Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer
Thomas W. Sloop is the founder, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Monterey Oil & Gas Corporation and a senior energy executive with more than 35 years of experience spanning investment banking, principal investing, and upstream oil and gas operations. Mr. Sloop has spent his career advising on, structuring, and executing complex energy transactions across multiple market cycles. He has executed more than $40 billion of energy and energy-related transactions globally, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, capital formation, project finance, and strategic asset development.
Prior to forming Monterey, Mr. Sloop served as a Managing Director at Deloitte, where he led the firm’s U.S. oil and gas investment banking practice. He previously led the midstream advisory business at Pace Global Energy, a Siemens company, and founded Superior Energy Ventures, an advisory and principal investment firm focused on international energy development. Earlier in his career, Mr. Sloop held senior roles in the investment banking divisions of Morgan Stanley, UBS Investment Bank, and Barclays Capital.
At Barclays, he led project finance and M&A activities in Asia, including the development of a $3.2 billion refinery project in Vietnam, one of the first large-scale foreign direct investment projects in the country. In addition to his investment banking experience, Mr. Sloop held senior leadership roles in finance, development, and operations at Enron International, Texaco, and Anadarko Petroleum.
Mr. Sloop is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and holds a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.