THE SCALE AND THE CHALLENGE

In the fourth of our ‘Women in Tanks’ series, Xiling ‘Tess’ Zhou talks about her affinity to the industry and the joy of an international community   It’s fair to say that Xiling ‘Tess’ Zhou loves the tank storage industry, and she is a bit of a newcomer. Having spent much of her career with technology companies in the US and Belgium, she found herself looking for a new challenge in early 2015 and began to seek out meetings with companies in various industries. It was LBC Tank Terminals that caught her attention. ‘I felt an immediate affinity to the industry, because of its scale, international nature and the infrastructure itself,’ she says. ‘At LBC Tank Terminals, as group director of global project control, I looked over and supported a portfolio of large capex brown field and green field projects, as well as merger and acquisition (M&A) and carve-out initiatives. To construct and operate complex assets at scale, with consistency, in a sustainable and predictable manner is an intriguing business challenge that I enjoyed immensely. Add to that the opportunity to work in diverse countries, with international teams, at a time when there were large...