Alan M Thompson is global knowledge manager for Production Services Network, headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland. Following a career in shipbuilding and marine consultancy, he has been in the Oil & Gas industry since 1980, initially working for Oil Majors. He has held a variety of project management roles for over 30 years and joined PSN in 1994. Alan has managed the knowledge management programme in PSN from its inception, formulating the strategy and executing the implementation. In 2004 he gained an MSc in knowledge management from Aberdeen Business School at The Robert Gordon University, where he is a guest lecturer.