Samina Farid

Co-Founder & Chairman

Co-founder of Merrick Systems, Samina Farid serves as the company's Chief Financial Officer.

With more than 25 years of business and technical experience in the oil and gas industry, Ms. Farid brings extensive knowledge on complex midstream and upstream production and regulatory compliance issues. She has served as a leader in business planning and strategy, organizational design, contract negotiations and business coaching, and she has been an agent for change, stressing the importance of understanding and managing the expectations and fears associated with change when building and implementing new business solutions.

Prior to co-founding Merrick Systems, Ms. Farid held various management positions at companies including Houston Natural Gas and Enron, Esso Eastern, Pakistan, Cabot Energy, and Brooklyn Interstate Natural Gas.

Ms. Farid graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Production Logistics Management from the University of Houston.

She has taken an active leadership role on industry standards committees, having been the Promotional and Education chairperson for American Petroleum Industry's PIDX group and past co-chair of the Regs User Group that sets eCommerce standards for regulatory and environmental filings.