Oil and Gas Investor's 2021 Forty Under 40
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Out of hundreds of nominations across E&P, service, A&D, midstream and finance, we have hand-picked 40 influential individuals who are furthering the goals of their organizations and the industry through their initiative, intelligence and persistence.
We trust that the achievements and promise of this outstanding group of professionals will inspire you as they inspire us. For your introduction to these role models, we invite you to enjoy the narratives and personal insights in this Forty Under 40 supplement.
Additionally, enjoy video interviews and extended profiles at hartenergy.com/fortyunder40.
Forty Under 40: Abhishek Deshpande, OMV
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Abhishek Deshpande, who serves as an adviser and key commodity analyst with OMV—Austria’s largest oil and gas firm.
Forty Under 40: Abhishek Kumar, Production Lending
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Abhishek Kumar, co-founder and principal of Production Lending, a specialty finance lender catering to small, private U.S.-based E&P companies.
Forty Under 40: Anne Slattery, RSM
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Anne Slattery, who serves as risk advisory director and as the energy industry eminent at audit, tax, consulting firm RSM.
Forty Under 40: Ben Heinzelmann, Energy Domain
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Ben Heinzelmann, who has worked to grow his MineralWare business and its sister company, Energy Domain, the latter of which he is president.
Forty Under 40: Bentsen Falb, Raymond James
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Bentsen Falb, managing director of investment banking and at the head of the renewable energy movement at Raymond James & Associates.
Forty Under 40: Boone Bajgier, Advance Energy Partners
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Boone Bajgier, manager of production engineering and well operations at Houston-based Advance Energy Partners.
Forty Under 40: Brian Reger, Jonah Energy
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Brian Reger, senior vice president of asset development at Denver-based Jonah Energy—one of the largest privately-held natural gas producers in the U.S.
Forty Under 40: Collin McLelland, Digital Wildcatters
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Collin McLelland, who co-founded his own energy technology media company Digital Wildcatters.
Forty Under 40: Daniel Flannery, Riverstone
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Daniel Patrick Flannery, managing director and co-founder of Riverstone Credit Partners based in New York.
Forty Under 40: Daniel Rohling, Battalion Oil
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Daniel Rohling, executive vice president and COO of Battalion Oil, a Houston-based independent E&P company focused in the Delaware Basin.
Forty Under 40: David Carter, RedOaks Energy Advisors
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is David Carter, managing director of RedOaks Energy Advisors, an A&D advisory firm Carter helped launch in 2018 with the three founding TenOaks partners.
Forty Under 40: Drew Hopkins, Land Information Services
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Drew Hopkins, chief revenue officer at Land Information Services—a premier land back-office provider based in Oklahoma City.
Forty Under 40: Emily Easley, NOVUS Energy Advisors
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Emily Easley, CEO of NOVUS Energy Advisors, an independent consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. that offers strategic services across the energy and cleantech industries.
Forty Under 40: Graham Patton, Pontem Energy Capital
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Graham Patton, principal at Pontem Energy Capital who also serves as vice president of corporate development at Validus Energy, an Eagle Ford-focused E&P company.
Forty Under 40: Ian Levine, Moda Midstream
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Ian Levine, vice president of strategy and CFO of Moda Midstream, which recently sold its holdings in the Ingleside Energy Center to Enbridge in a $3 billion cash transaction.
Forty Under 40: JD Smith, EnCore Permian
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree J.D. Smith, CEO of EnCore Permian, a West Texas-rooted upstream E&P company backed by a large private capital firm with over $8 billion in assets.
Forty Under 40: John Fossum, Petrie Partners
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is John Fossum, managing director with Petrie Partners focusing on strategic advisory, M&A, asset divestitures and capital raising for the energy sector.
Forty Under 40: Josh Stevens, U.S. Energy
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Josh Stevens, who, to date, has impacted more than $100 million in acquisitions at U.S. Energy Development Corp. in his current role as vice president of finance.
Forty Under 40: Justin Bennett, Piñon Midstream
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Justin Bennett, who helped form Piñon Midstream in 2020 to provide a viable solution to the sour gas problem in the northeastern Delaware Basin.
Forty Under 40: Kyle Ray, FourPass Energy
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Kyle Ray, executive vice president of engineering and finance at FourPass Energy, which he helped shape after leaving Blackstone Credit.
Forty Under 40: Lacey Falls, AEGIS Hedging
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Lacey Falls, CFO of AEGIS Hedging Solutions who played a leading role in the firm’s transaction with Trilantic Capital Partners and integration of three subsequent acquisitions.
Forty Under 40: Laura Freeman, Vencer Energy
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Laura Freeman, vice president, business development and engineering at Vencer Energy, which made its debut this past April with the acquisition of Hunt Oil’s Permian Basin position.
Forty Under 40: Lindsey Mersman, EAG Services
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Lindsey Mersman, the chief revenue officer at EAG Services and EAG 1Source who helped make EAG one of the best-known service providers within the upstream and midstream industries.
Forty Under 40: Matthew Melton, EnCap Flatrock
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Matthew Melton, vice president of EnCap Flatrock Midstream where he supports all finance, administrative and accounting functions of the firm’s funds and portfolio companies.
Forty Under 40: Michael Mitchell, Energy Spectrum
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Michael Mitchell, a vice president of Energy Spectrum Capital who currently conducts financial due diligence, execution and monitoring investment performance for the midstream venture capital firm.
Forty Under 40: Molly Smith, Murphy Oil
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Molly Smith, general manager of drilling and completion at Murphy Oil Corp., an independent E&P company with a long history of crude oil and natural gas production and exploration across the globe.
Forty Under 40: Nick Carnrite, The Carnrite Group
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Nicholas Carnrite, partner and managing director of The Carnrite Group, where he leads the firm’s Europe division as well as its global business development group.
Forty Under 40: Nii Ahele Nunoo, KPMG
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Nii Ahele Nunoo, senior associate with the energy core operations group at KPMG who previously worked for several years at NOV as an electrical engineering designer.
Forty Under 40: Rachel Reese, R. Reese and Associates
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Rachel Reese, founder and managing attorney of R. Reese and Associates, a legal team focused on the challenges facing exploration and production companies.
Forty Under 40: Ryan Fitzpatrick, Pursuit Oil & Gas
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Ryan D. Fitzpatrick, who is one of the handful of people who helped build a stronghold for Pursuit Oil & Gas within the Eagle Ford Shale’s dry-gas window.
Forty Under 40: Sarita Schank, Momentum Minerals
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Sarita Schank, chief accounting officer at Momentum Minerals who previously oversaw the oil and gas royalty revenue for Apollo.
Forty Under 40: Scott Van Sickle, Revolution Resources
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Scott Van Sickle, CEO of Revolution Resources, which owns and operates oil and gas properties in the Midcontinent region.
Forty Under 40: Stephanie Zoutenbier, Baker Hughes
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Stephanie Zoutenbier, commercial engagement leader for Baker Hughes who started her career working in the space program before entering the energy industry.
Forty Under 40: Taylor McCay, EnCap Investments
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Taylor McCay, vice president at EnCap Investments who has more than 10 years of experience in the oil and gas industry working primarily as a petroleum geologist.
Forty Under 40: Tim Magliaro, Lucid Energy Group
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Tim Magliaro, vice president of business development at Lucid Energy Group who has over 15 years of energy industry experience including various land roles in both the midstream and upstream sectors.
Forty Under 40: Travis Pace, Fortuna Resources
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Travis Pace, CEO of TNM Resources and Fortuna Resources III which pursue oil and gas investment and development opportunities in the Permian Basin.
Forty Under 40: Wilkie Colyer, Contango Oil & Gas
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Wilkie Colyer Jr., CEO of Contango Oil & Gas Co., which recently completed a merger that formed Crescent Energy.
Forty Under 40: Will Todd, Bedrock Energy Partners
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Will Todd, CEO of Bedrock Energy Partners, which currently owns and operates gas-weighted properties in the Barnett Shale.
Forty Under 40: Zachary Muroff, EnergyNet
Today’s featured Forty Under 40 honoree is Zachary Muroff, vice president of business development at EnergyNet for the Dallas-Fort Worth/East Texas area.
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