Leo Pirela

About Leo Pirela

I bring over 30 years of executive leadership experience in developing and executing stagey, managing, operating, and growing portfolio-style organizations in both asset owners and professional services firms. I excel at strategy development and execution, sales, M&A, portfolio management and building high-performance teams to drive profitable growth and value creation to shareholders.I have managed P & Ls up to $1.5B for companies ranging from startups through middle market to multinationals in Oil & Gas (Upstream, Midstream, LNG, Refining & Chemicals), Power & New Energies. Leading teams from 25 to professionals across all functions for businesses in the Americas (USA, Canada, LatAm), UK, Europe, Asia-Pacific region and the Middle East.Most recent career highlights include: CEO & President (StarRotor - 2023 to Present) Management Consultant for C-Suite and Board members (20••••23) SVP - US-West Region Portfolios & Operations (Worley – 2019 to 2021) CEO & President (VPlus Energy – 2016 to 2019) Director – Strategy, Asset Management & Development & CDO (Denbury Resources – 2014 to 2016) Global Director – Intelligent Fields, Asset Development & Management (Baker Hughes – 2011 to 2014) VP – Asset Development / Board Member / Decision Executive (Shell – 2008 to 2011)As CEO for StarRotor, I am responsible for the overall development, execution, and management of the company\'s strategic, operational and financial plans. We are gaining significant market traction with large strategic customers as well as being noticed by top market leaders.As SVP for Worley, I oversaw $1B in regional portfolios and operations across Upstream & Midstream, Refining & Chemicals, Power, Utilities & New Energies, and Mining, Minerals & Metals sectors.As President & CEO of VPlus Energy, I launched an AI-driven start-up by raising $200MM+ in private equity funding to acquire O&G assets in the USA.As Director of Denbury, I cut operational costs 25% in $1B in Capital to launch and operate a new JV between Shell and ExxonMobil.

Experience

1. CEO President Board Member

   Starrotor Corporation

   Jan 2023 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   StarRotor Corporation is a Texas A&M spinout company developing products to serve the multi-billion-dollar Energy Industry market to accelerate their energy transition efforts by converting different sources of energy into green electricity; Pressure and Heat to Power while offering solutions in the Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) and High Pressure Gas compression and expansion systems, including Natural Gas (NG), H2 and CO2. We are also taking our technology to develop new systems to seize great businesses opportunities in the space of Water desalination coupled with Mineral Recovery and small-scale LNG.We are a Technology Platform with much more than highly efficient and \"cool\" machines. In my view, StarRotor holds the potential to become the CleanTech Unicorn nobody saw coming. Our purpose is to accelerate the energy transition by developing low-carbon solutions for verticals. We have started our transformation journey, where we are focused on attracting strategic investors and customers, who want to be part of meeting the needs of a world, which demands more affordable energy, but expects it to be generated in a more sustainable and environmentally friendly

Education

• INSEAD

  Group Business Leadership Program (GBLP), Executive Leadership and Strategy

  2005 — 2006

• Universidad del Zulia

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Petroleum Engineering - Focus on Reservoir Engineering

• Imperial College London

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Management, Finance, Operations Research, Entrepreneurship and Innovation

  2001

• Stanford University Graduate School of Business

  Advanced Negotiation Program

  2002 — 2002

• The Wharton School

  Mergers & Acquisitions

  2002 — 2002

• Harvard Business School

  Private Equity - from Business Plan to Term Sheet

  2003 — 2003

Skills

• Decision Making
• Completion
• Petroleum
• Production Technology
• Drilling
• Petrophysics
• Petroleum Geology
• Data Management
• Business Development
• Downstream Oil & Gas
• Energy Industry
• Energy
• Pipelines
• Seismology
• Offshore Drilling
• Reservoir Engineering
• Leadership
• Natural Gas
• Divestitures
• Oil & Gas
• Stimulation
• Petrel
• Information Management
• Petroleum Engineering
• Fluids
• Oil & Gas Industry
• Reserves
• Portfolio Management
• Strategy
• Management
• Field Development
• Negotiation
• Completions
• Drilling Engineering
• Business Process Improvement
• Well Testing
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Quantitative Risk Analysis
• Oil/Gas
• Product Optimization