Larry White Joins OpenSpirit As Vice President of Sales & Marketing
OpenSpirit announces the appointment of Larry White as Vice President of Sales & Marketing. As a vendor-neutral and platform-independent offering, the OpenSpirit application and data integration solution provides the performance, functionality and flexibility that energy companies depend on to manage and access their upstream data and workflows.
“Larry brings 35 years of experience to our global sales and marketing organization,” says Dan Piette, President and CEO of OpenSpirit. “In November, we once again earned a spot as one of the top 50 technology companies in the Houston area based on outstanding revenue growth. As a recognized leader in the upstream E&P industry, Larry has the market know-how and global expertise to help us maintain this consistent sales growth and move OpenSpirit to the next level.”
White most recently served as the Global Account Manager at Input/Output, Inc. with responsibility for a number of super major accounts, including ExxonMobil, BP, ConocoPhillips, Occidental, Chevron and Apache, as well as many independent oil company accounts. Prior to this White served as President & CEO of Bell Geospace and Vice President of The Americas at Landmark Graphics. He started his E&P career at Schlumberger in 1971 as an offshore field engineer and spent the next 19 years in various functions, including the leading of two divisions, Marketing and Technical Manager for Wireline Atlantic and Region Sales Manager. White holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida.
About OpenSpirit
The OpenSpirit Corporation, based in Sugar Land, Texas, began operations in July 2000 as an independent software company focused on providing integration solutions for upstream applications and data. The OpenSpirit application integration framework allows interoperability between multiple vendors’ applications and data. To date, more than 30 software vendors have licensed the OpenSpirit developer’s kit. Additionally, there are now more than 1500 oil company end users in more than 50 countries taking advantage of the framework to speed up critical workflows and enhance analysis in the geotechnical space, with more adopting the solution every day. Additional information on OpenSpirit is available at www.openspirit.com, or via e-mail at info@openspirit.com.