Summary
Igor Polyakov is a seasoned sales and commercial leader with 22+ years in oil & gas and a decade focused on digital and software-enabled solutions, currently heading sales for SLB Digital across 21 countries in the Asia Basin. He combines deep domain knowledge in subsurface, drilling and production technologies with hands-on experience running multinational operations and delivering AI/ML-enabled workflows, consulting services and capability development. A pragmatic operator who has led teams of 150+ and driven market expansion from Russia to Latin America and Central Asia, he has repeatedly translated technical products into commercial wins and received multiple internal awards for impact. Unusually for a senior commercial executive, he pairs that business acumen with technical credentials in Management Information Systems and an Executive MBA, enabling him to bridge engineering, HR transformation and go-to-market strategy.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Management Information Systems, General, Master's Degree, Management Information Systems, General at Nizhniy Novgorod State Technical Universitynamed after R.Y. Alekseev (NSTU)
Interpreter, Language Interpretation and Translation, 4.43, Interpreter, Language Interpretation and Translation, 4.43 at Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod (LUNN)
Executive MBA, Oil and Gas Business Management, Executive MBA, Oil and Gas Business Management at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University
Secondary school 32