Nicholas Brumvele

Investment Manager, Chevron Technology Ventures

2019 - Current

• Manage the Mobility investment vertical for Chevron's Future Energy Funds I & II.

Venture Principal, Chevron Technology Ventures

2019 - 2019

• Led mobility related investments for Chevron's Future Energy Fund I and assumed Board Observer roles.

Emerging Energy Advisor, Chevron Technology Ventures

2017 - 2019

• Managed, developed, and deployed the annual emerging energy outlook report, and responsive strategic briefs, informing Chevron's executive leadership team and BoD of the trends, challenges, and opportunities presented by alternative energy, future mobility, and CCUS. The work was central to guiding the corporation’s thinking on energy transitions and demand outlooks. • Led the assessment of trends and the development of point of view concerning the impacts from future mobility (the convergence of electric vehicles, autonomous technology, and Mobility-as-a-Service), driving messaging, dialogue, and meaning around the disruptive forces and strategic implications across the value chain.

Gas Control Coordinator / Scheduler, Natural Gas Supply & Trading - Operations

2015 - 2017

• Managed gas control for 80% of Chevron’s Gulf of Mexico divestments, developing the organizational capabilities to extend marketing services as agent for the assets, representing 7% of planned revenue for the business unit. • Streamlined the daily gas nomination and gas allocation processes for Gulf of Mexico assets, cutting time requirements by more than half, improving desk coverage safeguards and easing daily deadline commitments. The new processes enabled greater marketing flexibility, facilitating over $10M in value capture during times of complex operational and commercial restrictions to gas flow and processing.

Business Advisor, Mid-Continent Business Unit

2015 - 2015

• Managed the “Integrated Lookback” initiative, ensuring the successful and efficient incorporation of MCBU’s Factory Model projects' Lookbacks with its Non-Operated Joint Venture (NOJV) and Base Business projects. • Led the text analytics project for interpreting drilling and completion reports, revealing the practices and performance of NOJV partners in the Delaware and Midland basins.

Commercial Analyst, Global Crude Supply & Trading

2014 - 2015

• Created the Chevron Refinery Outage Analyzer: an enterprise-wide petroleum refinery outage and global capacity reporting platform, which significantly increased the reach, depth, and timeliness of fundamental market analysis relied upon by the Crude and Products supply and trading teams.

Commercial Advisor, Chevron International Gas Inc.

2013 - 2014

• Originated, tested, and proposed a three-point hub gas auction uniquely fit for the Western Australia domestic gas market, advancing Chevron’s LNG advantage while promoting market reform conducive to the best interests of both suppliers and buyers of natural gas in the region; the work changed established perceptions of the region’s market dynamics and how Chevron can participate. • Formulated and constructed the pricing terms for Wheatstone's long-term domestic gas sales agreement proforma, providing basis and considerations during negotiations. • Led evaluation of Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG volume commitments, informing negotiations to minimize exposure to volume coverage shortfalls. • Managed the development and submission of Wheatstone’s Domgas Report to the Western Australia State Government, fulfilling the contractual obligations with the State to ensure Chevron’s future ability operate and sell Wheatstone LNG.

Planning Analyst, Mid-Continent Business Unit

2013 - 2013

• Developed the GIS and analytics method for identifying, monitoring, and prioritizing MCBU’s single well leases, providing a capability that had been wanted for over a decade, serving to prevent the inadvertent loss of legacy oil and gas leases held by production, particularly those with future unconventional development potential. • Supported the compilation and evaluation of MCBU’s portfolio for its 2014 business plan and 2017 strategy plan.

Business Development Analyst, Corporate Business Development

2012 - 2013

• Second chair in negotiating a $100M+ complex commercial agreement between the two joint ventures that constitute Chevron’s hydrocracker technology licensing and catalyst sales business — instrumental in facilitating negotiating governance and developing sales forecasts and valuations responsive to dynamic profit-sharing negotiations. The agreement ultimately realigned the procurement, sales, and technology licensing between the ventures.

MBA Leadership Development Program Intern, Business Development

2011 - 2011

• Led the origination, negotiation, and due diligence of a $42M site development option capable of supporting a 250-megawatt solar park, providing a development location with optimal transmission access and solar resource characteristics for future deployment of Amonix’s CPV technology. • Developed a standardized solar project finance model, incorporating dynamic risk, real options, competitive, and sensitivity analyses. The model provided a uniform, robust, and though means to assess and prioritize projects and business development opportunities.

MBA Program Intern, Finance & Planning

2010 - 2010

• Analyzed and benchmarked the company’s decision structure and barriers to strategy execution. • Implemented recommendation to senior leadership for an enterprise-wide scorecard and communication platform tailored to enhance market penetration and sustain talent yield.

Research Assistant

2009 - 2010

• Supported research into the extent public lands can increase the supply of greenhouse gas sequestration, renewable energy production, and emission reduction services.

Business Development Consultant

2008 - 2009

• Advanced access to electricity and hot water to approximately 200 previously unserved people in Lesotho, Africa. • Co-founded MobaSola, a for-profit spinoff of STG, validating the economic viability of STG’s solar technology; awarded $5K toward R&D as runner-up in MIT’s $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.

Senior Consultant

2007 - 2009

• Diagnosed root impediments to client change and HMC’s value delivery, fundamentally reorienting the firm’s communication of solutions and accountability to boost retention of the firm’s ninety plus clients to 100%. • Drove analytic interpretation and integration of public data to extend firm’s expertise beyond its client base, creating a premier business intelligence service with touch points to healthcare providers nationwide. • Led collaboration with MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence to develop the world’s largest argumentation structured knowledge platform, optimizing transmission of collective improvement ideas to clients’ fingertips.

Consultant

2005 - 2007

• Redirected a $30M cost-reduction plan for a 20 hospital health system, persuading senior management to adopt a prescriptive corporate-centric strategy that achieved traction in realizing the required cost reductions. • Developed new quantitative methods that increased actionability of benchmark analyses, better orienting direct and indirect cost opportunities toward budgeting and reengineering objectives. The unique approach sustained a price premium for the firm’s benchmarking services in an increasingly commoditized market.

Analyst

2003 - 2005

Senior Specialist

2002 - 2003

• Spearheaded new division dedicated to global markets, reducing overseas fund transfer times by more than half.

Global Specialist

2001 - 2002

• Designed and implemented a same-day money movement process, saving the bank approximately $10K in interest per month.