Our people and management

The Serimax board of directors and senior management have, between them, hundreds of years' experience, working in a wide range of industry sectors and bringing together unrivalled commercial and engineering capabilities.

Board of Directors

David Williams

Managing Director

David Williams joined Serimax as Non Executive Chairman in June 2004 at the time of the acquisition of Serimer (renamed Serimax in January 2007) by Lime Rock Partners and 4D Energy Partners.

David began his career working in shipbuilding on the River Tyne, before moving to the offshore industry in 1977 to work with WS Atkins & Partners and Taywood-Santa Fe Engineering. In 1985 he joined the private equity company 3i plc, becoming Managing Director for the Midlands and Southern Region in 2000.

Jacques Delahousse

Chief Financial Officer

In October 2007, Jacques joined Serimax as Chief Financial Officer. Before he was Regional Chief Officer for Southern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South America within Atos Origin : a major international group in the realm of IT services.

He has a degree from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, in Economy and Finances.

His career began in 1992 with the audit firm Arthur Andersen and the Lagardère Group. His career path also counts six years by Schlumberger, during which he was based in Rome, Jakarta and Paris.

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Frédéric Castrec

Chief Operating Officer

Frédéric has worked for Serimax since 1996. He started with the company as a welding engineer on projects in North Sea and Africa. In 1998 he managed the first offshore projects outside our mother company ETPM (now Acergy) as Pescada for Conduto in Brazil and Resak for TL Offshore in Malaysia. Starting 2003, Frédéric has managed the marine operations.

He is now taking up his new position including Regional Management and Technology in order to provide integrated and appropriate solutions to our project teams and customers.

Our people

Stéphane Allain

Vice President, Asia Pacific  

Stéphane Allain joined Serimer in 1996 as a Cost Estimating Engineer, and was promoted to Senior Project Manager in 2002. He has supervised a series of major projects primarily in South East Asia

Since January 2007, Stéphane has been managed the Asia Pacific region, based in Singapore, covering all aspects of the business from sales to operations, internal logistics and client relationships.

  

Cyril Tigien

Vice President Europe, Middle East & Africa / Commonwealth of Independent States 

Date of birth:		17 March 1971
Nationality:		French
Qualifications:		MSc, Material and Welding Engineering (E.P. Nantes) and MSc Business & Administration (ESSEC)

Cyril Tigien has worked with Serimax since 1996 when he joined as a welding engineer in 1996. In 2001 he became Operations Manager with responsibility for automatic welding on all Stolt (now Acergy) barges and special projects. From January 2005 to September 2006, Cyril was responsible for the welding and equipment Research and Development Department. In September 2006 he assumed responsibility for the North American operation of Serimax supporting landline, offshore and spoolbase operations.

He returned to Europe at the end of 2007 to become Chief Commercial Officer responsible for marketing, price estimating and key account relashionships.

 

In November 2009, Cyril became Vice President of the EMEA/CIS Region based in Mitry-Mory.

 

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Kenny Spink

Regional Manager, North Europe Region

Date of Birth:		31 August 1977
Nationality:		British
Qualifications:		BSc in Interior Architecture Bsc in Construction Management

 

Kenny Spink joined Serimax in February 2010 as the regional Manager of the NEU Region responsible for activities in the UK and Scandinavia. He is based in our Evanton Office. 

In 1998, Kenny gained a BSc in Interior Architecture before developing a career path in construction leading to a BSc in Construction Management in 2002.  In 2004 Kenny left a Project Management position to join the oil and gas industry as Cost & Planning Engineer for Rigblast Limited (now RGB), spending time working within offshore fabric maintenance, NDT and fabrication business streams.

 

 

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Sean Lynch

Vice President, North & South America

Date of birth:		24 February 1972
Nationality:		English
Qualifications:		BEng.(Hons),MSc., CEng.

Sean Lynch, a Chartered (UK) Welding Engineer, began his career in the automotive industry after gaining an MSc. in Welding Technology.

 

In 1997, Sean transferred into the oil & gas industry working for EMC/Saipem and later moving to PTL, gaining offshore and spoolbase base experience. He joined Serimax in 2006, where he led the Marine/Fabrication division for the NSA region, and has been a major contributor to the growth of the business over the past two years.

 

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