Petrofac Hires Chief Digital Officer

Petrofac has appointed Fady Sleiman Chief Digital Officer as the oilfield services company continues its digital transformation. He will be based in Petrofac’s Middle East office in Sharjah.

Fady joins from MENA investment company Waha Capital, where he was Chief Information Officer/Group Head of IT for the Abu Dhabi based company from 2014. Prior to that Fady was CIO and Head of Innovation Centre Strategy for General Electric MEA based in Dubai, having held a number of roles across GE’s business portfolio in US, Europe, Middle East and South East Asia, since 2001.

His appointment follows that of new CIO Allan Cockriel, who joined Petrofac (POFCF) from GE in April, and comes as Petrofac focuses on identifying and delivering ways in which digital technology can be used as an enabler to improve the performance of its own business and that of its clients, the company said.