Founders

Experienced Senior Team

Adam Farris, 48, was appointed senior vice president and board member of IEO in January 2020. He is responsible for Iskandia’s business development and corporate growth strategies. Farris most recently served in leadership roles at Enverus including SVP of Business Development and Products. He joined Enverus in 2011 working with thousands of operators providing strategic guidance on operational efficiencies, acquisition, and divestment, gaining in-depth expertise of US & International hydrocarbon basins – most specifically the US Unconventional plays and their performance drivers. Prior to Enverus he was VP of Paradigm’s global subsurface consulting and emerging technologies business and served as COO of Object Reservoir – a reservoir engineering technology and consulting firm, supporting early research in exploring horizontal well development and spending his first 6 years at Halliburton as a drilling and completion engineer in consulting and product management. Farris is a registered member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and holds a BS degree in Chemistry from St. Edwards University and graduate courses in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Susana is the Director of Operations for Iskandia assets, has 12 years of oil and gas experience, holds a Master degree in Petroleum Engineering and prior to Iskandia was the Head of Production Technology for a joint venture between Shell and PDVSA in Venezuela. Susana is specialized in production technology, production engineering, and operations.

Tim has 38 years Permian Basin experience in production facilities; production engineering; well stimulation; re-entry and repair; operations management; and field testing technologies (Amoco, Altura, Oxy, Whiting Petroleum, Trinity) on the Northwest Shelf and Central Basin Platform.” 

As senior vice president, Sara, who has 20 years’ experience in the management of independent producers, is also responsible for health, safety and the environment. Sara has held high level positions across regulatory compliance, government affairs, environmental health and safety, remediation and pipeline technical engineering.

Eric has 14 years of direct oil & gas experience managing all land aspects of oil and gas development with expertise in Unconventional, Conventional and EOR. (Denbury Resources and Dale Resources) MBA, Rice University and BS in Finance, Trinity University.

Leying has over 25 years of professional experience in accounting/reporting with both public and private companies. Prior to joining Iskandia, Leying served as corporate controller for Rooster Energy, Ltd, GeoMet, Inc, division controller for Key Energy Services, Inc and SEC reporting manager for Dynegy, Inc. She holds an MBA with concentration in accounting.  She is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Texas.

Richard has over 30 years of experience in the petroleum industry including production, downhole, completion, and field management with a focus on cost-containment. His current role is Field Superintendent for production in both West and East Texas.

Dan has been in the O&G industry for 25 years in operating and consulting companies (Amerada Hess Corporation, GOM Shelf, Object Reservoir, Phoenix Exploration Company, Breitburn Energy Partners.) Dan holds a BS and MS degrees in Petroleum Engineering from New Mexico Tech, an MBA from Texas A&M. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer in Texas.

Ryan has spent his 17+ year career in the North American upstream industry. Formerly with SK Innovation and Encana, Ryan is a reservoir engineer with extensive experience in field development, operations, data management and process improvement. He has also spent time in investment banking and A&D. Ryan holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta.