Management

Floyd C. Wilson serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.  Mr. Wilson served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Petrohawk Energy Corporation from May 2004 until BHP Billiton acquired Petrohawk in August 2011.  Mr. Wilson also served as President of Petrohawk from May 2004 until September 2009.  Prior to May 2004, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of PHAWK, LLC which he founded in June 2003.  Mr. Wilson was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of 3TEC Energy Corporation from August 1999 until its merger with Plains Exploration & Production Company in June 2003.  Mr. Wilson founded W/E Energy Company L.L.C., formerly known as 3TEC Energy Company L.L.C. in 1998 and served as its President until August 1999.  Mr. Wilson began his career in the energy business in Houston, Texas in 1970 as a completion engineer.  He moved to Wichita, Kansas in 1976 to start an oil and gas operating company, one of several private energy ventures which preceded the formation of Hugoton Energy Corporation in 1987, where he served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.  In 1994, Hugoton completed an initial public offering and was merged into Chesapeake Energy Corporation in 1998.

Stephen W. Herod serves as President.  Mr. Herod served as Executive Vice President - Corporate Development and Assistant Secretary of Petrohawk Energy Corporation from August 2005 until BHP Billiton acquired Petrohawk in August 2011.  Mr. Herod served as Vice President - Corporate Development of Petrohawk from May 2004 until August 2005.  Prior to joining Petrohawk, he was employed by PHAWK, LLC from its formation in June 2003 until May 2004.  He served as Executive Vice President - Corporate Development for 3TEC Energy Corporation from December 1999 until its merger with Plains Exploration & Production Company in June 2003 and as Assistant Secretary from May 2001 until June 2003.  Mr. Herod served as a director of 3TEC from July 1997 until January 2002.  Mr. Herod served as the Treasurer of 3TEC from 1999 until 2001. From July 1997 to December 1999, Mr. Herod was Vice President - Corporate Development of 3TEC.  Mr. Herod served as President and a director of Shore Oil Company from April 1992 until the merger of Shore with 3TEC's predecessor in June 1997.  He joined Shore's predecessor as Controller in February 1991.  Mr. Herod was employed by Conquest Exploration Company from 1984 until 1991 in various financial management positions, including Operations Accounting Manager.  From 1981 to 1984, Superior Oil Company employed Mr. Herod as a financial analyst.

Mark J. Mize serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer.  Mr. Mize served as Executive Vice President - Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Petrohawk Energy Corporation from August 2007 until BHP Billiton acquired Petrohawk in August 2011.  Mr. Mize served as the Chief Ethics Officer and Insider Trading Compliance Officer for Petrohawk until June 2009.  Additionally, he served as Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller at Petrohawk from July 2005 until August 2007.  Mr. Mize first joined Petrohawk in November 2004 as Controller.  Prior to working at Petrohawk, Mr. Mize was the Manager of Financial Reporting of Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation, a public oil and gas exploration company, from January 2003 to November 2004.  Prior to his employment at Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation, he was an Audit Manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 1996 to 2002.  He is a Certified Public Accountant with a Bachelor degree in Accounting from the University of Houston.

David S. Elkouri serves as Executive Vice President - General Counsel.  Mr. Elkouri served as EVP—General Counsel and Secretary of Petrohawk Energy Corporation from 2007 until BHP Billiton acquired Petrohawk in August 2011.  He also served as Chief Ethics Officer and Insider Trading Compliance Officer of Petrohawk.  From 2004 to 2007, he served as lead outside counsel for Petrohawk.  Prior to that, Mr. Elkouri served as lead outside counsel for 3TEC Energy Corporation from 1999 to 2003.  He also served as lead outside counsel for Hugoton Energy Corporation from 1994 to 1998.  Mr. Elkouri is a co-founder of Hinkle Law Firm LLC where he practiced for 20 years prior to joining Petrohawk.  Mr. Elkouri is a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Law where he served as a Research Editor of the Kansas Law Review.

Larry L. Helm serves as Executive Vice President – Corporate Affairs.  Mr. Helm served as Executive Vice President - Finance and Administration of Petrohawk Energy Corporation from August 2007 until its sale to BHP Billiton in August 2011, where he served as Vice President - Transition until joining Halcón in 2013.  Mr. Helm served as Vice President - Chief Administrative Officer of Petrohawk from July 2004 until August 2005, and as Executive Vice President - Chief Administrative Officer of Petrohawk from August 2005 until August 2007.  Prior to serving as an executive officer, Mr. Helm served on Petrohawk's board of directors for approximately two months.  Mr. Helm was employed with Bank One Corporation from December 1989 through December 2003.  Mr. Helm served as Executive Vice President of Middle Market Banking from October 2001 to December 2003.  From April 1998 to August 1999, he served as Executive Vice President of the Energy and Utilities Banking Group.  Prior to joining Bank One, he worked for 16 years in the banking industry primarily serving the oil and gas sector.  He served as director of 3TEC Energy Corporation from 2000 to June 2003.

Charles E. Cusack III serves as Executive Vice President – Exploration.  Mr. Cusack served as Vice President - Exploration at Petrohawk Energy Corporation from 2005 until its sale to BHP Billiton in 2011, where he continued his role until joining Halcón in 2012.  Prior to joining Petrohawk, he was employed by PHAWK, LLC from its formation in 2003 until 2004.  Mr. Cusack held various technical and management positions at 3TEC Energy Corporation, Cockrell Oil, Amerada Hess, Chevron and Tenneco Oil.  Mr. Cusack began his career as a geologist with Gulf Oil in 1983 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Geology from Texas A&M University.

Mary Ellen Brook serves as Vice President – Land.  Ms. Brook served as Land Manager at The Yuma Companies, Inc. from 2006 to 2011.  From 2005 to 2006, she served as Senior Landman for Petrohawk Energy Corporation.  Ms. Brook was employed by Mission Resources from 2000 to 2005 as a Senior Landman.  She also worked as a Contract Landman for Cinco Energy Land Services from 1997 to 2000.  Ms. Brook began her career in 1990 as an independent Landman in Louisiana working for the law firm of Broadhurst, Brook, Mangham and Hardy.  Ms. Brook holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Louisiana State University and she is a member of the American Association of Professional Landmen and the Houston Association of Professional Landmen.

Jason E. Brown serves as Vice President – Corporate Development.  Mr. Brown was a managing member of Longbow Energy and provided consulting services to Petrohawk Energy Corporation and other independent oil and natural gas exploration and production companies since 2008.  He also formed Katy LongBow Partners, LLC in 2008 and serves as its President.  Prior to joining Longbow, Mr. Brown performed acquisitions and divestiture services for RBC Richardson Barr beginning in 2007.  Mr. Brown served as a Team Leader and Asset Manager for Petrohawk from 2006 to 2007 and for KCS Energy Inc. from 2005 until it was acquired by Petrohawk.  Prior to his employment at KCS, Mr. Brown was an engineering consultant at Guardian Energy Consultants and a reservoir engineer at KWB Oil, Inc. from 2002 until 2005 and a project manager at The Williams Companies, Inc. from 1999 until 2001.  Mr. Brown has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tulsa and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Notre Dame.

Richard G. DiMichele serves as Vice President - Midstream Operations and President of Halcón Field Services LLC.  Prior to joining Halcón in 2012, Mr. DiMichele served as President of Hawk Field Services, LLC, where he developed and operated scalable midstream systems in the Fayetteville, Haynesville and Eagle Ford shale plays.  From 2010 to 2011, he was President of KinderHawk Field Services, leading a midstream joint venture between Petrohawk Energy Corporation and Kinder Morgan focused on the Haynesville Shale.  From 2011 to 2012, he was President of EagleHawk Field Services, leading a midstream joint venture between Petrohawk and Kinder Morgan focused on the Eagle Ford Shale.  Mr. DiMichele spent 7 years in various executive capacities at Turnaround Partners, Inc. and Cinergy Corp. and as a consultant to Accent Energy Corporation and Cinergy Marketing and Trading.  Prior to that, he spent 9 years at Enron where he served as in various legal and managerial positions including as a Managing Director of Enron's European and Americas units.  Mr. DiMichele started his career as an associate attorney at Vinson & Elkins LLP.  He is a past member of the State Bar of Texas and has served on the Board of Trustees for St. Francis Episcopal Day School and Justice for Children.  Mr. DiMichele graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and received a law degree from The Ohio State College of Law.

Bart “Trey” P. Hartman III serves as Vice President - Controller.  Mr. Hartman served as Assistant Controller at BHP Billiton from 2011 to 2012.  Prior to that, he served as Assistant Controller of Petrohawk Energy Corporation from 2008 until its sale to BHP Billiton in 2011.  While at Petrohawk, Mr. Hartman also served as Director of Financial Reporting from 2006 to 2008.  From 2004 to 2006, he was Assistant Controller of Imperial Sugar Company and also served as Manager of Financial Reporting from 2002 to 2004.  Mr. Hartman began his career in the Audit practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP in September 1997.   Mr. Hartman has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting and a Master of Science degree in Accounting from Texas A&M University.  He is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Texas.

Leah R. Kasparek serves as Vice President – Human Resources.  Ms. Kasparek initially joined Halcón as Director, Human Resources in February 2012.  Ms. Kasparek served as Director of Human Resources at Southwestern Energy from 2009 to 2012.  She served as Division Vice President of Human Resources for CenterPoint Energy from 2004 until 2008.  Ms. Kasparek was employed in 1996 by Anheuser-Busch Companies and served as Division Vice President of Human Resources from 2001 until 2004.  Ms. Kasparek holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and earned a law degree from the University of Houston Law Center.

Nicholas D. Koch serves as Vice President – Operations (Woodbine).  Mr. Koch served as Operations Manager – Permian PU at BHP Billiton in 2012.  He served as Vice President - Resource Development at Petrohawk Energy Corporation from 2010 until its sale to BHP Billiton in 2011.  While at Petrohawk, he also served as Asset Manager in the Haynesville Shale from 2008 to 2010 and as a Drilling Engineer from 2007 to 2008.  Prior to that, Mr. Koch was a Drilling Engineer at ConocoPhillips from 2006 to 2007, as well as an engineer at ENSCO Offshore Company from 2003 to 2006.   Mr. Koch graduated from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and is a registered Petroleum Engineer.

Tina S. Obut serves as Vice President – Reserves.  Ms. Obut served as Senior Manager of Petroleum Resources at BHP Billiton Petroleum from 2011 to 2012.  Prior to that, she served as Senior Vice President - Corporate Reserves for Petrohawk Energy Corporation from 2005 until its sale to BHP Billiton in 2011.  From 2004 to 2006, Ms. Obut served as Manager of Reservoir Engineering Evaluations at El Paso Production Company.  In addition, she held various engineering, managerial and executive positions at Mission Resources, Ryder Scott Company and Chevron from 1989 to 2006.  Ms. Obut graduated from Marietta College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering, a Master of Science degree in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from Penn State and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Houston.

Joseph S. Rinando, III serves as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer.  Mr. Rinando initially joined Halcón as Director, Finance in February 2012.  Mr. Rinando served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Wilson Industries, a Schlumberger company, from 2010 to 2012.  Prior to joining Wilson, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Foxxe Energy Services, LLC, a private-equity owned international drilling rig contractor, from 2009 to 2010.  Prior to Foxxe, Mr. Rinando served as Vice President and Corporate Controller of Smith International, Inc. from 2006 until 2009 and as Director of Financial Reporting from 2003 to 2006.  From 1995 to 2003, he was in the Energy Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, most recently as an Audit Senior Manager, serving clients focused on exploration and production, natural gas transmission, power and utilities, petrochemicals and refining, and drilling.  Mr. Rinando has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting from Lamar University and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Texas.

James M. Stubbs serves as Vice President – Operations (Utica/Point Pleasant).  Mr. Stubbs has over 30 years of experience working in engineering and managerial roles overseeing the exploration and production of oil and gas in both domestic and international capacities.  Before joining Halcón in 2012, he served as owner and managing member of Stubbs Oil and Gas, LLC, an oil and gas investments, property management and consulting firm.  Prior to that, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of Nadel and Gussman, LLC, a privately held exploration & production company, from 2002 to 2008.  In addition, he spent 19 years working for ExxonMobil in variety of engineering and supervisory positions.  Mr. Stubbs graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.

David W. Tippett serves as Vice President and Chief Information Officer.  Mr. Tippett initially joined Halcón as Director, Technology in February 2012.  Mr. Tippett served as Sr. Manager - Systems Program at LINN Energy from 2008 to 2011.  Prior to joining LINN, he served as Sr. Manager, Oil & Gas Practice at BearingPoint Consulting in 2008.  From 2006 to 2007, Mr. Tippett served as E&P VP & Business Unit CIO, Information Technology at El Paso Exploration & Production.  He served as Sr. Manager, Information and Technology and Manager, eBusiness at Burlington Resources, Inc. from 2001 to 2006.  Prior to that, Mr. Tippett served in various Information Technology leadership roles from 1991 to 2001.  Mr. Tippett holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems from the University of Phoenix.

Jon C. Wright serves as Vice President – Operations (Bakken/Three Forks).  Mr. Wright served as W. Rockies Operations Manager at Newfield Exploration from 2009 to 2012.  Mr. Wright also served as Lead, Production for W. Oklahoma and Lead, Drilling for Woodford Shale from 2005 to 2009.  Prior to that, Mr. Wright was a Sr. Drilling Engineer at BP from 2004 to 2005.  He also served as Drilling Engineer from 2001 to 2004.  From 1997 to 2001, he held various drilling positions for CONOCO.  Mr. Wright graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering and went on to earn his Master of Business Administration degree from Rice University.

Scott M. Zuehlke serves as Vice President - Investor Relations.  Mr. Zuehlke initially joined Halcón as Director, Investor Relations in February 2012, having served HALRES LLC in a similar capacity since December 2011.  Mr. Zuehlke served as Director of Investor Relations at Geokinetics Inc. from 2010 to 2011.  From 2009 to 2010, he served as Manager, Finance and Investor Relations at Hercules Offshore, Inc.  Prior to that, Mr. Zuehlke spent a total of 11 years at Invesco Ltd., serving four years as an Equity Analyst focusing on the energy sector and seven years as a Market Data Associate.  Mr. Zuehlke graduated from the University of Texas with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and went on to earn his Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Houston.