KE

Kamel El Kholy

Globally scaling groundbreaking energy transition and renewable technologies in the fields of hydrogen, CCUS, solar and geothermal. Continuously seeking collaboration with promising energy transition startups.

City Of Westminster, England

Invests in

Stages:

Sectors:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $8,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $11,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $9,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Strategic Projects Director

    2020

    Formulating and implementing our ambitious energy transition strategy. The strategic projects I oversee act as flagship projects that accelerate the adoption of the energy transition technologies. Collaborating with energy transition startups and helping them scale globally.

  • Venture Partner

    2022 - 2023

    Investing in seed stage tech and tech-enabled startups

2022 - 2022

  • Investment Advisor and Investment Committee Member

    2022 - 2022

2021 - 2022

  • Angel Investor

    2021 - 2022

  • Regional Strategic Program Manager

    2017 - 2019

    Launched and delivered 4 strategic projects in Egypt, Kuwait and Qatar. In Egypt, delivered an industry benchmark of 2.3 years from discovery to first gas by introducing cutting edge technologies to the BP deepwater project of Atoll. In Kuwait, introduced a new digital transformation project (digital oilfields) that predicted production rates and alerted teams to any deviation to allow quick interventions to address environmental risks, this project improved operational efficiency by 30% serving as a show case for projects worldwide.

1999 - 2017

  • Global Digital Technologies Manager

    2015 - 2017

    Based in company headquarters, formulated the company’s digital technology strategy, and launched several software digitalization projects that are currently improving the operational efficiency of clients in more than 50 countries.

  • Chinese JV Managing Director

    2014 - 2015

    Formulated the joint venture strategy to penetrate the highly competitive Chinese market. Restructured the joint venture organization to ensure alignment between Schlumberger and the Chinese partner in implementing the strategy. Delivered 3 flagship field development projects with the latest technologies in 3 different Chinese provinces.

  • Strategic Project Manager

    2013 - 2014

    Successfully started up a digital and integration business unit (BU) in Saudi and executed the first technical limit turnkey project with Saudi Aramco leveraging digital technologies and delivering a step change in well delivery. This success triggered the launching of similar projects taking BU annual revenue from zero to $500M.

  • Business Transformation Project Manager

    2010 - 2013

    Formulated and successfully implemented a business transformation project for Pemex in the South of Mexico that allowed Pemex to adopt the latest technologies. The results were a step change in Pemex's operational efficiency. This success tripled our market revenue $300M.

  • Business Transformation Project Manager

    2008 - 2010

    Implemented a business transformation project that allowed clients to introduce new technologies that deliver a step change in their operational efficiency. Projects that took 125 days were delivered in less than 40 days.

  • Business Development Manager

    2006 - 2008

    Deployed all the latest new technologies to North Africa thereby tripling the size of the business with very healthy margins.

  • New Technology Development Manager

    2002 - 2006

    Based in our technology center in the UK, responsible for launching and globally scaling new software and hardware technologies.

  • Field Engineer

    1999 - 2002