Advisory Board Member Profile

David Skinner
Merit SI
Executive Vice President

Areas of Expertise:
Customer First Culture, Principles of Customer ​Relationship Building, Accelerate & Improve Decisions with Data

David Skinner was most recently Executive Vice President at Merit SI a leading solar technology and development firm. Prior to Merit SI Mr. Skinner was the CEO of KCA a market-leading consulting firm specializing in Energy, Technology, and Healthcare. Mr. Skinner was the Co-Founder and Chairman of Energy Water Solutions (EWS) an oilfield services company focused on providing economical produced water treatment solutions to the oil and gas industry.

Prior to EWS Mr. Skinner was a Founder and the CEO at Decision Strategies (DSI), a high-end strategy consulting firm specializing in the Energy, Technology, and Pharmaceutical industries.  Mr. Skinner worked with Global 1000 boards and executive teams to create game changing strategies, identify new market entries, and evaluate options for significant growth. In the last decade he and his teams have worked with clients on over $400 billion worth of projects and transactions.

David is an internationally known and invited lecturer and author of the best selling book “Introduction to Decision Analysis” now in its third edition. On the faculty of Rice University since 2004, Mr. Skinner teaches strategy and decision-making at the Jones School. Through this teaching position Mr. Skinner has helped over 15 student-led companies get started, acquired or merged.

Mr. Skinner’s oil and gas background began in the late 1980’s at Conoco where he led a technical and economic team providing guidance to senior management on a wide range of business decisions. David brings over 30 years of strategy development, management experience, and decision-making skills and holds advanced degrees in finance and economics.

David enjoys working with young entrepreneurs and sits on the board of Junior Achievement of the Southeast, the largest Junior Achievement organization in the US.

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