Executive Management Team

Darin serves as the President and CEO of Mesa Minerals, which is focused on the acquisition of mineral and royalty portfolios across all the major shale basins in the US. Mesa is currently actively acquiring minerals and royalties in the Permian basin (Midland and Delaware), the Williston Basin and the Haynesville shale play in North Louisiana and East Texas.

Prior to forming the Mesa franchise, Darin served on the Executive Management team at Haymaker Minerals & Royalties, LLC (“Haymaker”). Haymaker successfully sold the majority of its assets in 2018 for over $450 million in cash and stock.

Additionally, Darin has also held executive management roles with Talisman Energy and Samson Resources in his career and has over twenty-six years of experience in oil and gas operations, land and business development, as well as over seventeen years in executive management roles with various upstream companies.

As COO and EVP of Engineering for Mesa Minerals, Greg’s responsibilities include overseeing acquisition evaluation, reserves, and portfolio management and optimization for the company. Greg has evaluated and underwrote thousands of acquisitions across all major U.S. shale plays.

Prior to joining Mesa, Greg co-founded and served as President of Hyridge Energy Partners with a commitment from Denham Capital to target non-operated E&P opportunities in the Anadarko and Permian Basins. Prior to the Hyridge Energy Partners, Greg was the Senior Acquisitions and Reservoir Engineer for Travis Peak Resources (“TPR”). While at TPR, Greg provided technical expertise on multi-rig developments while growing the leasehold position to over 90,000 net leasehold acres. Additionally, while at TPR, Greg championed a two-year mineral acquisition joint venture with Haymaker Minerals & Royalties focused in Grady and Canadian counties in the Anadarko Basin using an operator partnership model.

As EVP of Land and Business Development for Mesa Minerals, Josh oversees all aspects of Land and Land Administration including acquisitions, title, negotiations of purchase and sale agreements and all other contract negotiations. Prior to Mesa, Josh served as Land Manager at Haymaker Minerals & Royalties where he managed a team of land professionals responsible for over 600 transactions throughout the Permian, Eagleford, SCOOP/STACK, Appalachia, Haynesville and Bakken plays.

As CFO and EVP of Finance for Mesa Minerals, Michelle is responsible for the company’s financial management and strategy. Prior to Mesa, Michelle served as Vice President of Finance at Fortis Minerals, where she was responsible for the financial analysis of numerous transactions across the Permian and Anadarko basins. She has also held various positions in energy investment banking at both Evercore and Raymond James.

Michelle holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.