Steve McBride

Steve McBride is a resilient, high integrity leader who thrives in multi-cultural environments, and equally in large and small businesses. He has been working in Asia Pacific for the past 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 3 organizations leading business development in Australasia for Reverse Engineering Services Ltd (RESL) from UK in Decommissioning & 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 KL head-quartered AWT International for their consultancy and project management services.

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