Oil & Gas Senior Staff
SDG's oil & gas team is made up of partners and experienced consultants with decades of experience serving oil & gas majors, national oil companies, and oil field service organizations.
In addition, we have alliances and an expert network in place that further extends our expertise and geographic reach. Listed alphabetically are biographies of our most senior oil & gas team members. Select any name to read more about a team member's qualifications and experience.
- David Barker
- David Barker is a management consultant with 27 years of experience in strategic, organizational, and commercial planning in the energy industry.
- J. Eric Bickel
- J. Eric Bickel is an assistant professor at the University of Texas, Austin, serving in both the Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering. He is a fellow in the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy at the Center for Petroleum Asset Risk Management.
- James Lang
- James Lang, a principal consultant in the Oil & Gas Practice, is the former president and COO of both Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) and Strategic Decisions Group. He currently consults with SDG for leading oil & gas companies globally, is an active private investor, and serves on numerous boards of early stage companies, many in the energy space.
- John Lehman
- Mr. Lehman, a principal consultant and member of the SDG-Galway Energy Strategy Practice in Houston, has applied multidisciplinary techniques for properly considering risk in organizational decision-making for more than 20 years.
- Jennifer Meyer
- Dr. Meyer has more than 20 years of experience as an educator and strategy consultant.
- Girish Shirodkar
- Girish Shirodkar, a partner, leads the Infrastructure and Resources Practices at SDG. He has broad consulting experience in various industries, including roads, airports, construction, power, urban infrastructure and mining.
- Mazen Skaf
- Mazen Skaf is managing director of the Europe and Middle East Practice. He specializes in strategy, financial risk management, negotiation analysis, and deal structuring. He has advised clients in a variety of industries including consumer goods, financial services, telecommunications, energy, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals. In the public sector, he has advised government authorities in the EMEA region on economic development, knowledge-based industries and infrastructure, and public-private partnerships.
- Carl Spetzler
- Over the past three decades, Carl Spetzler has been a leader in strategy and innovation processes, helping corporate leaders cope with the lack of explicit strategic alternatives, deal with the complexities of uncertainty and risk over long time horizons, and achieve lasting change.
- Robert D. (Bob) Stibolt
- Robert D. (Bob) Stibolt's 28 years of experience in the energy industry have covered a broad range of topics ranging from economic evaluation and risk analysis for upstream oil & gas exploration and development opportunities to merchant power and LNG project development, long-dated structured energy transactions, energy trading, and risk management.
