A.B.FREEMAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Clinical Finance Professor and Associate Director of The Entergy-Tulane Energy Institute, March 2005 – Present. I initially served as Consultant to the Dean Dec. 2003-March 2005. I also serve as the Associate Director of the Entergy-Tulane Energy Institute.
I worked for GLOBAL INDUSTRIES, LTD. as VP-Strategic Planning, Houston, Texas, Jan. 2003-Dec. 2003. I was with THE CRP GROUP LTD. as VP-Business Development, Houston, Texas from July, 2002 until Dec. 2002. I also served on their Board of Directors, Manchester, England, from July 2001 until Dec. 2002.
Earlier, I was with TORCH OFFSHORE, INC. as Executive Vice President, in New Orleans, Aug.2000 to Dec., 2001.
Earlier still I spent five years with SAIPEM, SpA, as President and Chairman of their US subsidiary, based in Houston, Texas, 1998-2000. Prior to that I served as Manager-Market Analysis and Strategic Planning at their headquarters in Milan, Italy, 1995-1998.
Other experience includes time spent with INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ASSOCIATES, as a Director, 1996-Present; IMA is a maritime consultancy best known for their tracking of floating production systems, world wide. I also spent time with DELTA ENERGY MANAGEMENT, INC., as Executive Vice President, New Orleans, 1994 -1995. Delta was focused on offshore platform removal.
Prior to that, I spent eleven years with MCDERMOTT INTERNATIONAL, INC., in New Orleans, from 1984-1994. Titles included Manager, Market Analysis & Development, from 1992-1994. Senior Planner, 1989-1992, and Senior Treasury Analyst, 1984-1989.
Prior to my upstream oil and gas experience, I spent seventeen years in the petrochemical business including five years with ETHYL CORPORATION, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1979-1984 where I was Director of Business Development, from 1982-1984, and Director of Finance, 1979-1982.
My initial position out of business school was with ALLIED CHEMICAL CORPORATION (now
Honeywell), with progressive assignments in Finance and Marketing Administration, for the
Synthetic Fibers Division in New York City. Later, I joined their Corporate Headquarters, in
Morristown, New Jersey, where I served in the planning department and also ran their captive venture capital operation, 1967-1979.