Randy W. Clark

Randy W. Clark is President and Chief Executive Officer of POSC, the Petrotechnical Open Standards Consortium. Mr. Clark has more than twenty-five years of experience in the oil and gas industry in a variety of different roles and positions with industry companies, including ten years with Baker Hughes in Houston. Prior to joining POSC, Mr. Clark was Senior Vice President of cc-hubwoo/Trade-Ranger, the world’s largest electronic marketplace for indirect goods, whose members including many of the major oil and gas operating companies such as Shell, Total, Statoil and ConocoPhillips. Additionally, Mr. Clark has been active in many global e-business standards development efforts, such as ebXML, UN/CEFACT, CEN/ISSS, and is immediate past-chair of the Petroleum Industry Data eXchange (PIDX), the e-commerce subcommittee of the American Petroleum Institute.

Mr. Clark holds Bachelor of Science and MBA degrees from Texas universities. He also holds a professional certification in New Product Development from the Product Development and Management Association. His broad range of experience has included oil and gas production facility design and project management, purchasing management, business process re-engineering, new product development, data and information standards development and e-business strategy and development. Mr. Clark is based in the company headquarters in Houston.