Nicholette Ross Joins Energistics as the Marketing & Communications Manager

HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwired - Apr 24, 2014) - Energistics, the upstream oil and gas open standards consortium, is pleased to announce that Nicholette Ross has joined as its Marketing & Communications Manager. In this newly established position, Ms. Ross will be responsible for promoting adoption of the Energistics family of open data exchange standards, for membership relationship management and for coordinating the Global Region Lead Program.

Jerry Hubbard, President and CEO of Energistics, said, "We are very pleased that Nicholette has joined the Energistics team as our new Marketing & Communications Manager. Her contributions will play an important role in furthering the global brand image of the Energistics family of standards."

Ms. Ross brings more than 18 years of marketing and communications experience to the position with the last 3 years focused on the oil and gas and pharmaceutical verticals. Ms. Ross' expertise includes a wide range of marketing activities such as advertising, public relations, electronic marketing and social media. She most recently was the Director of Marketing at PointCross, Inc. Prior to PointCross, Ms. Ross held marketing positions at IBM and BMC Software. She is a graduate of DePaul University.

Commenting on her new role, Nicholette Ross said, "I am honored to have joined the Energistics team and feel my marketing experience will help me to support the standards community and take the Energistics brand to the next level."

Energistics is a global, not-for-profit, membership organization that serves as the facilitator, custodian and advocate for the development and adoption of technical open data exchange standards in the upstream oil and gas industry. Uniquely designed to unite upstream industry professionals in a neutral and collaborative facilitation environment, Energistics membership consists of integrated, independent and national oil companies, oilfield service companies, software vendors, system integrators, regulatory agencies and the global standards user community. For more information visit our website at www.energistics.org.