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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…

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Ep. 73 – “A Billion of Us Shouldn’t Be Telling the Other 6 Billion of Us What to Do” Featuring Al Carnrite

Today we had the pleasure of hosting Al Carnrite, Founder and CEO of The Carnrite Group. Al has been a tremendous resource to many of us in the industry and we had a great visit discussing today’s world, current trends the Carnrite team is seeing and what the future of the industry may look like….

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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…

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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,…

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Ep. 58 – Energy and the Media Featuring Jim Krane, Ph.D. (Rice University) & Chris Tomlinson (Houston Chronicle)

We had a super-unique and stimulating session today all about interactions between the energy industry, the media, public opinion and energy policy. We were lucky to be joined by two experts in the field: Jim Krane, Ph.D., Author and Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute and Chris Tomlinson, Author…

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Ep. 56 – “Random But Interesting, Wonky But Important” – COBT Sits Down with Brian Sullivan of CNBC

Today was really fun! We got the chance to spend an hour with Brian Sullivan, host of CNBC’s “Worldwide Exchange” and a great friend of the firm. Brian has over 20 years of financial journalism and television experience, including serving as an anchor at Fox Business News as well as a producer, reporter and anchor…

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Ep. 54 – Featuring Tisha Schuller

Welcome to another edition of COBT! This week we were thrilled to be joined by Tisha Schuller, Founding Principal of Adamantine Energy and Author of “The Gamechanger’s Playbook: How Oil & Gas Leaders Thrive in an Era of Continuous Disruption” to discuss a number of energy and environmental related topics. Tisha’s experience includes environmental consulting,…

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Special Edition – The View From Houston featuring Bob Harvey and Bobby Tudor from the Greater Houston Partnership

We are pleased to bring you this “Special Edition” discussion with Bob Harvey, President and CEO of the Greater Houston Partnership (“GHP”). Joining Bob in today’s discussion is TPH’s own Bobby Tudor, who is also proudly GHP’s Chairman. GHP is a unique pro-business, pro-community, All-Houston organization. Bob has been its leader for 8 years now…

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Ep. 44 – Unpacking Bitcoin Featuring Danny Masters from CoinShares

In a year that witnessed the price of oil diving from $65 to below –$40 per barrel, we have also seen the price of bitcoin advance from $3,915 in March to a new all-time high above $28,365 this week. A host of extraordinary factors contributed to these outcomes. Our sense is the value drivers in…

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