Baker Hughes Incorporated has named Mario Ruscev as the company's new chief technology officer.

Ruscev joins Baker Hughes from Geotech Seismic Services, a Russian seismic company, where he served as CEO. His career includes more than three decades of technology and operations experience in the oilfield services industry.

Ruscev has led a number of teams whose work has significantly advanced the success of wireline logging tools, seismic resolution and measurement capabilities, and underground water management and carbon sequestration.

Ruscev earned his doctorate degree in nuclear physics from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris and his Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Yale University. He is a director of the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute.