Berry started his career as a CPA with KPMG, an international CPA firm, and from 1974 to 1987 was the managing partner of Berry Smith Duke & Co., a 25 person Dallas CPA firm. Berry has focused his practice in the accounting and tax areas of the petroleum industry and has worked with several exploration and production companies.
Berry’s activities have comprises of management organization, financial structuring, private placement memorandum preparation, investor fund raising, management of oil and gas drilling joint venture (JVs), re-entry JVs, drilling rig JVs, and royalty and lease bank JVs. He is experienced in several oil and gas accounting programs for joint interest billings (JIBs) and revenue distribution and has extensive JV tax return preparation experience. He has written and presented white paper reports to geology classes on assessment of a drilling project – guidelines for an individual investor, and organized and carried out ongoing education classes for CPAs on the oil and gas business, most recently an all day seminar for CPA’s on the Barnett Shale (Texas) play. He has invested in and owned and managed numerous oil and gas working interests directly and though partnerships he has organized.
For the past 20 years Boyles has directed the activities of several partnerships and corporations as CEO or general managing partner. He is mainly engaged in acquisitions, logistics, trucking, expansion and development of different projects, real estate and purchase of different trucking companies. Boyles is a consultant to many entities where he provides expertise in goal setting, strategic planning, business strategy, logistics, transportation, supply chain management, financial and corporate management and international trade and a special emphasis on turn-around management.
Other entrepreneurial activities over the past twenty years comprised of operations in a variety of diversified industries. Activities have included the acquisition, management and development of Black Diamond Group, Inc. and Safari Investments, Inc. On behalf of his and the accounts of others, Boyles has began or acquired over 50 corporations and 38 commercial real estate properties and acted as a consultant to others on many diversified acquisitions, financings, logistics operations, trucking operations, SCM, reorganizations and real estate transactions, and managed as many as 50 other properties for other third parties.
We are excited about the new future of this company, said Berry. Over the next several days we will be focused on defining the new direction for the company, which will remain in the oil and gas production sector.
