Speaker:

Michael DeShazer is Senior Vice President – Business Units for Coterra, following his tenure at Cimarex. DeShazer joined Cimarex in 2007, serving in various engineering and reservoir manager positions, as well as multiple leadership roles, including Technology Group Manager from 2016 to 2018 and Asset Evaluation Team Manager from 2018 to 2019. He was named Vice President of the Permian Business Unit in 2019. Mr. DeShazer is a licensed Professional Engineer and holds a Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering and a Master’s of Energy Business from the University of Tulsa.

Jim WIcklund
Managing Director, Client Relations & Business Development
PPHB

Mr. Wicklund is a veteran of the energy industry, having taken his career from field geophysicist to international operations, to equity research, to managing a hedge fund, and working as an investment banker.  He has worked in geophysics and engineering for a geophysical company, an oil company, and a Petroleum Engineering group, both in the US and years of work internationally.  He has lived and worked in Australia, Singapore, Milan, London several times as well as the US, with Western Geophysical, Sun Oil, and ECL before joining the financial services industry as a research analyst covering the Oilfield Services sector.  He has won Best on the Street honors from the WSJ, 1st team in the II ranking multiple times and won the Greenwich Industry Knowledge recognition. He has a breadth of experience in many aspects of energy.  Most recently, he was Managing Director and Senior Banker in the Energy Group at Stephens Inc., following decades as a research analyst and investor, with Rauscher Pierce, Banc of America, Credit Suisse and running a fund at Carlson Capital.  He is a member and past symposium chair of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), on the boards of the National Offshore Industry Association (NOIA), the Technology Workforce and Technology Council (formerly PESA), Merit Advisors, Preng & Associated, and the Maguire Institute Advisory Board, at SMU his alma mater.