CONTACT INFORMATION:
Lane Sloan
Sloan Consulting Services Inc.
5011 Grape
Houston TX 77096
832.767.0368
lsloan@silverfox.org
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High Performance Leadership Mentoring
Lane’s diverse background brings myriad perspectives to leading companies pursuing high growth and rapid change.
Mr. Sloan’s industry leadership experience, professorship, history as a mentor to entrepreneurs and business owners as well as having served on various boards give him the experience and techniques to guide, teach and lead his clients whether they are startups, emerging corporate leaders or seasoned executives.
His insight and knowledge is priceless to entrepreneurs and senior executives who wish to transform their businesses. While Lane has deep expertise in the Energy industry, he also has a broad educational background, holding degrees in four business disciplines. This diversity and breadth of education equips him in navigating through a variety of tough challenges facing CEO’s and business owners.
Industry Executive Experience
Mr. Sloan’s early beginnings at Shell Oil Company started with a role as a computer programmer. That role evolved quickly into system analysis and project management. His first manager role was in Shell’s upstream Pacific Coast Division responsible for planning and outside operated properties. He twice served in Corporate Planning, Shell’s executive development organization-- first as a budget and strategy coordinator and later as Vice President. Lane became the CFO in 1989 and provided the financial results to the board along with pursuing major financings. During this period, beyond finance he also became responsible for IT, Purchasing, and Administrative Services creating the shared services concept within Shell Oil. This transformational process reduced staff from 4400 to 2200 in these organizations. In 1993, Mr. Sloan became the Regional Coordinator for East and Australasia for Royal Dutch Shell based in London with shareholder responsibility for Southeast Asia, China, Japan, and Australasia having the CEOs of these countries report to him. In Royal Dutch Shell’s reorganization in 1996, he became the Director of the East Zone in the downstream oil products business responsible for countries east of the Suez—Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, and Australasia. In 1997, he returned to the United States as President Shell Chemical Company and then in further reorganizations became the Executive Vice President of Americas for Royal Dutch Shell’s global Chemical operations.
In 2000, Mr. Sloan joined Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC) as Executive Vice President responsible for their energy practice. At the end of that year, he became the CEO of GrandBasin, a joint venture between SAIC and Halliburton providing ASP services for upstream software. In 2001, he left GrandBasin when Halliburton purchased another company and merged the operations together.
Comprehensive Business Educator
After a successful 30 year executive career in the energy industry, Lane decided to pursue his passion for education and joined the University of Houston as an executive professor of leadership and strategy, where he taught both undergraduate and MBA students from 2002 to 2007.
Lane’s MBA Strategic Leadership course brought Houston based CEOs into each class to interact and share experiences with the students. His undergraduate course in Corporate Strategy involved a continuous team project taking a chosen company through the planning steps of strategic assessment, strategy development, strategy implementation, and performance monitoring.
While at the University of Houston, Mr. Sloan took on the roles of Executive Director of the Global Energy Management Institute at the Bauer College of Business and later Chairman of The Greater Houston Partnership’s (GHP) Energy Collaborative during its organizational formation period. In 2007, he became Director of the University of Houston Strategic Energy Collaborative and Special Assistant to the Provost to drive UH to become a leading energy university. This ultimately led to the formation of UH Energy, a program designed to allow students from multiple disciplines to pursue a career in energy from the college degree level as well as a major thrust into energy research.
Community Leader
Lane has a passion for bridging business education with real life business challenges. He is a community leader and important catalyst in the future of Houston as a world class city and industry leader. Mr. Sloan feels strongly that Houston needs to strategically plan its energy future to perpetuate its position as the Energy Capital of the World. This view evolved from his role as the Executive Director of the Global Energy Management Institute in the Bauer College of Business. During 2008 and 2009, within the Energy Collaborative Mr. Sloan has been the architect of the GHP’s 5 Year Energy Strategy involving expanding Houston’s portfolio into renewables, strengthening Houston’s position as a premier energy hub, and developing the energy workforce of the future.
Other appointments include an executive committee position at the Houston Technology Center Board and an advisory role counseling energy start-ups. Mr. Sloan is on the boards of the Sam Houston Area Boy Scouts Council and Davidson Instrument (an energy start-up company). Mr. Sloan’s publishing includes an insightful PennWell book he recently co-authored with Chris Ross, entitled Terra Incognita: A Navigation Aid for Energy Leaders. He has also written a number of articles in World Energy Magazine.
Education:
Lane holds the following educational achievements and degrees:
Undergraduate: Business (Marketing & Management), University of Colorado, awarded the Delta Sigma Pi Scholarship Key for the highest undergraduate grade point average.
Graduate: Masters, Accountancy, University of Houston (previously Licensed CPA, Texas) Masters of Science, Management Science (Operations research), CU. MBA, Finance, University of Houston.
Mr. Sloan later pursued a Doctoral degree in Finance from the University of Houston, but had to abandon the program when he was appointed General Manager Products Finance, Shell 1985.
If you’d like to get in touch with Lane for a consultation, please contact him at lsloan@silverfox.org.
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