Aker Solutions will be introducing a new executive management team as part of a broader reorganization aimed at further strengthening operational and financial performance and better meeting customer needs. The new organization will have five delivery centers: Customer Management, Front End, Products, Projects and Services. This set-up will help drive further standardization and accelerate a companywide improvement program to boost cost-efficiency by at least 30 percent by the end of 2017. The new team will be operational from Nov. 1.
As part of the plan, Dean Watson has been named chief operating officer. Watson joins from Schlumberger, where he has held various leadership positions, and will report to Araujo. The other executive management team members were selected internally.
