Kristian Nieminen - CEO
Kristian Nieminen - CEO
Management
Kristian Nieminen -CEO
Drone Inspektor was founded by Kristian Nieminen. He has more than 25 years of combined experience in aerospace, subsea, oil and gas, and military operations.
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Mr. Nieminen has extensive experience as a Client Representative, Subsea Operations Manager, and Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Superintendent & Pilot in complex, large-scale subsea operations in the oil and gas industry.
Mr. Nieminen has extensive work experience with NASA as an Extravehicular Activity and Extravehicular Robotics Engineer. As a Chief of Mission Control, he has managed global stratospheric flight operations, as well as the NASA International Space Station robotics reliability program while receiving multiple NASA awards.
Mr. Nieminen has served in the Navy Special Forces, Underwater Demolition Team. He is specialized in upstream, midstream, and downstream asset failure investigations, and is considered one of the leading experts in the industry.
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Alice Wang - Sales Manager
Ms. Alice brings over 15 years of multifaceted experience in the oil and gas sector, spanning engineering, sustaining, supply chain management, recruiting, sales, and marketing. Her specialization in research and development within oil and gas service technology includes expertise in areas such as spectroscopy and nuclear technology.
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She holds a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University, a minor in Mathematics. Beyond her professional achievements, Ms. Alice is a proud mother of two daughters and an entrepreneur, an investor, and a content creator on YouTube.
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Douglas Gibson - Chairman
With more than 35 years of oil industry experience Mr. Gibson graduated with Degrees in Electronic Engineering and Physics from The University of Dundee, Scotland and Rice University, Houston, TX. He served as a division President of Halliburton company before starting his career building or growing technology companies and taking them to successful exit including Secure Oil Tools, Sensa, Vibtech, Vector Seismic, OmniEarth and Fotech Solutions. He specializes in taking new and advanced technologies to the Oil & Gas industry and has consulted to several Fortune 100 companies and Major Oil Companies in Sensing systems, Seismic technology, AI and Communications Technology.
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Mr. Gibson will assist in growing Drone Inspektor into one of the most advanced key infrastructure monitoring companies, building upon a multi-layered approach of sensing solutions to meet the industry goal of Net Zero emissions.