Leadership

Ilse Cobos is Director of International Projects at Grupo IPS, where she leads the group’s international initiatives across Latin America and the Eastern Hemisphere. With more than a decade of experience at IPS, she brings a multidisciplinary background spanning engineering, global procurement, international trade, and cross-border operations within the energy sector.

Throughout her career, Ms. Cobos has played a key role in the international growth of Grupo IPS, coordinating strategic projects, global supply chains, and operational initiatives across the group’s companies in the Americas and Europe.

In her current role, she works closely with regional leadership, technology partners, and international teams to support business development, operational integration, and the expansion of IPS’s oil, gas, and geothermal activities in global markets.

Ms. Cobos holds a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering with a minor in Economics from the Colorado School of Mines and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Society of Women Engineers.

Sarmad Diab is Global Director of Business and Operations at Grupo IPS. He began his career as an energy business analyst with a consulting firm and joined the group in 2012 as an operations engineer in Mexico. He returned in 2017 as U.S. Commercial Manager and, from 2021, served as Country Director for Mexico and Central America, taking on global responsibility for sales and operations in 2025. Since 2026, he has also led the group’s German operation.

Mr. Diab is a petroleum engineer and energy economist with extensive experience managing integrated drilling and well-construction services across land and offshore operations. His work spans commercial strategy, contracts, project management, operational execution, and the development and delivery of integrated service solutions for oil, gas, and geothermal projects.

He has been actively involved in Grupo IPS’s expansion into the geothermal sector, supporting conventional and advanced geothermal opportunities across Latin America and international markets. His geothermal experience includes the development and management of integrated drilling-service offerings, evaluation of drilling and well-construction strategies, commercial development, project structuring, and engagement with operators, developers, government entities, and technology partners.

Mr. Diab holds a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering and an M.S. in Mineral and Energy Economics from the Colorado School of Mines, as well as an LL.M. in Environmental and Natural Resource Law and Policy from the University of Denver.

Rodolfo Torres is Central and South America Regional Manager at Grupo IPS. With 30 years of experience in the energy industry, he is a petroleum engineer with a strong focus on drilling, well construction, and geothermal technologies.

He has published technical papers at the American Association of Drilling Engineers (AADE), the Congreso Mexicano del Petróleo (CMP), and the HP/HT Drilling and Completion Conference, covering drilling performance, lessons learned in high-pressure wells, and process optimization.

Mr. Torres holds a Master’s degree in Energy specialized in geothermal technologies. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), the Geothermal Resources Council (GRC), and the Project Management Institute (PMI), and is a Chartered Petroleum Engineer by the Colegio de Ingenieros del Perú.

His work supports Grupo IPS’s commercial and operational presence across Central and South America, combining technical expertise in drilling services with project management and geothermal development opportunities.

Paul Bond is Product Line Manager for Rotary Steerable Systems at Grupo IPS. In the oilfield since 1988, he began in the field rigging up and servicing mud logging equipment and brings nearly four decades in directional drilling technology with two of the industry's largest oilfield services companies. Starting as an MWD/LWD field coordinator in West Africa in 1992, he progressed through coiled tubing drilling, advanced drilling systems support and product management for MWD and rotary steerable systems, later serving as technical director, marketing director for drilling systems and operations director of a 300-person drilling services business. Most recently Mr. Bond set the global strategy for a major RSS product line, leading the development and launch of two new intelligent rotary steerable systems, and managed new technology partnerships for geothermal and coiled tubing drilling. Mr. Bond holds a B.Eng. in Electronic Engineering from the University of Brighton.

Roberto Dipinto Cafiero is a legal executive with more than 27 years of experience leading legal strategy, corporate governance, compliance, ESG, and risk management across Latin America and North America. He has built his career in the energy, oil and gas, infrastructure, and industrial services sectors, advising boards of directors and executive leadership teams in highly regulated environments.

Throughout his career, he has participated in international negotiations and transactions exceeding USD 15 billion, led high-profile arbitration matters, and designed regional ethics and compliance programs. He has extensive experience managing relationships with government authorities, regulators, business partners, multilateral organizations, and local communities across multiple jurisdictions, supporting complex projects in challenging political, regulatory, and social environments.

He currently serves as Legal Counsel for Grupo IPS, where he drives initiatives focused on growth, corporate governance, sustainability, stakeholder engagement, and long-term value creation.

Jorge Trujillo Ponce is Product Line Manager for Completions at Grupo IPS. A petroleum engineer with more than 30 years of experience in special tools for drilling and well intervention, he spent 27 years with one of the major oilfield services companies in Mexico, where he was responsible for 12 business lines supplying tools, equipment and services for well construction. He joined IPS in 2019 to lead the special tools line, which includes whipstocks and fishing, milling, tubular cutting and conductor recovery tools, among other downhole tools for drilling and well maintenance. Mr. Trujillo leads operations and services for key clients in the country, from planning through execution of window milling, fishing and conductor recovery jobs, ensuring they are completed safely and on plan. He holds a degree in Petroleum Engineering from Instituto Politécnico Nacional.

Biography coming soon.

Gökhan Ülger is Managing Director of IPS Germany GmbH. A mechanical engineer by training, he brings 20+ years of experience in the oil and gas industry, with a focus on downhole tool design and manufacturing. He spent eight years as a design engineer at a German drilling technology company, developing mechanical products for drilling applications. He then joined a major oilfield equipment manufacturer, where he led design and production and later served as General Manager of its German operation. Since 2026, he has led IPS Germany, overseeing the development, manufacture, repair and marketing of rotary steerable and directional drilling technologies for customers in Germany and worldwide. He holds a Diplom-Ingenieur in Mechanical Engineering from Bochum University of Applied Sciences and also studied mechanical engineering and economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Alexis R. Mattey Guzmán is the Engineering Manager at Grupo IPS. A petroleum engineer with over 27 years of experience in production and production optimization, he began his career as an applications engineer for production chemicals in the Venezuelan oil industry. He subsequently spent ten years at Venezuela’s national oil company, where he built a career as a reservoir engineer, coordinator, supervisor, and superintendent of production optimization in fields across eastern Venezuela (Furrial, Orocual, Carito, and Pirital). In 2005, he completed a specialization in well logging through the training center of a major oilfield services company, and in 2007, he finished a fracturing program certified by the Canadian Petroleum Institute, the University of Alberta, and the University of Calgary.

In 2013, he served as Director of Field Operations for an American consulting firm specializing in crude oil recovery and production. In this role, he worked on various international projects in countries including Malaysia, Scotland, the United States, and Mexico. In 2017, he joined Excelencia en Energía, a Grupo IPS company, as Operations Manager. Since 2019, he has led the production optimization and chemical solutions division, and as of 2025, he heads the productivity department. Mr. Mattey Guzmán holds a degree in petroleum engineering from the Universidad de Oriente (Venezuela) and has authored several publications on petroleum technology for the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). He is currently a member of the Venezuelan College of Engineers (Colegio de Ingenieros de Venezuela) and the SPE. Over the last five years, he has specialized in the research, development, and application of chemical products for well cleaning and stimulation. This includes formulating, based on laboratory testing, flow improvers, foaming agents, emulsion breakers, paraffin and asphaltene dispersants, and inorganic scale removers, among others, to support optimization processes and production management at both the subsurface and surface levels.

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Leticia Cabrera is Procurement and Contracts Manager at Grupo IPS. An electronics and communications engineer with more than 20 years in the group, she joined IPS in 2005 as management assistant and moved into operations as MWD operations engineer and measurement coordinator. She went on to serve as maintenance manager, bids and contracts lead, operations manager and planning and control manager, and was Mexico and Central America manager from 2019 to 2020. She then returned to planning and control management until 2024, led the commercial and contracts area from 2025 and took on her current role in 2026, where she leads procurement, supplier management and contract administration. Ms. Cabrera holds a degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Universidad Veracruzana.

Biography coming soon.