Leadership

Maurizio Coratella currently serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer for McDermott. In this role, he leads the company’s delivery of integrated engineering and construction solutions across the energy value chain.

Maurizio brings more than three decades of industry expertise to his position to guide the company’s long-term strategy through execution of some of the world’s most complex projects—onshore, offshore and subsea—while advancing the next generation of sustainable global energy infrastructure.

Maurizio spent much of his career in executive, operations and project leadership roles at large, international engineering and construction firms. In this capacity, he had oversight of upstream, midstream and downstream operations as well as engineering and fabrication across global locations including India, the Middle East, North and South America and Italy. Throughout his career, he has driven innovation and advanced the energy transition by leveraging new technologies throughout the engineering and construction project lifecycles. Prior to joining McDermott in 2024, Maurizio was Chief Operating Officer of start up focused on carbon reduction in the steel industry.

His early career was spent in the onshore and power generation sectors of the industry and included various operations, project management and engineering positions for large LNG, power generation project across the globe.

Maurizio served on the Board of Directors of Siirtec Nigi SpA, an engineering firm serving the oil and gas industry.

In addition to various executive and leadership certifications, he holds a masters degree in Industrial Engineering from Politecnico di Milano