Arno has over 25 years of Oil & Gas experience. He joined Royal Dutch Shell in 1990 holding various positions in the upstream production and operations space in the Netherlands before taking on a host of global assignments. Arno’s final assignment in Shell was as the G.M. and Technical Authority for Wells in Brazil for the exploration and development activities in the Libra pre-salt joint venture. He left Shell in 2016 for Philips Healthcare in the San Francisco Bay Area as the senior director for program management delivering Healthcare IT solutions before joining AWS. He has over 15 professional publications to his name and holds 5 patents.