An electrical engineer with more than 30 years’ experience in the global oil and gas industry, Will Davie began his career at Schlumberger in the oil fields of North Africa. More than two decades and multiple management positions later, he became Schlumberger group chief economist and advisor to the company’s CEO and board of directors. Before joining Precision Impulse Will founded and operated an advisory company on oil and gas marketing and technology strategy and related corporate finance.

A sales and marketing expert with nearly 40 years’ experience in oilfield services, information systems and technical software, Giles has made a career of combining strategic vision bottom-line business results.

A mechanical engineer by training, Benoit Barbier began his career at Schlumberger Wireline services in Japan, Siberia and China. He later contributed to the development of the company’s geoscience and reservoir engineering software businesses in the Middle East and Asia. Today he acts as senior advisor to IAS International, a Dubai-based consultancy focused on developing competence management systems for the energy industry.

A broad-spectrum engineer with extensive experience designing hardware and software for a variety of industrial applications, Justin Richards is Precision Impulse’s man on the spot for all things related to coherent detonation technology.

A serial entrepreneur tied to technology and new venture investments including fixed wireless cable, broadband and cellular, Jim Teel began his career as the inventor, developer and distributer of the first automatic paper size selection system for office copiers. Jim was president of Teel Business Systems in Columbus, MS—a company he sold to IKON Office Solutions in 2002. 

Bill Pramik is a widely acknowledged geophysics expert with more than 40 years of experience in data processing, interpretation, operations and research in seismic data acquisition theory and methods. He was previously vice president of acquisition technology at Geokinetics, vice president of geophysics and quality at PGS, and a researcher at Amoco Production. He holds several geophysical patents. Bill Pramik is currently president and chief geophysicist at Pramik Geophysical Consulting.