Mr. Skinner has led a wide range of major consulting assignments over the past ten years developing broad knowledge of a variety of industries and their business needs. His assignments have included business strategy development, R&D portfolio management, capital investment decisions, exploration bidding and evaluation, litigation analysis, safety and health risk analysis, new ventures analysis, and evaluation of transportation systems.

In his organizational work, Mr. Skinner has led teams involved with reengineering and realignment of strategic business units, manufacturing capability, and asset divestiture. One project involved an eighteen month strategy development and implementation for a major oil company. During that project, he had the lead role in the development of the strategy and an important role in the organizational assessments and implementation of new work processes.

Prior to Decision Strategies, Mr. Skinner was the Group Leader for Decision and Risk Analysis at Conoco, the petroleum subsidiary of E. I. DuPont and Company. At Conoco he led and participated in the economic evaluation of Upstream, Downstream, and Midstream projects, as well as developing long-term strategies for various business units. In addition, in that position he played a major role in implementing the decision analysis methodology across the company.

Mr. Skinner has a B.S. in finance, a B.S. in administration and an M.B.A. Additionally, he has done post-graduate work at Harvard University's School of Public Health. Mr. Skinner is listed in the Who's Who of Executives and Professionals. He is a member of The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, The Society for Risk Analysis, The Decision Sciences Institute, and the Society of Judgment and Decision Making. Mr. Skinner has served as Chairman of the Decision Analysis Affinity Group, and as a Session Chairman for The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

Mr. Carpenter has a B.S. in Chemistry with a secondary area of study in Information Technology and an M.B.A. He has been with DSI since 2002, after 18 years with Conoco in a variety of technical, financial, and management positions. He has a patent pending for an on-line oil industry commercial support system.

Chris is a Managing Director for Decision Strategies based in our Houston office. With tenure of 26 years in the oil and gas industry, Chris routinely draws from his broad range of upstream experiences to solve new problems. His background includes a myriad of international business strategies that span from product commercialization to new business development. His leadership skills and extensive international experience have propelled him to lead multi-functional, multi-cultural teams in merger & acquisition integration, new product development, portfolio
rationalization, project management, software development, market segmentation, change management, pricing strategy and strategic planning.

Chris has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, California State Polytechnic University and an M.B.A. from The University of Texas at Austin.

Tony received his Ph. D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Purdue and M.B.A. from the University of West Virginia. He joined DSI in January 2007 following an extensive career in management consulting and the petrochemicals / chemical industry (Union Carbide, ExxonMobil and Olin Corp).

William has his B.Sc. in Geology from McMaster University and an M.B.A. from the University of Calgary. 

Mr. Sanchez has B. S. Chemical Engineering and an M.B.A. degree. He has been with Decision Strategies since January 2001, following 32 year career with ExxonMobil Chemical in a variety of technical and management positions. He has been in a strategic decision consulting role since 1995.

Michael has worked with clients around the world to predict customer behavior in order to position or re-position a company; measure customer satisfaction; develop and implement new business strategies or manage and launch new products/services and/or new companies. He has worked extensively with management teams, which had as their purpose the creation of a new organization and/or product or service offering.

Michael has an MBA from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Texas Tech University.