Vaughn O. Vennerberg II, President and formerly Senior Executive Vice President and Chief of Staff of XTO Energy Inc.  Mr. Vennerberg is a native of Midwest City, Oklahoma and received his BS degree from Oklahoma State University. Prior to joining XTO in 1987, Mr. Vennerberg was employed by Cotton Petroleum Corporation and Texaco Inc. of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Currently he is a director of XTO Energy as well as serving on the boards of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association, Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association, Oklahoma Energy Resources Board and NAPE. His primary duties with XTO include oversight in contract negotiations, regulatory relations, acquisition and divestment strategy, land, gas marketing, property management and human resources. He has been in the oil and gas industry for 29 years.

Paul Sander is the Vice-President of the Mid-Continent Business Unit of EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., a subsidiary of EnCana Corporation. He has an engineering background with over fourteen years of leadership experience in a variety of roles. A Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, native, Mr. Sander hails from an engineering family and completed his  Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1986. An EnCana employee since 2003, Mr. Sander uses his diverse engineering background to add value to the Division’s projects and ensure that safety remains paramount in all situations.

His career started with Amoco and BP where he worked for seventeen years prior to joining EnCana. His first job with Amoco was a Roustabout position in Fox Creek. Soon after, he was assigned to a production engineering position, where he worked with conventional oil and gas reservoirs. He subsequently progressed to a reservoir engineering role. His career then took an operational route. Mr. Sander held several leadership assignments managing field operations and production engineering activities.