Management

Mr. Welch has served as our Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Financial Officer and as a member of our board of directors since the closing of the merger between EagleClaw Midstream and Altus Midstream. Prior to the closing of the merger between EagleClaw Midstream and Altus Midstream, he served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of BCP GP, a position he held since May 2021. From April 2019, he has been President and CEO and before then was President and CFO. He has also served as director of BCP GP since June 2017. Prior to joining BCP GP, he was the Group Chief Financial Officer and Head of Business Development for the Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. (“ETE”) family from June 2013 to February 2016. Mr. Welch also served on the Board of Directors of ETE, Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics. Mr. Welch joined Blackstone Energy Partners as a Senior Advisor in July 2016. Before joining ETE, Mr. Welch was Head of the EMEA Investment Banking Department and Head of the Global Energy Group at Credit Suisse. He was also a member of the Investment Banking Division Global Management Committee and the EMEA Operating Committee. Mr. Welch joined Credit Suisse First Boston in 1997 from Lehman Brothers Inc. in New York, where he was a Senior Vice President in the global utilities and project finance group. Prior to that he was an attorney in New York with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and a barrister and solicitor with Minter Ellison in Melbourne, Australia. Mr. Welch received a Bachelors of Law and a Diploma of Legal Practice from Queensland University of Technology.

Mr. Wall has served as our Chief Operating Officer since the closing of the merger between EagleClaw Midstream and Altus Midstream. He joined BCP GP in July 2017 as Vice President, Operations and was appointed Chief Operating Officer in May 2019. His industry experience has focused on midstream gas gathering/processing design and commissioning, as well as on operational support engineering. He is responsible for the safe, reliable and efficient operation of BCP GP’s measurement, gathering and processing facilities. Prior to joining BCP GP, Mr. Wall served as Manager of Engineering at Aka Energy Group LLC from April 2014 to June 2017.. Prior to Aka Energy, Mr. Wall was a Sr. Process Engineer at BCCK Engineering, responsible for process design and commissioning for company’s EPC projects. His career in midstream began as a Project Engineer at Southern Union Gas Services, where he performed design engineering and project management for expansion and operational projects. He also worked closely with commercial gas supply to provide various engineering evaluations for system expansions. Mr. Wall received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Texas Tech University.

Mr. Stellato has served as our Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Accounting Officer since the closing of the merger between EagleClaw Midstream and Altus Midstream. Prior to the closing of the merger between EagleClaw Midstream and Altus Midstream, Mr. Stellato served as Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Accounting Officer of BCP GP, a. In this capacity, he oversees numerous functions including our Accounting, Tax and Insurance/Risk Management functions. He has significant experience leading teams in accounting, finance, treasury, tax and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining BCP GP, Mr. Stellato served as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of CST Brands and CrossAmerica Partners from June 2015 to June 2017. He also served as Vice President and Controller of Energy Transfer Partners, LP for six years. Prior to joining Energy Transfer, he was a Senior Manager with the public accounting firm KPMG LLP, where he focused on clients in the energy industry. Mr. Stellato is a Certified Public Accountant and holds the CGMA designation, as well as a B.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Mr. Carpenter has served as our General Counsel since the closing of the merger between EagleClaw Midstream and Altus Midstream. Prior to the closing of the merger between EagleClaw Midstream and Altus Midstream, he served as General Counsel of BCP GP, a position he has held since November 2017. He has more than 25 years’ experience in all phases of commercial and international law, with representation in the energy, manufacturing and real estate industries.. Prior to joining BCP GP, Mr. Carpenter held several roles for the Energy Transfer group from April 2008 to November 2017, including Associate General Counsel for Energy Transfer Partners, General Counsel for Regency Energy Partners and PennTex Midstream, and Manager of Energy Transfer Partners’ liquefied natural gas business. He also previously served as Associate General Counsel for Southern Union Company, Senior Counsel for Cooper Industries, and General Counsel for a private real estate and finance company in Tokyo. Mr. Carpenter holds a B.B.A. in Finance and a J.D., both from the University of Texas in Austin.

Ms. Psencik has served as our Chief Strategy Officer since the closing of the merger between EagleClaw Midstream and Altus Midstream. Prior to the closing of the merger between EagleClaw Midstream and Altus Midstream, she served as the Chief Strategy Officer of BCP GP, a position she has held since July 2019. With over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, Ms. Psencik has a proven track record of management and leadership in midstream business development, trading, and engineering and construction. Prior to joining BCP GP, Ms. Psencik ran her own consulting business from May 2016 to July 2019 providing strategic development on midstream projects for Crestwood Equity Partners, Momentum Midstream and BCP GP with primary focus in the Permian Basin.. Prior to her role as owner in Psencik Consulting, she started the Marketing and Midstream business at AEP-LP in Oklahoma City, where she negotiated over $3 billion in non-operated equity interest in midstream assets for AEP-LP. These midstream assets are currently known as Traverse Midstream. She also was a part of the executive team at TEJAS NGL, LLC, which negotiated the original conveyance of Shell midstream assets to Enterprise Products, LP. She has held positions as SVP Midstream Business Development for Continuum Energy, LLC, Director of Midstream and Marketing for AEP-LP, Manager of Business Development for Harvest Pipeline, VP Commercial Development for Buckeye Pipeline Partners, VP of Gulf Coast Trading for Aquila, VP of Risk Management Natural Gas for Enterprise Products, LP, and VP of Marketing and Trading for TEJAS NGL, LLC. Anne graduated from The University of Texas at Austin (1986) with a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering. Early in her career, Anne served as a Field Supervisor for Schlumberger in well logging, cementing and stimulation work, as well as designing and constructing pipelines at ConocoPhillips.

Mr. Howard joined Kinetik in March 2020. He is responsible for developing and directing the Company’s analytical and financial plans. Additionally, his responsibilities include the research and underwriting, and structuring of investment opportunities at Kinetik. Prior to joining Kinetik, Mr. Howard was an Investment Professional at Glenview Capital Management’s long/short equities group and a Senior Associate at Blackstone’s private equity group, where he was responsible for the structuring, monitoring and exiting of investments throughout North America. Prior to joining Blackstone, he was an Analyst at Barclays in their Investment Banking Global Natural Resources group. He holds a Masters in Professional Accounting and Bachelors of Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business.

Mr. Kindrick joined Kinetik in July 2018 and has served as Vice President of Commercial since 2019. He brings more than ten years of commercial, business development, origination and M&A experience in the midstream sector to Kinetik. Prior to joining Kinetik, he spent eight years at Energy Transfer in a variety of commercial, marketing and business development roles. Mr. Kindrick served on the marketing and business development team for Energy Transfer’s portfolio of interstate assets, primarily focusing on long-term capacity sales, supply development in the Permian and market development in the desert southwest region. Most recently he managed the commercial and business development activities for Energy Transfer’s midstream assets in the Permian Basin. He managed the long-term growth of both the Midland and Delaware Basin gathering and processing assets, which included commercial development, organic growth, M&A, capital improvement projects, joint ventures and day-to-day commercial operations. Mr. Kindrick holds a BBA in Finance from Texas A&M University and a MBA from Rice University. He also serves on the Board of Trustees for The Monarch School and Institute, a non-profit school in Houston dedicated to serving children and young adults with neurological differences.

Tyler Milam serves as Vice President of Commercial of Kinetik. Mr. Milam joined the Kinetik team in August 2012, serving as Director of Engineering Services and later as Director of Commercial prior to being named Vice President of Commercial in 2019. Prior to joining Kinetik, Mr. Milam worked at BOPCO, L.P., supervising the drilling of vertical and horizontal wells in the Southern Delaware Basin in both Texas and New Mexico. Mr. Milam successfully drilled cost-effective wells by reducing downtime and utilizing a strategic balance between industry-standard practices and newly developing technologies. While at BOPCO, L.P., he also gained experience with various production methods, log interpretation and horizontal completion techniques. Mr. Milam received a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Texas Tech University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas – Permian Basin. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Texas and is a past president of the Natural Gas Society of the Permian Basin as well as past vice president of the Permian Basin chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers.