Carl has more than 36 years' experience in the oil and gas industry. After 10 years in the offshore seismic operations end of the business, he entered the marketing and sales division of Veritas DGC in 1982. Shortly after this, Carl directed the company's entrance into the multi-client seismic market in the Gulf of Mexico with large 2D surveys in the eastern gulf, and orchestrated their first fully funded 3D multi-client dataset in 1989. He was later promoted to vice president, Data Library Services for North and South America. He was named president of the marine surveys division in 1998 where he pioneered the acquisition of large 3D surveys (100+ blocks) with pre-stack time and pre-stack depth migration in the deepwater of the Gulf of Mexico. Carl directed the establishment of the Veritas multi-client operation in Brazil including an extensive 3D survey in the Santos basin, which helped the discovery of the Tupi field by Petrobras. He joined EMGS in late 2006 and successfully launched the world's first multi-client 3D EM survey, in the Barents Sea in 2008.
