Glen Huscroft has served as President and Managing Partner of SES since its founding in 2003, most recently assuming the CEO role. Glen brings over 25 years of seismic industry experience to the company. Prior to founding SES, Mr. Huscroft held positions at Input/Output, Inc., Western Geophysical and Shell Canada, working in both technical and sales capacities on a global basis. Throughout his career, Mr. Huscroft has participated in extensive technical and customer service training. Mr. Huscroft graduated with a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.

Jim Caveny, Vice President Technology

Jim Caveny has over fifteen years with Input/Output (I/O) beginning in I/O Canada’s Customer Service Department.  His positions included President of I/O Canada, Customer Service Manager of I/O USA and Product Architect in I/O Land Engineering. Caveny has extensive experience with I/O System Two MRX & RSR instrumentation, along with the latest System Four VectorSeis™ technology available from I/O. He came on board with SES in July 2003 and brings with him experience that spans all the way from the field into engineering design.

Richard Gilley, Vice President Manufacturing/Building Services

Richard Gilley joined SES in March of 2003 in the capacity of Material Management procurement and is currently the VP of Operations. Gilley has 34 years of experience in the seismic industry and began his career with Texas Instruments Geophysical Division in 1972. Mr. Gilley subsequently joined the Texas Instruments Field Service Department, eventually landing as Field Service Supervisor in 1981. Mr. Gilley then joined the technical services group at Halliburton Geophysical Services (HGS). He remained at HGS until it was acquired by Western Geophysical and continued until the products division was acquired by Input/Output. Shortly after joining I/O in 1995, Mr. Gilley was transferred to the Marketing group. Mr. Gilley left I/O in November of 2001, taking a brief Project Manger job at Metrics Instruments in Houston prior to joining SES.

Jose Luis Medina, Senior Vice President,
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Jose Luis Medina has been in the Seismic industry for about 28 years. He started as an instrument operator/ observer in the southern part of Mexico, and after a year, was promoted to Field Service Engineer. In 1983 Medina joined Matrix Industries, a company dedicated to repair and sell mainly Texas Instruments and Input/Output equipment. Between 1987 and 1989 he instructed Acoustics and Seismology at the National Polytechnic Institute. In 1993, he started working for Input/Output as Field Service Engineer. During his eleven years with this company, he was promoted to Senior Field Service Engineer, Customer Service Coordinator and lastly, Field Service Manager.
In the summer of 2004, Jose Luis became part of the SES group, offering strong technical support and service for our customers out in the field. Jose Luis is a graduate from the National Polytechnic Institute, Higher School of Electrical Engineering in Mexico.

Perry Johannson, Senior Vice President - Sales and Marketing

Perry Johannson, VP of Sales and Marketing, joined SES in Jan 2007. With over 20 years of Exploration Industry experience. Johannson most recently served as Director of Sales, Southern US and Latin America,  for the Energy Division of IHS Inc. the world’s premier provider of Energy related databases, Engineering Software, and Consulting Services. During his 10 years at IHS, Johannson held various sales roles, won numerous awards for his outstanding performance, and was a key advisor on Business Development and operational issues. Prior to joining IHS, Johannson spent seven years as an Acquisition Geophysicist with Western Geophysical. He was responsible for designing 3D seismic surveys, and overseeing the quality control of numerous land and marine seismic crews in Latin America and the Gulf of Mexico.  Perry has spent many years in the field working on Seismic Crews, and has a very strong understanding of the seismic business. He holds a B.Sc.(Hons) in Geological Sciences, and has completed extensive Leadership, Sales Management, and Sales training. Johannson will lead SES' Sales and Marketing efforts globally, and will be a key influence on Business Development issues going forward.

Travis Barker, Senior Vice President - Operations

Travis Barker, VP of Operations, joined SES in June 2007. With over 20 years of Exploration Industry experience. Barker began his seismic career upon graduating from DeVryUniversity in 1986.  He most recently served as QHSE Manager for the Western Hemisphere at CGGVeritas where he focused on behavioral safety, loss control and risk management. During his 10 years at CGGVeritas he held various roles such Regional Manager for Latin America. Prior to joining CGGVeritas he spent 10 years with Western Geophysical as a Field Service Engineer. Travis has spent the majority of his seismic career in Latin America and lived in Argentina and Bolivia for several years. Travis has many years experience working on Seismic Crews and has a strong understanding of the seismic business.

Stuart Porteous, Senior Vice President - Sales and Marketing, Marine & Transition Zone

Stuart Porteous joins SES as Senior Vice President (SVP) - Sales and Marketing Marine & Transition Zone.

Stuart brings over 30 years of marine seismic experience to our company, starting his seismic career with Western Geophysical in 1980 as marine navigator. During the 80’s and 90’s Stuart worked in various management positions at Western-Geco / Western Geophysical and NCS International. During this period he was heavily involved with the development and implementation of new navigation and positioning technologies and managed a wide variety of operations, including conventional 2D, 3D and 4D streamers as well as ocean bottom cable (OBC) and transition zone (TZ) operations.

Rick Luke , Chief Financial Officer

Over his 27 year career in the oil and gas industry, Mr. Luke has served as both financial manager and general manager in numerous countries. Prior to joining WellDynamics, Mr. Luke was with Halliburton, where he served as Vice President of the Europe/Africa Region, based in London, from 2000 to 2003. Prior to that assignment, he worked as Director of Shared Services for Europe and Africa for Halliburton, and held several financial and administrative management positions in Europe, Africa and the United States.
“We are very excited to add Rick as a member of our executive leadership team”, commented Glen Huscroft, company CEO. “His strong financial background, track record of operational success and history of creating value for some of the industry leaders make him an important addition to the company. We are confident that his knowledge, expertise and stature within the financial community will be instrumental in contributing to our success.”
Luke earned a Masters of Business Administration degree from Oklahoma City University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Oklahoma State University. He is a Certified Public Accountant.

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Gustavo Solorzano, Vice President New Business Ventures

Gustavo Solorzano, is VP, New Business Ventures at SES based in Houston, TX.  Mr. Solorzano is assigned with developing new projects on a global basis and interacting closely with clients and other team members, helping SES to extend our overall initiatives. Prior to joining SES, Gustavo held positions with Schlumberger (Auditor), Geokinetics (Marketing Manager -US and Canada) and worked in Venezuela as Country Finance/Controller from 2004 to 2006.  Gustavo began his career in Venezuela and continued working throughout Latin America (Venezuela, Trinidad, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Mexico and Ecuador) as well as North America and has over 18 years of oil-related finance/marketing experience.  He holds a MBA, CPA and underwent training at Harvard in Strategic Marketing.

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Jamie Dozier , Vice President Marine Services

Since 2007, Jamie has been based with TransGullf in Houston, Texas. He has supervised in-house repairs, world-wide field service and support. His 30+ years of industry experience in marine sources, digital streamer lead-in and source umbilical repairs gives him a very strong understanding of the marine seismic business . With TransGulf, he oversaw a management team with over 60 years of experience in marine-related operations, manufacturing and repairs, including highly trained and certified field service engineers and technicians to handle high-pressure air filtration systems for air gun sources and back deck design and rigging.