Samir joined the company in November 2014, during the acquisition of PacWest Consulting Partners, a Houston-based provider of market intelligence and strategic analysis to the upstream unconventional oil and gas industry that is now part of S&P Global Commodity Insights. He has nearly 20 years of experience in energy, where he has worked in consulting, industry and financial service roles. As a principal at PacWest, he managed several market intelligence products-including North American proppant supply and demand-and led multiple consulting projects with significant equity/debt considerations or coverage across the entire energy value chain. Over the course of his career, Samir has worked in various roles for MidAmerican Energy and Edison Mission Energy. His financial services roles included equity research covering utilities and IPPs with both Salomon Smith Barney and Credit Lyonnais Securities, as well as secured and distress energy investing roles with Zimmer Lucas Partners and LibertyView Capital.

Samir has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Delhi, India, and a Master of Business Administration from the Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester, New York, US.