Matt Peters founded Paramount Land, Inc. in 2008, which grew into the state’s largest full-service lease brokerage, providing wind and oil and gas leasing, mineral title, and permitting services across the Mid-Continent.
Matt later joined ENGIE North America where he built the land team that helped advance the North American portfolio to almost 12 GW (Q1 2026) helping make ENGIE the seventh largest renewable IPP in the US. As head of land, he currently manages a team of professionals focused on community outreach, land acquisition, and operational land relations across the U.S. and Canadian portfolio.
Kyle B. Reynolds, JD, CPL, & Immediate Past President of the American Association of Professional Landmen. He’s a seasoned pro in the energy sector with a knack for making things happen. Kyle’s journey has taken him from leading teams at Chesapeake Energy and Energen Resource Corp. to his current role as a managing member at RBG Permian. When he's not busy with all things land-related, Kyle enjoys cooking, exploring new places, diving into a good book, and passionately supporting the Arkansas Razorbacks. He's also a proud father of 3 and the entrepreneurial spirit behind Benjamin Lee Bison (a direct-to-consumer meat business), Bryant Moore law firm, and Greenway Capital Partners (a real estate investment firm).
Reynolds and his wife, Amy, have three beautiful children: Lila, Anne Douglas and Hardin. He enjoys cooking, traveling, reading, and all things Razorbacks sports, including writing weekly articles for The Pig Sty.
Mike Umbro is President and General Manager of Premier Resource Management (PRM), an independent oil and gas operator in Kern County, California, and the founder and CEO of Californians for Energy and Science (CA4ES). His work is built around a single conviction: that California's oil and gas industry can be saved, and that the technology to do it will lead to an energy renaissance in the state.
At PRM, Mike leads development of the world's first Geological Thermal Energy Storage (GeoTES) project, a demonstration at the Antelope Hills field that stores solar heat in a depleted reservoir and dispatches it back to the grid as firm, round-the-clock power. GeoTES converts mature oil fields into grid-scale energy assets, keeping California crude in production and Kern County working while delivering the dispatchable clean power the grid requires. The project is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy through both the Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation and the Hydrocarbon and Geothermal Energy Office, and is being developed in partnership with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Idaho National Laboratory.
Through CA4ES, a nonpartisan 501(c)(3), Mike leads advocacy and research aimed at grounding California energy policy in data and engineering reality. He hosts the Unleash California podcast, convenes the annual Unleash California conference, has briefed senior Department of Energy leadership in Washington, D.C., and works regularly with California regulators and legislators.
Mike began his career structuring independent oil and gas ventures during the U.S. shale boom and is a principal at FieldView Capital. He is a frequent speaker on energy policy at universities and industry forums, including Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and USC. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Pepperdine University, a Master of Energy Business from the University of Tulsa, and a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. A San Diego native, he lives there with his family.
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