THOMAS E. JORDEN was elected Chairman of the Board effective August 14, 2012 after
being named President and Chief Executive Officer effective September 30, 2011.
Since December 8, 2003, Mr. Jorden served as Executive Vice President of Exploration
and had served in a similar capacity since September 30, 2002. Prior to September
2002, Mr. Jorden was with Key Production Company, Inc., where he served as Vice
President of Exploration (October 1999 to September 2002) and Chief Geophysicist
(November 1993 to September 1999). Prior to joining Key, Mr. Jorden was with Union
Pacific Resources.
JOSEPH R. ALBI was named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
effective September 30, 2011. Mr. Albi served as Executive Vice President of
Operations since March 1, 2005. Since December 8, 2003, Mr. Albi served as Senior
Vice President of Corporate Engineering. From September 30, 2002 to December
8, 2003, he served as Vice President of Engineering. From June 1994 to September
2002, Mr. Albi was with Key Production Company, Inc. where he served as Vice
President of Engineering and Manager of Engineering.
STEPHEN P. BELL was named Executive Vice President, Business Development effective
September 13, 2012. Since September 2002, Mr. Bell served as Senior Vice President
of Business Development and Land. Prior to its merger with Cimarex, Mr. Bell
was with Key Production Company, Inc. since February 1994. In September 1999,
he was appointed Senior Vice President, Business Development and Land. From
February 1994 to September 1999, he served as Vice President, Land.
G. MARK BURFORD was named Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in September
2015. He was appointed Vice President, Capital Markets and Planning in December
2010. Mr. Burford joined Cimarex in April 2005 as Director of Capital Markets.
Prior to joining Cimarex, he was Director of Investor Relations for Whiting
Petroleum and Tom Brown, Inc. His experience also includes equity research with
Petrie Parkman & Co., an investment banking firm, and public accounting.
FRANCIS B. BARRON joined Cimarex as Senior Vice President, General Counsel
in July 2013. From February 2004 until July 2013, Mr. Barron served in various
capacities at Bill Barrett Corporation, a publicly traded, Denver-based oil
and gas exploration and development company, including as Executive Vice President,
General Counsel and Secretary. He also served as Chief Financial Officer from
November 2006 until March 2007. Prior to February 2004, Mr. Barron was a partner
at the Denver, Colorado office of the law firm of Patton Boggs LLP as well as
a partner at Bearman Talesnick & Clowdus Professional Corporation. Mr. Barron’s
practice included corporate, securities and business law for publicly traded
oil and gas companies.
JOHN LAMBUTH was named Senior Vice President of Exploration in December 2015.
Prior to his promotion, he served as the Company’s Vice President of Exploration
since September 2012 and Chief Geophysicist, a position he held since joining
Cimarex in 2004. Mr. Lambuth began his career in 1985 with Shell Oil Co., where
he held various positions in exploration and in research and development. Immediately
prior to joining Cimarex, he spent three years as onshore Exploration Manager
of El Paso Energy Company.
GARY R. ABBOTT was elected Vice President of Corporate Engineering March 1,
2005. Since January 2002, Mr. Abbott served as manager, Corporate Reservoir
Engineering. From April 1999 to January 2002, Mr. Abbott was a reservoir engineer
with Key Production Company, Inc.
KRISTA L. JOHNSON joined Cimarex as Vice President of Governmental and External
Affairs in November 2014. Previously she served at Shell Oil Company since 2006,
her last role as Vice President, International Organizations. Prior to joining
Shell, she spent eight years with Western Gas Resources, most recently as Director
of Government and Media Relations. Her experience also includes private practice
in oil and gas law, client based energy advocacy in Washington, work in the
Federal Relations Department of the American Petroleum Institute, and in the
office of former U.S. Senator Conrad Burns.
TIMOTHY A. FICKER was appointed Vice President, Controller, Chief Accounting
Officer, and Assistant Secretary in December 2016 to be effective in February
2017 and previously served as the Company’s Controller since September
2016. From February 2015 until September 2016, he served as Chief Financial
Officer and Principal of Alcova Management LLC, a start-up oil and gas exploration
and production company concentrating on the Powder River Basin of Wyoming. Mr.
Ficker served as Chief Financial Officer of Venoco, Inc., and in other capacities
from March 2007 to November 2014. From May 2005 to March 2007, he served as
Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Secretary
of Infinity Energy Resources Inc. Mr. Ficker previously served as an audit partner
in KPMG LLP’s energy audit practice in Denver and as an audit partner
for Arthur Andersen LLP, where he served clients primarily in the energy industry.
His energy clients at KPMG and Arthur Andersen were principally domestic exploration
and production companies.
Cimarex Energy Co currently has 925 employees.