Ian Macpherson is a managing director and senior research analyst covering oil service at Simmons Energy, a division of Piper Sandler. He has covered this sector since 2004. Macpherson graduated from Georgetown University in 1997 with a bachelor’s degree in business and earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Tulane University's Freeman School of Business in 2004, where he was associate director of the Burkenroad Reports equity research program. Prior to graduate school, Macpherson worked in advertising as a media planner and buyer.