AMPLIFY ENERGY CORP - Key Persons


Christopher W. Hamm - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors
  • Director
Christopher Hamm has served as the Chairman of the board of directors of Amplify Energy Corp. since January 2021. He previously served as the Company's Lead Director since April 2020, until his appointment as Chairman, and has served as a member of the board of directors of the Company since August 6, 2019. Mr. Hamm previously served as a member of the board of directors of Amplify Energy Corp. from its inception in May 2017 until the closing of the merger with Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc. in August 2019. Mr. Hamm has spent the last 26 years of his 33-year career as a founder, CEO, professional investor, advisor and director of both public and private organizations. He is currently Chairman & CEO of Axys Capital, a boutique investment bank, advisor and manager he founded in 2009, and CEO of Axys Data, a fintech company he founded in 2001. Mr. Hamm founded, and was Chairman, CEO and CIO of Memorial Investment Advisors, a registered investment advisor, and Memorial Funds, an institutional multi-fund registered investment company, where he served as President/CEO and Chairman. Prior to founding his own firms, Mr. Hamm served as Executive Director - Institutional Services at CIBC Oppenheimer, Senior Vice President - Capital Markets at PaineWebber, and Vice President - Taxable Fixed Income at Howard Weil Labouisse & Friederichs.

Daniel Furbee - COO, SVP

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • Senior Vice President
Daniel Furbee has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Amplify Energy Corp. since March 2023. Prior to joining Amplify, Mr. Furbee served as a partner at Sentinel Petroleum from February 2022 to March 2023, as an independent advisor for various companies from January 2021 to January 2022, as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Riviera Resources, Inc. from August 2018 to December 2020, as Linn Energy Inc.'s Vice President of Asset and Business Development from March 2018 to August 2018 and as Vice President of Business Development and Asset Development for Sanchez Energy Corporation from September 2013 to February 2018. From 2005 to August 2013, Mr. Furbee served in various engineering roles of increasing responsibilities at Linn Energy, LLC. Mr. Furbee holds a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Marietta College and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Houston.

Deborah G. Adams

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Deborah G. Adams has served as a member of the board of directors of Amplify Energy Corp. since April 2022. Ms. Adams has over 35 years of energy industry experience, as a leader with particular focus on health, safety, and sustainability, project management, procurement, and transportation. Prior to retirement, Ms. Adams served as Senior Vice President of Health, Safety, and Environmental, Projects and Procurement at Phillips 66 from June 2014 to October 2016. In this role, Ms. Adams oversaw all regulatory affairs and processes, reported directly to the Company's CEO, and regularly presented to the Board of Directors. She was responsible for improved safety performance across the entire company along with overseeing a number of new facilities projects worth over a billion dollars, all completed on budget and on time. Prior to this role, Ms. Adams held roles of increasing responsibility, including President Transportation and Chief Procurement Officer, at Phillips 66 and predecessor companies since 1983. Ms. Adams currently serves on the board of directors of EnLink Midstream and MRC Global and previously served on the board of directors of Gulfport Energy. She also currently serves on the board of directors of Austin Industries, a privately-held, employee-owned construction company. Ms. Adams previously served her alma mater, Oklahoma State University, as a member of the foundation board of trustees. Ms. Adams also serves as a member of the Advisory Board for the TriCities Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Ms. Adams holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Oklahoma State University.

Eric M. Willis - Chief Legal Officer, Secretary, SVP

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Secretary
  • General Counsel
  • Senior Vice President
Eric M. Willis has served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary since August 2019. Mr. Willis previously served as Vice President and General Counsel of Amplify Energy Corp. from December 2017 to August 2019. From April 2015 to December 2017, Mr. Willis was a partner in the capital markets practice group at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Houston, Texas, representing oil and gas clients. Prior to joining Kirkland & Ellis, he practiced corporate and securities law from September 2008 to April 2015 at Latham & Watkins LLP in Houston, Texas and Orange County, California. Mr. Willis holds a Juris Doctorate from The University of Texas at Austin School of Law and Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the United States Military Academy.

James E. Craddock

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
James E. Craddock has served as a member of the board of directors of Amplify Energy Corp. since February 2023. James E. Craddock is a seasoned upstream executive and director who possesses broad-based technical and operational knowledge with over 30 years of experience. Previously, Mr. Craddock served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Rosetta Resources Inc., from 2013 to 2015 until its merger with Noble Energy Inc., following which Mr. Craddock served on Noble Energy Inc.'s board of directors from 2015 until the company was acquired by Chevron in 2020. Prior to that, Mr. Craddock was the Chief Operating Officer for BPI Industries Inc. and held several positions of increasing responsibility over a 20-year career at Burlington Resources Inc. He currently serves on the board of directors of Callon Petroleum Company and Crescent Point Energy Corp. and previously served on the boards of Templar Energy LLC, Noble Energy Inc. and Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc. and on the Texas Railroad Commission's Eagle Ford Shale Task Force. Mr. Craddock holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University.

James Frew - CFO, SVP

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Senior Vice President
James Frew has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Amplify Energy Corp. since April 2023. Prior to joining Amplify, Mr. Frew was a partner at Sentinel Petroleum from March 2022 to April 2023. Previously, Mr. Frew served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Riviera Resources, Inc. from August 2018 to October 2020, and as Linn Energy's Vice President of Marketing and Midstream from May 2014 to August 2018 and Director of Business Development, Strategy and Planning from May 2011 to May 2014. From August 2002 to May 2011, Mr. Frew held several roles in the Natural Resources division of the J.M. Huber Corporation. Mr. Frew started his career as a management consultant at the Parthenon Group. Mr. Frew holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from Williams College.

Martyn Willsher - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Director
  • President
Martyn Willsher has served as Chief Executive Officer of Amplify Energy Corp. since January 2021, after having served as interim Chief Executive Officer since April 2020. Mr. Willsher also previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Amplify Energy Corp. from April 2018 to January 2021. From May 2017 to April 2018, Mr. Willsher served as Amplify Energy Corp.'s Vice President and Treasurer. He also served as Treasurer of Memorial Production Partners GP, LLC, Amplify Energy Corp.'s predecessor, from July 2014 to May 2017, and as Director of Strategic Planning for Memorial Resource Development LLC, an affiliate of the predecessor of Amplify Energy Corp., from March 2012 to June 2014. Prior to that, he served as Manager, Financial Analysis of AGL Resources from September 2009 to March 2012, and as Director - Upstream Oil & Gas A&D of Constellation Energy from August 2006 to March 2009. Prior to that, he served in various business development and financial analysis roles at JM Huber Corp., FTI Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Mr. Willsher received his Master of Business Administration from The University of Texas at Austin and his Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Texas A&M University.

Patrice Douglas

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Patrice Douglas has served as a member of the board of directors of Amplify Energy Corp. since February 2021, and is a member of its audit committee. Ms. Douglas is an attorney, who represents financial institutions, energy companies, municipalities, and utilities on legal, regulatory and compliance matters. Previously, Ms. Douglas served as Senior Vice-President and then President of SpiritBank from 2004 to 2007 and Executive Vice-President of First Fidelity Bank from 2007 to 2011. Ms. Douglas was first elected as mayor of Edmond, Oklahoma in 2009 and was elected to a second term in 2011. As a member of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, she served on the committee for tourism. Ms. Douglas was appointed by Oklahoma's Governor to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission where she served from 2011 to 2015, having been re-elected unopposed in 2012. She was elected to be chairman of the Commission in 2012. While serving on the Commission, Ms. Douglas was a member of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, and served on its Water Committee. Ms. Douglas currently serves on the board of directors of Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. Her prior experiences also include service as a member of the board of directors and chair of the nominating and governance and audit committees for Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc. from September 2016 to August 2019; a member of the board of directors for Bank SNB from August 2016 to May 2018, serving on both the audit committee and the directors' credit committee and a member of the board of directors for Southwest BanCorp. from 2016 to 2019. Ms. Douglas received a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from Oklahoma Christian University and J.D. from the University of Oklahoma.

Randal T. Klein

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Randal T. Klein has served as a member of the board of directors of Amplify Energy Corp. since November 2018. Mr. Klein joined affiliates of Avenue Capital Management II, L.P. in 2004 and is currently a Senior Portfolio Manager at Avenue responsible for assisting with the direction of the investment activities of the Firm's global funds. With respect to the Avenue U.S. Strategy, Mr. Klein provides the investment professionals of the Avenue U.S. Strategy with additional expertise, oversight and investment direction on restructurings and transactions. Prior to joining Avenue, Mr. Klein was a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers, where his responsibilities included restructuring advisory work, financial sponsors coverage, mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. Prior to Lehman, Mr. Klein worked in sales, marketing and engineering as an aerospace engineer for The Boeing Company. Mr. Klein currently serves, or has served, on the boards of Gravity Oilfield Services, Selcom Group, MagnaChip Semiconductor, Chassix Automotive, NextWave Holdco and American Media. Mr. Klein is a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Board Leadership Fellow. Mr. Klein holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, conferred with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia, and a M.B.A. in Finance, conferred as a Palmer Scholar, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Todd R. Snyder

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Todd R. Snyder has served as a member of the board of directors of Amplify Energy Corp. since October 2016. Mr. Snyder is a managing director and global head of the Piper Sandler restructuring group, TRS Advisors. Prior to joining Piper Sandler, Mr. Snyder was Chief Executive Officer at TRS Advisors. Before that he was executive vice chairman of Rothschild & Co. and co-head of the North American restructuring advisory business. Previously, he was a managing director in the restructuring and reorganization group at Peter J. Solomon Company. Prior to joining Peter J. Solomon Company, Mr. Snyder was a managing director at KPMG Peat Marwick in the corporate recovery group where he was also national director of the corporate recovery practice for government enterprises (regulated and privatizing industries). Prior to his move to investment banking he practiced law in the business reorganization department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Mr. Snyder was a commissioner of the New York State Gaming Commission and a member of New York State's financial restructuring board for local governments. He previously served as a director of GenCorp Inc., AMC Financial, Inc. and EcoStim Energy Solutions. Mr. Snyder currently serves as a trustee for non-profit organizations BRC (Bowery Residents Committee) and Shining Hope for Communities. Mr. Snyder received a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Tony Lopez

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, Engineering and Exploitation
Tony Lopez has served as Senior Vice President, Engineering and Exploitation of Amplify Energy Corp. since August 2019. Mr. Lopez previously served as Vice President, Corporate Reserves from June 2018 until the closing of the merger with Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc. Mr. Lopez previously served as Vice President of Acquisitions and Engineering for EnerVest, Ltd. from April 2014 to June 2018 where he managed the corporate reserves and financial planning & analysis. From March 2012 to April 2014, Mr. Lopez served as Director of Planning & Analysis for EnerVest, Ltd. Previously, Mr. Lopez was Manager of Reservoir Engineering for EnerVest Eastern Division from January 2009 to March 2012. Prior to this, Mr. Lopez served as an Asset Engineer for EnerVest Eastern Division from October 2004 to January 2009 Mr. Lopez holds a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from West Virginia University and is an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Vidisha Prasad

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Vidisha Prasad has served as a member of the board of directors of Amplify Energy Corp. since October 2023. Ms. Prasad brings more than two decades of experience in energy investments, strategic and board advisory, corporate mergers, asset acquisitions and divestitures, capital markets and restructuring. Ms. Prasad is currently the Managing Partner of Adya Partners, a multi-strategy investment firm focused on private secondary investments and early-stage venture capital in the energy, energy transition and technology sectors. Prior to founding Adya Partners, Ms. Prasad was a founding member of Guggenheim Securities' Energy Investment Banking practice and prior to that, Ms. Prasad held roles of increasing responsibility within Citi's Global Energy Investment Banking Groups in Houston, London and New York. Ms. Prasad previously served on the Board of Centennial Resources (now Permian Resources) where she served on the Audit, Nominating, Governance and ESG Committees. She also serves on the Board of the Grammy award winning, Houston Chamber Choir, where she chairs the Development Committee. Ms. Prasad received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Rochester.