Peter C. Boylan III became co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of
Holdings in April 2012, and Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive
Officer of Cypress Energy Partners GP, LLC, in September 2013. Since March 2002,
Mr. Boylan has been the Chief Executive Officer of Boylan Partners, LLC, a provider
of investment and advisory services. From 1995 to 2004, Mr. Boylan served in a
variety of senior executive management positions of various public and private
companies controlled by Liberty Media Corporation, including serving as a board
member, Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operation Officer
and Chief Financial Officer of several different companies. Mr. Boylan currently
serves on the board of directors of publicly-traded BOK Financial Corporation.
Mr. Boylan has also served on over a dozen other public and private company boards
of directors over the last 20+ years. Mr. Boylan has extensive corporate senior
executive management and leadership experience, and specific expertise with accounting,
finance, audit, risk and compensation committee service, intellectual property,
corporate development, health care, media, cable and satellite TV, software development,
technology, energy and civic and community service. We believe this experience
suits Mr. Boylan to serve as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and
President.
Richard M. Carson is Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Cypress Energy
Partners GP, LLC, having served in that capacity since March 2016 and having
previously served as Vice President and General Counsel since September 2013.
Mr. Carson served as a director, officer, and shareholder of Gable & Gotwals,
a Professional Corporation (“Gable Gotwals”), a law firm, where
he practiced securities, corporate finance, transactional and environmental
law, primarily for clients in the energy industry, including several master
limited partnerships. Prior to joining Gable Gotwals, from 1999 to 2008, Mr.
Carson served in the legal department of The Williams Companies, Inc. (“Williams”),
where he counseled Williams in regard to securities, corporate finance, and
environmental matters, particularly relating to Williams’ master limited
partnership subsidiaries, Williams Partners L.P., Williams Pipeline Partners
L.P., and Williams Energy Partners L.P. (predecessor to Magellan Midstream Partners,
L.P.). Mr. Carson began his career in 1991 working in legal, compliance, and
management roles, primarily in the environmental services industry, before joining
Williams. Mr. Carson received a Juris Doctor in 1991 from the University of
Oklahoma and a Bachelor of Science, Cum Laude, from the University of Tulsa’s
Honors Program in 1988. Mr. Carson serves as Chairman of the board of directors
of Land Legacy. He has previously served as the Chair of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s
Environmental Law Section, and the chair of the Environmental Auditing Roundtable’s
South-Central Region.
Jeffrey A. Herbers is Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Interim
Principal Financial Officer of Cypress Energy Partners GP, LLC, having served
in that capacity since September 2016. Mr. Herbers served as sole member of
Jeff Herbers PLLC from December 2015 until September 2016. Mr. Herbers served
as the Chief Accounting Officer of the general partner of NGL Energy Partners
LP from February 2012 to November 2015, as the Director of Financial Reporting
of SemGroup Corporation from August 2009 to January 2012, and as an auditor
for Ernst & Young LLP from August 1998 to July 2009. Mr. Herbers holds a
B.B.A. in accounting from the University of Tulsa. He is a certified public
accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Henry Cornell became a director of our board effective at the close of our
public offering. Mr. Cornell is the Founder and Senior Partner of Cornell Capital,
a private equity investment firm. Prior to founding Cornell Capital, he was
Vice Chairman of the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs & Co., where
he worked for nearly 30 years prior to his retirement in February 2013. Mr.
Cornell served on the firm’s corporate, real estate and infrastructure
investment committees. He also led Goldman Sachs & Co.’s investment
activities in Asia from 1988 – 2000. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs &
Co., Mr. Cornell was an attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell. He is a trustee
of The Asia Society, the Whitney Museum and the Mount Sinai Hospital, and a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Cornell received his B.A. from
Grinnell College in 1976 and his J.D. from New York Law School in 1981.
Stanley A. Lybarger has served as a director on the board of Cypress Energy
Partners GP, LLC since March 5, 2014. Mr. Lybarger retired as president and
chief executive officer of BOK Financial, a top 25 US-based bank, on January
1, 2014. He continues to serve on the board of directors of that corporation.
Mr. Lybarger had a 40-year career with BOK Financial. Mr. Lybarger served as
its first president and chief operating officer, in addition to continuing to
hold that title for Bank of Oklahoma. He became the chief executive officer
for BOK Financial and Bank of Oklahoma in 1996. Mr. Lybarger earned B.A. and
M.B.A. degrees from the University of Kansas, and a Certification from the Stonier
Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers University. Mr. Lybarger has also been
an industry and community leader for decades and has held leadership positions
at a number of organizations, including serving on the Federal Advisory Council
(a 12-member council which consults and advises the Federal Reserve Board of
Governors in Washington, DC), the Executive Committee of the Financial Institutions
Division of the American Bankers Association, Chairman of the Tulsa Stadium
Trust, Chairman of the Tulsa Metro Chamber, Chairman of the Oklahoma State Chamber,
Chairman of the Oklahoma Business Roundtable and Chairman of Tulsa Area United
Way. Mr. Lybarger currently serves on the board of directors of BOK Financial.
John T. McNabb II has served on the board of directors of Cypress Energy Partners
GP, LLC, the general partner of the Partnership, where he has served as the
Chairman of the Conflicts Committee. He co-founded the Trump Leadership Council
in April 2016 and has served on the council since its founding. Mr. McNabb has
served on the boards of eight publicly-traded companies and currently sits on
the board of Continental Resources (where he has served as Lead Director). Mr.
McNabb was elected to serve as non-executive Chairman of the Board of Willbros
Group, Inc. from September 2007 until August 2014 when he was appointed Executive
Chairman. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer in October 2014 and elected
to the board of Directors in August 2006. Effective December 1, 2015, Mr. McNabb
retired from his positions as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and did not
stand for re-election when his term as Director expired in 2016. Mr. McNabb
also serves as Senior Advisor and was formerly Vice Chairman, Corporate Finance
of Duff & Phelps Securities LLC, a leading global financial advisory firm.
Prior thereto, Mr. McNabb was a founder and Chairman of Growth Capital Partners
LP and formerly was a Managing Director of Bankers Trust New York Corporation
and a board member of BT Southwest Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Bankers
Trust. Prior thereto, he served in various capacities with The Prudential Insurance
Company of America including having responsibility for a multi-billion dollar
investment portfolio primarily focused on energy investments. He started his
energy career with Mobil Oil in the E&P Division. He has owned equity interests
in approximately twenty private energy related companies and acted in operating
or financial roles in several. Mr. McNabb has also served as a director of twelve
private energy companies located in both Canada and the United States. He is
an emeritus member of the board of Visitors of The Fuqua School of Business
at Duke University and served as Chairman of the Board of Visitors of The University
of Houston and also served as Chairman of the Dean’s Advisory Board at
The Bauer College of Business and as an Executive Professor of Finance at the
University of Houston. Mr. McNabb holds BA and MBA degrees from Duke University
and served in the US Air Force during the Vietnam conflict, rising to the rank
of Captain and was awarded the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters and the
Distinguished Flying Cross.
Charles C. Stephenson, Jr. has been a director on the board of Cypress Energy
Partners GP, LLC since the close of the initial public offering in January 2014.
Previously, Mr. Stephenson served as Chairman of the board of Premier Natural
Resources, an independent oil and gas company of which he is also a co-founder.
Mr. Stephenson is also an owner of Regent Private Capital II LLC and was a co-founder
and director of Growth Capital Partners, an investment and merchant banking
firm. From 1983 to 2006, Mr. Stephenson worked for Vintage Petroleum, Inc. which
he founded and for which he served as Chairman of the Board, President, and
Chief Executive Officer at the time of its sale to Occidental Petroleum in 2006.
Mr. Stephenson received a B.S. in petroleum engineering from the University
of Oklahoma. Mr. Stephenson is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers
and has served on the board of the National Petroleum Council.
Cypress Environmental Partners L p currently has 1192 employees.