Thomas Allen serves as Chief Operations Officer at Verdun and has over 18 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He leads Verdun’s asset planning, development, production, facilities, compression, procurement, and midstream and marketing functions. Before assuming his current role, Mr. Allen was the Vice President of Midstream and Marketing at Verdun and was a leader in the land department. 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 received a Bachelor of Arts from Texas Tech University and a Juris Doctorate from South Texas College of Law.

Carlos Newall serves as Chief Financial Officer at Verdun and has over 15 years of experience spanning corporate finance, private equity, and public markets within the energy sector. He leads Verdun’s finance, accounting, acquisitions, legal, and human resources functions and is responsible for corporate strategy, risk management, and acquisitions and divestitures. Prior to becoming CFO, Mr. Newall held multiple leadership roles at Verdun, including Vice President of Finance and A&D and Director of Finance. Earlier in his career, he worked at Edge Natural Resources, a private equity firm investing in small-cap North American energy opportunities, and at Raymond James Financial covering U.S. E&P companies in equity research. He began his career at JPMorgan Chase. Mr. Newall received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Texas Christian University.

Jason Codianne is the Vice President of Data & Technology at Verdun and has over 28 years of experience in the information technology and energy industries. Prior to Verdun, 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. Mr. Codianne is a PMI-certified Project Manager, holds Microsoft certifications in Azure, Application Development & Databases, and received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Houston.

Jason LaGrega is a founder and the Executive Vice President of Drilling, Completions, and Workovers at Verdun and has over 27 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 over 2,000 wells and helped pioneer new drilling techniques that have become industry standard practice today. Mr. LaGrega spent five years in the Permian Basin as part of EOG’s Midland Division. During his tenure in that role, he 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-driven 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 B.S. 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 a founder and Executive Vice President of Land, Legal & Regulatory at Verdun and has over 24 years of experience in the legal and energy industries. Prior to forming Verdun, 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. Mr. Rider received a Bachelor of Arts and a Juris Doctorate from Louisiana State University.

Martin Perez is a founder and the Executive Vice President of Reserves, Acquisitions and Divestitures at Verdun and has over 25 years of experience in the upstream oil and gas industry. Prior to forming Verdun, 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 a 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 received a Master of Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Jordan Tucker is the Vice President of Development for Verdun and has 11 years of experience in oil & gas. Mr. Tucker joined Verdun in 2016 and has worked in various roles, including Asset Teams Manager, Drilling, Completions, Production, and Evaluations. Prior to Verdun, Mr. Tucker worked on operations and reservoir projects in multiple oil & gas basins. Mr. Tucker received his B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.

Jack Nohavitza is the Vice President of Production for Verdun and has 15 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Before assuming his current role, Mr. Nohavitza was an Asset Team Manager at Verdun, where he led the planning, development, and production efforts. 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 in various operational and reservoir engineering positions in the Permian Basin, Uinta Basin, and Eagle Ford Shale for El Paso Corp then EP Energy. Mr. Nohavitza is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas and received a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Steve Zehner is the Director of New Ventures at Verdun Oil Company, where he evaluates growth opportunities across the Lower 48 basins. He brings 13 years of oil and gas experience, including 11 years with Verdun dating back to the company’s first acquisitions. He joined Verdun as its sole Operations Geologist, overseeing all geologic planning and operations, while supporting the Exploration and A&D efforts that built the company’s Eagle Ford asset base. He later moved into Asset Management, where he was responsible for asset-level P&L, led a production team operating over 900 wells, and directed a capital development program with an annual budget exceeding $200 million. Before Verdun, he worked at Halcon Resources, mainly in the Exploration Group, and provided geoscience support to the Asset Teams on special projects across several basins. He received a B.S. in Geology from the College of Saint Rose and an M.S. in Geology from the University of Houston.

Jason Dwyer is the Vice President of Human Resources at Verdun. He has over 29 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, with 15 years of that being in a human resources leadership role. Before joining Verdun, Mr. Dwyer worked on the drilling service and midstream sides of oil and gas and worked his way up from operations through engineering, manufacturing, procurement, and logistics to administration, where he ultimately became the head of the human resources department at Scientific Drilling International, leading the human resources teams across 15+ countries. Mr. Dwyer has extensive experience in compensation and retirement plan design, pay and benefits design and compliance, and HRIS system design and implementation. Mr. Dwyer also has extensive experience in M&A activities as they relate to the integration and consolidation of company policies, practices, benefits, systems, and employees. Mr. Dwyer received a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland and an Executive MBA from the University of Houston.