William Hitters

Responsible for developing the company's global OCTG portfolio and building a commercial opportunity pipeline in North America, with a focus on execution and growth.

Supporting my Engineering Alma Mater's (ITBA) startup company, working in CLAS-based (Closed Loop Auditory Stimulation) solutions for the science of sleep. The company applies new insights into managing and stimulating brain oscillations during sleep to treat a range of neurological conditions via simple and non-invasive, AI-driven medical devices used during the nocturnal resting periods and thus avoiding disruption of daily routine. Multiple successful nighttime interventions with test subjects at our Sleep Labs have been performed using the prototypes. Based on these, we now hold four patents and are working on eight more provisionals.

Advisory Services with Focus on Energy (Oil & Gas and Renewables), Chemicals, Mining and Steel Industries. Significant expertise in Chemical Markets, Supply Chain, OCTG & Well Design, Completions Designs and Proppants Supply/Demand Markets and Logistics, Low and Zero-Carbon Energy Solutions and Energy Transition Strategies. Successful engagements in Unconventional Oil & Gas Equipment and Services, Hydrogen and LNG, Oilfield Chemicals, Proppant Logistics and New Technology Identification.

Early stage startup developing technologies for production of Bioenergy and Biochar from Ag Waste Streams.

Supporting Khepra's Development of their go-to-market strategies and funding requirements. Developing Waste-to-Chemicals and Waste-to-Fuels technologies aligned with circular economy precepts for the energy and materials transition.

Leading a Global Team of Marketing Associates with market and revenue responsibility in a broad range of industrial end markets for Water Analytics. Worked on TOC Solutions (Biotector & QP1680), Veeticals Management Reporting and New Product Development Projects for Industrial Water Customers.

Early stage start-up company disrupting last-mile frac sand logistics for the North American Shale and Tight O&G basins. Created IP-protected mobile silos for large, mobile transloading locations setups available for use with frac sand, agro (grain, seed & fertilizers), cement and mining products.

Managing Unimin’s Export Markets with specific emphasis in the Latin American region. In charge of effectively serving Schlumberger, one of the Company’s Global Key Accounts.

Responsible for supporting the development of the market analysis and business plans for the North American hydraulic fracturing operations at Unimin for proppants and other oilfield minerals.

Led a Team dedicated to worldwide market analysis for Tenaris’ US$6 Billion OCTG business segment in diverse Oil & Gas application fields such as Deepwater, HPHT and Oil & Gas Shales. Defined the company’s product strategies by: i) Acting as a link between the commercial and technical directorates, and; ii) leading frequent interactions with actors in the Oil & Gas industry such as Majors, National Oil Companies, Independents and Service companies.

Worked on the development of a technical knowledge management tool and collaborated in the creation of the software required to manage the company’s product development processes.

Participated from the early stages of conceptualization of the start-up company, dedicated to the manufacturing of specialty oleochemicals (tocopherols, plant sterols and methyl esters/biodiesel), all the way into the sale of my shares in it. Not only held business development responsibilities, developing the company’s worldwide distribution channels and new accounts and achieving US$8MM in sales by late 2007, but also created the QC processes for the venture, NPD projects (Sterol Esters) and finding early financing sources (Fontar Grants).

Studied: Python Coding; Advanced Machine Learning Techniques such as Decision Trees, K-Means Clustering, Bagging, Random Forest and Boosting; Neural Network Architectures, Computer Vision Tools including Convolutional NNs and Transfer Learning; Natural Language Models and LLMs based on Word Embedding, Attention Mechanisms and Transformer Models; Prompt Engineering with Open Sources LLMs.

Concentration: Energy & Materials Transition