The Executive Management Team
Wanda Sanders
President & CEO
- Corporate Long-term Strategy
- Strategic Direction & Goal Setting
- Risk Assessment
- M.B.A. from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, CA.
- Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a major in Finance from California State University in Sacramento, CA.
- Involved in the energy industry for the past eight years in various capacities from being an investor to project manager of acquired oil & gas properties and assets, including managing the financial aspects of the acquisitions.
- Became a consultant with PEMCO in 2013. PEMCO is a fifteen year old petroleum energy management company located in Tulsa, OK specializing in oil & gas asset acquisitions, operating oil & gas properties, oil well drilling, waterflood programs, property management, as well as development of oil & gas assets. Played a key role, as CFO, in managing the financial aspects of acquired oil & gas properties totaling over 8,000 acres and 200 oil & gas wells.
- Senior-level business leader with a successful track record of producing tangible results in three diverse industries: high tech, telecommunications and medical devices in the biotech field. Held executive-level positions at Hewlett Packard in Palo Alto, CA, Verizon Communications in Ashburn, VA and Alere, Inc. in San Diego, CA.
- Served as a member of several Philanthropy Boards administering an annual budget of $66M that involved designing and implementing Scholar Programs for students throughout the USA. Recently nominated and featured in the annual issue of the Minority MBA magazine and listed as one of the “Next Generation Business Leaders” to watch based on proven and outstanding leadership qualities. Possesses excellent administrative, financial, project management, leadership and communication skills.
Terry Carroll Sr.
Chief Operating Officer
- Manage Day-to-Day Operations
- Execute Business Strategies
- Set Goals for Business Growth
- B.S. Degree in Business Administration and Finance
from California State University, Hayward. - Over 35 Years of Experience in the Oil & Gas Industry.
- Oil & gas field exploration.
- Oil & gas field development.
- Served as a top executive with several oil & gas development and service companies.
- Supervised and provided daily management, as well as operations, for numerous oil and gas companies, partnerships and private investors.
- Involved in drilling and completing thousands of oil & gas wells.
- Constructed, operated, and maintained hundreds of miles of natural gas gathering pipeline, compression and dehydration facilities.
- Directly responsible for producing more than 15 BCF of gas and 750,000 BBLs of oil.
- Provided geological evaluation, drilling and pipeline construction services to oil field exploration and production companies located in Kansas and Oklahoma.
- Served as President, CEO and CFO of United States Exploration, Inc., a public company engaged in oil & gas exploration, development and operations. During his tenure as president, the Company went from a listing on the “Over The Counter” exchange with approximately $4,000,000 in assets, to a listing on the NASDAQ exchange with over $14,000,000 in assets. The Company last traded publicly on the American exchange with assets in excess of $36,000,000. The Company was purchased by a private entity in February, 2004 for approximately $53,300,000.
Ron Clark
Director of Communications
- Going Public
- Market Strategy
- Social Media Strategy
- Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from
Penn State University in State College, PA. - A highly creative senior level executive and entrepreneur with a broad base of business experience spanning over thirty five years. Successfully pioneered new markets and launched new products globally. Exceptional communication skills with in-depth experience communicating through a wide range of media including: digital media, internet, print, radio, TV, and infomercials. In-depth knowledge of computer hardware and software, as well as internet technology.
- Eight years of experience in the energy industry in various capacities from being a facilitator in the acquisition of oil & gas properties/assets, managing acquired hard assets, strategic planning, project management, filling the role of Chief Technology Officer, as well as being an investor.
- Business development consultant, starting in 2010, involved in “packaging” small oil & gas companies and their projects in order to be able to secure funding. Created marketing materials and PowerPoint presentations, developed Excel P&L spreadsheets for oil & gas projects, conducted webinars, setup and managed tours of oil & gas project sites, wrote contracts and agreements, developed business plans and business models, created and managed special purpose investor websites for oil & gas projects, and handled investor relations.
- Joined PEMCO in 2013 as a business development consultant. PEMCO is a fifteen year old petroleum energy management company located in Tulsa, OK specializing in oil & gas asset acquisitions, operating oil & gas properties, oil well drilling, waterflood programs, property management, as well as development of oil & gas assets. Played a key role in the acquisition of oil & gas properties totaling over 8,000 acres and over 200 oil & gas wells.
- Handles the public side of the ACQU Energy’s business with an immediate focus on getting the Company’s common stock trading on the OTC-QX. That includes managing consultants who have been hired to facilitate the process of going public, as well as seeing to it that all of the required filings with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) are completed in a timely fashion. Wrote the Company’s business plan and played a key role in establishing the Company’s business strategy and business model.
- Career spans working at NASA in Houston, TX, McDonnell Douglas in Huntington Beach, CA, Hewlett Packard (HP) in Palo Alto, CA, and Computervision in Bedford, MA, where he wrote the world’s first CAD/CAM paper that defined a whole new industry. After leaving corporate America became an entrepreneur and business development consultant working with startup and small companies. Co-founded Entertainment Sciences which developed the world’s first reprogrammable 2D/3D video arcade machine. Co-founded Digi which developed, patented, manufactured, created a 30 minute infomercial at a cost of $350,000, and marketed globally a sports oriented protective eyewear product that was superior to sunglasses.
- Over 35 years of experience as an investor in markets such as energy, real estate, stocks, gold, silver, and wine (first growth French wines such as Château Lafite Rothschild and Château Latour Médoc, as well as Napa Valley wines such as BV, Heitz, Mondavi, Grgich Hills and others). Invested in 30 single family homes.
Rick Coody
Vice President Field Operations
- Field Operations
- Asset Acquisitions
- Asset Development
- “Field General” in charge of oil field operations.
- A constant flow of new oil & gas opportunities/acquisitions comes across his desk because of his high-level connections and credibility within the industry.
- Handles oil & gas lease acquisitions, drilling new wells, and reworking old ones.
- Over 30 years of experience in the oil & gas industry. Spent the first 14 years working at Schlumberger.
- Career in the oil & gas industry has been mainly as a top executive in the well service sector or as an owner of a technology company.
- Hired as a consultant by numerous oil & gas companies to direct and manage new well drilling and field development programs.
- Involved as a consultant in over 250 wells from 2008 to 2015. Oil production from them ranged from 3 to 30 barrels of oil per day. Some wells involved a waterflood program.
- Excellent reputation in the industry for being able to execute each step of a drilling program through well completion and putting wells into production.
- Knows how to manage and work closely with geologists and drilling contractors, as well as with cementing and frac companies.
Nate Ushio
Vice President Business Development
- Develop & Implement Funding Strategies
- Acquisition Funding
- Investor Relations & Networking
- B.S. Degree in Business Administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
- Director of Marketing & Investor Relations at Cornerstone Acquisition & Management Company, where he was responsible for generating business development opportunities and securing investment capital for the firm’s oil & natural gas focused hedge funds.
- Seasoned expatriate with previous international assignments in the United Arab Emirates and Mexico. He assisted in the capital raising efforts for Argent Financial Group International, the first Middle Eastern hedge fund management firm domiciled within the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).
- Served in roles such as buy-side research analyst, trading/operationsmanager, and strategic management consultant.
