Kyle Taylor | Co-Founder and COO
Neil Cohen | CFO
Garin Wente | Co-Founder and CEO
Garin Wente has more than 10 years of experience spanning upstream oil and gas and acquisition and divestiture advisory. Prior to Epoch Resources, Wente was an Executive Vice President of Geosciences at Whitehorse Energy. Whitehorse successfully divested approximately 12,000 net acres in the Southern Delaware Basin for more than $150 million over three years. Previously, Wente was a Vice President in the acquisition and divestiture advisory at Wells Fargo Securities. White at Wells Fargo he was part of a multi-disciplinary team that successfully executed more than 10 transactions in excess of $6 billion in value. Wente has technical experience executing transactions in the Anadarko, Permian, Appalachian, Unita, San Juan, Raton and Wind River Basin as well as East Texas, North Louisiana and South Texas. From 2010-2014 Wente worked for Chesapeake Energy as a Geologist in both operational roles and new ventures. As an Operations Geologist for the Marcellus North team, Wente was involved in the planning and geosteering of more than 100 Marcellus Shale wells and production growth which produced up to two BCF per day. Wente started his career with an Oklahoma-based family company, Harding and Shelton, Inc. where he played an integral role in the early horizontal development of the Cleveland and Tonkawa sandstones across Dewey and Custer counties.
Wente graduated with a B.S. in Petroleum Geology and M.S. in Geology from the University of Oklahoma.
Garin Wente has more than 10 years of experience spanning upstream oil and gas and acquisition and divestiture advisory. Prior to Epoch Resources, Wente was an Executive Vice President of Geosciences at Whitehorse Energy. Whitehorse successfully divested approximately 12,000 net acres in the Southern Delaware Basin for more than $150 million over three years. Previously, Wente was a Vice President in the acquisition and divestiture advisory at Wells Fargo Securities. White at Wells Fargo he was part of a multi-disciplinary team that successfully executed more than 10 transactions in excess of $6 billion in value. Wente has technical experience executing transactions in the Anadarko, Permian, Appalachian, Unita, San Juan, Raton and Wind River Basin as well as East Texas, North Louisiana and South Texas. From 2010-2014 Wente worked for Chesapeake Energy as a Geologist in both operational roles and new ventures. As an Operations Geologist for the Marcellus North team, Wente was involved in the planning and geosteering of more than 100 Marcellus Shale wells and production growth which produced up to two BCF per day. Wente started his career with an Oklahoma-based family company, Harding and Shelton, Inc. where he played an integral role in the early horizontal development of the Cleveland and Tonkawa sandstones across Dewey and Custer counties.
Wente graduated with a B.S. in Petroleum Geology and M.S. in Geology from the University of Oklahoma.
Kyle Taylor | Co-Founder and COO
Kyle Taylor has a decade of engineering experience working across five major U.S. basins, holding various technical and leadership roles. Prior to Epoch Resources, Taylor was at Chesapeake Energy for 10 years, and had the opportunity to work with both unconventional and conventional reservoirs. He started his career as a Reservoir Engineer in the Eagle Ford for four years. Then, he moved to the Powder River basin as a Production Engineer, where he overhauled the artificial lift program, saving $100 million in future artificial costs, and opened an environmentally sensitive area for development. In addition, he was key in designing the field development strategy and worked closely with a team to plan an eight rig program and field infrastructure. After four years as a Production Engineer, he moved to Corporate Strategic Planning with the primary focus on portfolio optimization and working with business development and acquisition and divestiture evaluations. Taylor then served as a Project Manager for Utica and Marcellus assets, where he oversaw and managed an annual budget of $500 million and more than $1 billion of EBITDA. He collaborated with all disciplines across the business unit optimizing field development, operational schedules and assisted on closing and transitioning the $2 billion Utica divestment.
Taylor has a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Texas Tech University. He also is on the Board of Directors for the Oklahoma Engineering Foundation.
Kyle Taylor has a decade of engineering experience working across five major U.S. basins, holding various technical and leadership roles. Prior to Epoch Resources, Taylor was at Chesapeake Energy for 10 years, and had the opportunity to work with both unconventional and conventional reservoirs. He started his career as a Reservoir Engineer in the Eagle Ford for four years. Then, he moved to the Powder River basin as a Production Engineer, where he overhauled the artificial lift program, saving $100 million in future artificial costs, and opened an environmentally sensitive area for development. In addition, he was key in designing the field development strategy and worked closely with a team to plan an eight rig program and field infrastructure. After four years as a Production Engineer, he moved to Corporate Strategic Planning with the primary focus on portfolio optimization and working with business development and acquisition and divestiture evaluations. Taylor then served as a Project Manager for Utica and Marcellus assets, where he oversaw and managed an annual budget of $500 million and more than $1 billion of EBITDA. He collaborated with all disciplines across the business unit optimizing field development, operational schedules and assisted on closing and transitioning the $2 billion Utica divestment.
Taylor has a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Texas Tech University. He also is on the Board of Directors for the Oklahoma Engineering Foundation.
Neil Cohen | CFO
Neil Cohen has over 15 years of professional experience. Most recently, he served as a consultant to the management team of Crimson Renewable Energy Holdings, LLC, a leading producer and distributor of ultra-low carbon biodiesel. Previously, he served as Vice President Finance and Treasurer at Earthstone Energy, Inc. from December 2014 through June 2017, and as a Co-Founder of Oak Valley Resources, LLC from its formation in December 2012 until the closing of its strategic combination with Earthstone in 2014.
From 2006 to October 2011, Cohen was employed by UBS Investment Bank as a member of the Global Energy Group, with exposure to all energy subsectors and a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions and equity and debt financings on behalf of exploration and production clients, and as a member of UBS’ Debt Capital Markets Group, with a particular focus on investment grade bond offerings on behalf of energy, utility and real estate clients. He has been involved in $17 billion of announced mergers and acquisitions and $46 billion of bookrun equity and debt capital markets offerings.
He has held previous roles at Merrill Lynch (Debt Capital Markets and Debt Derivatives Finance and Hess Corporation (Finance). Cohen graduated with a B.S. degree in Finance from the University of Maryland.
Neil Cohen has over 15 years of professional experience. Most recently, he served as a consultant to the management team of Crimson Renewable Energy Holdings, LLC, a leading producer and distributor of ultra-low carbon biodiesel. Previously, he served as Vice President Finance and Treasurer at Earthstone Energy, Inc. from December 2014 through June 2017, and as a Co-Founder of Oak Valley Resources, LLC from its formation in December 2012 until the closing of its strategic combination with Earthstone in 2014.
From 2006 to October 2011, Cohen was employed by UBS Investment Bank as a member of the Global Energy Group, with exposure to all energy subsectors and a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions and equity and debt financings on behalf of exploration and production clients, and as a member of UBS’ Debt Capital Markets Group, with a particular focus on investment grade bond offerings on behalf of energy, utility and real estate clients. He has been involved in $17 billion of announced mergers and acquisitions and $46 billion of bookrun equity and debt capital markets offerings.
He has held previous roles at Merrill Lynch (Debt Capital Markets and Debt Derivatives Finance and Hess Corporation (Finance). Cohen graduated with a B.S. degree in Finance from the University of Maryland.