Opening General Session Panelist
Vikram Rao
Vice President, Technology
Halliburton Energy Services
Vikram Rao is vice president, Technology, for Halliburton’s Energy Services Group. In addition to stewardship of the group’s technology efforts, he is also responsible for the set up and management of intellectual asset management.
Rao previously held executive management positions in research and development, product launch, reservoir studies, and sales and marketing. He joined the company in 1974 as a senior research engineer. Rao serves as a director on the boards of Fiberspar Inc. and Prime Photonics Inc.
He also serves on the advisory boards of KaDa Research Inc., PointCross Inc., the University of Houston School of Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin Petroleum Engineering Department and Zebra Imaging Inc. He is the author of more than 20 publications and has been awarded more than 15 patents.
Rao earned a BS degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India, and MS and PhD degrees in engineering from Stanford University.
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