Ep. 30 – Featuring Mike Bengtson and Scott Gale

Today we focused the show on the front lines of emerging energy technology.

We were thrilled to be joined by Scott Gale, Executive Director of Halliburton Labs. Halliburton recently launched Halliburton Labs to provide early stage companies resources to help advance efforts towards cleaner and more affordable energy. A blend of incubation and acceleration, Halliburton Labs is like pulling into the "pits" for emerging tech company "race cars." Scott was joined by TPH's Deanna Zhang with both of them broadcasting live from the Halliburton Labs facility.

We were also joined by Mike Bengtson, Chair of the firmwide Corporate Practice at Baker Botts, and his colleague Michael Torosian, Partner in the Corporate Practice and Co-lead of the Emerging Companies/Venture Capital practice. Baker Botts began a push in the 1990s to grow their tech practice and today has a technology effort that is as large as its longstanding and venerable energy practice. Mike joined from Houston today and Michael joined us from San Francisco. Their comments focused on the money available to tech start-ups. Deanna joined in that discussion as well.

Today's conversation kicks off with the usual TPH band: Mike Bradley, Matt Portillo, and Colin Fenton giving us a great backdrop of what's happening in the energy markets. Bradley hit oil and gas with some Libyan flavor, Matt does a global sample of electric vehicles and Colin hit a broad range of unique global stats. We all learned the water depth of the Rhine River can tell you quite a lot. Yes..... you read that right!

Thanks for watching as always. All the best from all of us at TPH!