Kemal Farid

Current

• President and CEO at Merrick Systems

Past

• VXI Applications Engineering Manager at National Instruments

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Rice University
• University of Texas at Austin

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Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• My Facebook profile

Kemal Farid’s Summary

I founded and lead Merrick Systems, a market leader in information technology for upstream oil and gas operations. Merrick has grown both organically and through a series of acquisitions.

Kemal Farid’s Specialties:

CEO, technology development, upstream oil and gas technologies, Electrical Engineer, Software Engineer, automation, general management, start-up incubation, growth phase 20-100 employees.

Kemal Farid’s Experience

• President and CEO

  Merrick Systems

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1992 — Present (17 years 6 months)

  Merrick Systems, Inc. (www.MerrickSystems.com) is a software development and professional services company based in Houston, Texas. Merrick focuses on the up-stream and mid-stream oil and gas industry in the area of production operations. Merrick’s products include the ProCount suite for hydrocarbon accounting and allocations, FieldCap, DynaCap and eVIN for field operations and data capture, numerous regulatory reporting modules for production and health-safety-environmental compliance, and RIO for reservoir and well asset management.
  
  Merrick’s customers are primarily the major integrated producers and large independents, including Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Burlington Resources Oil & Gas, BP, Cabot Oil and Gas, ConocoPhillips, Denbury Resources, Devon Energy Corporation, EOG , El Paso Corporation, ExxonMobil, Merit Energy Corporation, Pioneer Natural Resources, Plains Exploration and Production, Total E&P USA, Unocal Corporation and Whiting Petroleum Corporation.

• VXI Applications Engineering Manager

  National Instruments

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1991 — 1992 (1 year )

Kemal Farid’s Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Executive Education - Entreprenuership Masters Program, EDP , Business Management , 2005 — 2007

• Rice University

  Executive Education - Business 1999 — 1999

• University of Texas at Austin

  BSEE , Electrical Engineering, Computer & Software Engineering , 1986 — 1991

  Activities and Societies:

  Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu

Additional Information

Kemal Farid’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Facebook profile

Kemal Farid’s Groups:

IEEE, Society of Petroleum Engineers, Rice Alliance, TECH Houston, YEO, Houston Technology Center

•    Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO)
•    Texas Exes/University of Texas at Austin
•    Renewable Energy Business Network/Clean Economy Network Foundation
•    CleanTech
•    Society Of Petroleum Engineers
•    MIT Sloan School of Management Alumni
•    Global MIT Enterprise Forum
•    Integrated Operations
•    SPE Intelligent Energy
•    Becoming Industry Giants (BIG) -an extension of Birthing of Giants / Entrepreneurial Masters Program
•    Abu Dhabi Business Network
•    Gas Measurement
•    Merrick Systems
•    Rice Professional Science Master's
•    Geophysics SIG

Kemal Farid’s Honors:

Houston 100 (1997, 2007, 2008, 2009), Houston Fast Tech 50 (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008), Deloitte - Texas Crescent Technology Fast 50 (2003, 2004, 2005), Software 500, Ernst and Young Entreprenuer of the Year Finalist (2006, 2007, 2008), Best Places to Work in Texas (2006)

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