Jim McBride has over 30 years of petroleum engineering and energy finance experience. Having begun his career as a petroleum engineer, Jim has led the upstream and midstream energy banking practices for a number of firms, including Capital One Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank of America and Texas Commerce Bank (now JPMorgan). He also has served as a Managing Director at Opportune and, after that, served as Executive Vice President Corporate Development at QStar LLC. In 2014, Jim founded JR McBride & Company, a privately-owned company based in Houston that advises and invests in the energy industry. He currently serves as a Board Member of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) and on the Loyola University of New Orleans Board of Trustees.