INTRODUCING POINTER AND OUR TEAM
Pointer Power and Compression is a Houston based energy equipment purchasing and sales organization licensed in the State of Texas. Led by Don DeVille and Jerry Schmiedlin, who each have over 30 years' experience in the industry, Pointer has a singular focus to provide fair, honest and timely service to our clients. Our team bios are below, so please contact any of them directly.
If you are interested in becoming an independent contract sales rep for Pointer, please contact Don DeVille at don@pointerpandc.com.
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GK ENERGY PARTNERS, LLC DBA POINTER POWER AND COMPRESSION LLC
Texas SOS Number: 0802974183
Texas SOS Number: 0802974183
Don DeVille, Co-Managing Director
Don, along with Jerry, sources, negotiates and executes all equipment transactions for Pointer. Don’s extensive industry experience includes helping to take Hanover Compressor from a startup to global public company with a $5 billion market capitalization where he headed operations for more than a decade. Don holds a BS from Louisiana State University and resides in Ville Platte, Louisiana.
Contact: (713) 299-8170
Don, along with Jerry, sources, negotiates and executes all equipment transactions for Pointer. Don’s extensive industry experience includes helping to take Hanover Compressor from a startup to global public company with a $5 billion market capitalization where he headed operations for more than a decade. Don holds a BS from Louisiana State University and resides in Ville Platte, Louisiana.
Contact: (713) 299-8170
Jerry Schmiedlin, Co-Managing Director
Jerry has spent more than 30 years in the natural gas and oil equipment industry. He started Arrow S Compressor Machining (now CCS Investments) in 1988, where he buys and sells natural gas and diesel compression packages, generators, and miscellaneous oil-related products. He also runs a machine shop that remanufactures compressor parts. Jerry resides in Kemah, Texas.
Contact: (713) 201-7010
Jerry has spent more than 30 years in the natural gas and oil equipment industry. He started Arrow S Compressor Machining (now CCS Investments) in 1988, where he buys and sells natural gas and diesel compression packages, generators, and miscellaneous oil-related products. He also runs a machine shop that remanufactures compressor parts. Jerry resides in Kemah, Texas.
Contact: (713) 201-7010
Josh Schein, Director, Fund Administration
Josh oversees investor relations and business operations. Outside of Pointer, Josh is CEO of Global Key Advisors, a San Francisco-based financial advisory firm serving primarily current or former officers and directors of public companies with a focus on data-driven quantitative investment strategies. Previously, Josh spent 18 years at Citi Smith Barney (now Morgan Stanley) where he developed and ran the InsideTrack® portfolios following initial career experiences with Hambrecht & Quist and Bear Stearns. Josh holds a Series 65 FINRA designation together with a JD from the University of Washington School of Law and a BA Summa Cum Laude from West Virginia University. Josh is fluent in Japanese.
Contact: (415) 336-1159
Josh oversees investor relations and business operations. Outside of Pointer, Josh is CEO of Global Key Advisors, a San Francisco-based financial advisory firm serving primarily current or former officers and directors of public companies with a focus on data-driven quantitative investment strategies. Previously, Josh spent 18 years at Citi Smith Barney (now Morgan Stanley) where he developed and ran the InsideTrack® portfolios following initial career experiences with Hambrecht & Quist and Bear Stearns. Josh holds a Series 65 FINRA designation together with a JD from the University of Washington School of Law and a BA Summa Cum Laude from West Virginia University. Josh is fluent in Japanese.
Contact: (415) 336-1159
Harold Lea, Director, Chief Financial Officer
After completing his MBA at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Harold was recruited by Chevron for its MBA Management program. The role offered exposure to various departments at Chevron including CIOC (Chevron International Oil Company) where Harold traded futures and options to hedge oil price risk, Treasury Strategy and Planning where he forecasted economic trends, and the New York Money Markets group where he was involved in arbitraging commercial paper and investment portfolios.
Harold left Chevron for a Palo Alto software company to launch a program he designed for basket hedging of oil price risk. Within two years, he became that firm’s CEO and advanced it to acquisition by a global software company (now Misys).
Harold then joined banking risk management integration software company Alier as COO. Over the next three years, Harold led sales and operations and negotiated Alier’s sale to Active Software where he became a member of the acquirer’s executive staff. Six months later, Active was sold to WebMethods, a B2B software company, for $1.3 billion.
Partnering with economics professors from Stanford and Caltech, Harold moved to game theory-based auctions. His numerous auction companies were responsible for groundbreaking state electricity purchases and water rights allocations.
In 2015 and 2016, Harold launched Sierra Energy Capital and Sierra Advisors to provide licensed Investment Banking and business advisory services to energy, technology, and consumer products companies.
Harold holds FINRA series 79, 63 and 82 registrations with Growth Capital Services, a broker/dealer in San Francisco.
Sierra’s current engagements include numerous energy-related activities, a Brazilian Amazon broadband buildout, an energy/LED/IoT spinoff, a specialty coffee company, a professional services acquisition-rollup firm, and several software companies.
After completing his MBA at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Harold was recruited by Chevron for its MBA Management program. The role offered exposure to various departments at Chevron including CIOC (Chevron International Oil Company) where Harold traded futures and options to hedge oil price risk, Treasury Strategy and Planning where he forecasted economic trends, and the New York Money Markets group where he was involved in arbitraging commercial paper and investment portfolios.
Harold left Chevron for a Palo Alto software company to launch a program he designed for basket hedging of oil price risk. Within two years, he became that firm’s CEO and advanced it to acquisition by a global software company (now Misys).
Harold then joined banking risk management integration software company Alier as COO. Over the next three years, Harold led sales and operations and negotiated Alier’s sale to Active Software where he became a member of the acquirer’s executive staff. Six months later, Active was sold to WebMethods, a B2B software company, for $1.3 billion.
Partnering with economics professors from Stanford and Caltech, Harold moved to game theory-based auctions. His numerous auction companies were responsible for groundbreaking state electricity purchases and water rights allocations.
In 2015 and 2016, Harold launched Sierra Energy Capital and Sierra Advisors to provide licensed Investment Banking and business advisory services to energy, technology, and consumer products companies.
Harold holds FINRA series 79, 63 and 82 registrations with Growth Capital Services, a broker/dealer in San Francisco.
Sierra’s current engagements include numerous energy-related activities, a Brazilian Amazon broadband buildout, an energy/LED/IoT spinoff, a specialty coffee company, a professional services acquisition-rollup firm, and several software companies.