CONTACT INFORMATION:
Lane Sloan
Sloan Consulting Services Inc.
5011 Grape
Houston TX 77096
832.767.0368
lsloan@silverfox.org
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Sloan Consulting Services, Inc.Mr. Sloan’s consulting practice focuses on facilitating strategic planning sessions and coaching/mentoring of corporate executives. The strategic planning approach follows a methodology of examining and developing: 1) core purpose of values, mission and vision 2) strategic assessment of both environmental factors including competitive industry analysis and internal analysis of capabilities leading to core competencies 3) strategy formulation using relevant strategic models focused on transformational growth 4) implementation including performance milestones. He also advises growth oriented start-up companies. Engagements are on a highly selective basis.
University of Houston & Greater Houston Partnership
Mr. Sloan is Director of the University of Houston Strategic Energy Collaborative and Assistant to the Provost to drive UH to become a leading energy university. He chairs the Greater Houston Partnership Energy Collaborative committee with a mission to perpetuate Houston as the Energy Capital of the Future. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the GHP. Mr. Sloan served as an Executive Professor at the Bauer College of Business, UH from 2001-2006 teaching an undergraduate course in Corporate Strategy and a graduate course in Strategic Leadership while serving as the Executive Director of the Global Energy Management Institute.
Industry Experience
Mr. Sloan had a long 30 year career with Shell Oil Company half of which was in executive management. He was appointed to Shell’s senior management in 1985 as General Manager of Products Finance. After a brief assignment in London in 1986 as Liaison Shell Oil, he was promoted to Vice President of Corporate Planning in 1987. He then became CFO for Shell Oil Company in 1989 as Vice President of Finance and Business Services. In 1993, he undertook an assignment with Royal Dutch/ Shell as Regional Coordinator for the Far East followed by Director of the East Zone in Oil Products. In 1997, Sloan was appointed President of Shell Chemical Company later becoming Executive Vice President- Americas when Chemical became a global organization within Royal Dutch/Shell.
He retired from Shell at the turn of the millennium joining SAIC as Executive Vice President responsible for their Energy Sector. At the end of that year, he became CEO of GrandBasin, a joint venture between SAIC and Halliburton. He left that role in 2001 to teach at the University of Houston when GrandBasin was absorbed into Landmark Graphics, a subsidiary of Halliburton.
Education and Boards
Mr. Sloan received a BS in Business (Marketing and Management) and an MS in Management Science from the University of Colorado. From the University of Houston, he received an MS in Accountancy and an MBA in Finance. He currently sits on the Houston Technology Center Board and Executive Committee, Sam Houston Area Boy Scouts Council Board, Texas Alliance of Energy Producers Board, Petroleum Advisory Board for College of Engineering, and Davidson Instrument’s Board. He co-authored with Chris Ross the recently released PennWell book entitled Terra Incognita: A Navigation Aid for Energy Leaders. He has written a number of articles in World Energy Magazine.
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