Farzan Parsinejad is a Senior Manager of SURF in Chevron Technology Projects and Execution, in charge of global SURF engineering across the corporation. He has over 20 years of experience in industry including R&D in both Downstream and Upstream, Subsea engineering, Major Capital Projects, and Business and Corporate Strategy. He is currently the chair of flexible pipe sub-committee at IOGP as well as the chair of subsea technical committee at PRCI. Farzan Parsinejad holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) as well as a Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology (IMarEST).