Special Edition – The Future of Travel Featuring Jason Schenker
We have a COBT Special Edition for you this week! We had the pleasure of visiting with a great friend of the firm, Jason Schenker. Jason is Chairman of the Futurist Institute, President of Prestige Economics and a renowned futurist, economist, speaker and author. This special edition is centered around Jason’s latest book, “The Future […]
Ep. 66 – Corporate Governance Featuring Les Csorba
We were thrilled to welcome Les Csorba, Partner in the CEO and Board of Directors Practice at Heidrick & Struggles for this week’s COBT session. Les is a highly experienced executive placement expert and his work focuses on senior-level assignments including CEO and board members across the entire energy value chain. Les began with providing […]
Ep. 65 – Featuring J.P. Bauman, Kelcy Pegler, and Yann Brandt
For this week’s session, we had the opportunity to visit with a great friend of the firm: J.P. Bauman, Principal at Altira Group. As you may know, Altira Group is a Denver-based venture capital firm that takes earned pride in building companies focused on the technology and software that will underpin the sustainable, vibrant, and […]
Ep. 64 – “Sunshine Is The Best Disinfectant” – A Conversation with Dr. Steven Koonin
On this week’s COBT, we were very honored to be joined by Dr. Steven Koonin, author of a new book entitled “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.” The title refers to the central thesis of the book… which is that in the rush to proclaim climate science definitive, […]
Ep. 63 – Featuring Todd Kantor (Encompass Capital Advisors)
This week we had the great opportunity to visit with Todd Kantor, Founder, Managing Member and Portfolio Manager at Encompass Capital Advisors. Encompass is a highly regarded energy-focused investment firm, headquartered in New York. Today’s discussion touched on a bit of everything including current investment trends, the team at Encompass, ESG, natural gas outlook, SPACs, […]
Ep. 62 – “Texas Sustainability” Featuring Dick Weekley (Texans for Lawsuit Reform)
Texans have forever prided themselves on our hardworking, gritty and friendly nature. We were lucky enough to visit with Dick Weekley this week who embodies all of those qualities and more. Dick is a true champion for the State of Texas – as a Texas Business Hall of Fame honoree, a philanthropist with several Texas […]
Ep. 61 – Discussion with Bill Farris of the National Renewable Energy Lab
Today we had the pleasure of hosting Bill Farris, Associate Laboratory Director for Innovation, Partnering, and Outreach at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). In his role, Bill focuses on the NREL’s partnership activity and accelerating commercialization and the transfer of laboratory technologies to the marketplace. He’s worked on some pretty fascinating projects and we […]
Special Edition – Earth Day from the Houston Museum of Natural Science
In honor of Earth Day, we are thrilled to bring you this special edition broadcast from the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Today we had the pleasure of visiting with two great guests. First, we had Nicole Temple, Vice President of Youth Education, to hear about Earth Day activities at the HMNS, as well as […]
Ep. 60 – “Consider the Sinks, Not Just the Sources” Featuring the Salk Institute Harnessing Plants Initiative
This week’s session was truly remarkable. We had the honor of hosting the Salk Institute Harnessing Plants Initiative team comprised of some of the brightest minds working to mitigate climate change with perhaps the most genius idea since Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine: harnessing the natural power of plants to rebalance our carbon cycle. The Harnessing […]
Ep. 59 – Featuring Erik Milito (National Ocean Industries Association)
Welcome to another week of COBT! For today’s session, we took a trip offshore to visit with Erik Milito, President of the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA). NOIA’s mission is to advance and promote the interests of the offshore energy industry including both traditional and renewable energy resources. We had a great conversation all about […]