Synopsis: This panel will discuss what concrete steps companies are taking and what policies are being implemented to ensure ESG goals become reality.
SPEAKER BIOS
Barbara Baumann currently serves as a director of publicly traded Devon Energy Corp. and National Fuels Gas Corp. At Devon, she chairs the board’s Governance, Environmental, and Public Policy Committee. She is a director of privately held Ascent Resources Corp. and Texas America Resources II Corp. Baumann also is an independent trustee of the Putnam Mutual Funds and a senior advisor of the private equity firm First Reserve. She formerly served as a director of Buckeye Partners, LP; SM Energy; CVR Energy; and UNS Energy.
Baumann worked at Amoco and BP-Amoco from 1981-1999 in various financial and operating management roles, including as vice president of one of the company’s six North American E&P business units. She subsequently held various private equity and consulting roles associated with the upstream sector and now heads Cross Creek Energy Corp.
She is actively involved with Denver-area non-profits, serving on the Finance Committee of Children’s Hospital Colorado and on the investment committee of The Denver Foundation. She is a previous board chair of Girls, Inc. of Metro Denver.
Baumann received an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, where she was formerly a trustee and chair of its board.
Jason Isaac is director of Life:Powered, a project of the Texas Public Policy Foundation to raise America’s energy IQ.
Prior to joining Life:Powered, Issac, a fourth-generation native Texan, was elected four times as the State Representative for Hays and Blanco counties in the Texas Hill Country. He served on the Energy Resources and Environmental Regulation committees, among others.
During his eight years of service, he successfully passed legislation to reduce taxes, strengthen election integrity, improve public education, preserve Second Amendment rights, protect local groundwater and protect private property rights. He was repeatedly honored for his commitment to limited government and proved to be an effective leader, excelling at both advocating for conservative principles and working across the aisle to find responsible solutions for the future of the Lone Star State.
Issac has appeared on national news shows, and his commentaries have been published in The Hill, The Washington Examiner, the Daily Caller and other publications.
He is a graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University and serves as a high school lacrosse coach. He lives in Hays County with his wife, Carrie and two sons.
David de Roode is an executive vice president and a Lockton partner with the Lockton Companies. His global energy, transportation and logistics practice focuses on delivering risk finance as well as risk mitigation and management counsel to his clients inclusive of traditional and alternative insurance and non-insurance-based solutions. These solutions are designed to address a company’s unique contractual, operational, financial, transactional, information technology, intellectual property, environmental, regulatory, reputation, healthcare and human capital risks while promoting the execution of their corporate objectives and earnings expansion. He also serves as a board member and board advisor to several for-profit companies in the energy, financials services and healthcare technology sectors.
Jim Wicklund is a managing director and senior banker in the Energy Group at Stephens Inc. This follows a career in geophysics, engineering and operations in the global oil and gas industry, four years managing a broad energy investment portfolio and decades of following the industry as a senior research analyst.
He has lived and worked in Australia, Singapore, Milan, London several times as well as the U.S., with Western Geophysical, Sun Oil and ECL before joining the financial services industry as a research analyst covering the Oilfield Services sector.
He is a member and past symposium chair of the Society of Petroleum Engineers , the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, on the boards of the National Offshore Industry Association, the Petroleum Equipment Suppliers Association and the Maguire Institute Advisory Board at SMU, his alma mater.