Natural Resources >> CEO Interviews >> November 9, 1998
HENRY E. GEMINO co-founded Profile Technologies in 1988. Today he serves
as Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Operating Officer and
Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Gemino's twenty year senior management
background has been in a broad range of industries. His areas of
expertise encompass investment banking, money management, venture
capital and operations administration. Prior to Profile Technologies,
Mr. Gemino served as a Vice President with Oppenheimer Co., Drexel
Burnham and Bear Stearns. He also served as President of H. Edmund
Associates, a privately held, financial services firm. In the past ten
years with Profile Technologies, Mr. Gemino successfully raised the
required seed and working capital for the initial research and
development phase of the technology, as well as conducted the search for
and recruiting of the organization's Board of Directors. Additionally,
he oversaw all phases of the company's initial public offering which was
completed in February of 1997. Mr. Gemino received his Bachelor of
Science degrees in Business Administration and Economics from Wagner
College in New York. Profile
G.L. SCOTT is Co-Chairman and CEO of Profile Technologies. He has served
as Chairman of the company since 1988 and became CEO in 1996. Mr. Scott,
an oil industry geophysicist, has, for the last thirty years, been in
senior management positions within the industry. In the mid 1960s, he
was then associated with Sinclair Oil Company, and was instrumental in
locating and mapping two significant oil fields in Prudoe Bay and
Kuporuk, Alaska. In 1968, Mr. Scott founded North American Exploration
Co., and ten years later facilitated the merger of several oil services
companies into NORPAC Exploration Services, a conglomerate whose
services for the oil industry included oil exploration, data sales and
brokerage tape processing and data storage. As Chairman and CEO of
NORPAC, Mr. Scott successfully took the corporation public in 1981, then
promoted the sale of the company, which was acquired in 1984 by
Petrolane, a subsidiary of Texas Eastern Pipeline Company. During his
tenure with Profile Technologies, Mr. Scott's oil industry and corporate
experience has been an invaluable asset in the development of the
company and its technology. Profile
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