Former Thirty-Year Schlumberger Executive Joins Celerant Consulting's Energy Practice

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Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:00am EDT

Former Thirty-Year Schlumberger Executive Joins Celerant Consulting's Energy
Practice

LEXINGTON, Mass. and HOUSTON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Celerant Consulting
today announced the appointment of Jan Erik Johansson as a Vice President in
the Energy sector focused on Exploration and Production (E&P), Upstream
operations and Refining. Mr. Johansson is based in Houston, Texas.

Mr. Johansson joins Celerant from Schlumberger, the global oilfield and
information services company, after 30 years of service.  His responsibilities
encompassed field operations, operations management with regional
responsibility, software development, start up-operations, and marketing. 

Mr. Johansson has extensive experience in the areas of wireline operations,
seismic processing and interpretation operations and software development,
information management, IT operations and marketing. He has also been deeply
involved in the areas of WAN and LAN operations and management, Desktop
outsourcing, Satellite Communications, physical and logical Security and
Directory Services. 

"Jan Erik brings extensive consulting and operations experience to Celerant,"
said Bill Hendrickson, EVP of Sales and Marketing.  "His experiences have
provided Jan Erik a very large network of contacts with national oil
companies, major oil companies, and regional oil companies throughout the
world and include Asia (China, Indonesia, Brunei, Singapore, Philippines,
Taiwan and Malaysia), Europe and CIS (Norway, Russia, Germany and UK), USA and
Latin America (Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil and Peru)."

He earned an Engineering Degree in Electronics with a Transmission Technology
specialty in Sweden. He is an active member of Society of Petroleum Engineers,
Society of Professional Well Log Analysts, American Association of Petroleum
Geologists and Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

About Celerant Consulting
Celerant is a global management consultancy that provides international
strategy and business transformation consulting and delivers operational
improvement that helps the world's leading companies to achieve and sustain
real gains in bottom-line performance.

Celerant's difference is simple -- we believe that once we have fixed a
problem for a client, it should stay fixed.
 
First we spend time understanding the needs of an organization.  Then we
analyze the challenges faced before recommending a tailored change program
designed to deliver measurable results, now and into the future.  This
involves our industry experienced consultants working side-by-side with people
in the front line of your business -- from the Boardroom to the shop floor --
to ensure the delivery of sustainable and measurable benefits.

As a result, last year Celerant delivered over $1bn in annualized sustainable
savings to its clients. For more information, please visit
www.celerantconsulting.com.

SOURCE  Celerant Consulting

Stephanie Lin for Celerant, +1-617-587-2969, slin@brodeur.com; or Charles
Spofford of Celerant, +1-781-274-7390,
charles.spofford@celerantconsulting.com
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