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William is a commercial insurance professional in JLT’s business development group in Houston. In this capacity, he provides risk advisory services along with facilitating and structuring risk financing solutions within the insurance marketplace on behalf of his clients. His client base includes companies primarily in the energy/construction space.

Prior to working at JLT, William began his career at Aon. William attended the University of Alabama where he earned a B.S. in Finance. While at the University of Alabama, William was on the Board of Directors for the Alabama Insurance Society within the Culverhouse College of Commerce Business School.

William joined the YPE leadership team in 2015, serving as the Events & Sponsorship chair, a role in which he oversees and coordinates all social activities and bookings within YPE, including Happy Hour networking events.

Ashley Sloan is an Executive Director for JPMorgan Chase, the state’s largest financial institution. She serves clients in commercial banking with dynamic middle-market businesses across all industries. Ashley’s primary focus is delivering a suite of financial services to companies with revenues generally ranging from $20 million to $500 million. Her diverse background includes managing transactions involving leveraged acquisition financing, asset-based lending, comprehensive treasury services, foreign currency and interest rate hedging, corporate finance, asset management, and underwriting. Ashley also focuses on Oilfield Services companies and Foreign Multinational business in Houston. Prior to joining Chase, she worked for nine years at regional banks with a prominence in oilfield services and manufacturing companies.

Ashley received her BBA in Finance from Southern Methodist University where she was a member of Chi Omega. She earned the FINRA Series 79 and 63 licenses. Ashley’s other involvements include, The Junior League of Houston, Inc., Daughters of the American Revolution, and Bellaire Young Mothers Club. She joined the YPE leadership team in 2011.

ashley.c.sloan@jpmorgan.com

John O’Brien joined Pelican in 2013. John has nearly 20 years of corporate finance experience, including investment banking, merchant banking and corporate development, and has primarily served the energy industry in these previous capacities.

Prior to joining Pelican, John spent ten years in investment banking working with both the GulfStar Group and Morgan Keegan. In these roles, John focused on providing merger, acquisition, private placement and other general advisory services to middle market clients, most of which served the energy industry. Over this time, John completed over 60 transactions with an aggregate transaction value over $5.0 billion. Prior to his career in investment banking, John was a Business Development Analyst with J.B. Poindexter & Co., focusing on supporting all corporate development activities including acquisitions, divestitures, capital structuring and financial management.

John serves on the Board of Directors of Global Heat Transfer and Q2 Artificial Lift.  Additionally, John works with Rapid Rod Service and Elite Production Services. John also helped facilitate the sale of Downhole Technology to Schoeller Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment in April 2016, the sale of Multilift Welltec to Forum and was instrumental in the sale of Flowco Production Solutions in November of 2017 to Global Energy Capital.

Matt is a Senior Vice President in Aon’s client development group in Houston. His responsibilities include new client development and daily servicing and account management activities. Prior to his employment with Aon, Matt worked for a regional Houston insurance agency in the same capacity. His experience incudes working with clients in upstream oil and gas, utilities/power, and renewable fuels industries.