Mr. Wilbourn is a Principal Consultant at Business Management Consultants, an international consulting firm where he directs the Nashville, Tennessee operations.

Mr. Wilbourn began his engineering career at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation before joining Texaco as a design engineer in their offshore operations. During his 31 year career with Texaco he served as Project Engineer, Project Manager, and Manager and at the time of his retirement was the General Manager of Texaco’s International Offshore Engineering Department in Houston, Texas. His responsibilities included the planning, conceptual engineering, design, contracting strategy, construction, transportation, installation, hook-up and commissioning, and overall project management of Texaco’s major offshore projects worldwide. At Texaco he served as Project Manager for the design of the first Offshore SuperPort, "LOOP Inc", in the US and was the "executive sponsor" of the "DeepStar" project, a consortium of 18 major oil and gas companies, over 50 contractors and suppliers, and the U.S. Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service (MMS). The DeepStar project jointly defined and developed the technology required to develop oil and gas reserves in the ultra-deep waters of the world (1000-3000 meters). He sponsored the development of Texaco’s in-house project planning system entitled BRAVE, Business Roadmap For Asset & Value Enhancement, which is a project life cycle system whereby organisational support is provided project teams during their initiation, planning, implementation and closeout of large capital projects.

He was a Visiting Scholar at the Offshore Technology Research Center at Texas A&M University from 1998 to 2000 where he facilitated the technology transfer process through technical workshops for the oil and gas industry as well as the U.S. Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Service (MMS).

He presently serves as Program Manager for the GUCENET (Global Upstream Cost Engineering Network) project, which is a consortium of eight major international oil and gas companies. The programs mission is to provide a stimulus and mechanism to identify, create, enhance and share best practices and processes in estimating, scheduling/planning and risk assessment related to upstream development projects.

He is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) in the states of Tennessee and Louisiana, a former member of the Management Committee for the Exploration and Production Forum in London, the Oil Companies International Marine Forum, American Bureau of Shipping Committee, Society of Petroleum Engineers, Marine Technology Society, and past Chairman of the Deep Offshore Technology Conference Industry Advisory Board.

Mr. Wilbourn received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Tennessee Technological University where he presently serves as Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and the College of Business. He was selected the University's Engineer of Distinction for 1999.