Governance

Greg Patton

Mr. Patton has served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company since April 2025. Prior to that, Mr. Patton served as the Company’s Executive Vice President, Commercial Development from November 2024 through March 2025, and he began his employment with the Company in March 2024. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Patton served as CFO of Trigger Energy, LLC, an oil field service company, from November 2022 until March 2024. Prior to that, Mr. Patton served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Finance of Great Western Petroleum, LLC, a private oil and gas company, from May 2015 until its sale to PDC Energy Inc. in May 2022, and afterward, pursued personal ventures until he began serving as CFO for Trigger Energy in November 2022. Prior to that, Mr. Patton served as Manager at Opportune, LLP., a consulting firm, from May 2011 to May 2015, and Ernst and Young, prior to May 2011.

Mr. Patton has a Master and Bachelors of Accounting from The University of Denver.

Michael J. Shelly

Michael Shelly most recently served as a Managing Director within Citigroup’s Natural Resources Group, focused largely on North American upstream oil and gas, and was the head of the Investment Bank’s Denver and Calgary offices. Mr. Shelly joined Citigroup in 2005 and has over twenty years of experience advising clients on a variety of M&A and capital markets transactions. Mr. Shelly spent his first ten years at Citigroup within its Global M&A Group before joining the Natural Resources Group in 2015 in Houston, Texas. Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr. Shelly spent over five years as a Senior Financial Analyst for Intel Corporation.

Mr. Shelly holds a Master of Business Administration with Concentrations in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a Minor in Economics from California State University, Chico.

Bryan Freeman

Bryan was the SVP of Drilling and Completions at Rosehill Resources, where he managed the execution of the company’s $750M Capex program over three years. Prior to that, Bryan was the Production & Operation Engineering Manager for SM Energy for the Eagle Ford and Gulf Coast region where he led an 82 person team and three frac fleets.

Before SM, Bryan served as a Senior Production Engineer at Hess, and Chevron before that. At Chevron, Bryan served as the team lead in Artificial Lift while overseeing a 300 well optimization project in the GOM. Bryan began his career in the service sector in roles at Schlumberger & Weatherford.

He earned his engineering degree from UT, Austin, and is the author of a number of patents covering oil & gas production technologies.

Daniel T. Sweeney

Daniel T. Sweeney has served as our Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since July 2023. Mr. Sweeney served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Great Western Petroleum, LLC, a private oil and gas company, from June 2018 until its sale to PDC Energy Inc. in May 2022. Prior to that, Mr. Sweeney served as Director, Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel at Eclipse Resources Corp., a private oil and gas exploration company, from May 2013 to June 2018, and held legal roles at Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NASDAQ: CHK), a publicly traded oil and gas exploration company, from November 2010 to May 2013, and Rex Energy Corporation, a then publicly traded oil and gas exploration company, from April 2008 to November 2010. Mr. Sweeney received his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Case Western Reserve University in 1999 and Juris Doctorate from the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Duquesne University in 2005.

Louis J. Basenese

Louis J. Basenese has served as our Executive Vice President, Market Strategy since January 2025. Mr. Basenese served as President and Chief Market Strategist for MDB Capital Holdings, a publicly traded investment bank and broker dealer from June 2022 to January 2025. Prior to that, Mr. Basenese founded and ran an independent equity research, strategy and advisory firm, The Basenese Group. Mr. Basenese began his capital markets career as an investment consultant and analyst at Morgan Stanley from March 2002 to January 2005. Mr. Basenese has over 20 years of capital markets, as well as strategic planning, investor relations and public relations experience. Mr. Basenese received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Florida in 2000 and a Masters of Business Administration from the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College in 2005.