Kannan recently retired from SLB as Vice President of Digital Operations Support for WesternGeco, after working for more than 48 years with essentially one company. He started his career immediately upon completing his master’s degree in electrical engineering from the American University of Beirut (AUB), and thanks to company mergers and acquisitions, had an interesting employment journey - Geophysical Services Inc. (a subsidiary of Texas Instruments), Halliburton Geophysical Services, Western Atlas, Baker Hughes, and finally Schlumberger (SLB) – all with just one job interview! He has worked in a variety of disciplines in many locations around the world: data processing, technical training, HPC and Cloud systems design, development & operations, and has held senior corporate IT management positions. Kannan is on the Board of the SLB Employees Credit Union (SECU), on the Board of the Society of HPC Professionals (SHPCP) and on his HOA Board's Architectural Control Committee. Kannan lives in Sugar Land, Texas.