Barry Irani, President and CEO

Barry Irani brings more than three decades of petroleum industry experience to The Information Store.

Irani spent the bulk of his career at Enserch Exploration Inc., where he served in various senior management positions including chief engineer, senior vice president of U.S. operations and executive vice president of world-wide operations. His responsibilities included acquisitions and divestitures, interaction with the financial community and raising capital in the equity markets through a public stock offering.

His experience has placed him in high demand as a board member for industry firms and non-profit organizations. He has served on the boards of Canyon Reef Carriers, MediSend International and UpstreamInfo.com. In addition, he was on the Chairman's Advisory Council of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India, and the Petroleum Engineering Advisory Board of the University of Oklahoma.

Irani has served as lecturer at the University of Texas at Dallas and Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He is a distinguished lecturer for the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He earned a bachelor's degree in physics and chemistry from the University of Bombay, as well as a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Oklahoma. Irani is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Program for Management Development and is a registered professional engineer in Texas.