Magseis Fairfield announced that Fons ten Kroode will assume the position as Chief Geophysicist effective 1 February 2022, based in the company's headquarter at Lysaker. Prior to joining Magseis Fairfield, Fons spent 30 years at Shell. During his tenure with Shell, Fons held several senior level positions, most recently as manager acquisition and signal processing R&D and Head of the Shell-PDO Geophysical Strategic Alliance.

Starting as a borehole geophysicist in 1991, he continued to work in the General Research department as a mathematical geophysicist on Full Waveform Inversion through the mid-nineties. Following this, he held positions as team lead signal processing R&D and manager of Shell's global seismic imaging R&D program.