2026 Annual Meeting

Daniel Brooks

Land Manager, Crescent Energy

Mr. Brooks is a seasoned Land & Business Development Professional with experience across the entirety of the Land/Business Development functions.  He has extensive experience with Tribal, Federal, State, and Fee ownership.  Mr. Brooks began his career on contract with BP America, later joining El Paso/EP Energy where he navigated change and took on roles of increasing responsibility over the subsequent decade.  Mr. Brooks joined Crescent Energy Company in 2022. Mr. Brooks is currently Land Manager and Community Liaison focusing on the Uinta Basin. He also had the privilege of leading the Crescent Barnett Land Team until and through its recent divestiture of the asset.  He enjoys spending time with his wife, Ashley, boys, Everette and Dean, fishing, golfing and enjoying family time. He and his family attend RPC Church in Missouri City, Texas.

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Alex Campbell

Owner, Shareholder and President, Enduring Resources San Juan, LLC

Alex B. Campbell V is an owner/shareholder/founder and Vice President of Land, Regulatory and HSE for Enduring Resources San Juan, LLC.  A Colorado native, Alex earned his BA/BS and MBA from Colorado State University.  During his 45 years as a land manager, Alex has been an active member of numerous professional organizations, is a Life Member of the Denver Association of Professional Landmen and was the recipient of the 1996 Landman of the Year award.  He has been an active member of the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law (aka RMMLF) and serves as the DAPL/RMMLF Landman Trustee.  Alex is past Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Western Energy Alliance and is the past Chairman for the New Mexico Oil & Gas Association and is the past President for the Independent Producers Association of New Mexico.  During his distinguished Land career, Alex has been a member of the Board of Directors and Owner of Esenjay Exploration, Inc., Aspect Resources, LLC, Aspect Energy, LLC, and Core Resources, LLC.  Alex is an expert in federal and state regulatory issues, as well as the entire range of land management challenges that accompany acquisitions, divestitures and active unconventional drilling programs in the Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Louisiana oil and natural gas producing regions.  

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Carl Campbell, CPL

Co-Founder and COO, Alamo Resources, LLC

As a co-founder and COO of Alamo Resources LLC, Carl D Campbell, CPL, has extensive industry experience in the Gulf Coast, Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions of the United States and in Canada. Alamo Resources currently has holdings in the Permian Basin, Eagle Ford, and the San Juan Basin.

A native of Oklahoma City and an alumnus of the University of Oklahoma, Campbell began his professional career in 1983 as a landman for the newly formed PetroCorp Inc. He became a division landman in 1987 during the company’s aggressive exploration and development program in the Mid-Continent region. In 1991, Campbell moved to Houston as the division landman for PetroCorp’s Gulf Coast region, and from 1993 through 1999, he gained a broad spectrum of experience in varied and prolific petroleum provinces as the company’s division land manager for the newly consolidated Gulf Coast, Rockies and Canada Division.

Prior to co-founding Alamo Resources in July 2004, Campbell formed Concorde Resources LLC in early 2000 and successfully pursued exploration and development opportunities in the Gulf Coast and Mid-Continent regions. Over the course of his career, he has been directly involved in producing property acquisitions and divestitures totaling more than $850 million.

A certified professional landman since 1995, Campbell has been an active member of AAPL, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Landmen, the Houston Association of Professional Landmen, the Independent Petroleum Association of America, Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Association, and the Texas Oil and Gas Association.

Campbell was elected to the HAPL board of directors in 2004 and served as the organization's past president. He served as AAPL president, first and second vice president, and as chairman of several committees, including the NAPE Operators Committee and the NAPE Advisory Board.

In 2011, Campbell was honored as HAPL’s Outstanding Landman of the Year and in 2018 as AAPL’s Landman of the Year. In 2012, the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association named him among the Texas Top Producers in the Landman category of awards. In 2013, he was selected as a finalist for the top 100 most influential Houston business leaders in the energy industry. And in 2014, he was named to the Houston Business Journal’s list of Who’s Who in Houston Energy.

Campbell currently serves on the advisory boards of both the Robert M. Zinke Energy Management Program in the Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma and the Tulsa University Energy Program. In addition, he is a past vice chairman and a member of the board of directors for Angel Flight South Central. This nonprofit organization provides free air transportation to patients for medical and humanitarian purposes.

Campbell resides in Oklahoma City and Houston with wife, Jennifer, and daughter, Victoria. He is an active member of the First Presbyterian Church and a charter member of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Houston Museum of Natural Science

Andrew Cooper

Co-Managing Shareholder, Roger A. Soape, Inc

Andrew Cooper, CPL, is a Co-Managing Shareholder at RAS, Inc. Andrew received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006 and started working for RAS, Inc. upon graduation. The initial years of his career were spent honing his trade as a field landman where he was given the opportunity to travel extensively across Texas and learn the lay of the land in various courthouses across the state. In 2011, Cooper was invited in-house where he served as a Senior Project Manager and Vice President, before becoming a Co-Managing Shareholder in 2021. 
 

A member of the American Association of Professional Landmen, the North Houston Association of Professional Landmen and the Houston Association of Professional Landmen, Andrew obtained his Registered Professional Landman certification in 2011 and his Certified Professional Landman designation in 2013. He currently serves as the AAPL Region IV Director on behalf of the HAPL and is a member of the NAPE Operator’s Committee. In 2020-21, Andrew had the honor of serving on the AAPL Executive Committee. He has also previously served as NHAPL's AAPL Regional Director, President, Vice President, Secretary and Director, Chairman of the AAPL Field Landman Committee, HAPL Director, as well as a member of numerous AAPL education related committees. In 2022, he received the AAPL Presidential Award for Meritorious Service and in 2024, the AAPL Landman of the Year. 

 Away from the office, Cooper cherishes his time spent with his four children: Andy, Olivia, Harrison and Theodore. A native Houstonian, he enjoys hunting, golfing, and coaching his children's sports teams.

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Keelen Hauptman

Director of Land, Regulatory, and Government Relations, Anschutz Exploration Corporation

Keelen Hauptman is the Director of Land, Regulatory, and Government Relations at Anschutz Exploration Corporation. She is responsible for all mineral and surface land activity across the company’s operated assets of Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah.   She also manages the company’s regulatory permitting efforts, government and community outreach, and advocacy. 

Prior to joining Anschutz Exploration Corporation, Keelen held key land roles at Whiting Petroleum Corporation (now Chord Energy) and Foundation Energy Management, where she focused heavily on navigating oil and gas operations in the Rockies. 

Keelen holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Energy Management and International Business from the University of Oklahoma and a Master of Science in Global Energy Management from the University of Colorado Denver. Outside of work, Keelen enjoys fishing and hunting in her native Montana, in addition to traveling the world with her husband and daughter.

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Rikki Hrenko-Browning

President, Utah Petroleum Association

Rikki Hrenko-Browning is the President of the Utah Petroleum Association (UPA). UPA is a Utah based, statewide petroleum trade association representing companies involved in all aspects of Utah’s oil and gas industry focused on the responsible development of Utah’s natural resources and manufacture of fuels that drive Utah’s economy. Prior to leading UPA, Rikki lived in Estonia and came to Utah as the CEO of Enefit American Oil, the Estonian company’s oil shale project in Eastern Utah. Rikki has a Masters in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon and an undergraduate degree in botany and environmental science. She has been appointed by the Governor to the Utah Watersheds Council, the SITLA Nominating Committee, serves on DNR’s Species Protection Account advisory board, the US Global Leadership Coalition, and other boards and advisory panels. Rikki was honored as a Utah Business 2020 Woman of the Year and in their 30 women to watch series in 2014. 

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Jerris Johnson, CPL

AI Strategist and Consultant - Land and Energy Technology SME

Jerris Johnson, a Certified Professional Landman, is a leading expert and AI strategist in energy land management, with over twenty years of experience in the oil, gas, and renewable energy industries. He advises companies on blending traditional land practices with advanced AI to help professionals and maximize productivity from land department operations. Jerris also co-hosts the Real Deal Landman Show Podcast, available on all major streaming platforms.

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Tim Latimer

CEO and Co-Founder, Fervo Energy

Tim began his career as a drilling engineer with BHP Billiton where he worked in the Permian and Eagle Ford basins. In 2015, he shifted his focus from oil and gas to renewables, earning an MBA and an MS in Environment and Resources from Stanford University.

In 2017, Latimer co-founded Fervo, which delivers 24/7 carbon free energy through development of next-generation geothermal power. Fervo's technology incorporates proven, cost-effective technologies, such as horizontal drilling and distributed fiber optic sensing, to unlock the potential of geothermal energy.

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Jasper Mason

Adjunct Professor, University of Houston Law Center

Jasper Mason has experience in-house and in private practice representing exploration and production companies and private equity clients on acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures involving upstream and midstream oil and gas assets. Additionally, Jasper has represented clients in matters as diverse as tendering bids for contracts to supply oilfield service equipment in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), acquiring Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) leases in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico, and attracting investors and industry partners to co-develop acreage on state-owned lands in Alaska. He has assisted clients ranging from individual investors to national oil companies. 

Jasper is Board Certified in Oil, Gas and Mineral Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, and holds a Certified Professional Landman (CPL) designation from the American Association of Professional Landmen (AAPL). He is a Past Chair of the Houston Bar Association Oil, Gas & Mineral Law Section, a former member of the Advisory Council of the State Bar of Texas Oil, Gas, and Energy Resources Law section, and is entering his tenth year teaching Oil & Gas Law as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston Law Center. He has served as Secretary of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) and as a member of the AIPN board of directors, and would much rather hear about you over a coffee than keep talking about himself here.

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Ella McDonald

Founder, McDonald Land Services, LLC

Ella McDonald grew up on a dairy farm outside Mill Creek, Oklahoma, where she learned early on that hard work doesn’t have a gender. Drawn to the oil and gas industry and beginning March 1, 1978, she pushed past skepticism and built a career defined by grit, people smarts, and integrity.  After being told by a man that “she could be a landman when pigs could fly”, she pushed forward with grit and discipline, demonstrating what persistence and hard work could achieve.

By 1980, Ella and a colleague formed an Oklahoma brokerage firm. In 1982 she founded McDonald Land Services, which has since grown into a full-service land company operating across the major basins of the continental U.S. Through her collaboration with the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board and Francis Tuttle Technology Center, Ella helped bring a foundational land title research course to the Petro Tech program, expanding pathways into land careers. 

In recognition of her leadership and lasting impact, Ella became the first female to receive the Oklahoma City Association of Professional Landmen Lifetime Achievement Award, honoring her 48 years of service in the oil and gas industry.  Ella stays actively involved in her community and supports a number of charitable efforts, including the Oklahoma Backpack program for school children. She and her family attend Goldsby Baptist Church, Goldsby, Oklahoma.

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Juan Nevarez

President, Scout Development Partners

Juan Nevarez serves as president and managing director for Scout Development Partners.

Nevarez has dedicated over 25 years to working in the oil and gas business. Previously, he worked for Texaco, Chevron and other companies. In 2011, he joined Scout Energy Partners as the vice president of business development, before moving to senior vice president in 2017, and currently executive vice president.

In May 2024, Nevarez was appointed to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Nevarez serves on the Petroleum Industry Advisory Executive Board at Texas Tech University, and he is a member of the Texas Tech College of Engineering Dean’s Council. Additionally, he is a member of the Matador Society and the Engineering Key Society. Juan has also been a CASA (court appointed special advocate) mentor/volunteer for several years and also serves on the Dallas CASA board.

Nevarez graduated from Texas Tech University with a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering in 1995 and California State University with a master’s degree in finance in 2001. In recognition of his achievements and contributions in the industry, he was inducted into the Petroleum Engineering Academy at Texas Tech.  He also received the Whitacre College of Engineering Distinguished Engineer Award in 2023.

Nevarez and his wife Emma share four children, Justin, Joshua, Sienna and Milan, and they reside between Dallas, Texas and their farm in Anthony, New Mexico.

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Jason Pearce

President, Unita Wax Operating

Jason received a BS in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1998. He began his career with Conoco Inc. in Lafayette, LA where he held both Reservoir and Production engineering positions. Mr. Pearce joined XTO Energy in Fort Worth, TX in 2003 where he held positions in Reservoir Engineering before being named Reservoir Development Manager for the Freestone Trend asset in 2010. He then joined CH4 Energy, an NGP Portfolio company, in November 2011 where he held positions in Completion Operations, Corporate Reserves and Business Development. He was a part of the executive management team that took WildHorse Resource Development public in 2016 and eventually sold to Chesapeake in 2019.  Since CH4 Energy Six acquired the Uinta Basin assets from Crescent Point Energy in October 2019 he has served as President of Uinta Wax Operating.

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Kit Pfeiffer

Senior Vice President of Commercial, X2 Resources

Kit Pfeiffer is Senior Vice President of Commercial for X2 Resources, a private portfolio company of EnCap.  X2 is the second vehicle of the XCL Team, which helped bring the shale revolution to the Uinta basin of Utah.  At XCL, Kit was responsible for building the oil and gas sales and supply chain networks that allowed the basin to rapidly grow beyond its historical limits.  XCL sold their assets to SM in 2024 for $2.55 Billion.

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Tom Seng

Assistant Professor of Energy Finance, Texas Christian University

Tom Seng is an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in Energy Finance at Texas Christian University’s Ralph Lowe Energy Institute, Neeley School of Business. His other teaching experience includes serving as an Adjunct Instructor for TU, The University of Oklahoma, Penn State University and Texas Christian University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York, an MBA in Oil & Gas Management from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, and a Doctorate in Education from Maryville University in St. Louis. He is the author of “Energy Trading & Hedging: A Nontechnical Guide” (PennWell 2019).

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Kathleen Sgamma

Principal, Multiple-Use Advocacy

Kathleen’s extensive expertise and leadership in energy and multiple-use, public lands policy was recognized by President Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum when she was nominated for the position of Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in February, 2025. Her nomination was strongly supported by Congress, governors, ranchers, sportsmen’s and recreation groups, conservationists, tribes, state agencies, counties, the energy, mining and timber industries, and many other stakeholders across the West. Her effectiveness as one of the strongest advocates for the oil and natural gas industry was confirmed by the opposition to her nomination from far-left environmental groups, although she received tacit as well as explicit support from reasonable environmentalists and several conservation groups. While that opposition resulted in her having to withdraw her nomination, she remains committed to and effective in supporting President Trump’s unleashing America energy agenda and responsible access to public lands. 

Kathleen served the oil and natural gas industry in the West for nearly 20 years at Western Energy Alliance, as the President for the last nine years. Her knowledge is widely recognized across the region and in D.C., as she has testified before Congress 30 times and is regularly quoted on energy and environmental issues in regional, national, and international media including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, BBC, Fox News, and Washington Post. Prior to joining the Alliance in 2006, she spent eleven years in the Information Technology sector, including establishing a subsidiary in Germany and the European consulting practice in London for a software company; and three years as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army. She holds a BS in Political Science/Defense and Arms Control Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MS in Information Technology from Virginia Tech.

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Bobby Simpson

Founder & CEO, Parse AI

Bobby Simpson builds technology and services that untangle complex property rights for energy and infrastructure projects. He is the Founder and CEO of Parse AI, a machine learning–based cloud platform that accelerates title research and document analysis for real property transactions. He is also the Founder and President of Harbinger Land, LLC, a land services company serving solar, battery storage, oil and gas, and utility clients across the United States. Bobby brings 20 years of experience as a landman and project manager on projects across dozens of U.S. states. Previously, he co‑founded Vouch App Company, Inc., a consumer mobile app startup, where he served as CEO and Chairman of the Board from 2016 to 2019. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from Oklahoma State University and a Master of Science in Technology Commercialization from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, and he resides in New York City with his wife, Cat, and their infant son, Rowan.

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Melissa Simpson

President, Western Energy Alliance

Melissa joined the Western Energy Alliance in April of 2025. She has over two decades of experience working on energy, wildlife, and conservation policy in Washington D.C. as a political appointee in the federal government or in the private sector. Most recently, she was Director of Global Government Affairs for Sempra, focusing on the export of liquified natural gas. She is a Colorado native, holding a B.S. in Political Science from Colorado State University and a J.D. from Creighton University School of Law.

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