Natural Resources >> CEO Interviews >> December 3, 2002
BRUCE H. VINCENT has been President of Swift Energy Company since November 2004.
He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Swift Energy, a position to
which he was elected on May 10, 2005. Mr. Vincent joined Swift Energy Company in
1990, serving in a variety of strategic positions years before being named
President, the last being Executive Vice President for Corporate Development and
Secretary. Before joining Swift Energy, Mr. Vincent held management-level
positions in the oil and gas industry with Energy Assets International Corp.
(Director/EVP/COO/CFO), Tangent Oil and Gas Co. (Director/P/CEO) and Peninsula
Resources Corp. (Director/EVP/COO/CFO). He served as Managing Partner of the
investment banking firms of Vincent & Company and Johnson & Vincent, as well as
Vice President and Group Manager of First City National Bank of Houston. Mr.
Vincent is currently Vice Chairman of the Independent Petroleum Association of
America (IPAA) and a member of the Executive Committee and Regional Board of
Directors. He served as past Chairman of IPAA's Capital Markets, Communications,
International and Program Committees. He is also a Founder and past Chairman of
the Board of Advisors for IPAA's Oil and Gas Investment Symposium (OGIS), as
well as for IPAA's OGIS London. He was named the initial recipient of the IPAA
Leadership Award in 1996. He is also a member of the Board of the Natural Gas
Council. In addition, he is a Founder and former Board member of NAPE (formerly
known as the North American Prospect Expo) and was Chairman of NAPE 2002. He is
past co-Chairman of the Houston Energy Finance Group and has previously served
as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Investment Program Association. In
December 2008, Mr. Vincent was invited to serve as a member of the National
Petroleum Council, a federally chartered and privately funded oil and natural
gas advisory committee that represents the views of the oil and natural gas
industry in advising, informing, and making recommendations to the Secretary of
Energy. Mr. Vincent served as a Naval Supply Officer from 1969 to 1973. He
earned a BA in Business Administration from Duke University in 1969 and an MBA
in Finance from the University of Houston in 1976. Additionally, he served as
Chairman of the Board of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Houston in 2000 and
2001, and for the last nine years, he and his wife have been matched with a
"little" brother who is now 18 years old. Profile
Company?
Mr. Vincent: Swift Energy is a public oil and gas company that
was founded back in 1979, so we have been in business for
