Thomas B. Nusz
Thomas B. Nusz has served as our Director, President and Chief Executive Officer (or in similar capacities) since our inception in March 2007 and has 28 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Mr. Nusz is currently serving as a Chairman of the Board of Directors. From April 2006 to February 2007, Mr. Nusz managed his personal investments, developed the business plan for Oasis Petroleum LLC and secured funding for the company. He was previously a Vice President with Burlington Resources, Inc., a formerly publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production company or, together with its predecessors, Burlington, and served as President International Division (North Africa, Northwest Europe, Latin America and China) from January 2004 to March 2006, as Vice President Acquisitions and Divestitures from October 2000 to December 2003 and as Vice President Strategic Planning and Engineering from July 1998 to September 2000 and Chief Engineer for substantially all of such period. He was instrumental in Burlington’s expansion into the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin from 1999 to 2002. From September 1985 to June 1998, Mr. Nusz held various operations and managerial positions with Burlington in several regions of the United States, including the Permian Basin, the San Juan Basin, the Black Warrior Basin, the Anadarko Basin, onshore Gulf Coast and Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Nusz was an engineer with Mobil Oil Corporation and for Superior Oil Company from June 1982 to August 1985. He is a current member of the National Petroleum Council, an advisory committee to the Secretary of Energy of the United States. Mr. Nusz holds a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Mississippi State University.
Taylor L. Reid
Taylor L. Reid has served as our Director, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (or in similar capacities) since our inception in March 2007 and has 24 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. From November 2006 to February 2007, Mr. Reid worked with Mr. Nusz to form the business plan for Oasis Petroleum LLC and secure funding for the company. He previously served as Asset Manager Permian and Panhandle Operations with ConocoPhillips from April 2006 to October 2006. Prior to joining ConocoPhillips, he served as General Manager Latin America and Asia Operations with Burlington from March 2004 to March 2006 and as General Manager Corporate Acquisitions and Divestitures from July 1998 to February 2004. From March 1986 to June 1998, Mr. Reid held various operations and managerial positions with Burlington in several regions of the continental United States, including the Permian Basin, the Williston Basin and the Anadarko Basin. He was instrumental in Burlington’s expansion into the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin from 1999 to 2002. Mr. Reid holds a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University.
William J. Cassidy
William J. Cassidy has served as our Director since September 2010; is the Chair of our Nominating and Governance Committee, and serves on our Audit and Compensation Committees. In March of 2010, Mr. Cassidy joined Resource Production Advisors, LLC a firm providing investors with access to commodity investments and advice. He is also a non-executive director of GasValpo, SA, a Chilean gas distribution company. Additionally, Mr. Cassidy was a founding partner at U.S. Drilling Capital Management, LLC, a drilling investment fund, starting in 2008. From 2006 until 2008, Mr. Cassidy served at Barclays Capital as Head of Exploration and Production Investment Banking. From 2002 to 2006 he worked as a senior member of the Energy and Power Investment Banking division at Banc of America Securities. Mr. Cassidy began his investment banking career with JPMorgan Chase in varying capacities from 1995 to 2001. During that time he spent two years in London, focused on the emerging deregulation of the European natural gas industry, spending the balance of his time in New York focused on providing strategic advice to North American and Latin American E&P companies. He worked as a Geophysicist for Conoco from 1989 to 1993 focused on the North Sea and emerging deepwater Gulf of Mexico. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Geology and Math from the National University of Ireland, Cork, a Masters of Science in Petroleum Geophysics from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London and a Masters of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Ted Collins, Jr.
Ted Collins, Jr. has served as our Director since February 2011 and serves on our Audit Committee and Nominating and Governance Committee. Mr. Collins currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Patriot Resources Partners, LLC and serves as a director on the Boards of CLL Global Research Foundation and Energy Transfer Group, L.P. Mr. Collins began his career in 1960 as a Petroleum Engineer with Pan American Petroleum Corporation. He left in 1963 to become an independent oil operator. He then joined American Quasar Petroleum Company as Executive Vice President in 1969 until 1982 at which time he became President of Enron Oil & Gas Company, whose predecessor companies were HNG Oil Co. and HNG/InterNorth Exploration. He left Enron in 1988 and became President of Collins & Ware, Inc., an independent oil and gas exploration and production company, which sold the majority of its assets to Apache Corp. in 2000. From 2000 to 2006, he served as President of Collins & Ware Investments Co. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Geological Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.
Michael McShane
Michael McShane has served as our director since May 2010, is the Chair of our Audit Committee and serves on our Compensation Committee. Mr. McShane served as a director and President and Chief Executive Officer of Grant Prideco, Inc., a manufacturer and supplier of oilfield drill pipe and other drill stem products, from June 2002 until the completion of the merger of Grant Prideco with National Oilwell Varco, Inc. in April 2008, and Chairman of the Board of Grant Prideco from May 2003 through April 2008. Prior to joining Grant Prideco, Mr. McShane was Senior Vice President—Finance and Chief Financial Officer and director of BJ Services Company, a provider of pressure pumping, cementing, stimulation and coiled tubing services for oil and gas operators, from 1990 to June 2002. Mr. McShane has also served as a director of Complete Production Services, Inc. (NYSE: CPX), an oilfield service provider, since March 2007, Spectra Energy Corp (NYSE: SE), a provider of natural gas infrastructure, since April 2008, Globalogix, a privately held company that provides comprehensive services to upstream oil and gas producers and operators, since June 2007 and Forum Energy Technologies, a global provider of manufactured and applied technologies to the energy industry, since August 2010. Mr. McShane also serves as an advisor to Advent International, a global private equity firm.
Douglas E. Swanson
Douglas E. Swanson, Jr. has served as our Director since our inception in March 2007, is the Chair of our Compensation Committee, and serves on our Nominating and Governance Committee. Mr. Swanson is a Partner of EnCap Investments L.P., an investment management firm, which he joined in 1999. Prior to his position at EnCap, he was in the corporate lending division of Frost National Bank from 1995 to 1997, specializing in energy related service companies, and was a financial analyst in the corporate lending group of Southwest Bank of Texas from 1994 to 1995. Mr. Swanson has extensive industry experience serving on numerous boards of private oil and gas exploration and production companies over his 11-year history with EnCap and is a member of the Independent Petroleum Association of America and the Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association. Mr. Swanson holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Masters of Business Administration, both from the University of Texas at Austin.
Robert L. Zorich
Robert L. Zorich has served as our Director since our inception in March 2007. Mr. Zorich is a Principal of EnCap Investments L.P., an investment management firm which he co-founded in 1988. Prior to the formation of EnCap, Mr. Zorich was a Senior Vice President of Trust Company of the West, a large, privately-held pension fund manager, from 1986 to 1988. Prior to joining Trust Company of the West, Mr. Zorich co-founded MAZE Exploration, Inc., a company actively involved in oil and gas exploration, development and reserve acquisitions, serving as its Co-Chief Executive Officer from 1981 to 1986. Mr. Zorich began his career at Republic National Bank of Dallas where he worked from 1974 to 1981. He ultimately served as Vice President and Division Manager in the Energy Department. He serves on the board of directors of several EnCap portfolio companies and is also a member of the board of directors of Enerplus Resources Fund (NYSE: ERF). He is a member of the Independent Petroleum Association of America and Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association. Mr. Zorich holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a Masters Degree in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management.
