The Next Wave, a program for young professionals
Panel Speaker: Claire Farley
Claire Farley is co-president at Jefferies Randall & Dewey, the Oil & Gas Investment Banking Group of Jefferies. Farley works in the Houston office and provides leadership for all of the firm’s product offerings. Farley joined Jefferies Randall & Dewey in 2002 as chief executive officer and built upon the firm’s leading acquisitions and disposals business to build a full service global energy investment banking practice
Prior to joining Jefferies Randall & Dewey, Farley was CEO at the start-up firms Trade-Ranger and Intelligent Diagnostics. She also worked at Texaco for 19 years. While at Texaco, she was president of Worldwide Exploration & New Ventures, president of the North America Production Division and CEO of HydroTexaco in Copenhagen.
Farley has extensive industry contacts and expertise in oil and gas exploration, operations, business development and marketing. She led several landmark transactions, including the sale of EnCana’s deepwater assets and Spinnaker’s merger with Hydro.
Farley is a member of the National Petroleum Council. She received a BS degree from Emory University.
