Vortus Investment Advisors joined Canyon Creek Energy’s Board of Directors in February 2017. Vortus is a Fort Worth-based private equity firm focused on the lower to middle market upstream energy industry in North America. Vortus has an asset-based investment strategy, targeting privately negotiated transactions in the lower to middle market requiring approximately $50 million to $75 million of equity capital in partnership with successful owner/operators.

Mr. Shiverick joined Canyon Creek Energy’s Board of Directors in June 2016 and acts as an advisor to the Company’s management. Mr. Shiverick is a co-founder of Seminole Management Company a New York based hedge fund, co-chairman of the Cancer Research Institute, Inc. and serves on the boards of the Hawken School in Northeast Ohio, the United States Wrestling Foundation and the Clark Foundation. 

Seminole Capital Management is a multi-billion dollar hedge fund founded in 1995 to focus on long/short public equity positions. Prior to co-founding the Seminole Management Company, Shiverick was a partner at SRG Associates and started his career at Oppenheimer & Company as an equity analyst. Mr. Shiverick graduated with a degree in geology from Northwestern University in 1975 and received an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Mr. Harvard joined Canyon Creek Energy’s Board of Directors in February 2017. Mr. Harvard is the President and Managing Member of Harvard Petroleum Company, LLC (“HPC”), based in Roswell, NM. HPC was formed in 1970 by his father, H. Lee Harvard, and has managed properties across the continental United States and Canada. HPC’s current areas of activity include New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma. 

Prior to working for HPC, Mr. Harvard gained more than 25 years of experience in the oil and gas industry with Steven Operating, Read and Stevens and other companies. Mr. Harvard is a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (“RPSEA”) an industry organization conducting research and development work for domestic unconventional onshore hydrocarbon resource, small producers and ultra-deepwater projects. Mr. Harvard holds a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Morgan Creek Capital Management joined Canyon Creek Energy’s Board of Directors in June 2016. Morgan Creek is a SEC-registered investment adviser providing investment management services to institutions and wealthy families. Morgan Creek was formed by Mark W. Yusko, former Chief Investment Officer of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (“UNC”) Endowment.

Mr. Akers joined Canyon Creek Energy in August 2013 as an investor and an advisor of the organization. Previously Mr. Akers served as Chairman, President & CEO of ESCO Energy, Inc. Under his direction, ESCO developed into a diversified energy company with annual revenues exceeding $100 million and was selected by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States. 

Mr. Akers has consulted for and represented ONEOK, Carl Icahn, George Kaiser, 3Tech Corp and K. Stewart during various mergers and acquisitions. Additional consulting relationships of Mr. Akers have included a NYSE gas distributing company, an international exploration company and multi-million dollar privately held oil and gas companies.

Mr. Akers was a former director of Performance Energy Resources, Harken Energy Corp., ESCO Energy, Inc and Tank Services, Inc. Mr. Akers is a registered professional engineer in the states of Missouri and Oklahoma.