Mr. Murray joins MERCO as COO/President where he will be leading the company’s acquisitions of distressed assets and companies. MERCO is not only an E&P company but has many investments in and out of the energy sector. Murray was previously Chief Operating Officer for Virtus Oil and Gas Corporation and held a seat on the Board of Directors where he orchestrated the purchase out of Tidewater’s Oil and Gas Bankruptcy Parawon Assets and lead the team of geologists, engineers, Landman and accountants on the near 70k net acre holdings. Prior to Virtus he was with Gunnison Energy Corporation an Oxbow Company owned by William Koch in 2012 and spent two years as part of his Senior Management Team. Prior to GEC, Mr. Murray spent time with Phil Anschutz’s private company, Anschutz Exploration Corporation where he was heavily involved in the $1.4B divestiture of the company’s Southern Bakken properties and as well as its $114MM Northern Bakken property sale. Murray went to work at Sundance Energy, Inc. helping the small Australian Listed company get to 492mm Market Cap in 2008, and was promoted to Land Manager at age 27. While at Sundance, he was involved with multiple divestitures and business development of nearly 150,000 acres and near $80MM in transactions. At Anadarko he was a company landman that worked on curative issues before drilling in the Wattenberg Basin. Murray started his land career as a field landman in Northeastern Colorado. He was the main lease buyer for Tecton Energy where he had leased near 100,000 acres in the Albuquerque Basin. In 2008, Murray was a board member on Steve Naeve’s private company Houston Power Associates that focused on renewable energy in seven states. Murray earned a B.A. in Communications from Kansas Wesleyan Universit. He was a Varsity Letterman in basketball and also a member of the 2000 KCAC Conference Champions and NSCAA Champions. He was involved with Student Council and was Junior Class President. While in college and shortly after, Murray was Operations Manager for Morris Communications in Salina, KS overseeing forty-four employees in three locations. Murray was a previous winner of Wesleyan’s Outstanding Communication Student and has continued to give back to the program.