Dr. Brian Duffy

Vice President, Industry Partners

FutureOn

Dr. Brian Duffy currently, as of 2021, holds the position of Vice President of Industry Partners at FutureOn, which provides a PaaS software to the offshore energy industry. In this role he is building an ecosystem of energy system supply chain companies, engineering simulation providers, and other digital technology companies so that synergies that will hasten the transformation of how assets in the energy industry are designed, engineering, constructed, and operated.

During a 23-year career at TechnipFMC and ExxonMobil, Dr. Duffy has provided advanced FEA and FSI simulations support for multiple offshore and deepwater subsea projects and developed and taught advanced simulation training seminars for TechnipFMC. At ExxonMobil, Dr. Duffy worked at the Upstream Research Company using computational simulations to study problems as varied as geologic basin modeling, reservoir compaction, heavy oil geomechanics, sand production predictions, and water injection geomechanics.

Dr. Duffy earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University in 1994 and his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University.