Yannis Bassias, born in 1954, President and Managing Director, Georex Group

Joined Georex in 1991 and worked as Operations Manager in Paris on marketing and sales of the exploration services until 1995. He was appointed General Manager in 1996 and President in 1997. From 1997 to 2001 he directed the Georex evaluation team and participated in the development of oil and gas assets in the United States (Texas, New Mexico) and Colombia. From 2002 to present he oriented the company on the development of geoscience activities applied in subsurface studies, data management and transfer of knowledge. Before joining the petroleum industry he had an academic career with main research focus on the sedimentary basins and ridges of the Indian Ocean.

Laurent Baillard, born in 1972, Administrative and Financial Manager, Georex Group

Joined Georex in 1994 and assisted in the accounting department until 1999 when he was appointed Administrative and Financial Manager of the group. He served as  Director of the Board of Georex from 2003 to 2010 and of Georex UK Ltd from 2005 to 2010. Managing Director of SCI Honoré de Balzac from 2003 and of Georex UK Ltd from 2004 to 2005.

Dalian Lembang, born in 1963, Business Development and Training Advisor, Geo-Form SAS

Joined Georex in 2000 to market data management services. Since 2003 he is involved in the development and marketing of training activities worldwide. Georex's training portfolio is developed today under Geo-Form subsidiary. Dalian holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Houston and spent four years with Western Geophysical in seismic acquisition in West Africa and in South America and eight years with Cgg in France in seismic processing before joining Georex.

Alain Raynaud, born in 1956, Subsurface Projects and Site Operations, Georex Assistance Technique SAS

Alain has more than 30 years experience in the industry from the basic mud logging to operations geology and management of subsurface projects with majors and independents of the oil and gas industry. He has a long experience on unconventional plays and developed methods of cross checking reservoir potential with seismic interpretation. Alain holds a Master degree in Petrology from Clermont-Ferrand in 1980. He joined the group in 2003 and since September 2011, he is in charge of Subsurface Projects and Site Operations of Georex.

Roselyne Friedenberg, born in 1963, Personnel Career Manager,  Geo-Form SAS

Joined the group in September 2008 to assure the management of Personnel Career and Recruitment of the group. She graduated in Sedimentology from the University of Lyon-1 in 1987 and began her career with Elf on sequence stratigraphy and dipmeter correlations on clastic settings. Roselyne holds a PhD in sedimentology from the University of Strasbourg (1994). She worked for GDF, ANDRA and IFP projects on sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy and reservoir modelling in the Paris Basin, and south Argentina basin. Since 2000 she occupied the positions of marketing and sales and later of management for Ajilon Engineering oil and gas services.
 
Karim Debache, born in 1964, Geophysical Activities Center,  Geonumeric SAS, Pau

Karim joined the group in August 2009 to assist the development of the geophysical services of the Transcription Centre of Geonumeric in Pau. He has 20 years experience with the oil and gas industry in seismic acquisition and processing. He started his career with Sonatrach in acquisition QC, processing and supervision before occupying the position of project coordinator on basin projects scale. Karim worked from 2005 to 2009 with Western / Schlumberger worldwide for Apache, BP, Eni, Gasprom and more specifically in Egypt, Libya and Sudan on acquisition and processing team management and client follow up.

Lydérick De Wever, born in 1976, Environmental studies, Georex Assistance Technique SAS, Paris

Joined the group in 2006, to develop the environmental activity. He is Geology engineer and obtained a Master Degree in Urbanism in 2004. He worked in natural reserves in France and joined a CNRS program on European water management in relation with mining subsidence in France and flooding consequences in Belgium and the Nederlands. He assists the public sector on environmental studies, water management, urbanism / city-development projects and geotechnical audits.

Zofia Bednarska, born in 1960, Document Management and Indexation, Geonumeric SAS, Paris

Zofia Bednarska develops the document management activities of Geonumeric. Zofia has a diverse experience in the field of documentary intelligence and more specifically, these past ten years, in the field of petroleum industry. She holds a DEA in Linguistics, a DESS in European Relations and a Diploma in Documentary Engineering. Her appointment to this position will allow our company to develop new directions larger than those of Geoscience that currently constitute an asset of the group.

Walid Ghannem, born in 1976, Managing Director, Georex Services Tunisia SARL, Tunisia 

Joined the group in 2005 and was appointed in 2008 Managing Director of “Geonumeric sarl”, the tunisian subsidiary of Georex . Walid holds a Master Degree in GIS applied on Geosciences from the University of Tunis.

Robert Pettit, Managing Director, Georex UK Ltd, Surbiton

Joined the group in 2005, to head up an international, London based service company. Graduating in 1974 with a BSc (Hons) in Geology from the University of London, Robert joined GSI as a seismic processing geophysicist. He has spent much of his career working, both in senior management positions and as a consultant, in the E&P services sector. Following periods of employment with Western Geophysical, Schlumberger and Fugro Robertson, he was a founding member of SeiScan Technology Ltd (later SeiScan GeoData) in 1991, offering data conditioning and management services to the industry – with specific emphasis on the digital reconstruction and reprocessing of legacy seismic datasets. SeiScan was acquired by Robertson Research International in 2003, and Robert remained with the company for a further 2 years.