Riaan is a director at Veritas, a business of Oliver Wyman.
He has more than 30 years of industry and advisory experience in upstream, downstream, and midstream enterprise solutions including BI architecture and commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) systems. He has deep experience in RightAngle and technical skills in over dozens of other applications, including custom applications.
Systems and data drive our clients to success, but the process isn’t always easy. Change is inevitable, and we strive to minimize the disruption when change is required, working with our clients to harmonize systems and data so they can deliver success for their organization
Prior to Veritas, Riaan worked in various roles at energy companies, including commercial systems supervisor at EnLink Midstream, BI architect at Noble Energy (now Chevron), senior systems analyst at Crosstex Energy, and numerous consulting roles at other notable energy companies like Cobalt Energy and El Paso Corporation. In these roles, Riaan has done everything from defining requirements, system/application selection, designing and developing custom applications for IT, leading CTRM system implementations and upgrades, to creating custom dashboards and reports.
Riaan has a bachelor's in information science from Long Island University. He holds numerous certifications, volunteers for HOPE Worldwide, and coaches high school bowling as a silver level coach.
Outside of work, Riaan is an avid bowler — bowling in two leagues with his wife and coaching his local youth club. He also enjoys reading fiction, travelling (preferably mountains over coast), and has a passion for coffee and red wine from South Africa.