Pat Herbert Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

M7 Advisors provides proven executives with many decades of experience to assist you in making investments, acquiring or divesting a company, or companies, managing turnarounds, helping senior management re-strategize/restructure or looking at vertical integration or reorganizations in the Upstream Energy Business anywhere in the world. Our team has spent the greater part of our lives as senior executives, CEO's, Chairman and Directors of private and public operator and service companies, government advisory committees, senior debt and equity banking and legal specialists.

United Kingdom/Usa

Business sold

Houston

Work with the CEO and senior management on strategic direction of the company, in addition to client, industry and stakeholder relationships. Chair all meetings of the board, the Remuneration Committee and sit on Audit Committee.

Houston, Texas Area

Privately owned group of manufacturers - JDR Cable Systems Ltd. (UK) & JDR Marine Cables (NL) - of umbilicals, high voltage power cables for the offshore/subsea oil and gas industry and specialty tow cables and umbilicals for marine data acquisition for the seismic mapping and defense industries. * In 2002 restructured both companies returning both to profitability and grew combined businesses at +25% per year* Performance resulted in sale of the business to Vision Capital for 70 million GBP in 2007 which was 2X owners purchase price* Strategized and presided over largest investment in plant & equipment (three new facilities) in both business resulting in combined revenue potential well above 100 million GBP within 3 years of purchase by Vision.* Negotiated and sold Marine Cable business to Fugro for 11.7X LTM EBITDA to focus the UK business on oil/gas and offshore renewal markets

Private company with extensive array of market leading software and data management products co-developed with operating oil companies.

Houston

First and only Application/Vertical Service (ASP) provider of 100 applications of oil & gas industry software from 70 companies plus data management services utilizing the internet with a model now in use in many industries around the world but early for the energy industry. Funding lost in 9/11 so merged with industry leading software and data services provider Petris Technology.

Houston/Almaty, Kazakhstan

Caspian based land/shallow water seismic data acquisition company formed from the former Geophysical Ministry of Kazakhstan. Realigned company during downturn in industry in 1999 returning profitability and merged with largest Russian seismic company, Azimut.

Houston, Texas Area

* 1995 - 1998 Corporate VP & VP Technology & Market Development. Responsible for corporate offices in emerging markets (London, The Hague, Paris, Beijing, Moscow) globally and devise strategic scenarios and operating models for market leadership leading to acquisitions or internal growth developments. Served on DOE advisory board under Clinton administration (Secretary Hazel O'Leary, Asst Secretary, Bill White) on US energy policy.* 1993 - 1995 VP Technology & Market Development, Production Tool Group. $2.3+ billion group of five companies.* 1991 - 1993 President, Develco division. Merged Teleco acquisition and Baker Hughes MWD with BHI wholly owned Develco company providing market leading MWD products.* 1990 - 1991 President Baker Hughes MWD. Company formed around MWD technology from Eastman Christensen and Exlog to develop products for each of those divisions.* 1988 - 1990 President Baker Hughes Drilling Systems a start-up post Baker International/Hughes Tool Company merger using drilling technology from both companies to enter steerable/horizontal directional drilling market. 0 to 40% market share gained in 15 months. Performance led to $1 billion dollars in acquisitions of Eastman Christensen and Teleco.

* 1986 - 1988 Corporate Officer/Vice President of Technology, Downhole Tools - responsible for all manufacturing of downhole tools, ww steerable/horizontal drilling operations, new technology & downhole tools development.* 1985 - 1986 VP International Operations/Western Hemisphere for Smith Drilling Systems division.* 1984 - 1985 VP Operations Western Hemisphere for Datadril Division.* 1976 - 1984 Director Engineering for Dyna Drill division.

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