Grayson Pranin

President, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Pranin has served in various engineering, operational and leadership roles with SandRidge Energy since December 2011. Prior to then, Mr. Pranin served in various engineering and operating roles for Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE: PXD) from June 2010 to November 2011. Mr. Pranin has served his country as a non-commissioned and commissioned officer in the U.S. Army Engineering Corps. Mr. Pranin received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Nevada at Reno.

Salah Gamoudi

EVP & Chief Financial Officer
Prior to joining SandRidge Energy in April 2020, Mr. Gamoudi had most recently served as the Chief Accounting Officer of Jones Energy, Inc. (NYSE: JONE) from October 2018 until April 2020. Mr. Gamoudi previously had served in the same role for Remora Petroleum, LP from May 2017 until October 2018. Prior to joining Remora, Mr. Gamoudi served as Controller for Glacier Oil & Gas Corp. and its predecessor company, Miller Energy Resources (NYSE: MILL), from July 2015 until May 2017. Prior to then, Mr. Gamoudi served in various oil & gas audit, accounting and financial roles with LRR Energy, LP (NYSE: LRE), Deloitte and Ernst & Young. Mr. Gamoudi received his Bachelor of Arts from Portland State University. He is also a CPA.

Dean Parrish

SVP, Operations
Mr. Parrish has served in various engineering, operational and leadership roles with SandRidge Energy since January 2012. Prior to then, Mr. Parrish served in various engineering and operating roles for EXCO Resources (NYSE: XCO) from June 2010 to January 2012. Mr. Parrish received his Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.

Jonathan Frates

Chairman of the Board
Jonathan Frates has served as our independent Director since June 2018. Mr. Frates has been Managing Director and Head of Family Office of Daughters Capital Corp., a single family office focused on private and public equity investing, since July 2021. Mr. Frates previously served as Managing Director at Icahn Enterprises L.P., a diversified holding company engaged in a variety of businesses, from November 2015 through July 2021. Prior to joining Icahn Enterprises, Mr. Frates served as a Senior Business Analyst at First Acceptance Corp. and as an Associate at its holding company, Diamond A Ford Corp. Mr. Frates began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Wachovia Securities LLC. Mr. Frates has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company since June 2018; and a director of Herc Holdings, Inc., an industrial equipment rental supply company, since August 2019. Mr. Frates previously served as Chairman of the Board of VIVUS, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, from Dec 2020 until July 2021; Chairman of the Board of Viskase Companies, Inc., a meat casing company, from March 2016 until July 2021; a director of American Railcar Industries, Inc., a railcar manufacturing company, from March 2016 until December 2018; a director of CVR Refining, LP, a downstream energy limited partnership from April 2016 until January 2019; a director of Ferrous Resources Limited, an iron ore mining company in Brazil, from December 2016 until July 2019; a director of CVR Partners, LP, a nitrogen fertilizer company, from April 2016 until July 2021; and a director of CVR Energy, Inc., a diversified holding company engaged in the petroleum refining and nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing, from March 2016 until July 2021. Carl C. Icahn has a controlling or non-controlling stake in all of the above listed companies. Mr. Frates received a BBA from Southern Methodist University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Randolph C. Read

Director
Randolph C. Read has been president and chief executive officer of Nevada Strategic Credit Investments, LLC since 2009 and our Director since June 2018. He has also served since then as Chairman of our Audit Committee and a member of our Nominating and Governance Committee as well as on our CEO Search Committee. Mr. Read has served since November 2018 as an independent director and Chairman of the Board of New York REIT Liquidating, LLC, a successor to New York REIT, Inc., a publicly traded real estate investment trust, where Mr. Read served as an independent director from December 2014 to November 2018, including as non-executive chairman of its board of directors from June 2015 to November 2018. Mr. Read served as an independent director of Business Development Corporation of America from December 2014 to June 2018. Mr. Read also served as an independent director of Business Development Corporation of America II from December 2014 until its liquidation and dissolution in December 2015. Mr. Read served as the non-executive chairman of the board of directors of Healthcare Trust, Inc., a real estate investment trust, from February 2015 to October 2016. Mr. Read has previously served as president of a variety of other companies, including C & S Oil and Gas Company, Inc. He also previously served in various positions at Atlantic Richfield Company. Mr. Read has previously served on a number of public and private company boards. Mr. Read is admitted as a Certified Public Accountant and has an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from Tulane University.

John J. (Jack) Lipinski

Director
John J. “Jack” Lipinski served as Chief Executive Officer and President and a Director of CVR Energy, Inc. (“CVR Energy”) from 2007 to 2017, as well as Chief Executive Officer and President and a Director of the general partner of CVR Refining, L.P. from its inception in 2012 until 2017 and Executive Chairman of the general partner of CVR Partners, L.P. from 2011 to 2017. CVR Energy is a diversified holding company primarily engaged in the petroleum refining and nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing industries through its holdings in CVR Refining and CVR Partners. Prior to the formation of CVR Energy, Mr. Lipinski served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Coffeyville Resources, LLC from 2005 to 2007. Mr. Lipinski has more than 40 years of experience in the petroleum refining and nitrogen fertilizer industries. He began his career with Texaco, Inc. In 1985, Mr. Lipinski joined The Coastal Corporation, eventually serving as Vice President of Refining with overall responsibility for Coastal’s refining and petrochemical operations. Upon the merger of Coastal with El Paso Corporation in 2001, Mr. Lipinski was promoted to Executive Vice President of Refining and Chemicals, where he was responsible for all refining, petrochemical, nitrogen-based chemical processing and lubricant operations, as well as the corporate engineering and construction group. He left El Paso in 2002 and became an independent management consultant. In 2004, Mr. Lipinski became a Managing Director and Partner of Prudentia Energy, an advisory and management firm. Mr. Lipinski previously served on the board of directors of Chesapeake Energy Corporation, an oil and gas exploration and production company, from 2014 until 2016, and Cheniere Energy, Inc., an energy company primarily engaged in liquefied natural gas-related businesses, from August 2017 until May 2018. CVR Energy, CVR Refining and CVR Partners are each indirectly controlled by Carl C. Icahn. Mr. Icahn also has or previously had noncontrolling interests in each of Cheniere and Chesapeake. Mr. Lipinski graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology with a B.E. in Chemical Engineering. He received a J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law.

Jaffery (Jay) A. Firestone

Director
Mr. Firestone has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Prodigy Pictures Inc., a producer of film, television and cross-platform media since 2006. Previously, Mr. Firestone established Fireworks Entertainment in 1996 to produce, distribute and finance television programs and feature films. In 1998, Fireworks Entertainment was acquired by CanWest Global Communications Corporation and Mr. Firestone was named chairman and chief executive officer and oversaw the company’s Los Angeles and London based television operations as well as its Los Angeles feature film division, Fireworks Pictures. In addition, Mr. Firestone oversaw the company’s interest in New York based IDP Distribution, an independent distribution and marketing company formed by Fireworks Entertainment in 2000 as a joint venture with Samuel Goldwyn Films and Stratosphere Entertainment. Mr. Firestone has served on the board of directors for the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences International Council in Los Angeles. Mr. Firestone has led two initial public offerings. Mr. Firestone has been a director of CVR Energy, Inc. since January 2020 and previously served as a director of Voltari Corporation, a commercial real estate company, from July 2011 through September 2019. Mr. Firestone obtained a degree in commerce from McMasters University.

Nancy Dunlap

Director
Nancy Dunlap has served since 1999 as the private counsel and head/Chairman of the private family office of Jon S. Corzine, former New Jersey Governor and United States Senator. Ms. Dunlap has served as a director of Icahn Enterprises G.P. Inc., the general partner of Icahn Enterprises L.P. since April 2021. Ms. Dunlap was previously a director of CVR Refining, LP, an independent downstream energy limited partnership, from July 2018 to February 2019. Ms. Dunlap was also previously a director of Equita Sim, a private investment bank headquartered in Milan, Italy, from November 2021 to September 2015 and Amp Electric Vehicles from March 2010 to September 2012. Ms. Dunlap received a Juris Doctor from St. John’s University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts from University of Denver.