MEXCO ENERGY - Key Persons
CHRISTOPHER M. SCHROEDER was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company in October 2014. Mr. Schroeder graduated from the Harvard Business School with a Masters of Business Administration degree with honors. Form 1988 to 1992 he served as a special assistant on the staff of Secretary of State James Baker III. In 1996, Mr. Schroeder joined The Washington Post Company and served in a variety of positions during his four year tenure with the company, including Treasurer and Vice President of Business Development. In this role, he was responsible for reviewing all mergers, acquisitions, investments and cash management activities of the corporation and its operating companies. From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Schroeder was CEO of Legi-Slate, Inc., a business-to-business internet technology firm with The Washington Post Company as its lead shareholder. From 2000 to 2005, he was the CEO and Publisher of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. In 2006, Mr. Schroeder co-founded and was CEO of HealthCentral, one of the largest online content and wellness platforms. The company, which was backed by investors including Sequoia Capital, Allen & Company and Interactive Corporation (IAC), was successfully sold in 2012 to a large health publishing company. Currently Mr. Schroeder is an adviser to leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms. Mr. Schroeder wrote a best-selling book in 2013: �Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East.� He serves on several academic and global boards including The American University of Cairo School of Business, The American University School of International Service, and The American Council on Germany, among others.
DONNA GAIL YANKO was appointed to the position of Vice President of the Company in 1990. She has also served as Corporate Secretary since 1992 and from 1986 to 1992 as Assistant Secretary. From 1986 to the present, on a part-time basis, she has assisted the President of the Company in his personal business activities. Ms. Yanko also served as a director of the Company from 1990 to 2008.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Compensation Committee
- Chairman of the Nominating Committee
- Director
KENNETH L. CLAYTON was elected to the Board of Directors of the Company in September 2011. Mr. Clayton served as Senior Vice-President, managing the trust division of Capital National Bank in Houston and served on various management committees of the bank and its parent company from 1970 through 1984. Mr. Clayton has practiced law since 1984 and currently serves as President of Fiduciary Resources Company, a company he founded in 1984 to provide business management services to individual executors of decedents� estates and trustees of testamentary trusts.
MICHAEL J. BANSCHBACH was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company in July 2014. Mr. Banschbach graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1980 with a BS degree in Chemical Engineering. Thereafter, Mr. Banschbach served with Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) for twenty years, primarily in the gas processing midstream sector, as both an engineer and as a commercial representative. From 2001 until the present time, he has represented numerous independent oil and gas producing companies in negotiations with midstream companies for the connection of newly drilled wells and for the sale of their oil and gas production. He has conducted seminars describing the movement of gas from the wellhead to the burner tip, and the various financial transactions that take place along the way. He also serves with various charitable organizations.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board of Directors
- Chief Executive Officer
NICHOLAS C. TAYLOR was elected Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer in September 2011. Mr. Taylor was elected Chief Executive Officer, President, Treasurer and Director of the Company in April 1983. Mr. Taylor served as President until becoming Chairman of the Board in September 2011 and served as Treasurer until March 1999. From July 1993 to the present, Mr. Taylor has been involved in the independent practice of law and other business activities including independent oil and gas exploration and production. For more than the prior 19 years, he was a director and shareholder of the law firm of Stubbeman, McRae, Sealy, Laughlin & Browder, Inc., Midland, Texas, and a partner of the predecessor firm. In 1995 he was appointed by the Governor of Texas to the State Securities Board through January 2001. In addition to serving as chairman for four years, he continued to serve as a member until 2004. In November 2005 he was appointed by the Speaker of the House to the Texas Ethics Commission and served until February 2010.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Treasurer
- Secretary
STACY D HARDIN joined the Company in 2006 and was elected Corporate Secretary of the Company in September 2021. She has also served the Company as Assistant Treasurer of the Company since 2010 and from 2006 to 2021 was Assistant Secretary. Prior thereto, Ms. Hardin served as Assistant Comptroller.
Job Titles:
- President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Assistant Secretary
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Audit Committee
- Director
THOMAS H. DECKER was elected to the Board of Directors of the Company in September 2019. Mr. Decker graduated from the University of Oklahoma and served with Morgan Stanley from 2000 to 2019 as a Senior Vice President in financial advisory services. He served as a Senior Vice President of Tucker Anthony, Inc. from 1980-1992 and as a Senior Vice President of Blyth Eastman Dillon, in financial advisory services from 1978 to 1980 and in various positions up to a Senior Vice President at White, Weld, Inc. from 1971 to 1978 in investment banking and advisory services. From 1973 to the present, he has served in a number of capacities with various charitable organizations. Also Mr. Decker was a founder in 1998 of Painter Hill Venture Capital and from 1993 to 1998 as director of Shared Technologies, Inc.