Executive Officers

Ryan E. M. Cunningham, 46
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman

He is the President and Operational Partner of Cunningham Energy, LLC, an independent producer of oil and gas which he founded in 2008. He currently directs operations for Cunningham Energy, Marzcorp Oil & Gas Inc., Viper Capital Partners LLC and Raven Ridge Energy LLC. Mr. Cunningham served as operating partner of Black Crow Oil LLC from 2008 to 2010. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Cunningham was a sales trader with Oppenheimer & Co. (formerly CIBC World Markets), initially with the private client division and then in its institutional trading group with middle markets and institutional sales trading teams before becoming head sales trader in 2001. Mr. Cunningham has been a Board member of the West Virginia Oil & gas Association since 2013. Mr. Cunningham received a Bachelor of Arts degree on Environmental Policy from Rollins College.

Morgan (Mo) Fahimi, 46
Chief Financial Officer and Director Nominee

Since March 2021 Mr. Fahimi has led the sales efforts of Acuris, a media company specializing in high-value content for financial professionals and dealogic platforms, which is owned Acuris by ION Investment Group, a financial software and data business. Acuris provides all-encompassing data and intelligence sets for the equity and fixed income institutional community as well the private equity markets, and is known for its products fixed income research provider Debtwire and Mergermarket, a specialist in M&A intelligence. Mr. Fahimi joined Mergermarket in 2005 as head of sales, where he led the sales effort of the Debtwire division, a worldwide leading fixed income data and intelligence platform. From 2007 to 2020, Mr. Fahimi was Managing Director Head of Sales for the Dealreporter business within Mergermarket, a worldwide leading Risk Arbitrage Data and Intelligence platform, where he was responsible for initiating all commercial relationships and distribution of global Dealreporter., From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Fahimi was an account executive with CIBC World Markets in institutional Middle Market Sales and Trading. Mr. Fahimi is a director of Signal Research, a US and UK based Quantitative, Macro and Technical Analysis Research firm catering to the Institutional investment community. He received a BA in Economics from Kingston University, London, England.

Board of Directors

Abdiel A. Santiago, 41
Director Nominee

He has been the Secretariat (CEO/CIO) of the Fondo de Ahorro de Panamá (Panama’s Sovereign Wealth Fund) since 2013. From 2012 to 2013, he was a senior adviser at G-2 Capital focusing on financial restructuring opportunities. From 2005 to 2011, he was an equity investment research executive at Morgan Stanley in New York covering the energy and industrial sectors. From 1998 to 2002, Mr. Santiago served as a financial analyst/examiner at the US Securities and Exchange Commission overseeing financial/regulatory matters at broker-dealers and asset managers. Mr. Santiago received an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Denver.

Tyler Hardt, 42
Director nominee

Tyler Hardt is the Chief Investment Officer of Pelican Bay Capital Bay Management, LLC, which he founded in July 2018. From June 2009 to June 2018, Mr. Hardt was as an equity analyst on the Domestic Value Team at Artisan Partners Asset Management. From 2004 to 2005, he was a corporate development analyst on the Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Strategy group at AT&T and from 2005 to 2007 he was strategic planning analyst on the Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Strategy group at American Tire Distributors. Mr. Hardt received an MBA with Honors from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Maryland, where he graduated cum laude.

Gerald M. Titus III, 44
Director nominee

Gerald M.Titus III has been a member of Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC, a regional law firm based in Charleston, West Virginia since 2008. He represents clients in the oil and gas industry. Prior to joining Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC, Mr. Titus was an Assistant United States Attorney for the United States Department of Justice. He received JD and Bachelor degrees from Washington and Lee University.