Executive Team

CEO

Cameron co-founded Validus, most recently serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.  He was also a founding Partner at Pontem Energy Capital, an alternative capital provider to public and private energy companies. Prior to Pontem and Validus, Cameron worked at Citadel, managing one of the oil & gas industry’s largest public equities portfolios. Cameron has spent his career in the energy industry, including as a member of the upstream private equity team at EnCap Investments and as an investment banker at Lazard. Cameron is a third-generation oil & gas professional and began his career at ExxonMobil in the Marine & Arctic Engineering Group. Cameron earned a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Executive Chairman

  Prior to Validus, Skye served as Felix Energy’s Founder and CEO. Under his leadership, the Felix and Validus platforms have built and sold ~$12 billion of assets consisting of upstream projects, midstream assets and mineral interests over a 10-year period. Skye is also the Founder of Fortis Minerals. Prior to Felix and Fortis, he worked for Chesapeake Energy where he led the building of large-scale projects in numerous basins. Skye began his career with ConocoPhillips and served in numerous roles in exploration and production in North America, South America and Asia.  Skye served in the U.S. Air Force, earned a B.S. in Geophysical Engineering from Montana Tech and an M.B.A. from Oklahoma State 

COO & President

 Craig most recently served as Chief Operating Officer at Felix Energy leading one of the most active development programs by a private company in the Delaware Basin.  Craig directed over $2 billion in capital investments at Felix in his role as COO prior to the sale of the company to Devon Energy.  Prior to joining Felix, Craig spent 20 years at Anadarko Petroleum in numerous management and technical roles in both international and domestic locations, most notably in the DJ basin where Craig directed over $5B of capital investments delivering more than 700 commercial horizontal wells.  Craig holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan​.

CFO

Prior to joining Validus, Ben was a Managing Director at KKR where he led or was involved in over $5 billion of upstream investments. Prior to KKR, Ben was with Lime Rock Partners and was directly involved in numerous investments, with a particular focus in North American upstream oil & gas and oilfield equipment, manufacturing, and services. Prior to Lime Rock, he was with the natural resources investment banking group of J.P. Morgan in Houston. He is a graduate of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas with an M.P.A and B.B.A.