Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board

Mr. McClintock, an American CPA and financial executive, started his career with Arthur Andersen Co. in 1974 and has been an independent oil and gas professional for 44 years—half the time in the US and half in Turkey. He has served as a board member, CEO, president, general manager, or CFO of several exploration, production, and service companies and managed an international financial and management consulting practice. Mr. McClintock helped organize, syndicate, and manage over $470 million of public and private investment programs in the energy business, including oil and gas (both onshore and offshore), coalbed methane, geothermal, biofuels, and power generation, including a JS Herold Pacesetter of the Year award winner.

Beginning in 2003, Mr. McClintock served initially as an advisor and later as country manager of a London-based oil company, which discovered eight gas fields (85 Bcf) in the Black Sea offshore Turkey. During the initial development of four fields, Mr. McClintock organized a management buyout of the Turkish subsidiary. The company was sold in 2017 and Mr. McClintock returned home to Houston, where he co-founded iLEX Energy Corporation.

Mr. McClintock has also worked in disaster management, helping to develop and manage over $44 million in projects financed by the EU, World Bank, Turkey, and The Netherlands. These projects helped institutions in Turkey, Albania, and India to better prepare for and respond to man-made and natural disasters.

Throughout his career, Mr. McClintock has interacted with government and business leaders to influence government programs and policies. In 2005, Mr. McClintock chaired the “Rule of Law” workgroup of the American Business Forum in Turkey, co-authored a white paper, and lobbied the Turkish government on behalf of an international client on rule of law issues. He currently represents iLEX in efforts to promote laws and regulations addressing energy and climate policy that recognize natural gas as an “enlightened” energy source and a vital part of the national and global energy economy. He is a member of the US Energy Streams Leadership Council.  He has been a speaker at energy conferences in Ankara, Istanbul, London, Houston, and Washington DC and a guest speaker at the Rice University Baker School of Business.

Chief Operating Officer and Director

Rick Crist has over 35 years of international experience in exploration and development companies, in the oilfield service industry, and in geothermal projects and has held senior management positions in Eastern Europe, Russia & CIS, Asia, Western & North Africa, and the UK (North-Sea). Mr. Crist is a strategic thinker and tactical planner with solid experience in human resources, planning, project management, M&A, and financing oil and gas ventures. He has a proven track record of maximizing business performance through high-growth business strategies and strategic planning execution. He is experienced in the full-field development cycle for oil and gas assets including subsurface geological analysis, well design, and construction of surface facilities and infrastructure. In 2008, he co-founded an E&P Company and helped raise $30m in seed capital which they then grew their reserve base to over 1.0 TCF of gas as supported by a 2018 third-party CPR report.

Mr. Crist was a significant advisor shortly after iLEX Energy Corporation was founded, and he currently serves as its chief operating officer.

Chief Technical Officer

Mark Puckett is a geophysics professional with extensive experience in operations, interpretation, and business development. After  graduating from the University of Kentucky in electrical engineering in 1980, Mr. Puckett began a long career with Schlumberger before retiring in 2015 after he was a global domain manager (geophysics) for four years at headquarters in France.  He possesses strong skills in technology evaluation, interpretation of measurements, project management, and business planning and development, and has worked on projects throughout the US Lower 48 (extensively in the Rocky Mountains and Mid-Continent) and offshore Gulf of Mexico, working on projects in both the shelf and deepwater. His wide-­ranging managerial and executive experience includes working with multidisciplinary teams in operations and interpretation, coordinating projects between field, engineering, and research teams, and driving the development of new and advancing technologies. Mr. Puckett joined iLEX in 2015 to help design and provide quality assurance for iLEX's seismic acquisition programs, and now is leading the iLEX geoscience team in interpreting the results, managing the design of iLEX's 3D survey programs, providing innovative petrophysical interpretation,  coordinating and managing all subsurface activities, and manages the technical platforms of iLEX Energy Corporation.

Legal Consultant

• Serving as Legal Director at PetroKazakhstan, a $4.18 billion dollar oil company developing the Kumkol oilfield in central Kazakhstan
• Serving as Chief Legal Officer at Block Energy, PLC, a public limited company developing several oil and gas blocks in the Republic of Georgia
• Serving as EMEA General Counsel and Compliance Officer for Parker Drilling Company

Consulting Geologist

Lee Jenkins has spent forty years as a petroleum geologist working throughout the United States, Canada, and internationally. His work consists of exploration, development, operations, interpretation, evaluation and business development in both conventional and non-conventional plays. Lee spent thirty years working for large to major oil and gas companies identifying, generating and discovering oil and gas using his geological expertise. His years in the industry involved team development, leadership skills, managing and advising major prospects in the major basins in the US and abroad. Lee has been part of discovering some of the major oil and gas fields in America and has spent the last ten years working in his own companies continuing to find oil and gas in multiple areas in the Gulf Coast, Mid Continent, and the Permian Basin.

Consulting Geoscientist Deborah Sacrey is a geologist/geophysicist with more than 40 years of oil and gas exploration experience in the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast and Mid-Continent areas of the United States. Ms. Sacrey received a degree in geology from the University of Oklahoma in 1976 and began her career at Gulf Oil's Oklahoma City office. She started her own company, Auburn Energy, in 1990 and built her first geophysical workstation using Kingdom software in 1995. She helped SMT/IHS for 20 years in developing and testing the Kingdom Software. She specializes in 2D and 3D interpretation for clients in the United States and internationally. For the past three years, Ms. Sacrey has been part of a team to study and bring the power of multiattribute neural analysis of seismic data to the geoscience public, guided by Tom Smith, founder of SMT. Ms. Sacrey has been very active in the geological community. She is a past national president of the Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists (SIPES), past president of the Division of Professional Affairs of American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), past treasurer of AAPG, and past president of the Houston Geological Society. She is also a DPA certified petroleum geologist #4014 and DPA certified petroleum geophysicist #2. She is a member of SEG, AAPG, PESA (Australia), SIPES, Houston Geological Society, and the Oklahoma City Geological Society.

Production Consultant

Consulting Land Manager

Steve Bryson is a Certified Professional Landman with over 40 years of oil and gas exploration and production experience in the Ark-La-Tex, Gulf Coast, and Permian Basins of Texas and throughout the Mid-Continent.  He has an extensive background in trade negotiations, acquisitions and divestitures, project development, leasing, title, drilling and land administration.  He has been an active member of the American Association of Professional Landmen and numerous local Landman Associations for over 42 years, serving in various leadership and committee roles.