MANAGEMENT
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
Andrejka Bernatova
Andrea “Andrejka” Bernatova serves as our Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the board of directors. She currently serves as a director at Salt Creek Midstream LLC, a midstream services provider, and at Regenerate Technology Global, Inc. Ms. Bernatova was the Chief Executive Officer of ESGEN, a SPAC formed in 2021. ESGEN merged with Sunergy Renewables, LLC, a provider of residential solar energy systems, other energy efficient equipment and related services, in March 2024 and was renamed Zeo Energy Corp. Ms. Bernatova served as the CFO and Senior Advisor of Enchanted Rock Energy, a resiliency microgrid company from 2019 to 2021. From 2018 to 2019, she was the CFO of Goodnight Midstream, one of the largest midstream water infrastructure companies in the U.S. Prior to Goodnight, Ms. Bernatova was the co- founder, EVP and CFO of Core Midstream, a venture infrastructure platform, from 2016 to 2018. Ms. Bernatova started her corporate career as the Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations at PennTex Midstream Partners (NA: PTXP) from 2014 to 2016. At PennTex, she was part of the management team which started the company, grew the platform significantly ultimately leading to an IPO in 2015 and successfully exited the company via a sale to Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (NYSE: ET) and Eagle Claw Midstream in 2016. Prior to her corporate and entrepreneurial experiences, Ms. Bernatova was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse in New York and Houston and served in investment roles at The Blackstone Group in New York and at Mubadala Development Company, ~$250B Abu Dhabi investment fund, based in the United Arab Emirates, where she focused primarily on transactions in the renewable sector under the partnership with Masdar. Ms. Bernatova received her A.B. in Government from Harvard University with a Citation in Spanish. We believe Ms. Bernatova’s extensive knowledge of the energy industry, as well as her substantial business, leadership and management experience, brings important and valuable skills to our board of directors.
Chief Financial Officer
Nader Daylami
Nader Daylami serves as our Chief Financial Officer. He currently serves as a director at CarbonPath, Inc., a company offering industrial credit solutions to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions within the energy and industrial sectors. Mr. Daylami was the Chief Financial Officer of ESGEN, a SPAC formed in 2021. ESGEN merged with Sunergy Renewables, LLC, a provider of residential solar energy systems, other energy efficient equipment and related services, in March 2024 and was renamed Zeo Energy Corp. Prior to ESGEN, Mr. Daylami served as the Executive Vice President, Finance & Business Development, of Bruin, an upstream exploration and production company focused in the Williston Basin in North Dakota. Mr. Daylami was part of the management team that founded Bruin in 2015, joining as Director of Finance. At Bruin, he and the management team grew the company significantly via acquisition and organic growth ultimately leading to an exit via a sale to Enerplus Corporation (NYSE: ERF) in 2021. Prior to his time at Bruin, Mr. Daylami served in multiple strategic and commercial roles at Ursa Resources, an upstream exploration and production company with assets in Colorado, South and East Texas. Mr. Daylami began his career as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley focused on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets in the energy sector. Mr. Daylami holds bachelor degrees in Economics & Mathematics from the University of California, San Diego.
Vice President of M&A & Strategy
Philip Rajan
Philip Rajan will serve as our Vice President of M&A and Strategy upon commencement of the trading of our units on the Nasdaq. Mr. Rajan was a Senior Vice President at Intrepid Financial Partners, a leading energy merchant bank (“Intrepid”), from October 2021 to May 2023. Prior to Intrepid, Mr. Rajan was a Vice President at Credit Suisse from August 2015 to September 2021, where he focused on advising Upstream and Oilfield Service clients on a range of strategic advisory, M&A, and capital markets transactions. Before that, Mr. Rajan held roles in the energy groups of KeyBanc Capital Markets and Duff & Phelps, where he began his career. In total, Mr. Rajan has over 15 years of experience and has advised and managed over 35 transactions for an aggregate deal value of over $75 billion. Mr. Rajan holds a bachelor degree in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin and is also a CFA charter holder.
Our Advisors
Advisor
Joseph “Joe” C. Gatto
Joseph “Joe” C. Gatto will serve as an advisor upon commencement of trading of our units on the Nasdaq. Mr. Gatto until recently served as President and CEO for Callon, which completed its sale to APA Corporation on April 1, 2024 for an enterprise valuation of approximately $4.5 billion. Mr. Gatto joined Callon in April 2012 and led the transformation of the company from a Gulf of Mexico-focused entity into an onshore unconventional operator in his capacities as CFO and CEO during his tenure. Prior to joining the Callon management team and ultimately serving on the Board of Directors, Mr. Gatto had a long-standing relationship with Callon in his positions as a Managing Director with the energy investment banking groups of Merrill Lynch & Co. and Barclays Capital Inc. until 2009. In addition to his work with upstream oil and gas clients, Mr. Gatto was involved with mergers & acquisitions and capital raising transactions for clients in the midstream and oilfield services sectors during his investment banking career that began in 1992. In February 2009, Mr. Gatto founded MarchWire Capital, LLC, a financial advisory and strategic consulting firm, and subsequently served as Head of Structuring and Execution with Merrill Lynch Commodities, Inc. from January 2010 until November 2011, overseeing a portfolio of physical natural gas capacity positions and originating structured transactions with oil and gas, LNG and power companies. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree with distinction from Cornell University and received his MBA with distinction from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Advisor
Peter Gross
Peter Gross will serve as an advisor upon commencement of trading of our units on the Nasdaq. Mr. Gross is a technology and energy internationally recognized expert whose career spans over three decades. He is presently the Managing Partner of PMG Associates, Inc., a consulting and advisory firm. In addition, he sits on several boards of directors and boards of advisors for public, private, and not-for-profit companies. Until the end of August 2019, he led the Mission Critical Systems group at Bloom, the premier manufacturer of solid oxide fuel cells. Prior to joining Bloom, he was the Managing Partner for HP Consulting Services focusing on Carbon, Power and Critical Facilities, where he was responsible for strategic technology planning and business development. He was the co-founder and CEO of EYP MCF, the consulting and engineering firm dedicated to the design and operations of data centers. In this position, Mr. Gross has played a pivotal role in the rapid growth of EYP MCF’s business since its founding in 1997, leading to its acquisition by HP in 2008.
Mr. Gross has also been at the forefront of many innovative concepts that have contributed to the data center industry evolution. He was co-awarded patents for the modular, prefabricated FlexDC product, for Direct Current power distribution topologies in data centers and for fuel cells data center architectures. Mr. Gross is the Chairman of Cato Digital, a software defined power company, and serves on the Board of Directors of Edgevana, Inc., CE+T America, Apollo Cloud and Chilldyne, Inc. He also chairs the advisory council of several corporations, including Vertiv Holdings Co. and Bloom as well as several data center companies. He is a Bain & Company, Inc. External Advisor, an Advisory Council Partner and a Master of Infrastructure Masons, a member of the Advisory Board of UCLA’s Institute of Environment and Sustainability and of Southern Methodist University’s Data Center System Engineering Board of Advisors at Lyle School of Engineering and a member of the Los Angeles Ballet Board of Directors.
Mr. Gross has also been at the forefront of many innovative concepts that have contributed to the data center industry evolution. He was co-awarded patents for the modular, prefabricated FlexDC product, for Direct Current power distribution topologies in data centers and for fuel cells data center architectures. Mr. Gross is the Chairman of Cato Digital, a software defined power company, and serves on the Board of Directors of Edgevana, Inc., CE+T America, Apollo Cloud and Chilldyne, Inc. He also chairs the advisory council of several corporations, including Vertiv Holdings Co. and Bloom as well as several data center companies. He is a Bain & Company, Inc. External Advisor, an Advisory Council Partner and a Master of Infrastructure Masons, a member of the Advisory Board of UCLA’s Institute of Environment and Sustainability and of Southern Methodist University’s Data Center System Engineering Board of Advisors at Lyle School of Engineering and a member of the Los Angeles Ballet Board of Directors.
Advisor
James “Jimmy” Henderson
James “Jimmy” Henderson will serve as an advisor upon commencement of trading of our units on the Nasdaq. Mr. Henderson has served as Chief Financial Officer of Vitesse Energy, Inc. since September 1, 2023, and, as such, is responsible for all financial aspects of the company. Mr. Henderson brings over 30 years of management, financial and accounting experience in the oil and gas industry. Most recently, he was Executive Vice President Finance and CFO of Whiting Petroleum upon its exit from bankruptcy in September 2020 until its merger with Oasis Petroleum Inc. in July 2022, forming Chord Energy Corporation. Previously, Mr. Henderson served in the same role at SRC Energy Inc. and Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp, growing each entity through acquisitions and capital investments. His tenure at these companies culminated in their respective mergers with PDC Energy, Inc. (now Chevron Corporation) and Whiting Petroleum. Cumulatively, Mr. Henderson was instrumental in public market capital raises of over $3.5 billion and oil and gas acquisitions exceeding $3.0 billion in transaction value. Prior to these executive positions, Mr. Henderson was employed in roles of increasing responsibility at Western Gas Resources, Inc., Aspect Energy, LLC and Pennzoil Company. Mr. Henderson received his B.B.A. in Accounting from Texas Tech University and his M.B.A. from Regis University.
Advisor
Tommy Stone
Tommy Stone will serve as an advisor upon commencement of trading of our units on the Nasdaq. Mr. Stone retired in 2023, but prior to his retirement he was the Chief Operating Officer & Chief Administrative Officer of Midcoast Energy, LLC having served in that capacity since August 1, 2018. His responsibilities included overseeing the day-to-day activities of the Company. These included Operations, Engineering, Construction, Environmental, Safety & Health, Compression, Pipeline Design & Hydraulics, ROW, Procurement, Human Resources, Legal and Information Technology. Mr. Stone was in the oil and gas business for over 42 years. He previously served as Senior Vice President — Operations & Engineering for PennTex Midstream Partners, LP, Energy Transfer Partners LP and Southern Union Company. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Citrus Corporation. He also served as President of SEC Energy Products & Services, a Division of Energy Transfer. Mr. Stone worked on various projects including Long Haul Interstate Pipelines, Offshore Pipelines, LNG and Gas Processing and Treating Systems through-out the United States. Mr. Stone started his career at Texas Eastern Gas Pipeline Company in 1981. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.
Advisor
Steven A. Webster
Steven A. Webster will serve as an advisor upon commencement of trading of our units on the Nasdaq. Mr. Webster currently serves as a director for Oceaneering, a global technology company listed on the New York Stock Exchange delivering engineered services and products and robotic solutions to the offshore energy, defense, aerospace, manufacturing, and entertainment industries. Mr. Webster also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Callon from December 2019 until April 2024, when Callon was sold to APA Corporation at a valuation of approximately $4.5 billion. Mr. Webster’s appointment to Callon’s Board was in conjunction with the merger of Callon with Carrizo. Mr. Webster had been a co-founder of Carrizo and served as a director and as Chairman of the Board from 1993 and June 1997, respectively, until 2019.
Since 2016, Mr. Webster has served as Managing Partner of AEC Partners, LLC, a private equity firm engaged in energy investment and the successor to Avista Capital Partners, a private equity firm he co-founded in July 2005, and for which he served as Co-Managing Partner. From 2000 through June 2005, Mr. Webster served as Chairman of Global Energy Partners, LLC, an affiliate of DLJ Merchant Banking and Credit Suisse First Boston Private Equity. From 1988 through 1999, Mr. Webster was the CEO and President of R&B Falcon Corporation and Chairman and CEO of one of its predecessor companies, Falcon Drilling Company, LLC, which he founded. Mr. Webster has been a founder or seed investor in numerous other private and public companies. He has held numerous board positions and currently serves as a director for various private companies, in addition to Oceaneering. Mr. Webster has served as a Trust Manager of Camden Property Trust, an REIT, since its founding in 1993. Mr. Webster earned an MBA degree from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and a BSIM degree and Honorary Doctorate from Purdue University.
Since 2016, Mr. Webster has served as Managing Partner of AEC Partners, LLC, a private equity firm engaged in energy investment and the successor to Avista Capital Partners, a private equity firm he co-founded in July 2005, and for which he served as Co-Managing Partner. From 2000 through June 2005, Mr. Webster served as Chairman of Global Energy Partners, LLC, an affiliate of DLJ Merchant Banking and Credit Suisse First Boston Private Equity. From 1988 through 1999, Mr. Webster was the CEO and President of R&B Falcon Corporation and Chairman and CEO of one of its predecessor companies, Falcon Drilling Company, LLC, which he founded. Mr. Webster has been a founder or seed investor in numerous other private and public companies. He has held numerous board positions and currently serves as a director for various private companies, in addition to Oceaneering. Mr. Webster has served as a Trust Manager of Camden Property Trust, an REIT, since its founding in 1993. Mr. Webster earned an MBA degree from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and a BSIM degree and Honorary Doctorate from Purdue University.
Advisor
Ralph Alexander
Ralph Alexander will serve as an advisor upon commencement of trading of our units on the Nasdaq. Since September 19, 2023, Mr. Alexander has served as Interim Chairman of the Board of Enviva Inc. Mr. Alexander also serves as Lead Independent Director of the Board and served as CEO of Talen Energy Corp (NASDAQ: TLN) from December 2016 to October 2021. He became affiliated with Riverstone Holdings LLC in September 2007. From April 1982 to December 2006, Mr. Alexander served in various positions with subsidiaries and affiliates of BP plc (NYSE: BP plc), one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies. From June 2004 until December 2006, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Innovene, BP’s $20 billion olefins and derivatives subsidiary. From 2001 until June 2004, he served as Chief Executive Officer of BP’s Gas, Power and Renewables and Solar segment and was a member of the BP group executive committee. Prior to that, Mr. Alexander served as a Group Vice President in BP’s Exploration and Production segment and BP’s Refinery and Marketing segment. He held responsibilities for various regions of the world, including North America, Russia, the Caspian, Africa, and Latin America. Prior to April 1982, Mr. Alexander held various positions in the upstream, downstream, and finance groups of BP. Mr. Alexander has served on the board of NETPower LLC (NYSE: NPWR) since June 2023 and has served on the board of Talen Energy Corporation since June 2015. From December 2014 through December 2016, Mr. Alexander served on the board of EP Energy Corporation. He has previously served on the boards of Foster Wheeler, Stein Mart, Inc., Amyris, and AngloAmerican plc. Mr. Alexander holds an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Brooklyn Polytech (now NYU School of Engineering — Polytechnic) and an M.S. in Management Science from Stanford University.