at ExxonMobil Production Co. (EMPC). He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering all from the University of Arizona. In his Senior Technical Professional role at ExxonMobil, Dr. Nygaard is the Company's recognized expert on hydraulic fracturing and is responsible for coordinating ExxonMobil's Upstream Fracturing Center of Excellence.
In his current role, he is relied upon widely across ExxonMobil for his expertise in stimulation technology and applications to new and existing business opportunities. Dr. Nygaard also advises the R&D program at ExxonMobil's Upstream Research Company, and works closely with ExxonMobil's business units on technology strategy, deployment, and applications. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Sandra Martínez

Sandra G. Martínez is a geologist from the National University of La Plata, specialized in the field of hydrogeology, and holds a post graduate degree in Environmental Management from the Argentine Catholic University.
From the year 2000 until 2007 she served as Environment, Safety and Community Affairs Manager at Pluspetrol, Peru where she was responsible for design and  implementation of  standards and programs regarding the environment, safety, biodiversity, community affairs, participative processes of native communities, relationships with stakeholders, native organizations and government agencies of the Camisea- Upstream Project, Peru.
Ms. Martínez is currently Environmental Manager at Pluspetrol covering Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, Angola and Peru.
She has published several papers related to hydrogeology, the environment, biodiversity, and community affairs. Geologist Martínez is founding member of the Argentine Environmental Conservation Olympiads in the Hydrocarbon Industry and Chairs the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee at ARPEL.

Javier Martínez Álvarez

Director- General at Tenaris, Argentina Javier Martínez Álvarez was born in Argentina 47 years ago. At the age of 24 he graduated as an Industrial Engineer from the University of Buenos Aires and in 1990 joined Organización Techint in the Planning Sector at Propulsora Siderúrgica, flat product plant built by Agustín Rocca in Ensenada, province of Buenos Aires, today belonging to Ternium.
He was responsible for Sales and later became Head of Exports in charge of the Southeast Asian Market, among others. He participated in the initial negotiations for acquiring Sidor in Venezuela and after a year at Stanford University studying for a Masters Degree in Management he was appointed Assistant to the Vice- Presidency, Flat Products Division. His last post before moving on to Tenaris was that of Commercial Director at Sidor.
In 2006 he took over the General Management of Tenaris Tavsa, Venezuelan seamless pipe manufacturer. That same year Tenaris acquired TuboCaribe in Colombia and set up the Andean region as a management area, covering- besides Venezuela- Perú, Ecuador and other Caribbean countries. Mr. Martínez Álvarez was appointed Director- General of the region and in June 2010 Head of Tenaris operations in Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay and Chile

Carlos Matus

Mr. Matus holds a degree in Economic Sciences (National Public Accountant) and has over 20 years experience in the Hydrocarbon industry.
At YPF he was responsible for the Accounting and Supply Logistics and Planning Departments. He has international experience working in Santa Cruz de la Sierra- Bolivia in on- shore gas basins development.
For the last year he has been responsible for a new management at YPF, focusing on sustainable development of regional suppliers.

Martín Paris

Graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 1990 with a degree in Geology, he serves until 1993 in exploration management YPF.
In 1995, Baker Hughes enters analyst profiles as being in 2006 by the geosciences center of Neuquén and later as coordinator of Geosciences of Argentina.
His main background is well image analysis and geomechanics.
Currently, is based in Neuquén, with support for unconventional projects

Santiago Sacerdote

Santiago Sacerdote is an Industrial Engineer graduated from the Technological Institute of Buenos Aires. He has performed with Carolina Foundation grant a Masters in Public Policy at the University Francisco de Vitoria and King Juan Carlos in Spain. CONICET Board Member since 2010 and is currently Vice President for Technology of the
Agency and Deputy General Manager of YPF Technology. Previously he has served as Director of Programs and Services Industrial Union of Argentina and business consultant and business analyst in a broad universe of industrial and service sectors, with relevant experience in Argentina and Brazil

Federico Sorenson

Education: Geologist, La Plata, University
Jan. 11 – at present
Halliburton Argentina S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina. Unconventional Reservoir Manager. In this role I lead a multi-PSL (Product Service Line) team that develops strategies and financial targets for Unconventional Reservoir. I do recommend appropriate resources, personnel technology planning to develop strategies for development unconventional reservoir

Melissa Stark

Mrs. Stark has been working for over 17 years in all the sectors of the energy industry. She is currently the global leader of the clean energy team at Accenture. She has also worked in several projects related to Production Logistics in Shale Deposits and is the author of the Accenture PoV “Water and Shale Gas Development”
Mrs. Stark holds a master in Transportation. She graduated cum laude and was named Outstanding Student with a Grade Point Average of 3.9 over 4 at Northwestern University. She also holds a degree in Financial Sciences from the Haas School, University of Barkley, California. She graduated cum laude as well, and received the financial award with a Grade Point Average of 3.8 over 4.
She participated in the research conducted by the “National Petroleum Council” about the future of fuel in transportation, directly commissioned by Dr. Chu, US Secretary of Energy, as assistant leader of the working group on technology.

Hector Tamanini

Mr. Tamanini holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from UTN and is a specialist in Industrial Plant Design from the Instituto Balseiro, Argentina. He also holds an MBA from IAE and a degree in Education from Harvard Business School, USA.
Engineer Tamanini started his career in 1978 at INVAP, as technology project Director. In 1988 he joined Organización Techint as Engineering Manager at Tenaris and Ternium in LA plants. Since 2006 he is Employment, Development, Training, Communications and IIRR Manager at Tecpetrol.
He has vast international experience as professor in several LA and EU universities. He is professor at Universidad Austral in the School of Engineering and at IAE at the Operations and Technology Department.

Frank Whitsura

Frank Whitsura is the Vice President and General Manager for the Projects and Automation Solutions (P&AS) line of business for HPS (Honeywell Process Solutions), based in Houston, Texas.

The vision for Projects and Automation Solutions LOB is to:

To accomplish the above, Frank will be leveraging our people, technology and productivity in global engineering, project delivery, marketing and support to delight our customers every time.
Frank moved to this role after having served as Vice President, HPS Technology and Operations, where he had leadership accountability for the entire Technology and Operations organization globally.  Prior to that, Frank held the position of Vice President and General Manager for the Americas at Honeywell Process Solutions in which he was responsible for all sales, service, and project execution in the Americas, including Canada and Latin America.

Before joining Honeywell, Frank spent 23 years at UOP (A Honeywell Company), where he held a variety of positions.  At UOP, he has managed the Mechanical Design, Platforming, and the FCC groups, all in Engineering.  In 1996, Frank became the Business Director for Naphtha Technologies in Refining, responsible for all licensing, services, products, and equipment associated with Platforming and Isomerization technologies.  He later served as the General Manager of Engineering, in which he oversaw worldwide staff and operations in the Engineering Department.  His last role at UOP was Vice President of New Business Development, which included UOP’s Solutions and Services Department.

Frank has a BS degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana and an MBA from the University of Chicago.