Luis Baez is owner and principal advisor to Allerton Resource Associates. Luis is the former Permian Basin Water Manager for ConocoPhillips. Since 2021, he has served as the Permian Basin Non-Operated Manager for both ConocoPhillips and Shell. Prior to this role, Luis was the International Unconventional Shales Manager for Shell, where he managed Shell’s inventory in Argentina, Ukraine, China, the Middle East, Africa, and Australia. In this capacity, he was responsible for the exploration, appraisal, field development, and optimization of various unconventional fields with diverse depositional settings.

Luis was the Technical Director and Exploration Manager for the development of Marcellus, Haynesville, and Eagle Ford Shales. Luis has extensive experience in the exploration and development of shales and coal seam gas projects operating in the US and several other countries.

He graduated as a Geologist from the University of Liverpool, England, in 2001. Luis currently serves with AAPG, SPE/AAPG/SEG URTEC and the SPE Permian Basin Energy Conference.

Robert Ballantyne served the United States as a United States Marine. He is an electrical engineer with his follow-on education concentrating on Molecular and Atomic spectroscopy. His body of science research work focuses on environmental monitoring, mitigation, and remediation systems design. With an emphasis on waste stream reduction. His current role as SVP, Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopist for RWI Evaporation has allowed him to pursue the raw scientific research into ways to fundamentally change environmental mitigation markets and methods.

Kelly Bennett is the co-founder and CEO at B3 Insight, the leading provider of water data and analytics for diverse industries to empower profitable and responsible water-related decisions. Kelly has spent his career making obscure natural resource and commodity data usable for high value decision making. Prior to B3, Kelly built the global energy desk at BENTEK Energy and co-founded Ponderosa Energy, an oil and gas market analytics company acquired by Enverus in 2016. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the Internet of Water at Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. Kelly holds a B.S. in Diplomacy and World Affairs from Occidental College.

B.G. has more than 35 years of experience developing and managing Oil & Gas services, water infrastructure, and related technology solutions. Immediately prior joining Composite Piping Technologies, he served as the Chief Development Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Streamline Innovations®, where he led commercialization of the Valkyrie®, a biodegradable chemical H2S treating system for Oil & Gas, renewable energy, and carbon capture. B.G. led development of the first full-scale commercial saltwater pipeline and disposal system as a consultant then as VP and General Manager for Heckmann Water Resources/Nuverra (now Select). Additionally, he co-founded and led as President of Water Midstream Partners, the Oil & Gas industry’s first dedicated commercial saltwater pipeline and disposal system serving the Permian Basin and was COO with Solaris Water Midstream following their acquisition of Water Midstream. Throughout his career, B.G. has worked on more than 100 projects with overall construction values exceeding $4 billion. He received his B.B.A in Marketing with an emphasis in Transportation/Logistics from the New Mexico State University and holds several patents and patents pending related to gas treating technology.

Robert Crain has served as Executive Vice President of Texas Pacific Water Resources since its formation in June 2017. Prior to TPWR, Mr. Crain led water resource development efforts for EOG Resources across multiple basins, including the Permian and Eagleford. During his career, he has successfully developed multiple large-scale sourcing, distribution and treatment systems across multiple platforms and industries. Additionally, Mr. Crain has helped develop various technical and analytical process/service packages that facilitate the effective treatment and implementation of brackish and produced water streams into sourcing programs. Mr. Crain holds dual Bachelor of Science Degrees (Water Resources and Criminal Justice) from Texas State University as well as an M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Tyler.

Chadd is lead portfolio manager of the Ave Maria Growth Focused Fund and co-portfolio manager of the Ave Maria Growth Fund. He is also responsible for equity research functions for the firm. Previously, Chadd analyzed public equities as a Managing Director at SQ Advisors. Prior thereto Chadd worked in private equity as a Managing Director at Gulf Coast Capital Partners and as Vice President at Comvest Partners. Before his work in private equity, Chadd was an Associate in the mergers and acquisitions group at CIBC World Markets.

Chadd has a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Resource and Economics from The University of Arizona and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University. He is a board member and CFO of The Rising Farmworker Dream Fund and is a Knight in the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. He is a CFA® charterholder.

Thomas Jacob is a Senior Vice President and heads up Rystad Energy’s global oilfield services data and research teams covering the drilling, completions and production services markets.

Pat Knapp is a partner and member of the Mergers and Acquisitions practice group. Prior to joining the firm, Pat served as executive vice president, general counsel, and secretary for a NASDAQ-traded energy company, where he managed all legal, risk, compliance, regulatory, HR, and insurance matters and led numerous M&A and public securities financing transactions. In addition to his in-house leadership experience, Pat brings a broad perspective on complex M&A transactions, corporate securities and board governance matters, and a range of commercial and financial transactions. His experience spans upstream, midstream, and downstream energy companies, infrastructure providers, and industrial development.

Jordan Lake has served as the Vice President, Commercial Water Development, for Western Midstream since October 2025. Mr. Lake has more than 13 years of experience spanning the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors in the energy industry. Over his career, Mr. Lake has held a variety of increasing roles and responsibilities in commercial development, project management, and midstream operations at Aris Water Solutions, ExxonMobil, and Enterprise Products. Prior to joining Western Midstream, Mr. Lake served as Vice President of Commercial Development for Aris Water Solutions. Mr. Lake holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree in Management from Baylor University.

Pat Lewis is VP of Water Treatment and Design at CIP, where he leads H2S control and treatment process design for produced water. He works with producers and midstream operators to build treatment programs that hold spec in the field, protect the people handling the water, and keep it moving across custody transfer points to UIC injection, reuse, or compliant discharge. Before CIP, Pat founded a chemical compounding company that developed custom treatment chemistries for oil and gas production, midstream water systems, and produced water recycling, with a focus on H2S control. That work led to his creation of CIP-400 (now CIP-H2X), an H2S treatment chemistry built for the sour, high-volume water moving from producer pads through midstream gathering to disposal and reuse. Several of his formulations are patented or patent-pending.

Kirby Lindsey is Vice President, Strategic Projects at Occidental Oil & Gas Corporation. He is a Senior Executive with over two decades of oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) leadership across USA and Middle East onshore and offshore developments. For the past 20 years, he has been employed by Occidental (Oxy) and has worked and lived in the USA, UAE, Qatar and Oman, partnering with host governments and National Oil Companies (NOC), including Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Oman Oil on E&P and JV programs.

With Texas roots of almost 200 years, Charles is a 6th Generation Texan, of which, five generations have called South Texas home. His family has been ranching in Bee County since the 1880’s. He and his wife Kris raise registered quarter horses and run a small herd of commercial Brangus cows in Central and South Texas. Charles studied Range and Wildlife Management at Texas Tech University where, as a student of Drs. Fred Bryant and Russ Pettit, he began a lifetime passion for all things wild and wonderful with an eye toward healthy soils and ecosystems through native plants. He has a special place in his heart for bobwhite quail and “yard birds.” Charles has an entrepreneurial spirit that has propelled him into business ventures in retail, direct sales, residential and commercial construction, real estate, ranching and, most recently, industrial by-product water and related technologies. Upon his father’s retirement from a well-known Texas farm and ranch organization, the two of them began a consulting group dedicated to agriculture and landowner issues, working to make sure that for-profit companies better understood and respected the unique perspective of rural Texans. As an outgrowth of that work, Charles developed a strong working relationship in the non-profit sector as well. Charles currently serves as Advocacy Director for South Texans’ Property Rights Association. While based in South Texas, STPRA’s work positively impacts the lives of Texans across the whole state. Along with nine other key policy areas, his role with STPRA has kept him attuned to water and water policy as it relates to private property and landowner rights. With a desire to help find “new” water for a drying Texas, in early 2025 Charles decided that a role with Fit For Purpose 2100 would complement his ongoing work on behalf of Texas landowners. F4P is a startup focused on ensuring the safety and efficacy of beneficial reuse of industrial by-product water. Preferring policy over politics, you will find him in Austin working at the Texas Capitol during Texas’ every other year legislative sessions. In between, he spends much of his time on grassroots education and outreach while working to build sustainable agriculture focused businesses with a view toward land stewardship.

Mr. Otto has 25+ years as a pioneer in water treatment and filtration. As President of Industrial Process Filtration, he continues to deliver cutting-edge solutions for the produced water and completions markets.

Sean Puryear serves as the Chief Executive Officer for Permian Oilfield Partners and oversees the company’s corporate strategy and operations. Prior to joining the company, Sean led the water team at Mewbourne Oil Company where he was responsible for the development and management of the companies produced water infrastructure. Sean also served as senior engineer in both drilling and production, having supervised the development of numerous oil, gas & swd wells in West Texas and New Mexico. Sean holds a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Texas Tech University.

Jason Schumacher is a partner at the law firm O’Melveny & Myers LLP. His practice
focuses on advising energy and oil and gas clients in:
• Mergers, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures
• Joint development projects
• Operational affairs
• Project development
• Financing arrangements
Jason has closed transactions totaling billions of dollars and has documented joint venture arrangements and energy facility projects involving committed aggregate expenditures in the billions. Clients call on him for disputes, arbitrations and mediations involving energy and oil and gas holdings and operations.

Pete is known in the O&G industry for organizing the largest completions supply chain business conferences in the United States – something he has been doing for almost a decade.

Joseph Triepke is an accomplished energy professional with over two decades of experience in energy finance, research, publishing, and large-scale events. His career began on Wall Street where he covered publicly traded oilfield service on both the sell-side and the buy-side for firms including Jefferies, JP Morgan, Guggenheim, and Citadel. Since then, has successfully founded and co-founded four highly respected firms to serve energy capital allocators with independent data, research publications, and industry conferences. In addition to co-managing Oilfield Water Connection, Joseph leads the shale research teams at Lium Research and Infill Thinking and co-manages The Power Connection.