Joe Samluk brings over 30-years of finance, business development, and operating experience to the team.  Prior to joining he had an extensive career on Wall Street both as principal and as advisor to public and private companies beginning with a 9-year stint at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (“DLJ”) in Los Angeles where he worked with several of his Bakken Energy colleagues.  Earlier in his career he worked as a manufacturing engineer for Fortune 500 companies building and operating production facilities in the United States and abroad.

Joe holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego (Revelle College); MEng in Mechanical Engineering and Dean’s Certificate, Cornell Manufacturing Engineering and Productivity Program from Cornell University where he researched the effects of aging on curvature/residual stress in injection molded PMMA; and MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.