Jeff P. Ballard

Cresta Fund Management LLC (Cresta Fund Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2016 by Chris Rozzell, David Truett Miller and Drew Armstrong. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Easton Energy LLC engages in the development of infrastructure assets that support the transportation, storage, and processing of natural gas liquids. Its assets include Gulf Coast Liquids Pipeline System and Markham Salt Dome. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Blackbuck Resources Holdings LLC operates as holding company whose subsidiaries provides water infrastructure services for the oil & gas industry. The company is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

Lapis Energy LP is a vertically integrated energy infrastructure development firm founded in 2020 by a team of industry-leading experts. The company is based in Dallas, TX and is actively building a world-class portfolio of CCS projects. Lapis is backed by Cresta Fund Management, a US-based investment manager specializing in middle market sustainable infrastructure with over $1.40 billion of assets under management. The company is focused entirely on decarbonization through CCS and is the partner of choice for energy-intensive industries seeking to achieve their carbon goals through the delivery of CCS projects.

Ocelot Energy Management LLC engages in the provision of total management services for assets and projects ranging from liquid and gas pipelines. It offers turn-key operations and maintenance, turn-key project management, and turn-key finance, accounting and back office services. The company is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Natural Gas Partners LLC (NGP) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of NGP Energy Capital Management, LLC founded in 1988 by David Russell Albin and Kenneth Alfredo Hersh. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).