Governance at a Glance

Chair
Member
Board Members Audit Nominating and Governance Compensation Strategic Acquisitions

Rhys J. Best

General Donald G. Cook

Barbara J. Duganier

Donna E. Epps

Eric L. Oliver

Murray Stahl

Tyler Glover

Karl F. Kurz

Marguerite Woung-Chapman

Robert Roosa

Rhys J. Best

Rhys J. Best

Mr. Best serves as Chair of the Board (the "Chair") and has been a member of the Board since April 15, 2022. Mr. Best currently serves on the board of Arcosa Inc. (NYSE: ACA) (since 2018), where he serves as the non-executive Chairman of the Board. Mr. Best previously served on the board of Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. (from 2008 to 2021), his term ending after the company merged with Cimarex Energy in 2021 to form Coterra Energy (NYSE: CTRA). Mr. Best also previously served on the boards of Commercial Metals Company (NYSE: CMC) (from 2010 to 2022), Crosstex Energy, LP, an integrated, multi-commodity midstream enterprise (NASDAQ: XTEX) (from 2004 to 2014, including serving as Chairman of the Board from 2009 to 2014), MRC Global, Inc., a pipe, valve and fitting distribution business (NYSE: MRC) (from 2008 to 2022, including serving as Chairman of the Board from 2016 to 2022), Trinity Industries, Inc. (NYSE: TRN) (from 2005 to 2018), and Austin Industries, an employee-owned construction company (from 2007 to 2018, including serving as Chairman of the Board from 2013 to 2018).

Mr. Best is the former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Lone Star Technologies, Inc., an energy services and supply company, a role he retired from in 2007 after the successful merger with United States Steel Company (NYSE: X). Since 2022, Mr. Best has completed various board education programs with NACDNTX, UT's Government Enforcement Institute, Pearson Partners International and Latino Corporate Directors Program, including presenting or participating as a panel member in programs on risk and diversity.

General Donald G. Cook

General Donald G. Cook

General Cook has been a member of the Board since January 11, 2021. General Cook currently serves on the board of Cybernance, Inc. (since 2016). General Cook previously served on the boards of Crane Co. (NYSE: CR) (from 2015 to 2022), USAA Federal Savings Bank (from 2007 to 2018), U.S. Security Associates Inc., a Goldman Sachs portfolio company (from 2011 to 2018), and Hawker Beechcraft Inc. (from 2007 to 2014), another Goldman company. General Cook served on the board of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad for almost five years until it was sold to Berkshire Hathaway in 2010 in a transaction valued at $44 billion. He is a former senior consultant for Lockheed Martin Corporation. General Cook also serves as a senior advisor to Portage Point Partners as well as Alvest, a private French aviation firm from 2022-2023. In addition to his extensive corporate governance experience, General Cook the past Chairman of the San Antonio advisory board of the NACD Texas TriCities Chapter, a group recognized as the authority on leading boardroom practices. General Cook had numerous command and high-level staff assignments during his 36-year career with the U.S. Air Force and retired as a four-star General. He commanded a flying training wing and two space wings, the 20th Air Force (the nation’s nuclear Intercontinental Ballistic Missile force), and was interim Commander of Air Combat Command during the September 11 attacks. General Cook served as the Chief of the Senate Liaison Office and on the staff of the House Armed Services Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. Prior to his retirement from the Air Force in August 2005, General Cook's culminating assignment was Commander, Air Education and Training Command at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas, where he was responsible for executing the $8 billion annual budget to recruit, train, and educate Air Force personnel, safely implementing the 500,000-hour annual flying hour program, and providing for the leadership, welfare, and oversight of 90,000 military and civilian personnel in the command. He was twice awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for exceptional leadership.

General Cook serves on and is the chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and serves on the Compensation Committee.

Barbara J. Duganier

Barbara J. Duganier

Ms. Duganier has been a member of the Board since January 11, 2021. Ms. Duganier currently serves on the boards of CenterPoint Energy (NYSE: CNP), an electric transmission and distribution, natural gas distribution and energy services company, where she chairs the audit committee and serves on the governance, environmental and sustainability committee, and on the board of Arcadis NV (Euronext: ARCADIS) where she serves on the sustainability committee and the audit and risk committee. Ms. Duganier also serves on the boards of two private companies: McDermott International, Ltd. (since 2020), a fully integrated provider of engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry, where she chairs the audit committee and serves on the risk committee; and Pattern Energy Group LP (since 2020), a private renewable energy company focused on wind, solar, transmission and storage where she chairs the audit committee. Ms. Duganier previously served on the boards of the general partner of Buckeye Partners, L.P. (NYSE: BPL), Noble Energy (NASDAQ: NBL), West Monroe Partners, and MRC Global Inc. (NYSE: MRC) (2015 – 2024).

From 2004 to 2013, Ms. Duganier was a Managing Director at Accenture. Prior to that, she served as an independent consultant to Duke Energy North America. From 1979 to 2002, Ms. Duganier worked at Arthur Andersen LLP. Ms. Duganier also serves on the board of John Carroll University, and is the past chairperson of the National Association of Corporate Directors Texas TriCities (NACD TTC) board of directors. Ms. Duganier holds the NACD Director Certification, is an NACD Leadership Fellow, and holds the CERT Cybersecurity Oversight Certification from Carnegie Mellon University. She is also a member of the NACD's Board Advisory Services faculty.

Ms. Duganier serves on and is the chair of the Compensation Committee and serves on the Audit Committee and the Strategic Acquisitions Committee.

Donna E. Epps

Donna E. Epps

Ms. Epps has been a member of the Board since January 11, 2021. Ms. Epps currently serves on the board of Saia, Inc. (NASDAQ: SAIA) (since 2019), where she serves on the audit committee and the nominating and governance committee, and on the board of Texas Roadhouse, Inc. (NASDAQ: TXRH), where she serves as chair of the audit committee, and as a member of the nominating and governance committee and the compensation committee. Ms. Epps was with Deloitte LLP, a multinational professional services network, for over 30 years. Ms. Epps served as an attest Partner of Deloitte LLP from 1998 through 2003 and as a Risk and Financial Advisory Partner of Deloitte LLP from 2004 until her retirement in 2017.

Ms. Epps is currently a licensed certified public accountant in the State of Texas and a member of the North Texas Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors Board. Ms. Epps has served as chair of the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas Board since April 2021 and Treasurer and finance committee chair of Readers2Leaders in Dallas, Texas since 2019.

Ms. Epps serves on and is the chair of the Audit Committee and serves on the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Eric L. Oliver

Eric L. Oliver

Mr. Oliver has been a member of the Board since January 11, 2021. Mr. Oliver currently serves as the President of SoftVest Advisors, a registered investment adviser that acts as an investment manager for private fund clients. Mr. Oliver additionally serves as the President of HeartsBluff Music Partners, LLC and Carrizo Springs Music Partners, LLC, both of which are registered investment advisers pursuant to an umbrella registration filed by SoftVest Advisors, LLC. Previously, Mr. Oliver was President of Midland Map Company, LLC, a Permian Basin oil and gas lease and ownership map producer from 1997 until its sale in January of 2019 to Drilling-Info, and was Principal of Geologic Research Centers LLC, a log library providing geological data to the oil and gas industry with a library in Abilene, Texas, sold in 2019. Additionally, Mr. Oliver served on the board of Texas Mutual Insurance Company from 2009 until he retired in July 2021. He has also served as a director on the board of AMEN Properties, Inc. (OTC: AMEN) since July 2001 and was appointed Chairman of the Board in September 2002.

Mr. Oliver serves on the Audit Committee.

Education: Mr. Oliver received a B.A. in Chemistry from Abilene Christian University in 1981.

Murray Stahl

Murray Stahl

Mr. Stahl has been a member of the Board since January 11, 2021. Mr. Stahl is the Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board and co-founder of Horizon Kinetics Holding Corporation (OTC: SLGDD) and serves as Chief Investment Officer of Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary (together, "Horizon Kinetics"). He has over 30 years of investing experience and is responsible for overseeing Horizon Kinetics' proprietary research and chairs the firm's investment committee, which is responsible for portfolio management decisions across the entire firm. Horizon Kinetics' investment portfolio included a 6.8% voting position in Landbridge Company LLC (NYSE: LB) as of July 12, 2024. He is also the Co-Portfolio Manager for a number of registered investment companies, private funds, and institutional separate accounts.

Mr. Stahl is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FRMO Corp. (OTC: FRMO) and has been a director since 2001. He is also Chief Investment Officer and a member of the board of RENN Fund, Inc. (NYSE: RCG) (since 2017), the Bermuda Stock Exchange, MSRH, LLC, and the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. He was a member of the board of Winland Electronics, Inc. (from 2015 to 2020) and IL&FS Securities Services Limited (from 2008 to 2020). Prior to co-founding Horizon Kinetics, Mr. Stahl spent 16 years at Bankers Trust Company (from 1978 to 1994) as a senior portfolio manager and research analyst. As a senior fund manager, he was responsible for investing the Utility Mutual Fund, along with three of the bank's Common Trust Funds: The Special Opportunity Fund, The Utility Fund and The Tangible Assets Fund. He was also a member of the Equity Strategy Group and the Investment Strategy Group, which established asset allocation guidelines for the Private Bank.

Mr. Stahl serves on the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and the Strategic Acquisitions Committee.

Tyler Glover

Tyler Glover

Tyler Glover serves as TPL Corporation’s President and Chief Executive Officer and is a member of the TPL Corporation board. Mr. Glover also serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Texas Pacific Water Resources, in which capacity he has acted since its formation. Mr. Glover also served as Chief Executive Officer, Co-General Agent and Secretary of TPL Trust. Mr. Glover, a Midland native, has over 10 years of energy services and land management experience.

Karl F. Kurz

Karl F. Kurz

Mr. Kurz has been a member of the Board since April 15, 2022. Mr. Kurz is currently a non-executive chairman of the board at American Water Works Co., Inc. (NYSE: AWK) and a member of the board at Devon Energy Corporation (NYSE: DVN) where he serves on the compensation committee, governance, environmental & public policy committee and chairs the reserves committee. Mr. Kurz previously served on the public company boards of SemGroup Corporation (NYSE: SEMG), Western Gas Partners LP (NYSE: WES), WPX Energy Inc. (NYSE: WPX), and Global Geophysical Services Inc. (NYSE: GGS). Mr. Kurz has served on multiple for profit and non-profit boards.

Mr. Kurz also has extensive private equity experience that includes serving as an operating advisor at Ares Capital and a partner at CCMP Capital Advisors, where he focused on investments in the oil and gas upstream and midstream sectors. He spent nine years at Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, where he held roles as Chief Operating Officer, Senior Vice President of Northern America Operations, and Vice President of Midstream and Marketing.

Mr. Kurz serves on and is the chair of the Strategic Acquisitions Committee and serves on the Compensation Committee.

Marguerite Woung-Chapman

Marguerite Woung-Chapman

Ms. Woung-Chapman has been a member of the Board since November 10, 2023. Ms. Woung-Chapman serves as a director of Summit Midstream Corporation (NYSE: SMC). SMC focuses on developing, owning and operating midstream energy infrastructure assets located in unconventional resource basins, primarily shale formations, in the continental United States. She currently serves as chair of their nominating, governance and sustainability committee and as a member of their compensation committee. Ms. Woung-Chapman also serves on the board of directors of Chord Energy Corporation (NASDAQ: CHRD), an independent energy company that acquires, exploits, develops and explores for crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids primarily in the Williston Basin in the United States. She serves on Chord Energy's compensation and human resources committee, and as chair of its nominating and governance committee.

She was previously a member of the board directors of Oasis Petroleum, Inc. and chair of the board of directors and President of the Council of the Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council. Ms. Woung-Chapman began her career as a corporate attorney with El Paso Corporation (including its predecessors) and during her tenure from 1991 until 2012, served as Vice President, Legal Shared Services, Corporate Secretary and Chief Governance Officer, among other positions. From 2012 to 2017, Ms. Woung-Chapman served in various capacities at EP Energy Corporation, a private company that subsequently became an NYSE-listed independent oil and gas exploration and production company, including, among others, Senior Vice President, Land Administration, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. In 2018, Ms. Woung-Chapman served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Energy XXI Gulf Coast, Inc., an independent exploration and production company that was engaged in the development, exploitation and acquisition of oil and natural gas properties in the U.S. Gulf Coast region until its acquisition by Cox Oil.

Ms. Woung-Chapman serves on the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Education: Ms. Woung-Chapman holds a Bachelor of Science in Linguistics from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Robert Roosa

Robert Roosa

Robert M. Roosa has been a member of the Board since November 10, 2023. Mr. Roosa is a Partner in Brigham Royalties, LLC ("Brigham Royalties"), and has served as its Chief Executive Officer since January 2023. Mr. Roosa previously served as President of Brigham Minerals, Inc. (NYSE: MNRL) ("Brigham") from its inception in November 2012 and as its Chief Executive Officer from July 2017 until its acquisition by Sitio Royalties Corp. in December 2022. Mr. Roosa also served as a director of Brigham from May 2018 until 2022. Mr. Roosa served as the President of Anthem Ventures, LLC, a family office, between January 2012 and January 2017.

Mr. Roosa held various roles, including Director of Finance and Investor Relations, while at Brigham Exploration Company from 2006 until its sale to Statoil ASA in December 2011. From 2000 to 2006, Mr. Roosa held a series of positions at Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM), an oil and gas company, in the Corporate Treasurer's Department. Prior to 2000, Mr. Roosa worked for Cooper Industries, an electrical products manufacturing company, in its Corporate Controllers and Audit Groups and with the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche LLP in its audit function.

Mr. Roosa graduated from Southern Methodist University with a Master of Business Administration and from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Business Administration.

Mr. Roosa serves on the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Strategic Acquisitions Committee.