“If You Follow Fashion, You’ll Get Fleeced” – Martin Lovegrove
We are thrilled to have Martin Lovegrove, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Kirk Lovegrove & Company join us today. Martin has a wealth of knowledge and experience around strategic advisory, acquisitions, and divestitures with 50 years in the global oil and gas business. In his career, he has advised 120+ clients on over 500 mandates and has developed four independent successful advisory companies along the way. It was wonderful to visit with Martin and get his perspective on all the issues swirling around in today’s world. Undeniably, a great deal has happened since last week’s episode with Dr. Angela Stent and Dr. Dan Yergin. As we all watch the harrowing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine develop, we wanted to provide a list of organizations that are offering relief support to the country including a few charities specifically focused on children.
“Energy Security Is Back On The Table” Featuring Dr. Angela Stent & Dr. Dan Yergin
On this special “Twosday,” we had the fortune of welcoming back two special guests for a discussion centered on Russia and the Ukraine and all the potential reverberations from the current conflict. Our first guest is Dr. Angela Stent, Senior Fellow at Brookings and one of the world’s leading specialists on the Former Soviet Union, Russia, and Russia’s relations with the West. In our discussion, we reference her most recent book, “Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and With the Rest.” Our second guest is our longtime friend, Dr. Dan Yergin, Vice Chairman at IHS Markit and Chairman of CERAWeek. Dan is the author of a number of seminal books on energy and in our discussion we also touch on Dan’s latest book, “The New Map.”
“Weakness is Provocative” – Dan Sullivan
Today was another special day here as we had the pleasure of visiting with Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska. We first met Senator Sullivan when he was Alaska’s Commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources. He is now in his second Senate term and is especially focused on helping the people of his State, promoting global security, advancing coherent US energy policy, and as you will hear, developing a cohesive “American Energy, Jobs & Climate Plan.”
“If The Government Would Get Out Of The Way, We Could Get This Done” – Howard Newman
Today we had an absolutely stellar guest for our C.O.B.T. discussion, Howard Newman. Our topics ranged from private versus public investing, terminal values in classic energy, US drilling inventory, charting the energy transition at the Board level, LNG, nature-based solutions, and of course, what does the energy world look like in ten years?
“Getting the People’s Business Done” – Secretary James A. Baker III
We are deeply honored that our first Veriten COBT guest is Secretary James A. Baker, III. A native Houstonian, Secretary Baker is one of the most accomplished and insightful leaders in the past 50 years of American history. It is undoubtedly difficult to neatly summarize Secretary Baker’s accomplishments and contributions to the country and to […]
Ep. 96 – Featuring Rob West
For our first COBT episode of 2022, we had the great pleasure of hosting Rob West, Founder and Lead Analyst at Thunder Said Energy. With the ongoing crisis in European gas markets and the tense uncertainties over Russian troop deployments along Ukraine’s border, it was rather fitting that Rob joined us live from Estonia for […]
Ep. 95 – Texas Teachers Teach-In with Carolyn Hansard
While we can’t believe we are reaching the end of 2021, today we had a fantastic visit with Carolyn Hansard, Senior Director – Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure, from the Teacher Retirement System (“TRS”) of Texas to complete an amazing year of COBT guests. Carolyn’s background includes 9 years at TRS and 17 years at […]
Ep. 94 – Featuring Amy Myers Jaffe
Today we had the pleasure of hosting Amy Myers Jaffe, Research Professor and Managing Director of the Climate Policy Lab at the Tufts University Fletcher School. Amy has taught energy policy, business, and sustainability courses at several distinguished universities and recently published “Energy’s Digital Future: Harnessing Innovation for American Resilience and National Security.” Our discussion […]
Ep. 93 – “From Russia with Slight Optimism”
We are in the middle of an eventful energy news week and are very excited to dig in with all of you for this week’s session. We are so pleased to welcome back our good friend Alexander Zaslavsky, Horizon Client Access, to share his expertise in Russian geopolitics and help us understand the current state […]
Ep. 92 – “Icing? We Don’t Even Have the Cake” – a Cyber Security Conversation with Lior Frenkel
We had the pleasure of hosting Lior Frenkel, CEO and Co-Founder of Waterfall Security for today’s informative session about cybersecurity and energy. Lior has over 20 years of experience with hardware and software research and development and his knowledge in the industry is unparalleled. We had an engaging and eye-opening conversation about cybersecurity threats and […]