Natural Resources >> CEO Interviews >> January 25, 2013
Marty Beskow, CFA, is Vice President of Finance/Capital Markets at Emerald Oil, Inc. He has more than 15 years of investment industry experience, with a significant focus on natural resources. Prior to joining the company in March 2012, Mr. Beskow served as Vice President, Senior Equity Analyst at Northland Securities, operating as Northland Capital Markets, covering oil exploration and production companies, many with operations focused on the Williston basin. Prior to joining Northland in 2010, he was the Vice President and Portfolio Manager, from 2009 to 2010, at Blue Water Capital Advisors, a money management firm that managed a natural resource-focused portfolio and broad-based portfolios. From 2007 to 2009, Mr. Beskow was a Vice President at Interlachen Capital Group, a multistrategy hedge fund. From 2003 to 2007, he was a Principal at Stonehill Financial, and from 1998 to 2002 he was an Equity Research Analyst at U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray. Earlier in his career, in 2001, Mr. Beskow received the Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder designation, Certified Public Accounting license (currently inactive) in 1994, and he began his career with more than four years of experience at KPMG. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with a brief historical sketch of the company and a picture of the things you’re doing at the present time?
Mr. Beskow: Emerald Oil is the combination of two