Entropy Modulation LLC

Management


Joseph M. Abell, III is the president, owner and founder of Entropy Modulation. From 2001 to 2012, Mr. Abell was the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of TETRA Technologies, Inc., a publicly traded oilfield service company involved in completion fluids, well testing, compression services, various offshore services including well plug & abandonment and platform decommissioning and, until its divestment, an oil & gas production company. He has comprehensive financial leadership experience in raising and allocating capital, MLP and IPO structuring and execution, building out financial organizations and scalable business processes, strategic planning, M&A execution, accounting/ERP and business intelligence implementations, risk management, financial reporting, governance and controls, tax and investor relations.

 

In addition, Mr. Abell had 8 years of M&A and strategic planning experience at Tenneco and Transco Energy Company and 17 years of sales, marketing, business/project development, asset management and plant engineering experience at Shell, Tenneco, Transco, British Gas and Sithe/Marubeni, including 7 years of international experience and more than 5 years of start-up company experience on several ventures. Mr. Abell has played a leadership role in more than 30 M&A transactions totaling in excess of $12 billion.


Mr. Abell's experience spans an array of oil and gas service, oil and gas exploration & production, electric power generation, gas pipeline gathering and transmission, and chemical manufacturing businesses across US and international markets, in addition to survey knowledge of alternative energy technologies.


Mr. Abell has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and a MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He was a four year letterman on the Cornell Varsity tennis team. Mr. Abell serves, or has served, on various for-profit, civic, and professional association boards.


Through a network of service providers, Mr. Abell will add resources as necessary to accomplish a task.