Speaker Webinar - McKinsey & Company
Scott S. Nyquist
Scott is a Senior Advisor and former Senior Partner in the management consulting Firm McKinsey & Company. He serves energy and industrial companies on matters of strategy, organization, and performance improvement. During his 35-year tenure, Nyquist has advised integrated oil and gas companies, National Oil Companies, power companies/utilities, independent downstream, midstream, and upstream oil and gas companies. Additionally, he has counselled private equity and industrial firms that support the energy industry.
Nyquist joined McKinsey in 1984 and was based in McKinsey's London office until 1998 when he transferred to McKinsey Houston. His main Firm leadership roles included directing McKinsey's European and America's Oil and Gas practices, and co-leading McKinsey's Global Energy and Materials sector and Sustainability and Resource productivity practices. Scott was elected to McKinsey's Board of Directors and participated in McKinsey's review committees for partner performance. He is on the extended board of the McKinsey Global Institute, which is McKinsey's internally funded think tank. Scott has initiated and led numerous published research projects on topics related to oil and gas, sustainability, and the US economy.
Scott graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 1980, worked for Exxon Production Research in Houston between 1980 through 1982, and obtained an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1984.
Nyquist is a member of the Shareholder Committee of Wintershall DEA, Europe’s leading independent gas and oil company. His Houston community involvement includes leadership roles on the Greater Houston Partnership Board of Directors, Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business Council of Overseers, the University of Houston Energy Advisory Board, the Interfaith Ministries of Greater Houston Advisory Board, and the Houston Symphony Board of Trustees.
Luciano Di Fiori
A Partner with McKinsey’s Energy Insights, leading the team in the Americas and focused on oil, liquids, and OFSE related market perspectives. He joined McKinsey’s Houston office in 2009, where for the past 9 years he has focused mostly on the oil and gas industry. Luciano has served E&P, OFSE, midstream, and downstream clients in the North American onshore space, and internationally in Latin America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa.
Luciano’s responsibilities within Energy Insights:
§ North America O&G: built and expanded assets in O&G that have been used in 56 client studies since 2016. This includes the North American Supply Model (NASM) which models the oil and gas market at a very granular level with 150+ basins. In 2017, I have been leading the creation of a NA Gas Flow & Basis tool. This tool (still under development) has been successfully deployed in a study with Exxon, who confirmed they will subscribe to it, and presented to other clients that have also expressed interest in licensing the tool (Southwestern, Repsol, Hilcorp)
§ Global OFS: the EI team and assets have been critical in expanding Firm’s success in the OFS space. Built assets (Global Offshore Rig Model, NA Onshore Rig Model, Global Wells Model) that have been used by 37 client teams since 2016. Partnered with the service line to create a new tool – OFScope (a NA market sizing tool for all services). This assets has already been deployed in a market scan work for Carlyle, a strategy study for Weatherford, and a digital piece for Haliburton. Other clients have expressed interest in the tool including Nine Energy and Cadent Energy Partners. We have plans to expand this tool internationally to repeat the success in other regions
§ Global upstream and downstream: revamped the Firm’s assets in these sectors to be able to support 36 client situations since 2016. Main deliverables include comprehensive market perspectives refreshed twice a year that can be used directly with clients. Currently working on partnering with data vendors (e.g., IHS) to increase the market reach of these efforts and support more granular analytics to the Firm’s clients
§ Petrochemicals: co-lead the launching of Chemical Insights (JV with Chemicals Practice) and developing new tools for this sector. Building a team within my organization (currently solution manager –Autumn- and 4 analysts/specialists) to replicate the success EI had in the energy space into the chemicals space
Before joining McKinsey, Luciano worked as a Senior Planning Analyst in CGC, an Argentine oil and gas independent with operations in Argentina, Venezuela and Ecuador. Luciano earned an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management in 2009. He holds a B.A. with honors in Industrial Engineering from the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology.