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Ozzy has over 20 years of experience in the Oil and Gas industry. She is the Onshore assets petroleum Engineering Team Lead at Chevron Nigeria. In this role, she manages a team of engineers that oversees and develops the Onshore assets operated by Chevron across Nigeria. She has successfully executed the drilling campaign lasting over 2 years working with multi-stakeholders increasing the production from those assets. Prior to this role, she led a cross-functional team of earth scientists and engineers that managed a deep water non-operated asset for Chevron Nigeria. She has also led Petroleum Engineering and Earth science technical teams executing Tight Oil development programs in the midland basin in Texas US, Tight gas development in the Four corners area in New Mexico and Colorado USA. Ozzy has also worked as a planning advisor helping to facilitate the management of a budget of almost $1B for developing Chevron assets in the Lower 48 US states. In this role, her key reporting line was to the Asset Development General Manager of the business unit and proposed recommendations to ensure budgets were managed effectively and the highest value projects were funded, delivering production and optimum recovery. She began her career working as a field engineer, working in the Gulf of Mexico for Schlumberger in Houston Texas before moving on to a project engineer role in Sugarland Texas. Ozzy received her undergraduate degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Benin, Nigeria graduating at the top of her class with a first-class (summa cum Laude) in 1999. She obtained her master's degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Houston in 2005. During which she completed Internships with Exxon Mobil. She has also completed Leadership training in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong. She is a passionate voice for female empowerment and talent development within the Oil Industry, founding the Lagos Chapter of the Petro Tech Special Interest Group (SIG) under the Chevron Women's Network with a key focus on growing the core competencies and capabilities of women in Petro-tech functions, facilitating networking and improving career opportunities to help them deliver results for themselves and the company. She also serves as the Chair Person, leading the board of directors for WAAW Foundation. A member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Serves on the Board of Trustees task force for SPE Nigeria focused on education, ensuring that university faculty deliver relevant curricula, leveraging established centers of excellence, and facilitating industry/academia knowledge transfer and sharing. Ozzy is married and a mother of 3 children, two daughters, and a son, she is passionate about empowering the next generation by introducing STEM education and careers to children at a young age and especially to girls.