Gary Fischer Appointed Executive Director of PPI

24 May 2021

The Project Production Institute is pleased to announce that Gary Fischer will now assume the role of Executive Director.

Gary brings over 40 years of experience in project delivery at Chevron’s capital projects organization.

He has held a variety of executive positions, most recently as Special Projects Manager at Chevron Project Resources Company, wherein he was responsible for Chevron’s implementation of Project Production Management and digital transformation on major capital projects.

Throughout his career, he has held numerous technical and leadership positions across downstream, chemicals and upstream. Gary was responsible for developing Chevron’s best in class project management system and led the group that provided functional expertise to support development and execution of Chevron’s worldwide major capital projects portfolio.

He is also current Chair of the PPI Energy Working Group and was recipient of the 2019 PPI Technical Achievement Award.

A few of Gary’s recent contributions:

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