Robert Salmon is a business development and transformation leader with more than 30 years of Energy Industry (renewable and conventional) experience. His passion is to go the extra mile to ensure that companies are qualified and positioned to win markets in the Oil & Gas industry. His Business Development skills have brought in over US$1Bn in new business for the countries he has managed. His recent experience and skill set includes Project Management, Digital Business Transformation and Digital Marketing .
His Energy Industry work has focused on operations management, business development and building local capacity in many locations in the Middle East, Africa, South East Asia, South America and Europe. Robert was recognised for his leadership in the successful entrance and rapid growth of Halliburton into East Africa from 2008 to 2013. He was awarded the Best Sales Manager award for Europe and Sub-Sahara Africa by the CEO of Halliburton in 2010.
Robert is a passionate mentor to students in the developing world; whilst in East Africa he voluntarily helped African students prepare for careers beyond the classroom. He was the Student Mentor Chair for the Uganda Chapter of the Society of Petroleum Engineers; subsequently the chapter won the SPE Presidents Award for excellence in 2018.
Robert is a keen traveller who launched his career in Oil & Gas engineering in Venezuela. He has strong Global business connections and has lived and worked in 22 countries ( 5 continents) since 1980. He graduated with a BSc. in Electronic Engineering from Hull University in the UK. He is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese and currently resides in Portugal.