In addition to TotalEnergies' exploration and production appointment announcement, the company revealed that TotalEnergies' executive committee had decided to bring together all of its technical teams in charge of operations and projects and its R&D teams within a single cross-company unit called OneTech. Namita Shah, a member of the executive committee, was appointed the president of the unit. Shah began her career as an associate attorney at Shearman & Sterling, a New York law firm, where she spent eight years providing advice and supervising transactions including those involving financing of pipeline and power plant companies. Shah joined TotalEnergies in 2002 as a Legal Counsel in the E&P mergers and acquisitions team. On July 1, 2016, Shah was appointed President, People & Social Responsibility and member of the executive committee.