About Us - Grizzly Energy

Company Officers

Ryan Midgett

Chief Financial Officer

Ryan Midgett is our Chief Financial Officer and has served in such capacity since January of 2018. Most recently, he served as Vice President, Finance and Treasurer with responsibility for strategic planning, budgeting and forecasting, economic analysis of the Company’s organic opportunities and M&A transactions, oversight and execution of numerous capital markets transactions and supervision of the Company’s insurance and risk management program, as well as other corporate treasury responsibilities. Prior to joining the Company in 2011, Mr. Midgett served in various financial analyst, investor relations and business development roles at Linn Energy from 2006 to 2011. He received his B.A. in Economics, Managerial Studies and Political Science from Rice University.

Board of Managers

Patrick J. Bartels Jr.

Patrick J. Bartels Jr. is an investment professional with 20 years of experience in distressed companies. Mr. Bartels has served as a director on over 20 public and private boards, including several oil and gas companies and several companies that are engaged in an active restructuring process. Mr. Bartels has also led steering and ad hoc creditor committees in several Chapter 11 reorganizations. Most recently, Mr. Bartels has served as Managing Member at Redan Advisors LLC since December 2018. From April 2002 to November 2018, Mr. Bartels served as an investment professional at Monarch Alternative Capital LLP (“Monarch”), a hedge fund with $5.5 billion in assets under management, focusing on investment opportunities in bank debt, bonds, equities securities and CDS across a number of sectors.

From 2010 to 2018, Mr. Bartels was a Managing Principal at Monarch. Prior to joining Monarch, Mr. Bartels served as an Analyst at Invesco from February 2000 to April 2002, focusing on high-yield investments, including in the distressed and oil and gas sectors. Mr. Bartels also served as a Senior Associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP’s Audit and Business Advisory Services Practice from September 1997 to January 2000, where he was a Certified Public Accountant. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Mr. Bartels received a B.S. in Accounting with a concentration in Finance from Bucknell University.

Dean E. Swick

Dean E. Swick has 40 years of corporate governance, strategic planning, performance improvement, financial management, and restructuring leadership experience as a member of senior management and an advisor for public and private companies in the oilfield service, upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors. Until August 2018, Mr. Swick was a Managing Director at Alvarez & Marsal North America, LLC (“A&M”) where he served as the Co-Leader of Energy Restructuring. Mr. Swick’s experience in oil and gas restructuring includes serving as lead restructuring advisor to Stone Energy, Key Energy Services, and Express Energy Services. Mr. Swick has served in senior management positions at several oil and gas companies, including as Chief Restructuring Officer of Swift Energy, Vice President Finance at GSE Environmental, and Interim Chief Financial Officer at Dresser, Inc. In addition, Mr. Swick has led operational and financial performance improvement engagements at a number of oil and gas companies.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Swick was a Partner and Leader of Global Energy Investment Bank and Southwest Restructuring at Arthur Andersen from 1992 to 2002. Mr. Swick also served as a Managing Director at the predecessor to JP Morgan Chase from 1987 to 1992 where he worked in financing companies in the oil and gas industry. Mr. Swick received an M.B.A. from Northeastern University and a B.S. in Economics from St. Lawrence University.

Mike Wichterich

Mike Wichterich is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Three Rivers Operating Company LLC, an E&P company that has launched four Permian-focused ventures with the backing of Riverstone Holdings, NYC. The Three Rivers entities have made over 18 acquisitions, aggregating over 380,000 net acres and operated over 1,000 wells. Over the course of seven separate sales, through the divestiture of a majority of the assets for each of the entities, the Three Rivers team has generated total sale proceeds of more than $2.8 billion and profits in excess of $1.4 billion.

Mr. Wichterich also serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of Three Rivers Operating Companies LLC and Sabine Oil and Gas. Prior to joining the Three Rivers projects, Mr. Wichterich served as Chief Financial Officer of Texas American Resources Company from 2006 to 2009, New Braunfels Utility from 2004 to 2005, and Mariner Energy Inc. from 1998 to 2003. Mr. Wichterich also served as a Senior Manager at PriceWaterhouseCoopers from 1989 to 1997. Mr. Wichterich received a Bachelors in Business Administration in accounting with a concentration in finance from the University of Texas at Austin.