Kenneth (Kenny) Hill has served as Victory’s Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since January 2011 and as a member of the Board of Directors since April 2011. He became CEO in January 2012. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Hill held titles of Interim CEO, VP of Operations and VP of Investor Relations for the U.S. subsidiary of a publicly traded oil and gas company on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Since 2001, Hill through his private company has raised several million dollars of venture capital, personally invested in and consulted for a number of successful entrepreneurial ventures across a variety of industries, including oil and gas. Prior to 2001, Hill was employed for 16 years at Dell, Inc.. As one of the first 20 employees at Dell he served in variety of management positions including manufacturing, sales, marketing, and business development.
Prior to joining Dell, Hill studied Business Management and Business Marketing at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University). While at Dell, Mr. Hill continued his education at The University of Texas Graduate School of Business Executive Education program, The Aspen Institute and the Center for Creative Leadership. He is a team builder with a unique set of proven leadership, management and technical skills.
Mark brings over 30 years of leadership, transformation and professional experience across a broad range of finance roles to Victory. Most of that experience was gained while working in the upstream oil and gas industry. Those capabilities will be leveraged as the company looks to aggressively raise capital and grow the Company in a profitable manner.
He most recently worked at Alvarez & Marsal (A&M), a business consulting and performance-improvement firm, since 2005. Mark was a Senior Director in the firm’s energy practice. Clients served at A&M included large public corporations as well as small to medium-sized companies owned by private equity firms. Between 2001 and 2005, Mark held leadership positions with companies in the energy services industry, including the roles of Corporate Controller at Tesco Corporation, a NASDAQ-listed company, and Chief Financial Officer at CRC Evans Pipeline International Inc. Between 1979 and 2001, Mr. Biggers held a variety of finance and business development positions with Mobil Oil Corporation in the US as well as Jakarta, Indonesia and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. In his last position with Mobil Oil, he was the Assistant General Manager, Finance & Administration, for the Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO). ADCO is an upstream E&P joint venture company that had maintained an onshore production capacity of over 1 million barrels of oil per day.
Mark earned an MBA in Finance at the University of Hull (England) in 2001, a BBA degree in Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin, and is a member of the Petroleum Accountants Society of Houston.
Stanley L. (Stan) Lindsey is a Certified Petroleum Geologist by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the American Institute of Petroleum Geologists with over 30 years of experience, including exploration, development, operations, acquisitions and divestitures. His background also includes mapping, utilizing integration of 2-D and 3-D seismic with subsurface data and reserve calculations.
He began working in the oil field in 1975 for Western Geophysical as a gunner, drill helper, and junior observer in the Gulf of Mexico, offshore California, and onshore and offshore Alaska. These experiences led him to return to college in late 1976 to study geology and chemistry. He graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University in December 1979 with a Bachelor's Degree in Geology and a minor in Chemistry.
His professional career began in 1980 as a reservoir geologist, which involved subsurface mapping in support of reserve reports. A desire to be closer to the drill bit led him to join Nortex Gas and Oil as an exploration geologist in the Gulf of Mexico division, where he was trained in seismic interpretation. This company eventually became EOG Resources. Following this, he spent the next 14 years working for several independent oil companies in Houston, Texas. Following a relocation to central Texas in 2003, he has worked for independents in Austin, Texas as both an employee and a consultant.
His areas of expertise are seismic mapping (2D and 3D), subsurface mapping, and well log analysis utilizing a wide variety of software. Areas worked include Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Kentucky, New Mexico, Alabama, Australia and Africa. He is a member of the AAPG, AIPG, SIPES, and Houston Geological Society.
Mr. McCall has over 35 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, and is currently a partner in The McCall Firm in Austin, Texas. Mr. McCall's law practice has centered on the upstream, midstream and downstream activities of major and independent oil companies.
His expertise encompasses all aspects of oil and gas operations. He has been instrumental in negotiating operating leases and agreements; production purchase and sale agreements; pipeline and exploration agreements.
He has been lead counsel on complex oil and gas litigation matters including disputes between interest holders in producing properties; contract and lease disputes; title controversies and other traditional oil and gas matters. He has represented clients in federal royalty valuation disputes and Minerals Management Service (MMS) administrative proceedings.
Mr. McCall is also experienced in the preparation of drilling title opinions, loan opinions, division order title opinions, and acquisition opinions. He is board-certified in oil, gas and mineral law. Mr. McCall is an author and has served as an expert witness in title matters involving oil and gas properties.
In 1971, Mr. McCall received a Bachelor of Arts in marketing from McMurry University, Abilene, Texas. He graduated from Texas Tech School of Law, Lubbock, Texas in 1974. He is a Member of the Bar, State of Texas; a Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation; and a Founding Fellow, Austin Bar Foundation.
