Mr. Wicklund is a veteran of the energy industry, having taken his career from field geophysicist to international operations, to equity research, to managing a hedge fund, and working as an investment banker. He has worked in geophysics and engineering for a geophysical company, an oil company, and a Petroleum Engineering group, both in the US and years of work internationally. He has lived and worked in Australia, Singapore, Milan, London several times as well as the US, with Western Geophysical, Sun Oil, and ECL before joining the financial services industry as a research analyst covering the Oilfield Services sector. He has won Best on the Street honors from the WSJ, 1st team in the II ranking multiple times and won the Greenwich Industry Knowledge recognition.
He has a breadth of experience in many aspects of energy.
Most recently, he was Managing Director and Senior Banker in the Energy Group at Stephens Inc., following decades as a research analyst and investor, with Rauscher Pierce, Banc of America, Credit Suisse and running a fund at Carlson Capital. He is a member and past symposium chair of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), on the boards of the National Offshore Industry Association (NOIA), the Technology Workforce and Technology Council (formerly PESA), Merit Advisors, Preng & Associated, and the Maguire Institute Advisory Board, at SMU his alma mater.
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