Meet Our Leadership Team

As Horizontal Wireline President, Nadir Nery oversees a wide range of responsibilities. Armed with over 21 years of experience in all aspects of the wireline industry, he focuses his team on business planning, recruiting and retention strategies, support on new technology implementation, health and safety and ESG developments, and many other responsibilities for business continuity and growth.

Before joining Horizontal Wireline, Mr. Nery spent 14 years with Schlumberger, where he began as a Manufacturing Engineer, building offshore wireline units for the Latin-American market. While at Schlumberger, Mr. Nery held multiple positions, including Geo-market Special Services Manager, Wireline Field Test Coordinator, and many years covering open hole and cased hole field operations.

In March of 2014, Mr. Nery became the South Texas District Manager for Horizontal Wireline, where he handled personnel management, policies, standards and guidelines implementation, asset management, customer relations, and all related operational activities. Between the years of 2015 and 2017, he served as Southern Region Service Quality Manager, Southern Region Service Operations Manager, and Corporate Support Manager.

Mr. Nery has an Industrial Engineering degree from Universidad del Zulia and received an MBA in Sustainable Management from Anaheim University.

Michael McGuire, Vice President of Operations,  brings 12 years of Horizontal Wireline experience across multiple departments, he drives operational discipline to ensure safe and efficient operations.

Before joining Horizontal Wireline, Mr. McGuire worked as a Facilities Engineer in the public housing sector. In January of 2011, Mr. McGuire joined the Horizontal Wireline team and progressed through on- site positions until joining the Service Quality Department in September of 2016. Mr. McGuire has also served as Field Service Manager and most recently, Northeast District Manager.

Mr. McGuire has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Penn State University

As Horizontal Wireline Services’ Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Jennifer Schafer oversees sales plans and growth throughout the company.  She is an intricate part of identifying customer challenges, providing problem resolution, and developing the Horizontal Wireline’s overall strategic plan.

Jennifer has over two decades of experience in multiple roles in the oil and gas industry.  She uses this wide range of experience in developing and overseeing the sales team’s efforts in building long-term business relationships.

Before joining Horizontal Wireline, Jennifer spent 16 years at Halliburton Energy Services, where she held various roles across multiple operating regions, ranging from Field and Operations, Technical Support, Business Development, and Sales for the Wireline and Perforating and the Completion Tools Product Lines.  Upon leaving Halliburton, she joined Stuart Pressure Control as Regional Sales Manager where she helped grow Stuart’s market share in the Onshore and Deepwater areas.

Jennifer joined Horizontal Wireline Services in 2018 as a Sr. Account Manager and then assumed the role of Southern Region Sales Manager in 2022.

As the VP of Human Resources, the primary purpose of Michael's role is to partner with the leadership team of Horizontal Wireline to deliver against the business and people growth objectives while promoting a high-performance culture. Among his responsibilities is to collaborate with executive leadership to define the organization’s long-term mission and goals and identify ways to support this mission through talent development, management and retention.

Specifically, Mike oversees the Human Resource planning, staffing, talent management and succession processes, compensation analysis, 401k and benefit oversight, employee relations and leadership development and training. His focus is on people, both in developing staffing strategies and plans to identify talent within and outside the company, as well as developing appropriate policies and programs for effective growth and management of employees. Additionally, he will provide guidance and leadership to the human resource team with resolutions to human resource, compensation, and benefit questions, concerns, and issues.

Mike’s Human Resources background spans over 27 years, 20 of those in leadership roles with companies ranging in scope from national entities to family-owned companies.  These organizations come from various industries including Information Technology, 3-D Additive Manufacturing printing, lumber distribution, HR leadership and coaching consulting and executive recruitment in the construction trades. He is a graduate of West Virginia University with a degree in Sports Management along with a Professional Human Resources (PHR) certification.  Mike joined HWS in April 2023. With his wife Linda, they reside in Monroeville, PA.

As Horizontal Wireline Services Director of Accounting and Finance, Joe ensures that the monthly financial results are prepared accurately and in a timely manner. He also is focused on protecting company assets and controlling spending. Mr. Dolney earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from Slippery Rock University and an MBA with a Finance Concentration from Duquesne University. He is also a licensed CPA in Pennsylvania.

Mr. Dolney has over 30 years of accounting and financial analysis experience with both publicly traded and privately held companies. Though is his first time employed directly in the Oil & Gas Industry; he has past experience including eight years at a manufacturer that supplied machinery to customers in the industry.

Mr. Dolney joined Horizontal Wireline in 2021 and has enjoyed learning about the wireline industry.