People: Matador Resources Co (MTDR.N)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Joseph Foran	59	2003	Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer, Secretary
David Lancaster	55	2009	Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President
Matthew Hairford	51	2009	Executive Vice President - Operations
Scott King	53	2009	Vice President - Geophysics and New Ventures
Bradley Robinson	57	2003	Vice President - Reservoir Engineering
David Nicklin	63	2009	Executive Director - Exploration
David Laney	63		Lead Independent Director
Carlos Sepulveda		2013	Director
Stephen Holditch	65	2004	Independent Director
Gregory Mitchell	60	2011	Independent Director
Steven Ohnimus	65	2004	Independent Director
Michael Ryan	51	2009	Independent Director
Margaret Shannon	63	2011	Independent Director
Mac Schmitz			Investor Relations Department

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Biographies

Name	Description
Joseph Foran	Mr. Joseph Wm. Foran is Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer, Secretary of Matador Resources Company, since July 2003. He is also chair of the board’s Executive Committee. Mr. Foran began his career as an oil and natural gas independent in 1983 when he founded Foran Oil Company with $270,000 in contributed capital from 17 of his closest friends and neighbors. Foran Oil Company was later contributed into Matador Petroleum Corporation upon its formation by Mr. Foran in 1988, and Mr. Foran served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of that company from inception until the time of its sale to Tom Brown, Inc. in June 2003 for an enterprise value of $388 million in an all-cash transaction. Under Mr. Foran’s guidance, Matador Petroleum realized a 21% average annual rate of return for its shareholders for 15 years. Mr. Foran is originally from Amarillo, Texas. Prior to that time, he was a briefing attorney to Chief Justice Joe R. Greenhill of the Supreme Court of Texas. Mr. Foran graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Kentucky with highest honors and a law degree from the Southern Methodist University School of Law, where he was a Hatton W. Sumners scholar and the Leading Articles Editor of the Southwestern Law Review. He is currently active as a member of various industry and civic organizations, including his church and various youth activities. In 2002, Mr. Foran was honored as the Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for the Southwest Region.
David Lancaster	Mr. David E. Lancaster is Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President of Matador Resources Company. Mr. Lancaster has served in several capacities since joining Matador, including Vice President—Business Development, Acquisitions and Finance from December 2003 to May 2005; Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from May 2005 to May 2007; and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from May 2007 to May 2009. He assumed his current role in May 2009. From August 2000 to December 2003, he was Marketing Manager for Schlumberger Limited’s Data & Consulting Services. In this position, he was responsible for global marketing strategies, business models, input to research and development, commercialization of new products and services and marketing communications. From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Lancaster was Business Manager, North and South America, for Schlumberger Holditch-Reservoir Technologies, the petroleum engineering consulting organization formed following Schlumberger’s acquisitions of S. A. Holditch & Associates, Inc. and Intera Petroleum Services. He was also the lead reservoir engineer for the Secondary Gas Recovery project sponsored by the Gas Research Institute and the U.S. Department of Energy looking at ways to improve recovery from compartmentalized natural gas reservoirs in north and south Texas. Mr. Lancaster began his career as a reservoir engineer for Diamond Shamrock Corporation in 1979. Mr. Lancaster received Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1979 and 1988, respectively, graduating summa cum laude. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 technical papers and articles, as well as numerous other published reports and industry presentations. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and he served as a charter member and former Vice Chairman of the Texas A&M University Petroleum Engineering Advisory Board. Mr. Lancaster is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.
Matthew Hairford	Mr. Matthew V. Hairford is Executive Vice President - Operations of Matador Resources Company, since May 2009. Mr. Hairford joined Matador Resources Company in July 2004 as its Drilling Manager. He was named Vice President—Drilling in May 2005; Vice President—Operations in May 2006. His responsibilities there 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 James Lime wells in east Texas to deep wells in south Texas and south Louisiana. Mr. Hairford has experience in air drilling, underbalanced drilling, drilling under mud caps and high temperature and pressure environments. From 1998 until 1999, Mr. Hairford served as Senior Drilling Engineer with Sonat, Inc. in Tyler, Texas, a global company involved with natural gas transmission and marketing, oil and natural gas exploration and production and oil services. There his responsibilities included Pinnacle Reef wells in east Texas and deep horizontal drilling in the Austin Chalk field in central Louisiana. From 1984 to 1998, Mr. Hairford served in various drilling engineering capacities with Conoco, Inc., an integrated energy company. Mr. Hairford 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, the American Petroleum Institute and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Mr. Hairford has also undertaken additional training through Stanford University’s Executive Education programs including, most recently in the summer of 2011, the Stanford Graduate School of Business flagship six week Stanford Executive Program (SEP).
Scott King	Mr. Scott E. King is Vice President - Geophysics and New Ventures of Matador Resources Company, since February 2009. From July 2003 to February 2009, Mr. King held the position of Vice President—Exploration. He was previously with Matador Petroleum Corporation, joining that company in December 1996 as Chief Geophysicist. Immediately prior to Matador Petroleum’s sale, Mr. King served as its Portfolio Manager and was responsible for recommending which drilling opportunities Matador Petroleum should pursue. Prior to joining Matador Petroleum, Mr. King worked for Enserch Corporation, a diversified energy company with interests in petroleum exploration and production, oilfield services, engineering design and construction, and natural gas transmission and distribution, as Team Leader for the Oklahoma Asset Group. Mr. King began his career in 1983 with Sohio Petroleum, an integrated energy company. The Sohio assets were sold and resold to a number of companies, including BP p.l.c., Tex-Con Oil Co., Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Dalen Resources Oil & Gas Co., and finally Enserch Corporation. During this time, Mr. King worked for and was retained by each of these companies and had success in generating and managing drilling opportunities in the continental United States. Mr. King received a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology with a Minor in Mathematics from Alfred University, Alfred, New York in 1981 and a Master of Science degree in Geophysics from Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio in 1983. Mr. King is active in various professional and civic groups including the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
Bradley Robinson	Mr. Bradley M. Robinson is Vice President - Reservoir Engineering of Matador Resources Company, since August 2003. Prior to joining Matador, from 1997 to August 2003, Mr. Robinson held the position of Advisor with Schlumberger Limited’s Data & Consulting Services business unit. Mr. Robinson 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, Mr. Robinson served as Senior Petroleum Engineer and was involved in all aspects of reservoir and production engineering for both conventional and low permeability oil and natural gas fields. From 1982 to 1997, he was Holditch’s Vice President—Production Engineering. His duties also included reserves evaluation and economic analysis of new and existing wells, and his areas of specialization included low permeability natural gas sands, coalbed methane reservoirs and horizontal wells. During his career, he has worked all over the world including the United States, Canada, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Egypt, the North Sea, Russia and Indonesia, among others. Mr. Robinson began his career in 1977 with Marathon Oil Company, serving as an Associate Production Engineer and later as a Reservoir Engineer in Midland. Mr. Robinson received Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1977 and 1986, respectively. He has authored or co-authored 18 technical articles appearing in industry and/or technical publications and has made numerous engineering technical presentations. Mr. Robinson is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. He currently serves as Chairman of the Dallas Section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
David Nicklin	Mr. David F. Nicklin is Executive Director - Exploration of Matador Resources Company, since February 2009. Prior to joining Matador, Mr. Nicklin provided executive level consulting services to a variety of clients from January 2000 onwards through his wholly owned corporation, David F. Nicklin International Consulting Inc. In 2006, Mr. Nicklin co-founded and currently leads a small, private oil and natural gas company, Salt Creek Petroleum LLC. Salt Creek Petroleum owns small, non-operated interests in a variety of onshore oil and natural gas fields in the United States. In 2000, he founded and led for three years a private oil and natural gas exploration company, Serica Energy, which is now a public company with assets in Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland and Morocco. Between 1981 and 2000, Mr. Nicklin was an employee of ARCO, an integrated energy company, where he participated in and led several international exploration teams, particularly in the Middle East, southeast Asia and Australasia. In 1991, he became the Chief Geologist for ARCO, a position he held until his retirement in 2000. Prior to joining ARCO, Mr. Nicklin was a senior development and operations geologist in a variety of positions in the United Kingdom, Angola, Norway and the Middle East. He was a specialist in well-site operations and provided training in operations to entry-level personnel. Mr. Nicklin was born in the United Kingdom and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the University of Wales in 1971. He is an active member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and various other professional groups.
David Laney	Mr. David M. Laney is Lead Independent Director of Matador Resources Company. He is an attorney who since March 2007 has practiced law as a solo practitioner. Between 2003 and 2007, he was a partner with the law firm of Jackson Walker LLP in Dallas where he practiced in the area of corporate and financial law. Prior to joining Jackson Walker, Mr. Laney practiced at the law firm of Jenkens & Gilchrist, a Professional Corporation, from 1977 to 2003 and was managing partner of the Jenkens & Gilchrist law firm from 1990 to 2002. From a regional law firm of roughly 160 lawyers in two Texas cities in 1990, the firm expanded under Mr. Laney’s leadership to over 625 attorneys in nine cities by the end of his tenure in 2002. Mr. Laney has also served in several capacities as an appointee of Texas Governors William Clements and George W. Bush on various state boards continuously from 1989 through 2001. He was Governor Clements’ appointee to the Texas Finance Commission, responsible for regulatory oversight of the state banking and thrift industries as the Texas banking system emerged from the recession and collapse of the 1980s. He then served as Governor Bush’s Texas Commissioner of Transportation (Chairman of the Texas Department of Transportation) during the period 1995 to 2000. Mr. Laney completed his term with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) in 2001. In 2002, Mr. Laney was nominated by President George W. Bush to the board of directors of Amtrak and confirmed by the U. S. Senate for a five-year term. In November 2007, he completed his term as Chairman of Amtrak’s board of directors. From 1998 to 2003, Mr. Laney served as a member of the Stanford University Board of Trustees, and for two years as Chairman of its Audit Committee. Mr. Laney has also served in various capacities in connection with numerous civic and educational organizations and projects in the Dallas area.
Carlos Sepulveda	Mr. Carlos M. Sepulveda, Jr., has been appointed as Director of Matador Resources Company effective April 11, 2013. Mr. Sepulveda is retiring as President and CEO of Interstate Battery System International, Inc. — a position he has held since March 2004 — in May 2013 but remain on that company’s board of directors. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Triumph Bancorp, Inc. and also serves on the Board of Directors and is Chair of the Audit Committee of Cinemark Holdings, Inc. Mr. Carlos holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, majoring in accounting and graduating with highest honors, from The University of Texas at Austin.
Stephen Holditch	Dr. Stephen A. Holditch, Ph.D., is Independent Director of Matador Resources Company, since January 2004. He is a professor in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University and is Director of the Texas A&M University Energy Institute. From January 2004 to January 2012, he was Head of the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University. Prior to that, he was with Schlumberger Limited. During the latter half of the 1980s and into the 1990s, Dr. Holditch expanded the services offered by S. A. Holditch & Associates, building the company from three employees in 1977 to more than 80 employees in 1998. During that period, he also attended Texas A&M University to earn a PhD degree in Petroleum Engineering and conducted research in reservoir flow behavior in fractured, low permeability natural gas reservoirs. Dr. Holditch received Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1969 and 1970, respectively, and a PhD degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1976. In addition, he served as a Trustee for the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers from 1997 to 1998. He was also on the board of directors of Triangle Petroleum Corporation, an oil and natural gas exploration corporation, from February 2006 to December 2011. He has received numerous awards in recognition of his technical achievements and leadership. In 1995, Dr. Holditch was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the highest professional honor awarded to an engineer. In 1997, he was elected to the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and in 1998, Dr. Holditch was elected to the Petroleum Engineering Academy of Distinguished Graduates at Texas A&M University. In 2010, he was named a Distinguished Alumnus of the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University.
Gregory Mitchell	Mr. Gregory E. Mitchell is Independent Director of Matador Resources Company, since June 2011. With 45 years of grocery and petroleum retailing experience, he is currently President and CEO of Toot’n Totum Food Stores, LLC, which is located in Amarillo, Texas. The company, founded in 1950, consists of 62 convenience store/fueling locations, as well as car wash and car care centers, with an employee base of over 700 team members. His experience within the petroleum industry includes negotiations with various refiners in the United States. A 1973 graduate of the University of Oklahoma, with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, Mr. Mitchell was appointed by former Governor William Clements to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, where he served for six years. Additionally, he has served as Chairman of the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of the United Way of Amarillo and Canyon, Chairman of the don and Sybil Harrington Foundation and President of the Amarillo Area Foundation. Currently, Mr. Mitchell is a director of Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch.
Steven Ohnimus	Dr. Steven W. Ohnimus is Independent Director of Matador Resources Company, since January 2004. He spent his entire professional career from 1971 to 2000 with Unocal Corporation, an integrated energy company. From 1995 to 2000, he was General Manager—Partner Operated Ventures. From 1994 to 1995, Dr. Ohnimus was General Manager of Asset Analysis. From 1990 to 1994, Dr. Ohnimus was Vice President and General Manager, Unocal Indonesia, located in Balikpapan, operating five offshore fields and one onshore liquid extraction plant and employing 1,200 nationals and 50 expatriates. From 1989 to 1990, he served as Regional Operations Manager in Anchorage, Alaska, and from 1988 to 1989, he was District Operations Manager in Houma, Louisiana. From 1975 to 1979, Dr. Ohnimus was Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Southwest Louisiana (now University of Southern Louisiana) where he taught a total of eleven undergraduate and graduate night classes. In 1980, he taught drilling seminars at the University of Texas Petroleum Extension Service of the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC). Dr. Ohnimus received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla in 1968, a Master of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla in 1969 and a PhD degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla in 1971. Dr. Ohnimus served as a director of the American Petroleum Institute in 1978 and 1979, served as Session Chairman for the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Annual Convention in 1982, was the Evangeline Section Chairman of the Society of Petroleum Engineers in 1978 and 1979 and served as President of the Unocal Credit Union from 1986 to 1988.
Michael Ryan	Mr. Michael C. Ryan is Independent Director of Matador Resources Company, since February 2009. Prior to joining the Board, he served as a Board Advisor to the Financial Committee and frequently participated in Board planning and strategy sessions. Since October 2004, Mr. Ryan has been a Partner and member of the Investment Committee at Berens Capital Management LLC, an investment firm based in New York. From February 1998 to June 2004, he worked with Goldman, Sachs & Co., a global investment banking and securities services firm, its West Coast international institutional equities business. In this role, he developed and built a team of professionals to advise institutional clients on their global investment decisions. From 1995 to 1998, Mr. Ryan lived in Oslo, Norway, where he was a Partner at Pareto Securities, a Scandinavian-based securities firm where he led and built the institutional equities business into the United States and United Kingdom. From 1991 to 1994, Mr. Ryan represented multiple eastern European governments in the preparation, negotiation and sale of many of their state-owned companies. He began his career with Honeywell, Inc. which invents and manufactures technologies, including in the safety, security and energy areas, in 1983, working in the Systems and Research Center, which focused on advanced weapons development programs. Mr. Ryan received a Master of Business Administration degree from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Minnesota.
Margaret Shannon	Mrs. Margaret B. Shannon is Independent Director of Matador Resources Company since June 2011. She served as Vice President and General Counsel of BJ Services Company, an international oilfield services company, from 1994 to 2010, when Baker Hughes Incorporated acquired BJ Services. Prior to 1994, she was a partner with the law firm of Andrews Kurth LLP. Mrs. Shannon is active in community activities serving as the Chair of the Finance Committee and the Governance Committee of the board of directors of the Harris County Health Alliance and a member of the board of directors of the Harris County Health and Human Services Foundation. She previously served as the Chair of the Executive Women’s Partnership sponsored by the Greater Houston Partnership, Chair of the Audit Committee of the board of directors of the South Texas College of Law and the chair of the Endowment Board of Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church and was a participant in the American Leadership Forum. Mrs. Shannon received her J.D. cum laude from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in 1976 and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Baylor University in 1971. Mrs. Shannon’s experience as an attorney, as a partner with Andrews Kurth LLP, as general counsel for a public company for more than 15 years and as a director for numerous other organizations.
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Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Joseph Foran	908,019
David Lancaster	655,483
Matthew Hairford	530,067
Scott King	--
Bradley Robinson	315,831
David Nicklin	445,750
David Laney	--
Carlos Sepulveda	--
Stephen Holditch	--
Gregory Mitchell	--
Steven Ohnimus	--
Michael Ryan	--
Margaret Shannon	--
Mac Schmitz	--

As Of 30 Dec 2011

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Joseph Foran	0	0
David Lancaster	0	0
Matthew Hairford	30,000	60,000
Scott King	0	0
Bradley Robinson	0	0
David Nicklin	0	0
David Laney	0	0
Carlos Sepulveda	0	0
Stephen Holditch	0	0
Gregory Mitchell	0	0
Steven Ohnimus	0	0
Michael Ryan	0	0
Margaret Shannon	0	0
Mac Schmitz	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
SEPULVEDA CARLOS M	1,982	$0.00
OHNIMUS STEVEN W	1,982	$0.00
SHANNON MARGARET B	1,982	$0.00
RYAN MICHAEL C	1,982	$0.00
MITCHELL GREGORY E	1,982	$0.00
LANEY DAVID M	1,982	$0.00
HOLDITCH STEPHEN A	1,982	$0.00
RYAN MICHAEL C	4,000	$0.00
RYAN MICHAEL C	4,000	$0.00
LONDON RYAN C	19,500	$0.00
WAYNE KATHRYN L	8,125	$0.00
NICKLIN DAVID F	15,000	$0.00
SHANNON MARGARET B	2,306	$0.00
HOLDITCH STEPHEN A	2,306	$0.00
LANCASTER DAVID E	30,000	$0.00
LANEY DAVID M	2,306	$0.00
ADAMS CRAIG N	15,000	$0.00
MITCHELL GREGORY E	2,306	$0.00
FORAN JOSEPH WM	40,000	$0.00
ROBINSON BRADLEY M	15,000	$0.00
OHNIMUS STEVEN W	2,306	$0.00
HAIRFORD MATTHEW V	25,000	$0.00
RYAN MICHAEL C	2,306	$0.00
FORAN JOSEPH WM	200	$0.00
HOLDITCH STEPHEN A	2,000	$7.88

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