Senior Consultant & Management Leader - Energy Industry

Ashutosh Ashish, MBA

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SENIOR CONSULTANT & MANAGEMENT LEADER ENERGY INDUSTRY

Well-qualified, vision-driven manager, consultant and advisor to executive management with extensive experience in the design, development and delivery of leading edge business strategy, processes, systems and technologies to improve performance, reduce costs and elevate productivity. Expert in introducing organizational change and leveraging existing business practices, technologies and knowledge base with internal resources to facilitate business excellence and competitive advantage. Motivational leader with solid upstream oil and gas experience. Extensive international business experience and social protocol. US permanent resident.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Strategic Business & Market Planning * Business Plan Development * Merger & Acquisition * Business Modeling & Valuations * Budgeting & Forecasting * Executive Presentations * Team Leadership * Business Development * Client Relationship Management * Change Management * Business Process Transformation * Technology Implementation * Cost Containment & Profit Growth * Operations Excellence * Best Practices & Continuous Improvement * Quality & Performance Improvement

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP, Houston, Texas

2009 – Present

Second largest global professional services firm headquartered in London

Consulting Manager

Recruited as a subject matter expert in the oil and gas industry to build and expand the energy consulting practice. Mentor and empower a consulting team providing business process improvements, technology development and enterprise management. Significant projects include:

Devon Energy

* Enterprise Architecture - Evaluated existing applications, systems, technologies and data, identified opportunities and developed business case to reduce complexities/cost and increase quality of the IS and IT architectures. Collaborated with architects, shared services and other stakeholders to understand current environment and identify opportunities to reduce complexity. Rationalized opportunities with business cases and implementation roadmaps.

Halliburton

* Global Data Privacy Program - Led a team of legal, data privacy policy and security experts in creating a global data privacy program. Facilitated risk assessment of global data privacy practices and designed a privacy organization governance structure. Developed implementation plan for remediating the identified high-risk areas training, communication, monitoring and assessment and recommended options for cross border data transfer.

Entergy

* Human Resources Divesture Planning - Supported plan to spin off its non-regulated nuclear power business by providing guidance and recommendations for a structured approach for managing project plans, dependencies, issues and risks within the human resources groups. Designed an integrated plan and assisted in developing communication and training plans.

PwC

* US Advisory Oil & Gas Strategy - Supported the US practice leader in the development and structuring of PwC's Advisory O&G vision and strategy. Assessed the elements of PwC Advisory Services, and determined how to best capitalize on it.

DELOITTE CONSULTING, LLP, Houston, Texas

2001 – 2008

The largest professional services organizations in the world headquartered in New York

Manager/Senior Consultant

Seven-year career developing, managing and executing multimillion dollar consulting engagements, and building/mentoring top flight teams primarily for energy clients. Recognized as a thought leader in the oil and gas sector providing business and technology strategy, enterprise transformation, business process improvement, M&A, supply chain and pricing strategy. Highlighted projects include:

Devon Energy

* Enterprise Business Process Transformation & Operations Excellence - Developed strategic roadmap to support multiyear business process transformation initiative to enable process standardization, organizational alignment, and improved cash flow for an expanded exploration and production program. Led a core and global team of 60 in analyzing business processes and practices, and identified 11 major improvement opportunities and multiple “quick-wins” with estimated aggregate benefit of $400 million. Performed cost-benefit diligence, risk-reward assessment and impact analysis, and developed a multiyear implementation program and mobilization process to onboard the program execution team.

* Production & Seismic Data Management - Led team in developing the strategy and processes, and identifying the technologies to support company’s initiative to remediate seismic and production data. Led team in creating a standard production database and assisted in developing the business operations requirements for production and financial reporting.

* Enterprise Program Management Office - Established an Enterprise Program Management Office (EMPO) from inception. Defined the organization and governance structure, roles, responsibilities, key activities and tools, and transferred knowledge to Devon EPMO resources.

University of Tennessee Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy

* Power from Perspective - Developed possible US energy portfolio strategies, to identify a set of actions and capabilities to better prepare for a rapidly evolving energy future.

Transocean

* Asset Management Business - Process Review Analyzed asset management key performance indicators and measured them against best practices and industry benchmarks. Documented as-is asset management processes and developed to-be asset management business processes to support company’s recent merger and integration.

Shell Chemicals

* Sustainable Development Planning - Researched three global scenarios from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and evaluated current manufacturing processes to support the development of a long-term chemicals product strategy. Developed a set of chemical industry scenarios laying the groundwork for recommendations for each product in each scenario.

DuPont

* Pricing Strategy - Conducted a three tiered analysis to develop strategic recommendations at both the customer and SKU levels, and quantify targeted customer segments opportunity value. Developed strategic implementation plan with an estimated profitability increase of $3 million.

Tellabs

* M&A Synergy Assessment - Led a top-down assessment of potential synergies to support the merger of two global telecom equipment suppliers. Quantified synergies in cost of revenue, cost of sales, G&A, sales, marketing and R&D. Identified and planned for a synergy target of about $90 million, representing 5% of sales.

Deloitte

* M&A Team - Analyzed opportunities and strategies across the M&A life-cycle: strategy, target screening, due diligence, transaction execution, integration and divesture.

PROMOORDER.COM, Austin, Texas

2000 – 2001

Provider of ecommerce services for the promotional products industry…acquired by eBlox, Inc. in 2002

Management Consultant

* Retained by the CFO and COO of this dotcom startup to conduct market and competitive research, financial analysis and company valuation.

* Introduced a balanced scorecard, identified critical success factors and recommended operational changes to improve efficiencies.

ESSAR OIL LIMITED, Mumbai, India

1994 – 1999

Leading Indian integrated oil & gas company

Assistant Drilling Engineer/Petroleum Engineer

* Advanced through increasingly responsible positions on drillship, deep drilling and shallow land rigs within frontier waters offshore India and the Middle East.

* Managed the first integrated services contract award in India, a $25 million deep sea oil exploration turnkey project for a 3 well program in Offshore Saurashtra, India. Oversaw 150+ people, analyzed drilling programs and planned all operations/logistics.

* Recognized for establishing drilling operations in a new region and leading one of the safest, environmentally sound, cost effective and efficient operation in the company.

EDUCATION & CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

MBA, Strategy & Energy Finance, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 2001

Bachelor of Technology, Petroleum Engineering, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India 1994

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP/Deloitte Consulting LLP

Project Management * Client Account Leadership * Client Service Delivery

Earned Value Analysis * Business Development * Innovation & Capability Development

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) * International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE)

PUBLICATIONS

“Gaining Competitive Advantage: Aligning Enterprise Architecture with Business Value”

Journal of Petroleum Technology March 2011

“Power from Perspective: Potential Future of United States Energy Portfolio”

United States Energy Portfolio Whitepaper

The Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, University of Tennessee/Deloitte 2008

“E&P Production Information Management: A Tale of Two Types of Data Integrations”

Journal of Petroleum Technology February 2008

“Emergence of the New Oil Price Paradigm”

Oil & Gas Financial Journal October 2007

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