Board Members
Charles B. “Chip” Simmons, Jr.
Mr. Simmons is a member of the Board of Managers of Cayenne GP, LLC, which is Cayenne's general partner. Mr. Simmons is a Managing Partner of Clear Creek Capital, LLC, an investment firm focused on energy sector investing which is based in Dallas, Texas, and which currently manages investments consisting of approximately $500 million of committed capital. Mr. Simmons sits on the Board of Managers of Cayenne GP, LLC, on the Board of Directors for the Pharos Fund family (Pharos Gas Investment Fund, Ltd., Pharos Russia Fund, Ltd., and Pharos Small Cap Fund, Ltd.) and on the Board of Directors of Renovatio Capital, a firm engaged in the business of energy-related commodities futures arbitrage. Mr. Simmons is also actively engaged in board-level activities on behalf of Clear Creek's other energy sector portfolio companies. Mr. Simmons received his B.A. degree with honors in Economics and Political Science, summa cum laude, from Yale University in 1984, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and his JD degree from the University of Virginia in 1987.
Neal D. Roy
Mr. Roy is a member of the Board of Managers of Cayenne GP, LLC, which is Cayenne's general partner. Mr. Roy is a Managing Partner of Clear Creek Capital, LLC, an investment firm focused on energy sector investing which is based in Dallas, Texas, and which currently manages investments consisting of approximately $500 million of committed capital. Mr. Roy sits on the Board of Directors of AB Resources, Kerns Resources, BioEnergy International, Renovatio Capital and on the Board of Managers of Cayenne GP, LLC. Prior to the formation of Clear Creek, Mr. Roy was at Reservoir Capital Group, a New York-based investment firm with approximately $3 billion of committed capital, where he was principally responsible for oil and gas-related investments. Mr. Roy has been instrumental in the formation of oil and gas companies owned by Reservoir, including AB Resources, which is focused on oil and gas drilling opportunities in the Appalachian Basin, Kerns Resources, a San Antonio-based E&P company focused on oil and gas drilling opportunities in South Texas, and Renovatio Capital. Prior to joining Reservoir, Mr. Roy was Vice President in the investment research department at Goldman, Sachs & Co, where he ran the Latin America energy and power group. He received an A.B. from Dartmouth College.
Advisors
Dr. Gary Pope
Dr. Gary Pope has been engaged by Clear Creek Capital/Cayenne as a consultant and advisor with respect to enhanced oil recovery techniques. Professor Gary A. Pope is the Director of the Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Texaco Centennial Chair in Petroleum Engineering, where he has taught since 1977. Previously he worked in production research at Shell Development Company for 5 years. Dr. Pope earned a Ph.D. from Rice University and a B.S. from Oklahoma State University, both in Chemical Engineering. His teaching and research are in the areas of enhanced oil recovery, reservoir engineering, natural gas engineering, reservoir simulation, characterization of reservoirs and aquifers with tracers, surfactants and water-soluble polymers, phase behavior and fluid properties, and groundwater modeling and remediation. He has authored or co-authored more than 210 technical papers on these topics and supervised the research of more than 115 graduate students at the University of Texas. Dr. Pope was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999 for his contributions to understanding multiphase flow and transport in porous media and applications of these principles to improved oil recovery and aquifer remediation.