Jim Sledzik

Managing Director, North America

2018 - Current

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.

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

2017 - 2021

Senior Partner & President

2008 - 2017

Marketing Director

2006 - 2008

Global Account Director, Devon Energy

2004 - 2006

Corporate Strategy

2003 - 2004

VP Multiclient Services, Global

2002 - 2003

Country Manager, Argentina

2000 - 2002