Cris Gaut - Chairman Cris began his career with Amoco in 1980, after receiving his MBA from Wharton and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Dartmouth College. With Amoco, Cris worked in London and Chicago.
In 1987 Cris joined Ensco International, an offshore drilling company based in Dallas, as Chief Financial Officer. He was with Ensco for 16 years as CFO and later as co-President and Chief Operating Officer. In 2003 Cris joined Halliburton Company as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and in 2007 he became Halliburton’s President of Drilling and Evaluation, managing globally six of Halliburton’s product service lines with over US$ 8 billion in revenue and over 20,000 employees.
Cris retired from Halliburton in 2009 and joined SCF Partners as a managing director. SCF Partners is a Houston based private equity firm focused on the oil service industry. Cris was elected to Reservoir Group’s Board of Directors as Chairman in February 2010.
Pascal Bartette – Chief Executive Officer Beginning his professional life at the age of 16 in the armament industry in Tarbes, Pascal moved to the oil and gas industry in 1980 with Forasol/Foramer. He transferred to the oilfield service industry, about two years later, joining Milchem.
The 1983 downturn in the industry provided an opportunity for him to sign with Diamant Board - a new coring and drill bit business based in Pau France - as a coring and bit hand. For the following 16 years Pascal rose to become Regional Manager of the Middle East and Mediterranean region before transferring to a similar position in Latin America.
These different assignments led him to Sicily, Milano, Cairo, Dubai, Venezuela and Houston, enabling him to build a strong international network as well as the ability to communicate in a number of languages.
This combined with his technical abilities, proven successful record and industry knowledge were some of the qualities that 3i sought when looking for a new Managing Director to lead a MBO of Corpro Systems Ltd in 1999.
At that time Corpro was operating almost exclusively in the North Sea and was affected by the slow down in activity. With the help of a qualified and energetic team, Pascal realigned the business and grew it almost 20 fold in just over eight years.
In 2007, 3i decided to exit Corpro and Pascal led a new MBO financed by SCF partners which formed the platform for Reservoir Group.
Pascal is married with four children and is resident in Dubai.
Rick Clark - Chief Financial Officer A Chartered Accountant, Rick studied economics and accountancy at Dundee University then trained as a CA in the city with KPMG. He then moved office to Zurich in 1987 where he spent 2 years with a focus on multinational and UK non-resident companies. Thereafter, a transfer to London led him to specialise for a spell in privatisation projects - both in the UK and Eastern Europe.
In 1991, he returned to Scotland, was promoted to partner, and during the subsequent 15 years held a number of senior management roles - including in relation to IT, quality control, training and graduate recruitment – as well as leading the audit of many listed and private companies and advising on a wide range of M&A activity. In his last few years with KPMG, his client base included a range of companies in the oilfield services sector.
Rick joined Reservoir Group in 2007 as finance director.
He is married with three children and now lives in Aberdeen.
Philippe Cravatte - Director Born and bred in Belgium, Philippe studied mechanical engineering in Liege. A post-graduate Erasmus programme led him to spend eight months in Glasgow with Clyde Blowers.
He remained with Clyde Blowers on his return home, working in their Belgium office for a year. Philippe moved to Security DBS, then part of Dresser, as a technical support engineer for the coring and downhole tools division. Shortly after joining, he was promoted to technical support manager a position he held for five years.
In 1999, he joined the management team that led the MBO of Corpro, taking the responsibility of all technical aspects of Corpro’s service offering. Philippe has and continue to be key to the development of innovative products and services that have led to the success of Corpro.
Additionally Philippe is also responsible for the operational management of the company.
Philippe lives with his partner and three children in Aberdeenshire.
