Rob Saltiel
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer

Rob Saltiel is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Transocean Ltd.

Before being named to his current position in late 2009, Mr. Saltiel served in positions including Executive Vice President, Performance and Senior Vice President of the company’s then North and South America Unit, which covers the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, Canada, Trinidad and Brazil. Mr. Saltiel previously served as the company’s Senior Vice President of Marketing and Planning.

Prior to joining the company in 2003, Mr. Saltiel served as Vice President of Corporate Marketing for Nabors Industries and began his career as a Process Engineer for ExxonMobil. He later joined McKinsey & Company as a consultant to energy clients in the upstream, downstream and oil services segments.

Mr. Saltiel holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.