Kerr Friedman: Co-Founder, Managing Partner
Kerr spent the majority of his career working in the hedge fund industry covering upstream oil & gas companies. While in the hedge fund industry, Kerr's main responsibilities revolved around idea sourcing with an emphasis on bottoms-up company specific research. Throughout his career, Kerr worked for Aptigon (a Citadel company), Vollero Beach and BlackGold Capital. Prior to his experience investing, he worked as a research analyst at a boutique energy investment bank, Simmons & Company, covering upstream oil & gas equities. With the entirety of his career spent covering unconventional upstream oil & gas, Kerr has a deep understanding for projecting and evaluation wellbore performance across basins, identifying quality operators and brings a robust network of C-suite relationships.
Taylor Laymance: Co-Founder, Managing Partner
Taylor brings a background as both an operator and private equity investor in the upstream and midstream sectors of US oil & gas. Prior to co-founding Cross Plains Energy Partners, Taylor and a partner assembled and operated a contiguous ~13,000 acre position in the Southern Delaware Basin through working interest acquisition and traditional leasing. Previously, Taylor focused on private equity investments in energy related infrastructure and oil field services at Captra Capital and Capital Southwest Corporation. Taylor began his career at Vision Research Capital Management, a long-short equity hedge fund. Through his experience as both an investor and operator in upstream oil and gas, Taylor has developed a broad skillset covering many aspects of the oil & gas business including acquisitions & divestitures, land, operations, finance, risk management, back office administration and economic evaluation.
Matt Fisher: Vice President of Geology
Matt joined Cross Plains Energy Partners from Concho Resources, one of the largest operators in the Permian Basin. As a geologist at Concho, Matt held responsibilities covering both operated and non-operated portions of Concho’s Delaware Basin leasehold position. During that time, Matt performed extensive geologic studies of the Bone Spring and Wolfcamp formations in New Mexico, and closely collaborated with reservoir engineering and land to plan over 150 wells across Concho’s acreage. Having conducted a variety of reservoir studies incorporating horizontal well spacing, completion design and analog production analysis, Matt has a strong understanding of multi-well pad development. Prior to Concho, Matt worked as a geologist for Manzano Energy Partners in Roswell, New Mexico. During his tenure at Manzano, Matt primarily focused on mapping the Bone Spring, Wolfcamp and San Andres formations of West Texas and Southeast New Mexico.