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CARBO® is a global technology company that provides products and services to several markets, including energy, industrial, agricultural, and environmental markets to enhance value for its clients.
CARBO Energy - is a leading provider of market-leading technologies to create engineered production enhancements solutions that help E&P operators to design, build and optimize the frac - increasing well production and estimated ultimate recovery, and lower finding and development cost per barrel of oil equivalent.
CARBO used to be a public company until it faced financial difficulties, and had to file for a bancruptcy. During the restructuring, CARBO became a private company with a new CEO in the place. CARBO has lost many people during the process, customer and market share and needed to reignite& recharge the main vertical - Energy ( Oilfield).
CARBO approached a seasoned high-profile executive at Schlumberger - Max Nikolaev to take ownership of the vertical and fuel it for growth.
Max possesses more than 17 years of oil and gas experience and continues to contribute to the innovation in Completion & Stimulation sectors. Max has joint CARBO 2 years ago after the company went through bankruptcy with a promise to improve the financial and operational performance of the company's Energy division. As a result of a massive multi-layer transformation, the largest business unit has improved customer relationships and experience, optimized operational processes and assets utilization, continued developing breakthrough technologies, and flipped the page where CARBO is associated with the money-losing business.
Max's division continues to invest in new product development and bringing unique and high-performance products solving previously unresolved problems to E&P. Max has demonstrated that his commitment to sustainable operations, the introduction of safe technologies positively impacting operations, and reduction of the environmental footprint remains strong. In summary, Max's contributions to product innovation, eliminating waste, and contagious attitude towards positive environmental impact have been evident to the industry! After much reflection, it is identified that the nominee's impact is around three main areas:
- Customer centricity
- Thoughtful leadership
- Innovation & Digitalization
Customer Centricity.
In Max's entire career, he was driven by the Customers' needs demonstrating exceptional service, care, and desire to provide the right solution in the shortest period.
- Net Promoter Score. Deservedly, Max's team has received a score of 85%, which is considered very high [REDACTED FOR PUBLICATION]
- ESG focus is fundamental. After a massive look into the ESG impact, it was identified that CARBO's technologies bring significant value to ESG-conscious customers. Therefore, the decision was taken to continue demonstrating the value, monitoring the impact, and making the industry aware of the opportunity to improve ESG scores with CARBO's technologies.
Thoughtful Leadership.
- Max has started the Global Executive MBA at TRIUM (NYU&HEC&LSE schools) in 2020 and successfully competed in it this spring.
- Max has run the 360 degrees assessment three times, receiving excellent feedback over the last two years. Quantitative results have always been high, but the real value is in the qualitative feedback. Max used it to improve his performance with the team and, as a result, proved and showed improvement on each assessment.
- Due to his excellent rapport with the team, he had zero attrition in the last two years, solidifying that the team truly enjoys working with him.
Innovation & Digitalization
- Max has pushed for digitalization and automation of routine tasks within the company. As a result, it helped to scale the business substantially – revenue grew [REDACTED FOR PUBLICATION] while the headcount addition was minimal [REDACTED FOR PUBLICATION].
- CARBO has increased the size of the new technologies pipeline [REDACTED FOR PUBLICATION] In addition, Max has increased the number of similar partnerships [REDACTED FOR PUBLICATION] since he joined the company.
Nomination Title: Max Nikolaev