Ward was recently CEO of Centennial Resource Development, LLC, (Centennial) a Denver based, Permian Basin focused, oil and gas company backed by Natural Gas Partners (NGP) and The Carlyle Group. Centennial was purchased by Silver Run Acquisition Corporation and trades on NASDAQ under the ticker CDEV. Ward has over 30 years of experience in the upstream oil and gas industry in engineering, commercial, investing and transactional roles. Prior to forming Centennial, Ward served as a Managing Director in Investment Banking at Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co., where he spearheaded the firm’s E&P asset acquisition and divestiture (A&D) practice since inception. Polzin previously served as the US Country Manager at Enerplus Resources in Denver, Colorado, with a focus on Bakken development. He began his career in technical and commercial roles with BP in Alaska. He has a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and an MBA from Rice University. Polzin is also a CFA charterholder.