Laurent Labous

Lithium production from depleted O&G reservoirs and refining to battery-grade chemicals Project development, industrial and technology strategy, marketing and fund raising

Business Creation, Transformation, and Scale-up, Industry & Technology, Energy Transition ✔ Strategic and operational consulting for corporates, startups, SMEs, scaleups, agencies, investors. ✔ Interim executive and operational management - Business transformation, Project director, CEO, CTO, COO Specialty of securing and accelerating innovative business plans and strategic projects: - Startup projects / new activities from early stages on, concept to operations, in complex environnements - Technology and organisational transformation - Business model optimisation - Crisis management - Market and technology analysis

☛ 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Creation of a portfolio of product and services leveraging internal capabilities outside oil and gas sector. ☛ 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Data and platform strategy and roadmap. Concept and market test. ☛ 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: Technology strategy definition processes and plan for future land geophysics operations. Technology-based strategic roadmap. R&D - Development of diversification projects portfolio, addressing challenges in environmental monitoring and scanning (underwater drones), healthcare (big data for e-health), risk management (data management, monitoring and training), video production, (render farming and algorithms).... - Technical derisking, market analysis, business strategy and planning - >+10 % rev / 5 yrs

☛ Led transformation of operational services ($1bn revenue) 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀: Business needs capture with key customers, development of solutions architectures and roadmaps, co-construction of long-term business and technology transformation partnership programs, . - Led market requirements capture, roadmapping and management of integrative digital, technological and business transformations, shaping future offer. Helped set up technology and business partnerships and joint ventures. Engage customers. Defined future systems architectures. - Defined group level business / digital transformation model - Set up 100M€ differenciating industry solution development partnership program to cut exploration costs by 50% in complex environments - Conducted business analysis, framing, initiation of long-term technology partnership with key customer to deliver radical change in complex reservoir management solutions - Framed joint-venture project to deliver disruptive UAV technology for marine operations

☛ 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝘂𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝘂𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: Management of technology scouting, maturity assessment, due diligence, partnerships with innovative SMEs and Universities to feed the technology pipeline or address prospective environmental footprint and responsibility concerns. - Joint management of engineering team (10 eng.) - Definition / management of prospective research partnership with european labs / SME for the environmental evaluation of anthrophogenic noise (300 k€) - Incubation of advanced gravitational measurement technologies, submarine acoustic guidance solutions for drone fleets (AUVs), advanced quantum sensing technologies (300 k€)

☛ Management of product portfolio manufacturability / sourcing, continuous improvement (lean) projects and teams addressing business critical situations - Manufacturing data analytics to solve collapse of nuclear detectors lifespan (--> lifespan x4) - Engineering, industrialization and 600 k€ sales of (10) electro-mechanical sondes - Sourcing of advanced technology component to solve critical business interruption threat (Total sales ~500 k€ - 2M€ project--> unit cost reduction 50% - Development of international suppliers and sourcing procedure) - Diagnosis of ultrasound sensor manufacturing and drastic improvement of FPY (20 to 90% --> 500 k€ annual savings)

☛ Project leader, system architect and physics expert for the development and industrialization of high-end analytical technology for harsh sub-surface environments using multi-physics techniques - DATR - Engineering, Development, industrialization and sales of multiphysics well-logging sondes (nuclear, electro-magnetic) - Design, realization of unique V&V test platform - Staffing, management of nuclear modeling team and scientific computing facility