Industry Liaison Officer
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Total years of experience :16 years, 5 Months
Accomplishments
- Managed the strategic partnership with Yokogawa Saudi Arabia - the Japanese
major electrical engineering and software company based in Dhahran Techno
Valley - which resulted in executing 4 collaborative research project s, leading to
signing 2 commercialization deals
− Proactively established partnership with National Energy Services Reunited Corp.
(NESR) which materialized into leasing a land in the science park and investing
in building NESR global technology development center
− Identified and established communication with Petrogistix, which lead to signing
an option agreement to license one of the university’s technologies
− Initiated and negotiated 2 technology collaboration framework agreements that
KFUPM signed with Halliburton and Baker Hughes
− Started and led the discussions to establish a tri-lateral collaboration between
KFUPM, Saline Water Conversion Corporation, and a local start-up for the
commercialization of a KFUPM technology
− Attained KFUPM Distinguished Professional Staff Award for excellence in
promoting collaboration between the University & its in dustrial partners
− Collaborated with 3 peers to establish the Industrial L iaison Office
− Created an annual performance assessment system for collaboration agreements
− Developed a system for assessment of the University research capabilities and
aligning them with the needs and challenges of the industrial partners
− Organized 46 industry engagement seminars
− Orchestrated 11 university-industry interaction forums with audiences of up to 200
executives, technologists and researchers
− Designed 5 new collaboration programs and managed 26 partnership agreements
Currently
✓ Manage and facilitate research and technology collaboration between the
University and its industrial partners. Industries covered include Energy &
Power, Industry 4.0, Water & Environment, Oil & Gas
✓ Identifying and developing new sources of funding for research and
commercialization activities
✓ Developing industry engagement road maps
✓ Mapping industrial partners’ needs with university competences
✓ Provide guidance and consultancy for entrepreneurs on e stablishing start-
ups based on the university’s technologies and connecting them with large
corporations (potential clients)
✓ Screening invention disclosures to assess commercialization readiness,
market overview and licensing potential
✓ Identifying potential licensees or sponsors for new research results and
early-stage technologies
✓ Working directly with and providing support for senior management of
existing and potential partners, and KFUPM faculty/researchers
✓ Organizing on-campus engagement platforms to showcase how the university
could work with the potential partner(s)
✓ Identifying and participating in local and international industry trade shows
and following up leads arising from such events
✓ Producing and publishing marketing materials in both English and Arabic
languages to promote the university’s research and innovation capabilities
✓ Benchmarking with global best practices
Petrophysics, Reservoir Characterization
Managed 127 Concession and Production Sharing agreements
Headed the operations of the first Significant discoveries in the Silah Field, upon which the joint venture PetroSilah has been established in partnership with EGPC (the Egyptian National Oil Company)