Steven H. Pruett is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Elevation Resources LLC, a Permian Basin focused exploration and production company which he co-founded in 2013. Mr. Pruett was previously senior vice president of corporate development of Concho Resources. He co-founded and served as president and CFO of Legacy Reserves LP, a public MLP. Mr. Pruett has over 30 years of oil and gas operating, financial and management experience, most of which has been in the Permian Basin. Prior to forming Legacy Reserves, Mr. Pruett was a venture partner with Quantum Energy Partners, and was President of Petroleum Place and P2 Energy Solutions. He previously served as president and CEO of First Permian, founded and was president and CEO of First Reserve Oil & Gas Co, and served as a Vice President for First Reserve Corporation originating upstream equity investments. He was an energy investment banker with CS First Boston. Mr. Pruett began his career as a petroleum engineer for ARCO Oil & Gas where he earned his registered professional engineer certificate. He worked in planning and business development for Amoco Production Company following graduate business school. Mr. Pruett received his B.S in Petroleum Engineering, High Honors, from the University of Texas at Austin and graduated with an MBA from the Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.

Mr. Pruett is a past chairman of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association, serves on the Board of Governors of Midland Memorial Hospital Foundation where he chairs the Investment Committee, and is a past trustee, elder and deacon of First Presbyterian Church of Midland. He is a director of Key Energy Services, the largest well service company in the U.S. Mr. Pruett previously served on the Executive Advisory Board of the University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering and currently serves on the Advisory Board of the College of Business at The University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He also serves as a Trustee and Treasurer of Trinity School of Midland.