Mr. Ahmed Tahoun

Ahmed Tahoun holds engineering Degree in Computer Science and Automatic Control from Alexandria University (Egypt); Senior Executive Business Diploma from Columbia University (USA) and enrolled in MBA with Maastricht School of Management (Holland). Mr. Tahoun has over 20 years of experience in Oil & Gas industry. He joined Schlumberger as Wireline Field Engineer in 1990 and worked in Egypt, Syria, Yemen and Qatar. He then started his management career moving to Egypt as district manager, then to Paris as HQ personnel development manager where he developed the globally recognized XPERT career program for field specialist. In 2002 Mr. Tahoun moved to Malaysia as general manager for Schlumberger Peninsula Malaysia Oilfield services and Wireline General Manager for Brunei, Malaysia and Philippines. He became the Technical Manager for Schlumberger research center in Japan in 2005 where he developed the first Oilfield Robot and he is the co-inventor of pioneering underground automation devices.
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Mr. Tahoun was a board member of OMNI Enterprises Holdings from 2004 to 2009 (now Tercel oilfield Products). In 2006 Mr Tahoun moved as full time executive of OMNI to set up its Asia Pacific and delivered to the company sound achievements including positive financial profit in 2009 despite market dynamics, recognized as pioneer and obtained highest tax incentives from Malaysian Government; Establishment of cost effective high-tech manufacturing center near KL; and positioned the company to gain market respect and compete on Technology with high margins.
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Mr. Tahoun is the founder of MIT Technologies, a company that is dedicated to engineering and design of new technologies to improve drilling economics of Oil & Gas wells. The portfolio of its scope carries potential number of innovative patents to benefit the academia and industry. MIT supports interaction with universities and sponsoring of post graduate degrees in various academic lines.
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He was an Exco Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers -Terengganu Chapter from 2003 to 2005, and is a director of Arab-Malaysian Chamber of Commerce from 2009 to date
(www.AMCC.com.my).
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He holds many business awards during his career in recognition of business achievement, technology deployment, profitability and market growth as well as leadership in Health, Safety &
Environment. He is inventor and a co-inventor of a number of patent applications in US, Europe, Japan