Management Team
Bob Gardner, President & CEO
- Corporate experience includes Amoco, Williams, Crescent Point Energy
- Founder and partner of several successful upstream startups – Aspect Energy, Ute Energy, Tekton Energy & Cub Creek Energy, Elk Mesa Energy
- 35 years experience in petroleum engineering operations & reserve engineering – extensive Rocky Mountain Region experience
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering – Colorado State University; M.S. Mechanical Engineering – University of Colorado; M.B.A. University of Denver Daniels College of Business
Nick Manuel, Chief Commercial Officer
- Corporate experience includes Chevron, Citi Commodities, Cargill
- Extensive startup experience in midstream, trading and energy technology, most recently Saddle Butte Pipeline and Elk Mesa Energy
- 26 years of market experience in crude oil, natural gas, power, LNG, shipping and specialty chemicals
- Functional expertise in asset development, structured transactions, trading/risk management and physical operations
- B.S. Chemical Engineering – Louisiana Tech University; M.B.A. – Tulane University
David Ninke, Vice President of Exploration
- Company history includes BP, Aspect Energy, Samson Oil & Gas Ltd.
- 32 years of geological and geophysical exploration experience in the Gulf Coast, Permian Basin, all basins of the Rockies and the North Slope of Alaska
- Generated and drilled over 100 successful oil and gas wells, including several significant exploration discoveries
- Expertise in 3-D seismic interpretation, petrophysics and prospect development
- B.A. Geology – Wittenberg University; M.S. Geology – Bowling Green State University
