Denzil West serves as the Chief Executive Officer for Admiral and is a member of the Company's Board of Directors. He has over 35 years of oil and gas industry experience, most of which has been in the Permian Basin. His focus has been on upstream activities, however, Mr. West also has extensive midstream experience. Most recently, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer for Reliance Energy in Midland, Texas where he was instrumental in the strategy, leadership, development and successful monetization of the Reliance group of companies. Mr. West joined Reliance in 2006 and was responsible for all operational and engineering activities of the company's upstream, midstream and service entities. Mr. West started his career at ARCO Oil and Gas, where he worked as a reservoir and production engineer for several years. He was also instrumental and led the effort to grow and successfully monetize four other private companies, two of which were in the oil and gas business. Mr. West earned a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1981.