Tanya’s professional career spans more than 20 years in the areas of finance, strategy and management.  As the Chief Operating Officer for Enverus, Tanya manages operations across the business units, and runs corporate strategy, including M&A activity, due diligence and integration. Prior to her COO role, Tanya served as SVP of Corporate Strategy, and prior to that, as Market Director for Financial Services and Oilfield Services.

Before joining Enverus, Tanya was a Lecturer at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Associate Director of the McCombs Energy Center, where she was responsible for alumni relations, student programming, and business operations.  Prior to working at McCombs, Tanya was a Director at Duff and Phelps, an international financial advisory firm.

Tanya graduated Magna Cum Laude in Economics from Princeton University and she holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, where she was a Palmer Scholar. 

David’s life and career has focused on the development of people, business, technology and culture. He has been a pioneer and champion of strategic growth in technology, business models, machine design, and industrial digitization.  He is a global public speaker on innovation, change, and leadership, as well as being an advocate in addressing modern slavery.  David serves on the boards of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the National Ocean Industries Association, and Redeemed, a trauma informed recovery program for sex trafficking survivors.

David has written many published technical papers and magazine articles, with patents in drilling systems and automation.  He has founded industry groups in technology, diversity and inclusion, a startup village, and RedM, a pro-bono crowdsourcing organization.  A winning team member of the first Rockets and Rigs hackathon with a NASA patent-based start-up company, Permittivity, also serving as an advisor to their board.

Sonia Scarselli was appointed Vice President Exploration and Appraisal in August 2019 where she leads, develops and operationalizes business strategies and commercial plans to deliver a global portfolio of growth options.  Since joining BHP in 2012, Sonia has served in several commercial and operational leadership roles including Head of Algeria, Exploration and Appraisal Chief of Staff and Manager Exploration Trinidad and Tobago. She has also been heavily involved in Innovation projects and VC activities at BHP. Before joining BHP, Sonia started her career in the oil industry at ExxonMobil UK in a number of exploration and geology roles. She holds a master’s degree in Geological Science from Università degli studi di Perugia, a PhD in Geology from ETH Zurich and an MBA from the London Business School. Sonia serves as advisor in Deep Energy Capital, LLP since 2021, the American Cancer Society, CEOs Against Cancer Chapter since 2020, and the AAPG Advisory Council since 2019.

Mr. Brooks serves as the Chief Commercial Officer for American Hydrogen.  He has spent his career focused on the development of both traditional and renewable energy infrastructure. 

Mr. Brooks’ renewable experience spans the development of hydrogen generation projects, carbon capture facilities, and waste to energy projects (i.e., MSW to SRF, Biomass to RNG and hydrogen).  These projects span domestic jurisdictions including California and the Northeast, as well as international work in Canada.

Mr. Brooks’ oil and gas experience encompasses midstream system design, construction, and operations.  He has developed natural gas cryogenic facilities, crude and natural gas gathering systems, wellhead treating and processing facilities, CDPs and compressor stations in formations across the United States including the North Dakota Bakken, Oklahoma STACK and Texas Austin Chalk.

In addition to his role at American Hydrogen, Mr.  Brooks also serves as the Vice President of Engineering and Operations for Lone Cypress Energy Services.  Prior to joining the Lone Cypress team, Mr. Brooks worked as the Engineering Project Manager for UMC Energy Solutions, a production equipment manufacturer based out of Midland, TX, and as a Reliability Engineer for Explorer Pipeline. Mr. Brooks received his Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and his Master of Business Administration from the University of Tulsa.

Danny is a business leader, innovator, and entrepreneur focused on building companies and leading change efforts. He has diverse experience in engineering and management in geothermal energy, oil & gas, operations, well construction, subsurface engineering, capital planning, and optimization. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Criterion Energy Partners (CEP) an independent exploration and production company focused on developing decentralized direct geothermal energy projects to help commercial and industrial consumers reduce their emissions and improve their operating efficiency by providing clean, reliable, baseload energy using heat from the Earth. Danny held positions of increasing responsibility in engineering and management at a Fortune 500 company, Anadarko Petroleum, and a private O&G company, Endeavor Energy Resources. He has lead energy exploration and development projects in the United States and Africa and holds an MBA from Rice University and a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from The University of Oklahoma.

Ryan Dawson is the founder and CEO of Corva, a company fueling real-time data and analytics for the oil and gas industry. Some of the world’s biggest oil companies use Corva to optimize and support their critical operations. Before Corva, Dawson was co-founder of product design incubator thirteen23, which was responsible for the revolutionary mobile strategy of the Obama campaign and had customers such as Netflix, Microsoft, and Twitter.

Scott is a Director in AWS’ global Energy & Utilities business, where he leads development activities in energy-specific cloud-based solutions.  He has been an Energy professional for over 30 years, working in Nuclear Energy, and Upstream and Downstream Oil and Gas.  He spent 18 years, including ten as an Partner in Deloitte Consulting’s Energy Practice, was an Independent Operator (multiple assets both onshore and marine), and an Energy Merger and Acquisition Investment Banker. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Nuclear Engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Dr. Florian Thaler, CEO and Co-Founder of OilX. Nearly 20 years of experience analysing the oil markets from different perspectives at an oil major (Shell), investment bank (Citigroup) and hedge fund (Och-Ziff). He was also a member of the 100 Future Energy Leaders of the World Energy Council and currently is serving as a board member at Bloc-X, a block trading venture.

Simon Dawson was born in 1981 in Leamington Spa, England. His family then moved to Michigan when he was 4 years old. He grew up in both the U.S. and U.K. as his father, Ian, was an influential figure in the global motorsports community. Simon developed a passion for a variety of sports as a youth and became particularly versed in the game of tennis.

He graduated from high school in Houston and ultimately attended the University of North Carolina Charlotte on a tennis scholarship, where he studied athletic training, strength, conditioning and sports psychology.
In 2000, Simon returned to England and became a tennis pro, obtaining a top-25 ranking in the country playing doubles with world top-five ranked player Rosco Tanner.

Simon soon became a full-time tennis and fitness instructor, and after a stint as a salesperson and marketing manager at England’s Next Generation club, joined his father in the world of motorsports. Simon trained drivers and contributed to the development of his father’s teams, working extensively with Lola, while also preparing a variety of well-known Formula 1 and IndyCar competitors for their grueling races.

Simon also spent several years as business manager for Ferrari race team Risi Competizione. Then in 2012, he became part of his father’s Project Libra Race program, helping develop the Radical Sportscar Ford EcoBoost race engine and the team’s first race car.

For six years, Simon and Ian enjoyed great success with Radical Texas in Houston selling track-day vehicles, while testing and developing new cars and technologies. Simon also serves as president of Dawson Racing.
In 2018, Simon created D3eSports, of which he is now CEO and president. Establishing an educational platform for kids to learn STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) through eSports and racing has been his focus, while developing corporate partnerships in the global business.
In 2021, the Dawson Racing team was competing in the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) championship in the D3+Transformers LMP3 for a doubleheader at the historic Watkins Glen International circuit in New York to further align their real racing with the virtual.
The driving force behind Simon’s passion for motorsports is his family, which includes his son, Dylan, and the dream of making racing an obtainable pastime and sport for all families.