Management Team

Paul D. McKinney joined Ring on October 1, 2020 and his most recent role prior to joining the Company was President, CEO & Director of SandRidge Energy (NYSE:SD)(“SandRidge”). He accepted the post in January 2019 and continued there eleven months before resigning in December 2019. Prior to SandRidge, Mr. McKinney was President & Chief Operating Officer for Yuma Energy, Inc. (NYSE American:YUMA)(“Yuma”) since April 2017 after serving as Yuma’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since October 2014. Mr. McKinney served as a petroleum engineering consultant for Yuma’s predecessor from June 2014 to September 2014 and for Yuma from September 2014 to October 2014. Yuma filed for protection under federal bankruptcy laws in April 2020.

Mr. McKinney served as Region Vice President, Gulf Coast Onshore, for Apache Corporation (NYSE:APA)(“Apache”) from 2010 through 2013, where he was responsible for the development and all operational aspects of the Gulf Coast region for Apache. Prior to his role as Region Vice President, Mr. McKinney was Manager, Corporate Reservoir Engineering, for Apache from 2007 through 2010. From 2006 through 2007, Mr. McKinney was Vice President and Director, Acquisitions & Divestitures for Tristone Capital, Inc. Mr. McKinney commenced his career with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:APC)(“Anadarko”) and held various positions with Anadarko over a 23 year period from 1983 to 2006, including his last title as Vice President of Reservoir Engineering, Anadarko Canada Corporation. From July 2017 to December 2021, Mr. McKinney was a member of the board of directors for Pro-Ject Holdings, LLC a privately owned oil field chemical services company. He co-authored paper number SPE-75708-MS: Applied Reservoir Characterization for Maximizing Reserve Growth and Profitability in Tight Gas Sands: A Paradigm Shift in Development Strategies for Low-Permeability Gas Reservoirs.

Mr. McKinney entered the United States Air Force upon graduating from high school and continued in the United States Air Force Reserves while attending college. Mr. McKinney attended Louisiana Tech University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering in 1983.

Alexander Dyes joined Ring on October 1, 2020 and was promoted to Executive Vice President of Engineering and Corporate Strategy in December of 2020. Mr. Dyes is responsible for and leads the following disciplines including Acquisition & Divestitures, Business Development, Corporate Reserves, Geology, Information Technology and Subsurface. He also plays a key role in corporate planning and strategy and is a member of the Company’s Management Cybersecurity Committee.

He has a well-rounded background in both conventional and unconventional plays with over 17 years of multi-disciplined experience in oilfield operations, reservoir engineering, economic evaluation, capital allocation, risk assessment, strategic planning, and business development. Prior to Ring Energy, Mr. Dyes served as Vice President - A&D at Sandridge Energy from May 2019 to June 2020. Prior to Sandridge, he worked at Yuma Energy from late 2014 to early 2019 where he served as Vice President of A&D/Engineering from 2016 to 2019. He began his career at Apache Corporation and worked in various roles of increasing responsibility from 2007 to 2014 including his last role as a lead asset Senior Reservoir Engineer in Apache's Permian Region.

During his career he has led multi-discipline teams charged with identifying upside, optimizing vertical and horizontal development programs, reducing costs, and improving returns. He has direct experience in drilling, completions, production operations and reservoir engineering in most of the U.S. major active basins and horizontal plays. Mr. Dyes is a recipient of the Oil & Gas Investor Hart Energy's 2022 Class of Forty under 40. He is bilingual in Spanish and has a multicultural background being born and raised in Bogota, Colombia.

Mr. Dyes received a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin with a minor in Business Foundations from McCombs School of Business.

Travis T. Thomas joined Ring on October 26, 2020 and was promoted to Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Secretary and Treasurer in March of 2021. He is responsible for all financial, accounting, reporting, and treasury functions of the Company. He is also a member of the Management Cybersecurity Committee and spearheads the risk management aspects of the Company including commodity risk management and insurance.

Prior to Ring Energy, he held the position of Executive Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Accounting Officer of Paradox Resources, LLC, a private exploration, development and production company focused on the Paradox Basin of Utah and Colorado with complementary midstream assets. Prior to Paradox, Mr. Thomas served as Vice President of Finance/Controller with Yuma Energy, Inc. from February 2016 through February 2019. From March 2012 through January 2016, he held a variety of financial management roles at New Prospect Company, an oil and gas consulting firm specializing in wellsite supervision, engineering, energy services and construction, and was named Vice President of Finance in June 2015. Prior to New Prospect, Mr. Thomas held similar financial roles at Highland Oil and Gas and Equity Associates, Inc.

Mr. Thomas currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Houston Energy Finance Group.

Mr. Thomas holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a major in finance from the Red McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

Phillip Feiner joined Ring in 2024. Mr. Feiner most recently served as General Counsel for Nacero Inc., a renewable fuels company. Prior to Nacero, Phillip served as General Counsel for HSB Solomon Associates, a global consulting and benchmarking firm serving the upstream, midstream, and downstream energy space. From 2011 to 2019, Mr. Feiner worked at Kosmos Energy as Assistant General Counsel where he was promoted to Vice President, Legal and HR and subsequently to Vice President and Deputy General Counsel. Prior to Kosmos Energy, Phillip served as Vice President and General Counsel for Cano Petroleum. Mr. Feiner received a B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and a J.D. degree from Wake Forest University School of Law.

Ms. Lamb has more than 20 years of experience in domestic oil/gas evaluation, exploration and production operations, management, and petroleum engineering consulting. She has an extensive background in reservoir evaluation and economic evaluation. Her career has centered in Permian Basin, which has enabled her to focus on the upside in the basin.

Prior to joining Ring, from June 2022, Mr. Parr served as Vice President, Global New Ventures for Woodside Energy, where he was responsible for core exploration and business development activities worldwide while also supporting upstream M&A. Preceding BHP’s merger with Woodside in 2022, Mr. Parr served as Head of Growth, Petroleum for BHP Petroleum from 2021. Mr. Parr served as Director of International Exploration for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation from 2018 until acquisition by OXY at the end of 2019. From 2011 to 2018, Mr. Parr was Vice President, International New Ventures and Gulf of Mexico for APA (formerly Apache) Corporation. Before joining Apache, from 2004 to 2011, Mr. Parr served as Director, Exploration and Business Development for Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation after serving in several roles of increasing responsibility with Anadarko, ARCO and BP.

Mr. Parr earned a B.S. degree in Geological Sciences (Honors) from the University of Aston (Birmingham, England) followed by doctoral studies in Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England). Additionally, Mr. Parr has participated in executive management programs at Thunderbird School of Executive Management (Arizona State University), Wharton Business School (University of Pennsylvania), and Cox School of Business (Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas). Mr. Parr is a Texas Certified Professional Geologist (#5600).

Shawn Young joined Ring Energy in 2022 as Production Engineering Manager, and was promoted to Vice President of Operations effective July 2024. Prior to Ring, Mr. Young most recently served as Vice President – East Texas & Rockies Business Unit Lead for Legacy Reserves Inc./Revenir Energy (“Legacy”) and joined Legacy as Engineering Manager in 2013. Prior to Legacy, Mr. Young served in operations engineering and operations management roles for Legado Resources, an Encap backed private equity company, since 2008. From 2005 to 2008, Mr. Young was with Henry Petroleum, a Permian Basin based private company, where he worked in both engineering and operations management roles. Prior to that, Mr. Young spent 15 years with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (“Anadarko”) where he worked in various engineering and engineering/operations management roles throughout Anadarko’s U.S. onshore assets. Mr. Young received a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 1990.