Jess B. Kozman is currently Regional Manager for Mubadala Petroleum in Singapore. He is responsible for implementation of technology applications and geotechnical information management in support of petroleum exploration and production in the southeast Asia Region.

Mr. Kozman has worked in the oil & gas industry since 1980. He began with a Texaco seismic field crew in West Texas, worked as a seismic interpreter and computer coordinator for 15 years with ENSERCH (Now Newfield Exploration Co.) then in IT management at Meridian Oil (now part of ConocoPhillips), and as a geophysicist and computer data specialist for Seismic Exchange, Inc., with headquarters in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1999 he joined the seismic data management group of Schlumberger Information Solutions, and was based with his family in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for four years. After a stint as an independent contractor for oil and gas, mining, and CO2 sequestration, he returned to Australia and Asia to "follow the energy, enthusiasm, and capex" in the resource extraction industry. He has worked with information and technology solutions from all the major tectonic plates on Earth, as well as geotagged data from other celestial spheroids, and he is a sought after speaker on information technology at international conferences.

Mr. Kozman is a Certified Petroleum Geophysicist, a Licensed Professional Geoscientist, and an Information Quality Certified Professional. He maintains membership in the SEG, American Geophysical Union, and Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration group. He is certified at the Foundation Level in PRINCE2 Project Management by the U.K. Office of Government Commerce.

Mr. Kozman has a Bachelor of Science in Geology and Geophysics from the Honors College at Michigan State University and has done graduate work in the mechanics of sediment movement and laboratory work on neutron activation analysis of rare earth elements in immiscible magmas. He has done field work in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Canada, offshore Bahamas, Oslo Rift, and multiple locations in southeast Asia area. He has authored papers on gravity modeling of salt domes, long-offset seismic acquistion, 3D seismic analysis, databases and computer sciences, and contributed columns to geological and geophysical society newsletters.

Mr. Kozman has participated in geologic field trips on all six permanently populated continents, and authored a geologic field guide to hiking trails in National Parks in North America and Australia.

When not working, he enjoys hiking, backpacking, home brewing and competitive pub darts. He is supported by his gorgeous wife, Catherine, who owns Spaces Talk, a landscape design firm specializing in organic and native plantings.