2026 Board of Directors Election
The Nominating Committee, chaired by Past President Dean Sergent, presents the following members as candidates for the three positions open on the Board of Directors. All members and associate members in good standing may vote. The candidate receiving the most votes for each position will be elected. Each Director will serve for a three-year term beginning in January 2026. SPEE Board members do not represent a region but rather the Society as a whole. You are urged to consider the qualifications of all candidates, not just those in your own local chapter or area.
Your vote is crucial in shaping the future of our organization. In accordance with SPEE Bylaws, Article VII Section 5, voting shall remain open until the close of business on November 10th, 2025.
Thank you for participating in this very important privilege.
Candidates for Three-Year Terms beginning January 2026
Article VII, Section 5 of the Bylaws refers to “two candidates for each of the three director positions.”. Please cast your vote for one candidate in each position.
- Position 1 – Lindsey Stelmach and Kaleb Euseppi
- Position 2 – Robert Hyde and Connor Riseden
- Position 3 – Phil Kandel and John Hornbrook
Please read all candidate biographies and vote below. You may vote only once.
Position 1
Lindsey Stelmach
Lindsey has been an active member of the Denver Chapter since 2021 and joined the board in 2024, initially serving as Membership Chair and currently holding the position of Treasurer. Her involvement includes organizing luncheons, leading new membership outreach initiatives, and coordinating Summer Soirees for members and industry professionals. Lindsey successfully hosted the inaugural Monograph 5 training session in Denver, volunteered at the 2024 Software Symposium, and is a committee member for the 2026 Software Symposium. She has attended the last two annual conferences and looks forward to the upcoming event in Utah. Lindsey is dedicated to Reserves and actively encourages younger generations to participate in economic evaluation, Reserve reporting, and to join SPEE. She believes SPEE is an exceptional organization and her involvement with the group has been extremely rewarding on multiple levels. She hopes to serve SPEE at the International level and continue the excellent work that so many before her have volunteered their time to foster and grow.
Currently, Lindsey serves as a Reservoir Engineer at OXY in Denver, collaborating with the Powder River Basin WY team on development planning and project evaluation. She began her career in 2003 with Kerr McGee as a file clerk and advanced to the role of Engineering Analyst in the Rockies Reserves group in 2005. This experience ignited her passion for Reserves, motivating her to pursue further education in Petroleum Engineering. Lindsey has held various roles related to data management, economic evaluations, planning, Reserves, and Reservoir Engineering at Anadarko and OXY. She is recognized within her organization for her extensive expertise in Reserve reporting, DCA forecasting, type well profile generation, and economic evaluations. She has working experience with the DJ Basin, Powder River Basin, and Permian Basin. From 2016 to 2018, she served as Corporate Reserves Administration Manager at Anadarko gaining exposure and experience to International and Gulf of Mexico Reserves and Resources. Lindsey holds a B.S. in Mathematics (2004) and an M.S. in Statistics (2007) from the University of Northern Colorado, as well as a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering (2014) from the University of North Dakota.
In her leisure time, Lindsey enjoys walking her German Shepherds, gardening and landscaping, working on home improvement projects, volunteering in the community, fishing, traveling, and spending time with friends and family.
Kaleb Euseppi
Kaleb Euseppi currently serves as a Principal at MAP Energy, a private energy investment firm. As the engineer at MAP Energy, he provides his expertise on all evaluations and forecasts for the over 50,000 wells on over 25,000 properties in the portfolio across every basin in the US. Additionally, he coordinates and validates the reserves process for the over $1 billion Heritage Fund. Further, Kaleb assesses and analyses all new software from Reserves and Economic Tools to Engineering Databases as well as constructing end user visualizations that aide in current and future evaluations.
Prior to joining MAP, he served as a staff reservoir engineer and field development planning engineer at Devon Energy in Oklahoma City. Kaleb started at Devon in 2014 as part of the Junior Military Officer (JMO) Rotational Program working in Midland on drilling, completions, and production assignments across Martin, Midland, and Ector Counties. Once in Oklahoma City, he worked as a reservoir engineer serving as the reservoir engineering lead for the Mississippian Integrated Reservoir Characterization and assisting in the divesture of over $500 million in assets. As he moved into field development planning, he piloted, evaluated, and led the implementation of a new asset development software to simulate and test constraint-based development scenarios across the enterprise as well as writing an internal paper (The Field Development Process: Building a Process to Model Future Development Plans at Devon Energy) to describe the links between the entire value chain from prospect to the portfolio. He also helped to design and evaluate the Corporate Stage Gate Process that functioned as the primary communication tool for decision and risk analysis on E&P development opportunities to the executive team. Before joining the oil and gas industry, he spent six years in the Army as a combat engineer officer leading in various missions across Iraq, Afghanistan, Europe, and the US.
Kaleb holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He also holds a MS in Engineering from the University of Arkansas – Fayetteville, a MS in Agricultural Economics from Purdue, an MBA from Indiana University, and a Graduate Certificate in CCUS from Colorado School of Mines. He is a lifetime member of Tau Beta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Societies. Kaleb is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) in Texas and a Project Management Professional (PMP).
He currently serves as the SPEE Oklahoma Chairman and previously served as secretary and treasurer of the chapter since 2023. He is a member of SPEE and SPE. He serves as the co-President for the West Point Society of Central Oklahoma and is on the board of directors for the Arkansas Armed Forces Alumni Society.
Position 2
Robert Hyde
Rob joined SPEE in 2019. Rob is the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Burk Royalty Company (BRC). BRC is a family-backed E&P company based in Wichita Falls that operates ~20,000 BOPD & 100 MMSCFD, primarily in Texas. Rob is responsible for the operations, engineering & finance departments within the company. Prior to joining BRC he held various operational and evaluation roles with Schlumberger & Navidad Resources, an EnCap backed portfolio company.
Rob’s primary area of competence is the integration of operations & finance in acquisitions and field development. Since 2020, BRC has made > 20 acquisitions, partnering with other family offices, institutional groups, and, most recently, ABS. Alongside the company drills 10 – 20 wells per year. Rob holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M and a Master of Science in Finance from Georgetown University. Rob teaches energy finance at Midwestern State University in the finance & MBA programs. He and his wife, Meredith, have 4 children and hail from Canada, Texas, and the Netherlands.
Connor Riseden
Connor has been an active member of SPEE since joining in 2020, and he currently serves as Treasurer in the Houston Chapter. As a second-generation SPEE member and petroleum engineer, Connor’s work and involvement reflects a commitment to supporting SPEE and the profession of Petroleum Evaluation Engineering.
Connor joined Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. in 2006, and he is currently a Vice President and Team Leader where he prepares and oversees independent reserve evaluations for clients. Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. (NSAI) is a worldwide leader of petroleum property analysis for industry, financial organizations, and government agencies. During his nineteen-year career at NSAI, Connor has been heavily focused on unconventional resource evaluations in the United States. Starting with evaluating early development in Barnett and Fayetteville Shales that kicked off the unconventional revolution, Connor has gained significant experience with the application of reserve definitions and methodologies that are continuously evolving in unconventionals. Additionally, Connor has also evaluated many conventional developments in the lower 48 that include many unique developments such as a fire flood EOR project in northern Louisiana and a tertiary flood in Florida. Recently, Connor has served as an expert in litigation cases providing expert analysis and testimony.
Prior to working at NSAI, Connor started his career in 2001 working with ExxonMobil in New Orleans. During his time with ExxonMobil, Connor worked as a reservoir engineer for the ExxonMobil operated Mobile Bay Field and other Gulf of America fields. He performed reservoir engineering and economic analysis of drilling programs, well optimizations, and workover programs. As the lead reservoir engineer for Mobile Bay Field, he also evaluated and implemented a field-wide compression project.
Connor received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2001 and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Tulane University in 2005. Connor is a registered professional engineer in Texas and a member of SPE since 2003. As an Eagle Scout, Connor volunteers his time as an Assistant Scoutmaster with a local Scouting America Troop, and he has served on the board of St. Charles Bay Hunting Club since 2021. Connor lives in Houston with his wife of twenty years and two teenage children.
Position 3
Phil Kandel
After graduating with a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Geological Engineering from the University of Toronto, Phil spent the first few years of his career as an open pit Mining Engineer with Syncrude Canada Ltd in the Tar Sands of Northern Canada at Fort McMurray Alberta in the late 1970’s. He later joined AMOCO Canada and began his career as a Petroleum Engineer in the Pembina Field near Drayton Valley Alberta. He specialized in Reserves Evaluations beginning with the Royal Bank of Canada in Calgary Alberta and Denver CO in the early 1980’s.
He continued as a Reserves Engineer with junior and intermediate sized oil and gas companies and a natural gas pipeline company to the early 1990’s. Later, he spent a dozen years as a consultant reserves engineer with both Sproule Associates and AJM Petroleum Consultants in Calgary before returning to Denver to join the oil and gas division of Wells Fargo Bank in 2007. Phil retired after almost 14 years with Wells Fargo a few years ago and last presented at our annual meeting in Halifax in 2015. He is a lifetime member of SPE, holds a PE in Colorado, Texas, and Alberta, and has been a member of the SPEE since 1998. He served as Membership Coordinator for the Calgary Chapter of the SPEE from 2001 to 2007 and Chairman of the Qualifications Committee of the SPEE from 2012 to 2014.
John Hornbrook
John Hornbrook received a B.S. degree with honors in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa in 1986. From Stanford University he earned an M.S. degree in 1991 and a Ph.D. degree in 1994 in petroleum engineering with a Ph.D. Minor in civil engineering. He received numerous educational honors and has contributed technical articles to industry journals and educational publications.
From 1994 to 1997, Dr. Hornbrook worked as a reservoir engineer for BP Alaska, where he focused on development of the Prudhoe Bay reservoir. He assisted with annual Reserves evaluations and performed modeling support for ongoing Reserves assessments. From 1997 to 2002, Dr. Hornbrook worked for Cawley, Gillespie, and Associates as an engineer on a variety of domestic and international projects. He performed Reserves evaluations and provided modeling support for Reserves evaluations on a variety of projects including conventional oil, gas, and heavy oil projects.
From 2002 through 2022, Dr. Hornbrook worked for DeGolyer and MacNaughton in various roles including Vice President (2004), Senior Vice President (2010), and Executive Vice President (2021). He provided engineering and management for projects around the world and gained in global venues including U.S. onshore, the shelf, and deepwater Gulf of Mexico; South America, the Midde East, Europe, Western and Eastern Siberia, Australia, Asia, and West Africa, and North Africa. Hornbrook’s experience includes field development studies, probabilistic analysis, Reserves and Resources estimation, property valuation, well test design and analysis, gas storage assessment, and analysis of improved oil recovery mechanisms. He is experienced in oil and gas, heavy oil, geothermal, and coal bed methane applications. He also developed and constructed a proprietary quick-look simulation-based model used in development and Reserves evaluations.
In 2023, Dr. Hornbrook founded Stratum Solutions, LLC, an independent petroleum consulting firm with a focus on field development optimization and Resources evaluations. Hornbrook also became Executive Director – Development and Engineering for Alpha Energy, a petroleum development company with a focus on field development rehabilitation and optimization.
In addition to the experience summarized above, Dr. Hornbrook has served as an expert witness on multiple significant arbitrations involving disputes on field development planning, Resources evaluations, and asset valuation. Dr. Hornbrook has written extensively and testified on a wide variety of related topics including, among others, development evaluation procedures, modeling techniques, PRMS and SEC Reserves evaluation and reporting procedures, development decision-making, and the estimation of fair market value.
Dr. Hornbrook is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers, and the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators, and has served as technical editor for the “SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering” magazine. Dr. Hornbrook is a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas.
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