Steve McBride

Steve McBride is a resilient, high-integrity leader who thrives in multicultural environments, and equally in large and small businesses. He has been working in Asia Pacific for over 30 years, with extensive in-depth experience both as a general/country manager and as a strategic business development director in the upstream energy services sector.

Prior to returning to Perth, Australia, in 2020, he was the COO of a small, diversified energy company in Myanmar, with oversight of renewables-based power generation projects, E&P exploration assets, and LPG distribution initiatives.

Currently, he works part-time for three organizations leading business development in Australasia for Reverse Engineering Services Ltd. (RESL) from UK in Decommissioning and Well Abandonment, and across Asia Pacific for Houston-based Oilfield Data Services Inc. (ODSI) for their state-of-the-art reservoir surveillance software services, as well as for Kuala Lumpur-headquartered AWT International for their project management and consultancy services and in subsurface, drilling, and completions.

McBride holds a BSc (first class honors) in electronics and electrical engineering from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a part-time MBA with distinction from London Imperial College, Singapore. He is the past chair of SPE Western Australia Section as well as the past chair of the SPE Distinguished Lecturer Committee. He is an Ambassador for Women in LPG (WINLPG) in Southeast Asia.