Leadership
John D. Jacobi
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Jacobi began his full time employment in the energy business in 1981 working for Woolf & Magee, Inc., a Drilling and E&P company where he was involved in acquisitions for the E&P company and contract negotiations for the drilling company.
In 1991 he co-founded Jacobi-Johnson Energy, Inc., an independent oil and natural gas producer, and served as its President focusing on acquisitions in the Arkla Tex and Gulf Coast Basins, including South Louisiana.
Jacobi-Johnson was sold to EXCO Resources in 1998 where he became VP of Business Development and Marketing. At Exco he led the acquisition efforts on over 100 transactions valued at ~ $8 Billion.
He also served as a Board Member for three Exco joint ventures with BG: 1) TGGT, an intrastate pipeline company serving the East Texas & North Louisiana area, 2) EXCO Resources PA and 3) Appalachia Midstream Co.
Alan Levande
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Levande has over 30 years of industry experience. He is a co-founder of Tenaska Capital Management (“TCM”) and was previously a Senior Managing Director and member of its Management and Investment Committees. TCM manages two private equity funds and currently has close to $4 billion under management. Prior to forming TCM in 2002, Mr. Levande spent 20 years in investment banking, focused primarily on the energy and power industry. He has arranged a wide variety of acquisitions, divestitures, initial public offerings, other equity related offerings, investment and non-investment grade corporate debt transactions, and project and lease financings.
Between 1992 and 2002, Mr. Levande was with Goldman Sachs and was a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Natural Resources Group. In addition to his client coverage responsibilities, he was actively involved in Goldman’s principal investment activities in the power industry. Prior to joining Goldman in 1992, Mr. Levande worked at Salomon Brothers as a Director and Co-Manager of its Project Finance and Independent Power Group.
Mr. Levande graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Accounting and an M.B.A.
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John D. Jacobi
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Alan Levande
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Business Development and Land
Sherry Hodges
VP Land and Business Development
Ms. Hodges was previously Business Development Manager for Exco Resources and, after joining the company in August 2007, managed transactions totaling over $4 Billion in value.
Ms. Hodges has extensive experience, from initial dataroom presentation to transaction closing and acquisition integration, as an Independent Acquisition & Divestiture Consultant and also as an in-house Land Manager for several companies in buy/build mode. She has over 35 years in the oil and gas industry experience, including land, business development, marketing and accounting.
Ms. Hodges received a BBA in General Business from the University of Houston, is a Registered Professional Landman, and is a member of the American Association of Professional Landmen.
Ashley Bruman
Deputy General Counsel
Ms. Bruman has 6 years of oil & gas experience. She previously worked at EXCO Resources for 5 years, helping with all aspects of acquiring and divesting properties. Prior to her time at EXCO, Ms. Bruman was with Cimmaron Field Services in Fort Worth, Texas.
Ms. Bruman has been a licensed attorney since 2007, after earning her Juris Doctorate from Texas Wesleyan University. In 2003 she graduated with honors from the University of North Texas with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor in History.
Ms. Bruman is a member of the State Bar of Texas, Dallas Bar Association (including being a member of the Oil & Gas and Mergers & Acquisition sections), American Association of Professional Landmen, and the legal honor society Phi Delta Phi.
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Sherry Hodges
Vice President
Ashley Bruman
Deputy General Counsel
Engineering
Christina Hilton
Vice President Engineering
Ms. Hilton was previously the Reservoir Engineer for Juno Energy, a private equity backed energy company, where she was responsible for reserves and budgeting. She played a key role in the company adding 22 MMBO of proved reserves.
Prior to joining Juno in 2011, she was an Acquisitions and Divestiture Engineer at EXCO Resources from 2008 to 2011. In this capacity she was actively involved in acquisitions totaling in excess of $1.1 billion and divestitures of over $1 billion.
Between 2005 and 2008 she was an Operations and Reservoir Engineer for Merit Energy Company where she gained extensive knowledge on waterflooding operations.
She earned a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana State University and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas.
Melfard Sorrell
Vice President Operations
Mr. Sorrell was previously the Corporate Technical Team Manager for Exco Resources. His responsibilities included technical support for the Acquisitions and Divestitures group as well as the operating units focused on Permian, Marcellus Shale, and Haynesville Shale assets. Mr. Sorrell was a founding member of Exco’s Haynesville Horizontal Development Team where he focused on landing zone selection, stimulation design and implementation, asset development, and reservoir management.
Before joining Exco, Mr. Sorrell worked for Winchester Production Company (WPC) where his focus was on optimizing well completions and field production for tight gas sands in East Texas/North Louisiana. His key contribution was reducing unit development cost by identifying performance drivers through extensive field studies focused on analyzing well test data, well logging data, hydraulic fracturing data, and well performance data.
Prior to joining WPC, Mr. Sorrell worked various positions in Reservoir Characterization, Well Completions, and Business Development for Halliburton Energy Services.
Mr. Sorrell received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana State University and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers with over 15 years in the oil and gas industry.
David Terry
Vice President Engineering
Mr. Terry was previously a Business Development Reservoir Engineer for Exco Resources. In this role, he participated in evaluating more than one hundred properties, ranging in value from less than $1 million to greater than $7 Billion, and helped the company close on deals in excess of $1.3 Billion.
From 2005 through 2010 Mr. Terry worked as an Operations and Reservoir Engineer in multiple East Texas and North Louisiana fields. During his time in Operations, he was responsible for approximately 250 MMscfd gross production from over 1000 properties.
Mr. Terry graduated from Louisiana State University with a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering in May 2005, is a member of Society of Petroleum Engineers, Professional Engineers Club of Dallas, and ADAM Energy Forum.
Linda Morgan
Engineering Analyst
Ms. Morgan was previously a Senior Analyst for LaRoche Petroleum Consultants, Ltd. from 2003 until joining Covey Park. While there, she assisted the partners in completing hundreds of reserves and economics valuations, analyzing LOS to determine price differentials and operating costs, setting up presentations for speaking engagements, and preparing end-product reports.
From 1980 through 2002 Ms. Morgan worked with Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. She was a lead analyst/team coordinator from 1984 until she left to join LaRoche. While there, she trained newly hired technicians, maintained hundreds of databases, tracked project status, and was integrally involved in creating a 2-day seminar to educate bankers and other non-technical professionals about the process of estimating reserves and the application of economics. She also traveled internationally for various clients.
Ms. Morgan received a BA in Urban Planning from the University of Oklahoma in 1980.
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Christina Hilton
Vice President
Melfard Sorrell
Vice President
David Terry
Vice President
Linda Morgan
Engineering Analyst
Geoscience
Frank Hernandez
Vice President Geoscience
Mr. Hernandez has 13 years E&P experience. He worked for Pioneer Natural Resources for 7 years as a Sr./Staff Geoscientist in the Permian, Barnett and Eagleford asset teams and spent 2 ½ years in Business Development. As a lead South Texas geologist, he drilled the first two Eagleford wells, helping to establish the company’s position in the trend.
Prior to that he was a Sr. Geoscientist for Bass, responsible for multiple plays in Texas and Louisiana. He made significant discoveries in the S. Texas Vicksburg and Deep Frio trends and S. Louisiana Wilcox and Yegua/Cockfield trends.
He was previously with Apache in Tulsa, OK, as a Geologist III in the Anadarko Basin. There he was responsible for the Anadarko Shelf, Deep Morrow and Granite Wash plays. He drilled the first two Granite Wash discoveries which laid the foundation for Apache’s Granite Wash program.
He started his career as an Assoc. Geologist at Samson in Tulsa, Ok. He worked as a development geologist in E. Texas, S. Texas, Arkoma Basin and N. Louisiana.
He graduated with a B.S and M.S from Baylor University in Petroleum Geology in 2000 and is a member of AAPG, GCAGS, SPE, SPWLA and serves on the Baylor Geological Advisory Board.
Frank Hernandez
Vice President
Accounting and Finance
Andrea Hunter
Chief Accounting Officer
Ms. Hunter was previously Vice President and Controller at Enduro Resource Partners LLC, an oil & gas company founded by the management team of her formal employer (Encore). Ms. Hunter has a broad range of experience in all aspects of accounting, auditing and financial management. At Enduro, Ms. Hunter created the accounting, tax, HR and finance departments in 2010 and had an instrumental role taking the Enduro Royalty Trust public within a year of the company’s first major asset acquisition.
Prior to Enduro, Ms. Hunter was Vice President, Controller, and Principal Accounting Officer of Encore entities (EAC and ENP). She was responsible for all accounting, tax, human resources matters and was integral part of the ENP initial public offering team. Prior to joining EAC in July 2003, Ms. Hunter worked in public accounting, first in the Assurance and Business Advisory Services of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and later as an editor at Thomson Publishing’s Practitioners Publishing Company.
Ms. Hunter received a Master of Science and Bachelor of Business Administration, both in Accounting, from the University of Texas at Arlington. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
Joe Townsend
Associate – Finance
Mr. Townsend was previously an Associate for Energy Capital Solutions, a middle-market investment bank focused on upstream and oilfield services, where he advised on $1.2 Billion of M&A and raised more than $500 Million of private capital.
Prior to joining Energy Capital Solutions in 2010, Mr. Townsend was a Senior Financial Analyst with Apache Corporation. In this role, Mr. Townsend was responsible for analyzing capital financings, managing all hedging activities, corporate planning and arranging financing for more than $2 Billion in acquisitions.
Mr. Townsend received a BBA in Finance from the University of Iowa in 2004 and received an MBA in Finance from Southern Methodist University in 2011.
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Andrea Hunter
Chief Accounting Officer
Joe Townsend
Associate – Finance
Administration
Omar Ghneim
Director of IT
Mr. Ghneim began working as a Senior System Engineer for Network Partners, Inc. in 2003 and from there began his ten year career with EXCO Resources. A central member of the EXCO team from its beginnings, he played an active role in growing the business and its scope through IT implementations and his leadership of technical teams. This moved him into the ranks of Senior Applications and Systems Analyst further solidifying his capabilities and shared accountability for achieving project milestones.
Mr. Ghneim was also Director of IT at Centennial Beverage Group, LLC. His time there was filled with responsibilities that included supervising architecture and oversight and direction of IT Operations. Further, he planned and executed a $2M annual budget supporting five hundred end users and fifty-four locations. Mr. Ghneim has also worked as a technology consultant for various energy related companies in the Dallas area.
Sharon Mathews
Office Manager
Ms. Mathews was previously an Analyst / Executive Assistant for the VP of Business Development of Exco Resources providing support for A&D, Marketing and
Midstream activities.
Ms. Mathews previously worked for Sun Exploration & Production Company / Oryx Energy / Kerr McKee and Anadarko from 1981 - 2007 as a Business Analyst in the Onshore Division in Dallas, Oklahoma City and Houston. Her responsibilities included involvement in managing jointly owned assets, divestitures, trades, acquisitions, development of processes for timely data flow internally and externally and served as a liaison between Operations, Land, Finance and Accounting. Ms. Mathews was also involved in a number of special projects with IT and Accounting with the development, conversion and implementation of new accounting and operations systems.
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Omar Ghneim
Director of IT
Sharon Mathews
Office Manager
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