JS

Jim Sledzik

Managing Director, North America at Aramco Ventures Strategic Venturing Program

Houston, Texas

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $2,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $20,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $11,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Managing Director, North America

    2018

    Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures is the corporate venturing subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals company. Our mission is: “to invest globally into early-stage and high growth companies with technologies of strategic importance to Aramco, to accelerate their development and their deployment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.” We invest in upstream and downstream oil and gas, petrochemicals, renewables, energy efficiency and water sectors. Our objective is to deploy technologies that enhance the identification and management of reserves, enhance primary energy production, improve operational efficiency, increase value capture in downstream processing, and support optimization of Kingdom energy and water consumption.

2017 - 2021

  • Managing Director (June 2017 to Oct 2018), Senior Advisor (Oct 2018 to ~Sept 2021)

    2017 - 2021

2008 - 2017

  • Senior Partner & President

    2008 - 2017

2006 - 2008

  • Marketing Director

    2006 - 2008

2003 - 2006

  • Global Account Director, Devon Energy

    2004 - 2006

  • Corporate Strategy

    2003 - 2004

2000 - 2003

  • VP Multiclient Services, Global

    2002 - 2003

  • Country Manager, Argentina

    2000 - 2002