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Ted is a petroleum engineer with over 25 years of experience. He has designed, implemented, and evaluated hydraulic fracture treatments in California, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Texas, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Argentina, Hungary, Poland Russia, and China. Ted was involved in the very first Vaca Muerta wells in Neuquen Basin of Argentina as well as some of the first Haynesville completions. He has been involved in the design, execution, and evaluation of many of the unconventional resource stimulations in the world.

Ted worked started his career with The Western Company as a field engineer in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico/Colorado where the focus was Coal Bed Methane stimulation and cementing services. As he was promoted within Western, he was a technical sales representative and in-house engineer where the focus was broadened to include low perm, tight gas reservoirs.

After leaving The Western Company (BJ Services), Ted worked for Schlumberger as a sales engineer, district engineer, and in-house engineer. This work was focused on cementing, stimulation, and coil tubing services. Ted’s primary focus was the Rocky Mountain region with some exposure to Oklahoma and Kansas reservoirs. He learned the benefit of integrating multiple service lines to determine a better answer for the client. It was during his time at Schlumberger that Ted helped develop 9.5 ppg completion cement slurries.

Ted also worked for NCS Multistage as the Frac Engineering Manager. This experience allowed him to gain unique insights into fracture stimulation treatments as bottomhole pressure/temperature gauges were deployed during stimulation treatments that used the NCS system.

Ted has held several positions with APEX Petroleum Engineering. He started as a Frac Engineer and has been promoted to Operations Manager, on to Vice President of Engineering and President. During his time at APEX, Ted has been involved in hydraulic fracturing treatment design, execution, and evaluation ranging from vertical tight gas wells to unconventional horizontal wells. This experience domestically was from California to Pennsylvania and North Dakota to Mississippi across most of the major basins. Internationally, the experience was in Argentina, Hungary, Poland, Russia and China.

He holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Petroleum Engineering from New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM.

Paul DeBonis is Advisor to the President at APEX Petroleum Engineering in Denver, CO. He will be heavily involved in the sales process, leveraging his extensive network of industry contacts; while assisting the BD team in developing new business offerings based on APEX’s current integrated service workflows.

Paul has 37 years of experience in the oil industry mainly focused on developing businesses in the completions engineering segment. He recently completed an 8.5-year career at the KEANE Group where he was one of the founding members of the executive team along with serving as COO and Advisor to the Chairman. While Paul was in the COO role, Keane grew from 80 employees and one frac crew into a multibillion-dollar public company and safety leader in the plug and perf fracturing space. Paul is widely known as an industry leader for the advancement of stage frac’ing focusing on efficiencies at the wellsite, driving down costs, and maximizing production via technology application.

Prior to the KEANE Group, Paul was US President-Pipeline Construction at Big Country Energy Services; US President-Fracturing, Wireline Services, Testing and Flowback Services at Pure Energy; and 23 years at Schlumberger (Dowell) in various business development roles throughout the Rockies. During his tenure at Schlumberger Paul co-authored 2 SPE Papers and was given recognition as one of the inventors of the POWERSTIM process, receiving multiple Chairman Awards.

John T. Harkrider, CFO, has over 30 years of operational and financial management experience in entrepreneurial operating companies and private equity/hedge fund management. In addition to responsibilities for financial reporting and business forecasting/planning and implementation, John will oversee human resource functions and external administrative relationships.

Mr. Harkrider has been the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer for BlackGold Capital Management LP (an affiliate of KKR & Co.), an energy-focused credit hedge fund managing up to $2b AUM. He was responsible for firm operations, maintaining third-party service provider relationships as well as general legal and compliance functions. He was also a member of the Risk and Valuation Committees. Prior to BlackGold, he was a Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer at Kenmont Capital and Kenmont Investments, a $500 million credit hedge fund focused on the energy, power and transportation sectors. In addition to managing the business operations of the firm, he was also responsible for general legal and compliance, financial reporting, investor relations and the due diligence and monitoring of private equity funds. Mr. Harkrider had previously been the President of a subsidiary operating company of then publicly traded Consolidated Graphics, Inc. where he was responsible for stabilizing and turning around the distressed acquisition. He has been a Regional Controller for Hines Interests Limited Partnership, a fully integrated international real estate investment and management firm, and he began his career Arthur Andersen LLP in the Financial Services Division. He is a CPA and received a B.B.A. degree in Accounting from Stephen F. Austin State University.

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