Darin A. Zanovich

Darin founded Mesa Minerals Partners II LLC (“Mesa II”) in May 2021 with an initial $150 million equity commitment from NGP Natural Resources XI, L.P. and NGP Royalty Partners, L.P. Darin serves as the President and CEO of Mesa II which is focused on the acquisition of large, aggregated mineral and royalty portfolios across all the major shale basins in the US and also a ground-game strategy of acquiring minerals and royalties in the Haynesville shale play in North Louisiana and East Texas.

Prior to forming Mesa II, Darin served as President & CEO of Mesa Minerals Partners LLC, a Quantum Energy Partners backed mineral and royalty company focused in the Haynesville shale play. The company successfully sold in December 2020 to Franco-Nevada Corporation for $135 million generating over a 2.5x return for its investors.

Prior to forming Mesa, Darin served on the Executive Management team at Haymaker Minerals & Royalties, LLC (“Haymaker”). Haymaker successfully sold the majority of its assets in 2018 for over $450 million in cash and stock.

Additionally, Darin has also held executive management roles with Talisman Energy and Samson Resources in his career and has over twenty-four years of experience in oil and gas operations, land and business development, as well as over sixteen years in executive management roles with various upstream companies.