Claire R. Harvey

Claire R. Harvey has been a director and Chairman of the Board of Directors since May 2020. In August 2019, she founded and currently serves as the CEO of Gryphon Oil and Gas, LLC, a private oil and gas company focused on the acquisition of non-operated working interests across the “Lower 48.” Prior to founding Gryphon, Ms. Harvey made upstream oil and gas investments on behalf of two private equity funds, Pine Brook Partners from March 2014 to May 2019, and TPH Partners from May 2010 to February 2014. Earlier in her career, she worked as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital, primarily focused on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions for oil and gas companies. Ms. Harvey has served as a director on several private oil and gas company boards and also currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the Texas A&M University Finance Department as well as the Texas A&M University Petroleum Ventures Program. Ms. Harvey earned a BBA in Finance at Texas A&M University, where she was also a four-year letterman and co- captain for the Texas Aggie Volleyball Team. In addition, Ms. Harvey earned an MBA from the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University where she was the Jones Scholar and M.A. Wright Award winner.