Philip Lesslar

Philip Lesslar has over 40 years of professional experience in the oil & gas industry in both geoscience as well as data management roles working mostly in Malaysia. He worked initially as a specialist in micropaleontology carrying out well interpretation, regional reviews and quantitative micropaleontological studies. He later moved to data management, crafting policies and solutions for data and data quality initiatives. In this capacity, he has worked abroad in The Netherlands and The United States of America in a global role as Principal Data Management Consultant in Shell International. He has carried out data audits at Shell offices in various countries (Brunei, China, Norway, Australia and UAE). He retired from Shell after 37 years and then spent 5 years in PETRONAS as Principal Data Management Consultant. He also presents regularly at data management conferences and has published a number of technical papers.

He promotes and designs Data Governance strategies tailored to the specific needs of organisations to ensure effective implementation with particular emphases on data quality metrics and value quantification for visibility and business impact.

His latest publication is a book entitled “10 Tough Questions on Data that Management are not asking (enough)”.