Natural Resources >> CEO Interviews >> April 19, 2004

Robert Peebler – Input / Output Inc (io)

ROBERT P. PEEBLER has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Input/Output, Inc., since April 2003 and a member of the Board of Directors since 1999. Before joining I/O on a full-time basis, he was the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Energy Virtual Partners (EVP), an asset development and management company for oil and gas properties. Prior to EVP, he was Vice President of e-Business Strategy and Ventures of the Halliburton Company, a leading provider of products and services to the petroleum and energy industries. Mr. Peebler joined Halliburton in 1998 when Halliburton acquired Landmark Graphics, the leading provider of workstation-based software for oil and gas exploration and production, where he had been CEO since 1992. He began his career with Schlumberger in wireline operations and spent 17 years with the company in positions including head of US wireline operations and executive in charge of strategic marketing for the corporate energy services group. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas. Profile
TWST: Please give us the background on and future directions of I/O.

Mr. Peebler: I/O is the major independent provider of seismic equipment

and acquisition imaging technology for land, marine