Michael Van Horn

Mike is a founder of Independence Resources Management, LLC which achieved equity funding by Warburg Pincus in December 2014. He has almost 40 years of broad geoscience and leadership experience in the oil & gas industry. Mike retired from Newfield Exploration in March 2014 after 8 years as V.P. Geoscience and Sr. V.P. Exploration. He played a significant role in transitioning Newfield from a predominantly conventional E&P company to an unconventional resource player. Prior to Newfield, Mike held various leadership positions at EOG Resources and its predecessor companies for 13 years from 1993 to 2006. Positions included V.P. International Exploration and Director of Unconventional Exploration. Domestically, Mike and his team provided the groundwork evaluation of basins across North America for EOG’s unconventional efforts. He held leadership and technical roles at previous employers including British Gas International, Tenneco Rocky Mountains, Terra Scan Group and Energy Reserves Group. Mike and his wife Mary Ellen, are Natural Family Planning instructors and Co-Coordinators of NFP in the Archdiocese of Galveston – Houston for Couple to Couple League International. They are also active in their parish of St. Anthony of Padua in The Woodlands, TX with a focus on marriage and family building ministries. They have four children and seven grandchildren. Mike has been a supporter and board member of Fraternus from its beginning in 2008. Mike holds an MSc Geology from the Colorado School of Mines and BSc Geological Engineering from the Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada.