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Innovation in the White Space.
Mr. Robert P. Peebler
Mr. Dan Piette
Mr. Murray Roth
April Theme: Business Innovation
Thursday, April 19, 2012
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
HESS CLUB
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How do companies like ION Geophysical, Object Reservoir and Transform Software drive innovation? What areas do they focus on that the competition and the industry itself is not addressing?
How do they design their organization structure, compensation schemes and team accountabilities? How do they deal with failure and risk?
This month we discuss innovation in the "white space." The gaps that exist and develop between teams in a company because each team has their approach and perspective. White space also exists in industries between the offerings of different companies. What lessons can we learn from companies that have created breakthroughs by combining seemingly unconnected ideas in their industry?
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Robert P. Peebler
Executive Chairman
ION Geophysical
Robert P. Peebler serves as ION’s Executive Chairman. From 2003 through 2011, Mr. Peebler served as ION’s President and Chief Executive Officer and has been a member of ION’s Board of Directors since 1999. Prior to joining ION, Mr. Peebler was the founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Energy Virtual Partners, an asset development and management company for oil and gas properties. Prior to founding Energy Virtual Partners in 2001, Mr. Peebler was Vice President of e-Business Strategy and Ventures for the Halliburton Company. Mr. Peebler joined Halliburton in 1996 when Halliburton acquired Landmark Graphics Corporation, a provider of workstation based software for oil and gas exploration and production, where he had served as CEO since 1992. Mr. Peebler began his career with Schlumberger in wireline operations and spent 17 years with Schlumberger in various positions, including head of U.S. wireline operations and executive in charge of strategic marketing for the corporate energy services group.
Mr. Peebler holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas. He currently serves on the boards of KIPP Houston and the Houston Technology Center.
Dan Piette
President & CEO
Object Reservoir
Dan Piette is President & CEO of Object Reservoir, a technology and services company focused on addressing complex reservoir modeling challenges in shale and other unconventional gas environments. Piette served as President & CEO of OpenSpirit Corporation from 2003 to 2011, leading the company through 7 years of 20 percent annual growth and spearheading its acquisition by TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) in 2010. Since graduating with a B.S. in mining engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1980, Piette has held a number of executive management roles in the oil and gas industry, including business unit manager for the land acquisition systems group at Input/Output, president and CEO of Bell Geospace, and vice president and general manager of the Asia Pacific region for Landmark Graphics. He currently serves on the board of directors of Petroleum Geo-Sciences and Object Reservoir.
Murray Roth 
President and Co-founder
Transform Software and Services
Murray Roth is President and co-founder of Transform Software and Services, Inc., the leading E&P technology company specializing in unconventional interpretation and reservoir analytics. Prior to launching Transform, Murray was Executive Vice President of both R&D and global marketing at Landmark Graphics. Murray started his career with Geophysical Service Inc. in 1980, gaining experience in seismic acquisition, processing and interpretation, before joining Landmark through Calgary-based Inverse Theory and Applications. Murray has a degree in Astrophysics from the University of Calgary and is a member of AAPG, APEGGA, SEG, EAGE, DGS, RMAG and SPE.
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