Steve D. Gray

Steve Gray became a director in 2018. Mr. Gray served as a founder, director and Chief Executive Officer of RSP Permian Inc. from their inception in 2010 to 2018. When RSP Permian merged with Concho Resources Inc., he joined Concho’s Board of Directors and served on it’s Reserves Committee until Concho was acquired by ConocoPhillips. Mr. Gray currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Bighorn Permian Resources, LLC , a private company which owns assets in the Permian basin, and serves on the Board of Permian Resources Corporation, an independent oil producer with assets the southern Delaware Basin.

Prior to forming RSP Permian, Mr. Gray founded several successful oil and gas ventures spanning nearly 20 years in partnerships with Natural Gas Partners, an Irving, Texas based private equity company. Prior to going into business for himself, Mr. Gray spent 11 years employed in the oil and gas industry in various capacities as a petroleum engineer. Mr. Gray is on the Board of Directors of the Texas Tech Foundation. In addition, he is a member of the Petroleum Engineering Academy and serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the College of Engineering at Texas Tech University—the same institution from which he earned a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering. He is also a member of the Executive Advisory Council of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas.