External Advisory Committee
UT PGE seeks the advice and consultation of an External Advisory Committee (EAC), made up of oil and gas industry leaders. Through this mechanism, faculty and EAC members enhance teaching excellence and improve the recruitment effort of quality students.
The EAC structure provides a means for faculty to learn about technical, business, and philosophical trends taking place in industry. Similarly, the EAC provides a format in which the department can inform industry about current thinking in academia.
UT PGE is grateful for our dedicated and insightful current EAC members:
| Name | Position | Company |
| Andrew Acock |
Production Domain Manager | Schlumberger |
| Arthur Beecherl | Chief Operating Officer | Verdad Resources |
| Dick Brannon |
CEO | CH4 Energy Six, LLC |
| Jason Craig | Managing Director | Denham Capital |
| David Dell'Osso |
Executive Vice President, COO | Parsley Energy |
| Anne Ekern |
Partnership Project Manager | ONS Foundation |
| Katie Gerrish *chair |
Exploration Access Manager | BHP Billiton |
| Claudia Hackbarth | Manager, Technology Learning | Shell Global Solutions |
| Cory Helms | Division Reservoir Engineering Manager | EOG Resources |
| Susan Howes |
Vice President of Engineering | Subsurface Consultants & Associates, LLC |
| Jillian Jopling |
Asset Manager | Hilcorp |
| Nathan Meehan |
President | Baker Hughes |
| Mark Patteson |
Vice President | Noble Energy |
| Allen Sanders |
VP Gulf of Mexico Operations | Anadarko Petroleum Corp |
| Mariya Townswick | Senior Reservoir Engineer | Kosmos Energy |
| Robert Vaughn | Managing Director and President | High River Resources, LLC |
| Marc Vela | East Regional Reservoir Engineering Manager | ExxonMobil Upstream Integrated Solutions |
| Randy Wilkins | President | Sydri Energy, Inc. |
| Pippa Zimmerman | VP Operations, East BU | BPX Energy, Inc. |
