10 CIOs in Oil and Gas
All ten of these oil and gas CIOs hold the title now, at companies from Chevron and bp to Colonial Pipeline Company, Golden Pass LNG and Weatherford, and five name no employer other than their current one. Their earlier titles run from SAP integration and subsurface management to IT mergers and acquisitions and digital transformation, so they suit a company setting cybersecurity, post-merger IT or field technology priorities.
Professionals to explore
Joe Carroll
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer & Head of Cybersecurity · CITGO
Joe Carroll holds the title Chief Information Officer & Head of Cybersecurity at CITGO (since February 2022) and was General Manager of Information Technology & Cybersecurity (CIO CISO Equivalent Role) there from 2019 to 2022. Earlier CITGO titles include Manager (Director Equivalent) IT Applications - Hydrocarbon Supply Chain and SAP Integration (2007-2018) and Sr. Systems Engineer SAP Basis (2002-2007).
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Kishore Sundararajan
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · Weatherford
Kishore Sundararajan, Chief Information Officer at Weatherford since February 2023, held SVP Integrity Management & Digital Solutions at Oceaneering (2020-2022) and President, Engineering & Product Management, Oil Field Services at Baker Hughes (2017-2019). Product and engineering titles at Oceaneering and Baker Hughes suit questions on digital solutions and oil field services product management. Sundararajan is also President Of The Board Of Directors at SASE.
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Les Copeland
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · Chevron
Les Copeland has been Chief Information Officer at Chevron since April 2024. Les's General Motors titles (2016-2024) were all CIO roles, covering Global Manufacturing, Global Supply Chain and Purchasing, and Workplace Safety IT, Global Digital EV Commerce, Fleet & Energy, and Global Data Strategy, Artificial Intelligence & Analytics Services, a fit for questions on data, AI and manufacturing IT.
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Lucas Randall
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · Flint Hills Resources
Lucas Randall's five most recent titles are all at Flint Hills Resources: Chief Information Officer since October 2020, Chief Technology Officer (2019-2020), Director - Digital Transformation (2018-2019), Manager of Application Development (2016-2018) and Manager Information Architecture (2015-2016). Randall fits questions on moving a digital transformation program into the CIO's remit.
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Nguyen Tran
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · Colonial Pipeline Company
Nguyen Tran has been Chief Information Officer at Colonial Pipeline Company since February 2026. That Colonial Pipeline Company CIO seat makes Tran the person to ask about IT priorities for pipeline operations, and about what a CIO new to a company looks at first.
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Ramon Grimaldo Jr.
LinkedInExperience: Vice President & Chief Information Officer · HF Sinclair
HF Sinclair's Vice President & Chief Information Officer since June 2024, Ramon Grimaldo Jr. was Head of Infrastructure & Enterprise Technology Services at Marathon Petroleum Corporation (2018-2024). Sr Director, IT Mergers & Acquisitions at Andeavor (2018) and Sr. Director titles at Tesoro Corporation in IT Engagement, Strategy & Planning and IT Process Excellence (2016-2018) make Grimaldo the merger integration pick.
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Rocco Ivanovich
LinkedInExperience: Head of Information Technology CIO · Golden Pass LNG
Rocco Ivanovich is Head of Information Technology CIO at Golden Pass LNG (since April 2023), and was Chief Information Officer at EDF Trading North America (2018-2023) and Vice President of Information Technology CIO at Dynegy, Inc. (1984-2018). Three CIO titles at Golden Pass LNG, EDF Trading North America and Dynegy make Ivanovich a fit for questions on trading and LNG systems.
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Sarita Das
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · bp
Chief Information Officer at bp since June 2025, a role Sarita Das describes as "CIO, Gas and Power Trading Americas." Das's earlier bp titles include Chief Architect (2019-2025), Lead Business Architect (2011-2019) and Functional Architect (2003-2011), which makes Das the architecture-focused CIO here and a fit for trading systems questions.
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Sean Petersen
LinkedInExperience: Former VP & CIO · Murphy Oil Corporation
Before becoming VP & CIO at Murphy Oil Corporation in August 2025, Sean Petersen was Vice President, Subsurface there (2022-2025). General Manager titles at Murphy Oil cover Subsurface (2020-2022), Canada Operations (2019-2020) and Kaybob Operations (2016-2019). An operations background makes Petersen useful on what subsurface and field operations teams need from IT.
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Stephen D.
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · Hunt Oil Company
At Hunt Oil Company, Stephen D. has been Chief Information Officer since December 2020 and was Director, IT Infrastructure (Operations & Architecture) from 2019 to 2020. Earlier titles are Director, IT Infrastructure (2016-2019) and Manager, Enterprise Systems (2008-2011) at Dean Foods and Vice President, Professional Services at Clear Technologies (2011-2016). Stephen names modernization and cybersecurity as current priorities.
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Choose the right perspective
For cybersecurity questions, Joe Carroll holds a combined CIO and head of cybersecurity title at CITGO. Ramon Grimaldo Jr. is the pick for integrating systems after a merger, given the IT Mergers & Acquisitions title at Andeavor, while Sean Petersen came to the CIO job from subsurface and operations titles at Murphy Oil and can speak to what field teams need from IT. Les Copeland and Stephen D. bring outside views from General Motors and Dean Foods.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you split IT and cybersecurity budget between operational technology at field sites, pipelines or plants and corporate systems?
- 02After a refinery or upstream merger, which systems do you consolidate first and which do you leave running?
- 03How do you decide which digital projects in drilling, trading or supply should be funded centrally versus by the business unit?
About this directory
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