Frank Tsuru co-founded Momentum with Bill Pritchard in 2004 and currently serves as its President and CEO. Tsuru graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in Petroleum Engineering in 1982. His first assignment was as a drilling and production engineer for TXO Production Corp. in Denver, CO, and was selected to be part of the corporate Engineering and Evaluation team that handled all of the company’s reserves and M & A work. Following TXO’s asset sale and merger into Marathon, Tsuru founded Southwestern Production, a company focused on the Coal Bed Methane development in the San Juan Basin of SW Colorado. That company was sold to Conoco Phillips and Tsuru was tapped to run the Southern Ute Indian Tribe’s midstream company, Red Cedar Gathering. In 2002, Tsuru started Aka Energy, another successful midstream company for the Tribe before starting Momentum.

Frank is very involved with community, national, and international philanthropic organizations. He currently serves as the board chair for Yellowstone Academy, a faith-based school, serving elementary age students living in extreme poverty. Additionally, Tsuru is Vice-Chairman of the Star of Hope Mission, an organization started in 1907 to serve the homeless in Houston. Frank is an Eagle Scout and is active with the Sam Houston Area Council, Boy Scouts of America. He is the past chairman of the board for the 55,000 scout organization and currently serves as the President of the National Eagle Scout Association and is on the Executive Committee of the National Board of BSA. The Tsuru family has spent the past six summers in Lusaka, Zambia, serving AIDS orphans through a USA, Christian-based organization called Family Legacy Missions International (FLMI). Through FLMI, the Tsuru family has been fortunate to serve the least by providing education, shelter, food, and clothing. Finally, Frank is very involved with his church, Memorial Drive Presbyterian.