Jim Wicklund
Managing Director, PPHB
Mr. Wicklund is a Managing Director of PPHB, a Houston-based mid-market energy investment bank. Prior to this he was a Managing Director and Senior Banker in the Energy Group at Stephens Inc. He spent 15 years in the oil & gas industry, working in geophysics, reservoir engineering and operations around the world, living in Australia, Singapore, Milan, London a few times and of course Houston many times, with Western Geophysical, now part of Schlumberger (SLB), Sun Oil Company, McCord Lewis, and Exploration Consultants Ltd (ECL).
As a Wall Street research analyst, he has been ranked #1 in the II rankings, WSJ Best on the Street, Greenwich #1 in Industry Knowledge and several other recognitions and awards. He is a member and past symposium chair of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), on the boards of the National Offshore Industry Association (NOIA), the Energy Workforce and Technology Council, the Energy ESG Council, Nova Compression, and the Maguire Energy Institute Advisory Board, at SMU his alma mater. He is on the Advisory Boards of Merit Advisors and PRENG & Associates. He writes a weekly look at the energy market - Things I Learned this Week.