Daniel Savitz is the Chief Financial Officer of Verdun Oil Company and has 22 years of experience in the finance and oil & gas industries.  Prior to forming Verdun, Mr. Savitz was Chief Financial Officer of Elite Compression Services, a privately-held provider of contract natural gas compression services.  Prior to Elite, he was employed by Hilcorp Energy Company in a variety of roles covering capital markets, budgeting, risk management, acquisitions & divestitures and other related responsibilities.  Before joining Hilcorp Mr. Savitz worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the E&P Capital group, executing principal investments across the capital structure in upstream and midstream energy companies, after beginning his career as an investment banking analyst with RBC Capital Markets.  Mr. Savitz is a licensed CPA in the state of Texas and has a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master in Professional Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin.

Jason LaGrega is the Chief Operating Officer of Verdun Oil Company and has 25 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Prior to forming Verdun, Mr. LaGrega was employed by EOG Resources Inc and served as the Drilling Manager in the San Antonio Eagle Ford region where he drilled in excess of 2,000 wells and helped pioneer new drilling techniques which have become industry standard practice today. In addition to his extensive experience in the Eagle Ford Shale, he spent five years in the Permian Basin as part of EOG’s Midland Division. During his tenure in the Midland Division, Mr. LaGrega drilled a wide variety of wells including deep, HPHT gas wells, multi-laterals in the Devonian Chert, vertical wells in Midland Basin’s Sprayberry and Wolfcamp trend, and also cased-hole horizontals targeting the Delaware Basin’s many unconventional reservoirs.  Mr. LaGrega started his career as a Production and Completion Engineer in Midland, TX for Texaco where he optimized operations and  production across a multitude of different asset types from deep, depletion-drive gas reservoirs to primary, secondary and tertiary-recovery oil reservoirs. After the merger between Chevron and Texaco to form ChevronTexaco, Mr. LaGrega served as a Reservoir Engineer on the Asset Development Team before eventually transferring into ChevronTexaco’s drilling department. Mr. LaGrega received a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin after spending two years at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Will Rider is the Vice President of Land & Business Development of Verdun Oil Company and has 23 years of experience in the legal and energy industries.  Prior to forming Verdun Oil Company, Mr. Rider was employed by Hilcorp Energy Company as Business Development Manager and as a Landman primarily covering the Eagle Ford Shale.  Prior to Hilcorp, Mr. Rider worked for Atinum E&P as the Supervisor of Land & Legal.  Before joining Atinum, Mr. Rider worked as an associate attorney for the firm of Bienvenu, Foster, Ryan & O’Bannon, managing clients’ fee minerals and commercial leasing as well as litigating real property damage and oil & gas operator disputes.  Will is a licensed attorney in the state of Louisiana and has a Bachelor of Arts and a Juris Doctorate from Louisiana State University.

Martin Perez is the Vice President of Engineering for Verdun Oil Company and has 23 years of experience in the upstream oil and gas industry.  Prior to forming Verdun Oil Company, Mr. Perez was a Development Supervisor for ConocoPhillips where he managed a team actively drilling wells and overseeing assets in the Permian Basin with a recurring capital budget of $50 to $100 million. Prior to ConocoPhillips, Mr. Perez worked for Devon Energy as Reservoir Engineer for South Texas assets where he evaluated, proposed and drilled vertical and horizontal prospects and had oversight of a $60 million development budget.  He began his career in field operations for Baker Hughes in South Texas.  Martin holds a Master of Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Thomas Allen is the Vice President of Midstream and Marketing of Verdun Oil Company and has 17 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Before assuming his current role, Mr. Allen was the Land and Business Development Manager at Verdun. Prior to joining Verdun, he was a co-founder and president of a private equity backed E&P company with operations in North and West Texas. Prior to that Mr. Allen was employed by Hilcorp Energy Company in roles of increasing responsibility in the land department covering the Eagle Ford Shale and conventional South Texas properties. Mr. Allen holds a Bachelor of Arts from Texas Tech University and a Juris Doctorate from South Texas College of Law.

Jason Codianne is the Vice President of Data & Technology of Verdun Oil Company and has 27 years of experience in the information technology and energy industries. Prior to Verdun Oil Company, Mr. Codianne was the Chief Information Officer of Torrent Oil, which owned and operated oil & gas assets in Texas.  Prior to Torrent, Mr. Codianne worked for Hilcorp Energy Company as the Application Development Manager providing system support and creating efficiencies across all functional departments.  Jason is a PMI certified Project Manager, holds Microsoft certifications in Azure, Application Development & Databases, and has a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Houston.

Jason Dwyer is Verdun Oil Company’s Director of Human Resources. He has 28 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, with 14 years of direct HR experience across all aspects of the HR function.  Before joining Verdun, Mr. Dwyer worked on the drilling service and mid-stream sides of oil and gas. He worked his way up from operations through engineering, manufacturing, procurement, and logistics to administration, where he ultimately became the head of the HR department for a global service company that operated in 15+ countries. Mr. Dwyer has extensive experience in compensation and retirement plan design, pay and benefits design and compliance, HRIS system design and implementation, and disability and leave. Mr. Dwyer also has experience in M&A activities as they relate to the integration and consolidation of company policies, practices, benefits, and systems. Mr. Dwyer has a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering and an Executive MBA from the University of Houston.

Carlos Newall is the Director of Finance and A&D of Verdun Oil Company and has 12 years of experience in the finance and oil & gas industries. His responsibilities include corporate finance, budgeting, risk management, acquisitions & divestitures, and other related functions. Prior to Verdun, Mr. Newall was with Edge Natural Resources, a private equity firm that invests in the small-cap North American energy sectors. Before Edge, he was with Raymond James Financial, providing equity research coverage on the oil and gas sector focused on E&P companies in the United States, after beginning his career with JP Morgan Chase. Mr. Newall received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Texas Christian University.

Jack Nohavitza is an Asset Manager for Verdun Oil Company and has 13 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Prior to Verdun, Mr. Nohavitza served as Reservoir Engineering Manager for EP Energy and was responsible for transitioning the company’s Uinta Basin assets from vertical to horizontal development while maintaining an active drilling program in the Eagle Ford Shale, overseeing total company capital budgets over $400 million. Mr. Nohavitza started his career working various operational and reservoir engineering positions in the Permian Basin, Uinta Basin, and Eagle Ford Shale for El Paso Corp/EP Energy. Mr. Nohavitza is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas and received a BS in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Steve Zehner is an Asset Manager with Verdun Oil Company and has 11 years of experience in oil & gas. Mr. Zehner has worked the Verdun asset base since the company’s first acquisitions and brought knowledge of the Eagle Ford Shale from his prior experience. Prior to Verdun, Mr. Zehner was with Halcon Resources until 2016, primarily working in the Exploration group. He worked several auxiliary projects in multiple oil & gas basins with the Asset Teams at Halcon, adding additional geoscience assistance on special projects. Mr. Zehner received his B.S. in Geology from the College of Saint Rose in 2013 and received his M.S. in Geology from the University of Houston in 2016.