John Gerdes Recently

John Gerdes recently joined SWS Securities as Senior Vice President and
head of energy equity research, with his principal focus the E&P sector.
Prior to joining SWS, he served as a Senior E&P equity analyst at Frost
Securities and Raymond James. Preceding his transition to equity
research, he worked as an investment banker with Jefferies & Company and
Solomon Brothers, specializing in energy transactions. Prior to
graduate school, he worked in various technical and management
capacities with ARCO and Shell. He received a BS in Petroleum
Engineering from the University of Tulsa in 1986 and an MBA with a
concentration in Finance from the University of Chicago in 1994.