Andrea Course is a venture principal at the corporate venturing arm of US-based oil services provider Schlumberger.
Unit manager Iain Cooper said: “Andrea Course joined at the start of 2018 and is considered high potential by Schlumberger management and has certainly hit the ground running.” He said last year there had been “six to seven follow-ons, of which she has managed a number”.
Deals in which she has been involved so far include Norway-based cable condition monitoring products provider Wirescan and US-based cybersecurity platform provider Onapsis.
However, Course said that with more than 100,000 employees at Schlumberger, it was not always easy to find the right person to connect with the startups. For now, the CVC team can make investments only if both a strategic fit and a strong internal stakeholder exist.
Prior to this role, Course was a US-based product manager and a senior product analyst at Schlumberger spinout OneSubsea, an oil and gas products and systems manufacturer, for over three years.
Before that, she was an engineering manager and a product design engineer at oil and gas flow equipment products provider Cameron, also a Schlumberger company, for nearly eight years. She said: “All my roles have allowed me to support the innovation and development of new products and services.”
With an extensive engineering background, Course has a bachelor’s degree in engineering physics from University of Central Oklahoma, a master’s in aerospace engineering from University of Oklahoma and an executive MBA from University of Houston.
