ABOUT
Edward Abramowich
Founder & Principal Consultant, Straits Consulting — helping energy majors, national oil companies and large asset owners deliver capital projects faster, with value in the owner's hands sooner.

BACKGROUND
Thirty years turning disruption into delivery.
Edward Abramowich is the founder and Principal Consultant of Straits Consulting and the author of Rethinking Capital Project Delivery: Agentic AI-Driven Strategies for the New Era, with a foreword by Dr. Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum. Over more than 30 years he has led lean and capital project delivery across energy, oil & gas, aerospace, automotive and high-tech — including major lean deployments spanning Shell's upstream, downstream and mega-capital projects. He advises energy majors, national oil companies, large asset owners and top-tier management consulting firms across the Middle East and Asia on outcome-driven, AI-enabled delivery. A best-selling author who has lived and worked in twelve countries, Edward helps leadership teams turn AI-driven disruption into faster, more certain delivery.
THE JOURNEY
From the factory floor to AI-driven delivery.
Factory floors in Japan
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Lean manufacturing & enterprise
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Agile
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Lean construction & megaprojects
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AI-driven capital project delivery
RECOGNITION
Trusted at the leading edge of the field.
Best-selling author
Rethinking Capital Project Delivery, foreword by Dr. Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum.
Advisor to industry leaders
Advises energy majors, NOCs, large asset owners and top-tier management consulting firms.
Published thought leadership
Co-author of a 2026 BCG article on capital project delivery.
