Board of Directors

Prior to co-founding Edge, Mr. Bomer was General Counsel at Natural Gas Partners (“NGP”). During his five years at NGP, Mr. Bomer led the structuring and execution of the substantial majority of NGP’s transactions. Mr. Bomer also led NGP’s first-time SEC registration and oversaw NGP’s compliance function. In addition to his legal responsibilities, Mr. Bomer also had an active role sourcing investments in the Mid-Continent region and monitoring portfolio companies throughout North America. Mr. Bomer served on NGP’s Investment Process Committee and Monitoring Committee and represented NGP on numerous private boards. Prior to joining NGP, Mr. Bomer was a Senior Associate in the Corporate and Securities group of Thompson & Knight LLP in Dallas, where his practice focused on the representation of energy private equity funds in all phases of their formation and operation. Prior to joining Thompson & Knight LLP, Mr. Bomer was a corporate associate at Johnson & Jones, P.C. in Tulsa, OK. Mr. Bomer received a B.S. in Finance, magna cum laude, in 2000 and a J.D., with highest honors, in 2003 from the University of Tulsa.

Prior to co-founding Edge, Mr. Pate was a Senior Associate at Natural Gas Partners (“NGP”). During his five years at NGP, Mr. Pate sourced, structured, executed, monitored and exited investments throughout North America. Mr. Pate served on NGP’s Monitoring Committee and focused on deal sourcing in the Mid-Continent, Permian and Rocky Mountain regions. Mr. Pate also represented NGP on numerous private boards. Prior to joining NGP, Mr. Pate worked in the investment banking division of Barclays Capital in Houston, where he focused on financing and merger and acquisition transactions in the oil and gas industry. Mr. Pate received a B.A. in Plan II and a B.B.A. in Finance with highest honors in 2007 from The University of Texas at Austin. He received an M.B.A. in 2014 from Stanford University, where he graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Dr. Vredenburg is a leading scholar in the areas of competitive strategy, innovation, sustainable development and corporate governance in the global energy and natural resource industries and serves as the Suncor Chair in Strategy and Sustainability. He was one of the visionaries who founded Haskayne’s Global Energy Executive MBA and served as its Academic Director from 2010 to 2018. He also holds an appointment as an International Research Fellow at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University in the UK.

He has authored or coauthored more than 50 frequently cited articles in leading international publications including Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, MIT Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Energy Policy, Energies, Technovation, International Journal of Economics & Business Research and Global Business & Economics Review. He has also coauthored government reports on industry regulation, innovation and competitiveness and on nuclear energy and he consults to industry. According to Google Scholar, his publications have been cited more than 5,000 times.

A popular teacher, he lectures in MBA, Executive MBA, doctoral, executive development and corporate directors programs. He was recently honoured with the 2016-2017 Haskayne MBA Society Top MBA Teacher Award, based on a vote by MBA students. He was also voted 2015-2016 Haskayne MBA Society Top MBA Teacher.

An entrepreneur for over 40 years having co-founded 5 E&P companies and a real estate company. David has participated as a founding shareholder in both high tech and private equity. He has a continuous and relentless drive for personal development and conscious awareness.

Mr. Schlegel is a P. Eng., a member of APEGA and has over 20 years of experience in the Oil and Gas Industry.

Prior to founding Banded Peak Energy, Mr. Schlegel was VP Engineering with Petrus Resources and held various engineering positions at CanEra Energy and Canadian Natural Resources.

Mr. Gabel has 28 years of oilfield services experience and is currently Lead Executive Director with Edge OFS. Mr. Gabel has successfully started, grown and sold multiple public and private oilfield services companies including Pure Energy Services Ltd and Canadian Sub-Surface Energy Services.

Mr. Tindall is a Director at Edge Natural Resources LLC and has been with the firm since 2015. Prior to joining Edge, Mr. Tindall worked in both the investment banking and equity research divisions of Raymond James in Houston, where he focused on financing and merger and acquisition transactions in the oil and gas industry. Mr. Tindall received a B.S.B.A. with majors in Finance and Economics, cum laude, from the University of Arkansas.

Mr. Adair has over 40 years experience in oil and gas.

Has completed three funding deals with members of the Edge team over the past 10 years prior to Prairie Thunder (Spry Energy, Canamax Energy, and Petrus Resources)