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Thursday March 21, 2019
Sarge Summers, Sarge’s Industry Solutions, discusses the change in sales and communication methods. He also talks about the sales cycle and how that has reinvented itself with social media and texting.
Tom Petrie is the Chairman of Petrie Partners, LLC an investment firm offering financial advisory services to oil and gas industry. Prior to joining Petrie Partners as chairman in 2012, Petrie was vice chairman of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Previously, he was co-founder of Petrie Parkman & Co., a Denver and Houston based energy investment banking firm that merged Merrill Lynch in December 2006. Petrie was also a former managing director and senior oil analyst of The First Boston Corporation.
During his career, Petrie has been an active advisor on more than $200 billion of energy related mergers and acquisitions, including a number of the larger mergers in the energy industry. Including advisory roles with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on its natural gas initiative, the state of Alaska on gas pipeline options and the U.S. Department of Energy on the sale of the Elk Hills oilfield.
An active member of several industry associations, Petrie is a past president and member of the board of directions of the National Association of Petroleum Investment Analysts as well as others. Additionally, Petrie has been interviewed by Barron’s, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox News and PBS. He has also authored the book Following Oil: Four Decades of Cycle-Testing Experiences and What They Foretell about U.S. Energy Independence.
