About

In charge of a large legal sphere covering operations in the regions of Africa, Europe, Middle East, India, Asia Pacific, North America and South America, Tomas Bille currently has 100 professionals reporting into him. Bille concedes that the combination of legal knowledge gained from his time at the International Department of the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and as a legal counsel within local government gave him a good foundation for the job as legal counsel at FMC Technologies. His current role has given him the opportunity to contribute in developing ‘a world class legal team’. Bille admits that the combination of being operationally hands-on as vice president for Europe and Africa and leading organisational development as vice president legal operations and legal integration lead gave him a ‘wide range of challenges and opportunities to grow experience and knowledge’. After joining FMC as legal counsel he became senior counsel before taking the position as legal director in the Eastern region. After two years in this role, he was given the opportunity to lead global contracting covering FMC’s contract governance, processes and activities worldwide with dual reporting to the managing director in the Eastern Region and the company general counsel. Following the merger with Technip in 2017, Bille started his current dual role as vice president legal operations (reporting to Technip’s CLO) and vice president Europe and Africa. He integrated his legal function on important projects and says that working closely with the sales and marketing department whilst being responsible for employee relations strategy between 2011 and 2015 gave him greater business understanding. Building the global contracts environment has also been one of his biggest achievements, as he explains: ‘The opportunity to build a global contracts environment as director of global contracting has positioned me for implementing my philosophies and model for legal contract management built on pillars of business partnership, global people flow and knowledge sharing’.