Born in Texas, Glen Sartain grew up in different parts of the United States including cities in Texas, Louisiana, Washington and Oregon. Living in different states allowed Glen to experience and appreciate a variety of cultures. Eventually, Glen attended Pacific Coast Baptist College, becoming involved in music. While studying at Pacific Coast Baptist, Glen traveled with the school’s chorale and also was a member of a men’s trio.
After graduating from school, Glen lived in Santa Barbara, California before moving back to his home state of Texas and worked for leading companies in the energy industry including; Teradata Corporation, CIMA Energy LTD, Energy Solutions International and Energy Solutions, Inc.
In his daily life, Glen focuses on making sure the right information is in the hands of the right people. Glen has accumulated more than 20 years of experience in the technology and energy industry. He has served as a top executive and leader for numerous, highly regarded companies in the industry. Glen’s specialties include: financial analysis, supply chain, upstream exploration & production, midstream pipeline operations, refining, marketing and end user supply.
In 1994, Glen founded his own company known at the time as Energy Solutions, Inc in which he was responsible for the corporation’s financial management, strategic growth, sales & marketing direction along with any additional management roles needed. By 2003, Glen was serving as the Managing Director of Technology for CIMA Energy LTD in which he mapped the industry’s information flow in order to utilize the current technologies, redefined business processes, worked with the company’s CFO to advance the technology strategies and oversaw project managers for re-writing of business applications.
Glen Sartain began working for Teradata in 2008 as its Director in which he specialized in Oil & Gas Consulting. Glen also served as a Managing Partner for Teradata in which he managed various consulting teams in the manufacturing department including; auto, industrial, aerospace, defense, CPG, high tech, oil & gas, mining and minerals.
Apart from being a business consultant in the Energy and Technology industries, Glen’s interests include; traveling to different continents, running and exercising, teaching others about data management and business infrastructure and drinking and learning about wine.