Who We Are

WCL Group was founded in California in 1998, initially performing work in the Santa Barbara Channel (shown here).

Over the last 25 years, we have expanded our range of services to meet the diverse workforce needs of clients in various industries throughout the United States and across numerous continents. Our unwavering focus on delivering top-notch service and support to clients and contractors alike has earned us a stellar reputation and made us a trusted vendor for numerous Fortune 500 companies.

Our Executives

Brian Krueger

Managing Partner

Brian Krueger is Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner of the WCL Group. WCL Group provides high end management, mentoring and collaboration personnel & services to the energy, engineering & construction industries. He leads the firm’s contracting and business development activities, and focuses on sourcing, researching and executing both public and private contracts. He spent many years performing a variety of domestic & international logistics support functions for the US military and Fortune 100 companies in the Middle East, FSU, Latin America and here in the United States.

Prior to WCL, Brian served as a Director of Operations for the Logistics/Operations & Maintenance Division of Washington Group International (WGI) and Morrison Knudsen Corporation (MK), a global Engineering and Construction firm, for nearly 30 years.

Brian received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from St. Mary’s College of California in 1979

Brian is a long-time member and serves on the Board of Directors for the Society of St. Vincent DePaul

Brian resides in Boise, Idaho along with his wife and four kids.

Jack Clise

Managing Partner

Jack Clise is a graduate of Mississippi State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Thunderbird School of Global Management in Phoenix, Arizona.

Mr. Clise joined Morrison Knudsen (later part of Washington Group and now AECOM) in 1979 as an international business trainee in Boise, Idaho. Later joining Kellogg Brown & Root and Fluor Corporation he progressed through a number of logistics management positions with international assignments in the Middle East, Europe, FSU, Asia, Latin America and Southern California.

in 2005 leveraging his strong EPC and Oil & Gas experience, Mr. Clise became a partner in West Coast Logistics, based in Santa Barbara, California, supporting, drilling, development and production clients domestically and in select international locations.