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The Woodlands, Texas, US

Ring Energy, Inc. (NYSE American: REI) is a Midland, Texas-based oil and gas exploration, development, and production company with current operations in the Permian Basin of West Texas.

San Antonio, Texas, US

EPIC was formed in 2017 to build, own, and operate midstream infrastructure in both the Permian and Eagle Ford Basins. EPIC’s first two projects, the EPIC Crude Oil Pipeline and the EPIC Y-Grade Pipeline, transport crude and Y-Grade across Texas for delivery into the Corpus Christi market.

Houston, TX, US

• Hines Global REIT is a public real estate investment trust managed by Hines Interests, a fully integrated global real estate investment and management firm. The REIT targets raising $3.5 billion in public equity for.
• Recruited as an independent director to provide public company CFO perspective.
• Serve as Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee Chair.

Denver, Colorado, US

Sundance Energy was a public (NASDAQ: SNDE, previously listed on Australian Securities Exchange ASX) onshore oil and gas exploration and production company focused in the Eagle Ford in South Texas. Chair the Audit Committee and serve on Compensation Committee.

Dallas, TX, US

EnLink Midstream provides midstream energy services, including gathering, processing, transmission, fractionation, storage, condensate stabilization, brine services and marketing to producers of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), crude oil and condensate. The Company operates through five segments: Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Crude and Condensate.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US

• Collaborated closely with senior executives and Devon’s Board of Directors, while leading the finance and business development organizations including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, financial planning.
• Key player in managing Devon’s controlling interest in public gathering, transportation and marketing MLP EnLink Midstream (NYSE: ENLC) and EnLink Midstream Partners (NYSE: ENLK). Board member of both ENLC and ENLK.
• Drove initiatives that repositioned the oil and gas portfolio, increased profitability and enhanced financial and organizational strength.

Tulsa, OK, US

• Recruited by the CEO to leverage industry, finance, and securities expertise to take this private-equity backed firm public. Built finance group and investor relations from the ground up. Managed relationships with two.
• Leveraged industry, finance, and securities expertise to take the firm public.
• Built finance group from the ground up with public company reporting and compliance capability.
• Restructured credit facility attracting optimal lead banking arrangement.
• Led IPO listing on NYSE in April 2012.
• Structured financing strategies and helped drive two acquisitions tripling size of the company in its first public year.

Sugar Land, TX, US

• Led global finance team and all finance functions including business development, operational planning and investor relations. Spearheaded initiatives that delivered growth, profitability, and organizational empowerment.
• Recruited by CEO to lead global finance team and all finance functions, including operational planning and business development, investor relations, treasury, tax, risk management, accounting, internal audit, and.
• Established new business development function driving growth strategy through M&A transaction evaluation, new rig construction strategy, shareholder return initiatives, and increased capital spending control/discipline.
• Led identification, evaluation, financing, and with CEO, negotiated $2.7B Frontier Drilling acquisition.
• Assumed leadership at a critical point in the history of the finance group – a year without strong leadership resulted in inadequate resources, low morale, high turnover (85%) and under-performance.

Houston, Texas, US

• Planned and drove financial initiatives to help grow the company from 200M to 2.3B barrels in reserves during tenure, going beyond traditional Controller role to include CFO functions as well as accounting, securities.
• Direct reports: Assistant Controllers, IT Director, Finance Directors in Canada, Egypt, Australia, North Sea, Argentina, China, Poland. Total staff: 350+. Asset Acquisitions, Divestitures, Corporate M&As:
• Supported 30 material acquisitions totaling more than $12B.
• Drove traditional financings to support acquisition growth, including common, preferred, and convertible preferred equity issuances as well as investment grade bond and convertible bond offerings.
• Created pre-existing production payment financing tool that fueled consolidation of $1.7B Gulf of Mexico shelf properties.
• Developed and executed commodity derivative hedging strategy to de-risk price exposure and support acquisition activity – the subject of 2001 Harvard case study. Organizational Development:

Houston, Texas, US

• Oversaw natural gas marketing, dispatching, nominations, gathering, transportation, and contract administration and 19 staff in handling 500 MMCFD interstate and intrastate pipeline systems and 400+ longer term.
• Renegotiated Natural Gas Clearinghouse spot sales arrangement, increasing annual spot margins by more than $4M.
• Managed gas marketing evaluation, diligence, and integration efforts for 6 acquisitions, total value approximately $1.4B.
• Assisted CEO in negotiating $67M forward sale of natural gas to Municipal Gas Authority of GA.
• Minimized losses by terminating Apache's entire hedging position when decoupling of NYMEX futures price from cash spot price caused substantial exposure to hedge positions.

Houston, Texas, US

• Handpicked to assist VP of Production in driving initiatives to strengthen field operations and infrastructure as Apache transitioned to a pure exploration and production company.
• Redesigned pumper daily oil gauging and meter chart-reading process and entire data collection/transmission process to districts, regions, and ultimately headquarters.
• Defined and developed system of procedures, organization structures, and computer applications to manage natural gas product dispositions from reservoir through reconciliation of cash receipts.

Houston, Texas, US

• Recruited from Arthur Andersen to lead 15-member staff in accounting functions for oil and gas reserves in and offshore TX, LA, MS. Capital expenditures: $53M.

• Gained valuable experience in executing audits and SEC registration statements for companies in wide range of industries.
• Managed all work related to roll-up of Apache Petroleum Company, the nation's first-ever Master Limited Partnership.