Vice President of Turnaround Services

Bobby Vichich is the Vice President of Turnaround Services and is located in AP Networks' Houston office. He has over twenty years of professional services experience in the petrochemical industry, which includes employment with Exxon, ExxonMobil and Lyondell Equistar.

In addition to leading AP-Networks' Turnaround Consulting Practice, Bobby is a Recognized Industry Expert in the petrochemical industry, with particular focus in turnaround preparation methodologies, best planning and scheduling practices, and emerging turnaround management principles. Bobby's knowledge leadership in the subject area of turnaround is reflected by his regular participation and chairmanship at industry turnaround conferences and publications in industry periodicals like the Oil and Gas Journal. Most recently, Bobby has written white papers and delivered presentations on the following topics: Leading Indicators of Turnaround Performance Outcomes: Turnaround Performance Excellence: Breaking the Barriers of Traditional Learning; Turnaround Benchmarking: The Right Dataset; Turnaround Best Practices and Emerging Trends; and Team Alignment: An In Depth Look.

Prior to joining AP-Networks in 2005, Bobby’s experience at Exxon, ExxonMobil and Lyondell/Equistar spanned various planning, scheduling, controls, execution management and even corporate procurement roles on turnarounds. Bobby has been a member of both the technical and line management teams and led a corporate benchmarking study team chartered to define the next generation turnaround breakthrough performance metrics.

Bobby holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from Virginia Tech and his many years of experience as a client with top-tier companies provide a unique perspective on being a leader in a world-class consultancy.