Matador Resources Company Культура компании

Mr. Joseph Wm. Foran co-founded Matador Resources Company in July 2003 and has been Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Secretary since July 2003. Mr. Foran serves as the Chief Executive Officer and President at Longwood Gathering & Disposal Systems, LP. He serves as the Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board at Longwood Gathering & Disposal Systems GP, Inc. He began his career as an oil and gas independent in 1983 when he co-founded Foran Oil Company, which later merged into Matador Petroleum Corporation. He served as President of MRC Energy Company. He served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Matador Petroleum Corporation from its inception 1987 until the time of its sale to Tom Brown, Inc. in June 2003 and President of Matador Resources Company from July 2003 to November 18, 2013. Under Mr. Foran's guidance, Matador Petroleum realized a 21% average annual rate of return for its shareholders. He is originally from Amarillo, Texas, where his family owned a pipeline construction business. From 1980 to 1983, he served as Vice President and General Counsel of J. Cleo Thompson and James Cleo Thompson, Jr., Oil Producers. Prior to that, he served as an Attorney at the law firm of Vinson & Elkins, LLP and was a briefing attorney to Chief Justice Joe R. Greenhill of the Supreme Court of Texas. He serves as a Director of Longwood Gathering & Disposal Systems, LP. He served as a Director of Matador Petroleum Corporation from 1987 to June 2003. He is active as a member of various industry and civic organizations, including his church and various youth activities. In 2002, he was honored as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the Southwest Region. Mr. Foran received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Kentucky with highest honors and a law degree from Southern Methodist University School of Law, where he was a Hatton W. Sumners scholar and the Leading Articles Editor of the Southwestern Law Review.

Mr. Billy E. Goodwin has been Executive Vice President and Head of Operations at Matador Resources Company since September 2017. Mr. Goodwin served as Senior Vice President of Operations at Matador Resources Company since February 2016 until September 2017 and also served as its Vice President of Drilling from September 2013 to February 2016. Mr. Goodwin joined Matador Resources Company in July 2010 as Drilling Manager. He was with Samson Resources, a company he joined in 2001 to supervise the drilling of underbalanced multilateral horizontal wells. In his roles as Senior Drilling Engineer and Area Drilling Manager for Samson, he engineered and managed operations in the Permian Basin, South Texas, East Texas, Mid-Continent and Gulf Coast areas. He worked with Conoco, Inc. before joining Samson. He began his career in 1985 in Conoco's production department, before joining the drilling department in 1989. He has diverse horizontal operational experience both onshore and offshore and both domestically and internationally, including in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and South America. Throughout his career, he has developed underbalanced drilling, managed pressure drilling and drill-in casing techniques for normal and geo-pressured environments. Mr. Goodwin received a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering Technology from Oklahoma State University in 1984. He is a Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the American Association of Drilling Engineers. He served in the United States Marine Corps.

Mr. David E. Lancaster has been the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Matador Resources Company since May 2009. Mr. Lancaster served as the President/Head of Business Development/Corporate Development of Matador Resources Company. He served as Chief Operating Officer of Matador Resources Company from May 2009 to May 2015. He served as Marketing Manager for Schlumberger Data & Consulting Services. He was responsible for global marketing strategies, business models, input to R&D, commercialization of new products and services and marketing communications. He was Business Manager, North and South America, for Schlumberger Holditch-Reservoir Technologies from 1999 to 2000. He was responsible for the business operations of twelve consulting offices throughout North and South America. He worked with Schlumberger for six years. He joined Holditch in 1980 and he held positions ranging from Senior Petroleum Engineer to Senior Vice President of Business Development. He was responsible for Holditch's marketing and sales, as well as Holditch's commercial training business. He was a consulting reservoir engineer with particular emphasis on characterizing and improving production from unconventional gas reservoirs. Mr. Lancaster served as the Project Manager for the Gas Research institute's (GRI's) Devonian Shales applied research projects investigating ways to improve reservoir characterization, completion practices and gas recovery in low permeability, gas shale reservoirs. He also served as the lead reservoir engineer for the Secondary Gas Recovery project. He began his career as a reservoir engineer for Diamond Shamrock Corporation in 1979, where he was responsible for reserves determinations, workover recommendations and economic evaluations for a number of onshore and offshore fields. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and has served on and chaired several society and local section committees. He is an Associate Member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), and served as a charter member and former Vice Chairman of the Texas A&M University Petroleum Engineering Advisory Board. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. He authored or co-authored for more than fifty technical papers and articles, as well as numerous other published reports and industry presentations. Mr. Lancaster received Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1979 and 1988, respectively.

Mr. Craig N. Adams, J.D. has been an Executive Vice President of Matador Resources Company. Mr. Adams served as an Executive Vice President of Land and Legal at Matador Resources Company since July 2013. Mr. Adams served as Vice President and General Counsel of Matador Resources Company since September 2012. He was a Partner in the Corporate Department at Baker Botts L.L.P. He is based in the Dallas office of the Baker Botts. His practice areas include mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and securities offerings, venture capital and emerging companies, corporate governance and compliance counseling, committee representation, corporate investigations, securities law enforcement and regulation and joint ventures. His areas of concentration include securities, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, information technology, corporate governance and investigations. He focuses principally on the representation of clients in the securities, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, information technology and corporate governance areas. In his corporate securities practice, he has particular expertise in public and private debt and equity offerings and compliance and disclosure issues, as well as defensive planning and shareholder rights plans. He has handled a variety of initial public offerings, follow-on offerings and secondary offerings of equity securities. In addition, he has handled a number of private placements of equity securities. Another important part of Mr. Adams' practice centers on negotiated acquisitions of publicly traded and privately held entities, tender offers involving publicly traded entities, strategic alliances and joint ventures. He also represents companies, Boards and Audit Committees in corporate and SEC investigations and counsels clients on corporate governance, including Sarbanes-Oxley responsibilities, crisis response, dispute resolution, strategic planning and communications. Some of Mr. Adams??? representative experience in securities offerings include Wall Homes in its $50 million Series A preferred and subordinated notes financing, i2 Technologies ??? $22 million private placement of common stock, i2 Technologies ??? $100 million Series B preferred financing, in mergers and acquisitions include affiliated Computer Services, Inc. ??? acquisition of Patient Accounting Service Center, L.L.C., Data Return Corporation ??? $38.2 million acquisition by divine inc. and Electronic Data Systems ??? $898.3 million acquisition of Structural Dynamics Research Corporation and in corporate governance and investigations include SourceCorp. ??? SEC investigation, Microtune ??? SEC investigation and i2 Technologies ??? Audit Committee and SEC investigation. He is a Member of State Bar of Texas and Dallas Bar Association. Some of Mr. Adams??? publications include Clients Beware: Texas Courts Allow Discharged Attorneys to Recover in Full Under Contingent Fee Contracts in Texas Tech Law Review in 1991. Some of his speeches and presentations include Accounting for Lawyers: Attorney-Accountant Relations and Sarbanes-Oxley,??? Panelist, CLE Options Network, Webcast on July 18, 2008, SEC Hot Topics, Dallas Area Paralegal Association's Corporate Securities Institute, Dallas in August 2006, Managing the Due Diligence Process, Legal Assistants of North Texas Association, Dallas on September 2005 and The Sarbanes-Oxley Peril: Effectively Staffing and Managing the Whistleblower Investigation in Baker Botts Labor and Employment. Mr. Adams was listed in The Best Lawyers in America for 2007 and 2008, selected by D Magazine as one of the Best Lawyers Under 40 in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in 2002 and 2006 and recognized by Law & Politics as a Texas Super Lawyer for 2003 and 2004. He received a J.D., magna cum laude, from Texas Tech University School of Law in 1992, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif, a member of Texas Tech Law Review and a Member of Board of Barristers. Mr. Adams received a B.B.A. in Finance from Southern Methodist University in 1988.

Mr. Matthew V. Hairford has been President of Matador Resources Company since November 18, 2013. Mr. Hairford served as Executive Vice President of Operations at Matador Resources Company since May 2009. He served as Vice President of Operations at Matador Resources Company since May 2005. He joined Matador Resources in July 2004 as Matador's Drilling Manager. He was previously with Samson Resources and served as Senior Drilling Engineer since 1999. His responsibilities were included difficult Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast projects, horizontal drilling projects and a start-up drilling program in Wyoming. The scope of this work ranged from multi-lateral horizontal James Lime wells in East Texas to deep wells in South Texas and South Louisiana. He has drilled many geo-pressured wells in Texas and Louisiana, along with normally pressured wells in southwestern Wyoming and East Texas. From 1998 to 1999, he served as Senior Drilling Engineer with Sonat, Inc. in Tyler, Texas, where his responsibilities included the hostile environment Pinnacle Reef wells in East Texas and deep horizontal drilling in the Austin Chalk field in central Louisiana. From 1984 to 1998, he served in various drilling engineering capacities with Conoco, Inc. Operational areas included the Appalachian Basin, Illinois Basin, Permian Basin, Texas Panhandle, and Val Verde Basin. Mr. Hairford was selected as a member of a three-person team to explore the use of unconventional technologies to identify a potential step change in the drilling sector. Earlier in his career with Conoco, he was selected to participate in the Conoco Drilling Rig Supervisor Training Program in Houston. He began his career in 1984 with Conoco in a field production assignment in Hobbs, New Mexico. Mr. Hairford received his Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering Technology from Oklahoma State University in 1984. He is an active member of the American Association of Drilling Engineers (AADE), the American Petroleum Institute (API), and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).

Mr. Van H. Singleton, II has been Executive Vice President of Land at Matador Resources Company since February 5, 2015. Mr. Singleton served as Vice President of Land at Matador Resources Company from September 2013 to February 5, 2015. He joined Matador Resources Company in August 2007 as a Landman and was promoted to Senior Staff Landman in 2009 and then to General Land Manager in 2011. In September 2013, he became Vice President of Land for Matador Resources Company. Prior to joining Matador, he Founded and was President of VanBrannon and Associates, LLC and Southern Escrow and Title of Mississippi, LLC from 1998 to 2003, which provided full-spectrum land title work and title insurance in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas. From 2003 to joining Matador in 2007, he served as General Manager of his family's real estate brokerage in Houston. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Mississippi in 2000. He is an Active Member of the American Association of Professional Landmen, the New Mexico Landman Association, the Permian Basin Landman Association and the Dallas Association of Petroleum Landmen.

Mr. Bradley M. Robinson, also known as Brad, P.E. co-founded Matador Resources Company and has been Chief Technology Officer since May 2013 and Senior Vice President of Reservoir Engineering since February 2016. Mr. Robinson served as Vice President of Engineering at Matador Resources Company until February 2016. Prior to joining Matador Resources, Mr. Robinson held the position of Advisor with Schlumberger Data & Consulting Services, where he was responsible for the development and application of new technologies for well completions and stimulation, provided technical expertise for reservoir management and field development projects, taught basic and advanced industry courses in well completions and stimulation and provided internal training in production engineering and stimulation methods. He worked with Schlumberger for six years following its acquisition of S. A. Holditch & Associates, Inc. in 1997. Mr. Robinson joined Holditch in 1979 and was one of the principals in that well-known petroleum engineering consulting firm. From 1979 to 1982, he served as Senior Petroleum Engineer and was involved in all aspects of reservoir and production engineering for both conventional and low permeability oil and gas fields. From 1982 to 1997, he served as Holditch's Vice President - Production Engineering, where he was responsible for coordination and management of production and completion engineering projects, including development drilling and open hole data acquisition programs, design and supervision of initial well completions and workovers, transient well test design and analysis and hydraulic fracture stimulation design and supervision. His duties also included reserves evaluation and economic analysis of new and existing wells and his areas of specialization included low permeability gas sands, coalbed methane reservoirs and horizontal wells. Mr. Robinson served as Assistant Project Manager for the Gas Research institute's Tight Gas Sands and Horizontal Gas Wells applied research projects. During his career, he has worked all over the world including the US, Canada, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Egypt, North Sea, Russia and Indonesia, among others. He began his career in 1977 with Marathon Oil Company, serving as an Associate Production Engineer and later as a Reservoir Engineer in Midland. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. He has authored or co-authored eighteen technical articles appearing in industry and/or technical publications, has made thirteen engineering technical presentations and speaks Spanish as a second language. Mr. Robinson received Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1977 and 1986, respectively.

Mr. James R. Basich has been Vice President and Managing Director of IT at Matador Resources Company since November 2017. Mr. Basich joined Matador Resources Company in March 2016 as Director of IT Corporate Applications. He has more than 25 years of experience in Information Technology with the majority of this experience in the upstream oil and natural gas industry. Prior to joining Matador, he served as IT Director of Corporate Applications at Apache Corporation, where he was responsible for the application development and support for Finance, HR, Land, Legal, Administrative and Marketing functions. Mr. Basich joined Apache Corporation in 2003 as Senior Manager of Corporate Applications. From 1995 to 2003, he served as a Practice Manager for Oracle Corporation. In this role he was responsible for several enterprise-wide software implementations for various clients in the upstream oil and natural gas and manufacturing industries. Before joining Oracle Corporation, Mr. Basich held positions with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in their Petroleum Special Practice Unit from 1992 to 1995 and ORYX Corporation from 1988 to 2002. Mr. Basich received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Information Systems and Quantitative Business Analysis from Baylor University in 1988.

Mr. Robert T. Macalik has been Chief Accounting Officer of Matador Resources Company since July 6, 2015 and has been its Senior Vice President since November 2017 and served as its Vice President from July 06, 2015 to November 2017. Previously, Mr. Macalik served as Corporate Controller and Director of Technical Accounting & Financial Reporting of Pioneer Natural Resources Co. Prior to joining Pioneer, Mr. Macalik served as a Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, having joined the firm in 2002. He is a Licensed Certified Public Accountant in the State of Texas. Mr. Macalik holds both a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and a Master in Professional Accounting degree from the University of Texas at Austin.