A leading expert in Upstream Digital Oilfield (DOF), strategy definition and systems design of DOF systems for: production management, automation, field development, integrated asset management, and smart operations. His experience spans over 27 years in the energy industry, as a company executive, entrepreneur, and senior advisor the C-suites on Digital Strategy. Before joining Softserve, Hatem has been a senior advisor on strategy, technology roadmap and projects execution to several multinational companies across the world (IOCs and NOCs). He has been involved in more than 14 Digital Oilfield projects around the world with major oil companies, including: KOC, Shell, Chevron, Saudi Aramco, ADNOC, PDO and many others. Previously, he was a co-founder of a leading Digital Oilfield start-up financed by Shell Technology Ventures and Director of Advanced Technology in Baker Hughes.