Cameron Brown is Managing Partner at Pontem Energy Capital, an alternative capital provider to public and private energy companies. He is also currently the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Validus Energy, an upstream operator founded with the $880 mm acquisition of Ovintiv's Eagle Ford position early in 2021. Prior to Pontem and Validus, Cameron worked at Citadel, managing one of the oil & gas industry’s largest public equities portfolios. Cameron has spent his career in the energy industry, including as a member of the upstream private equity team at EnCap Investments and as an investment banker at Lazard. Cameron is a third-generation oil & gas professional and began his career at ExxonMobil in the Marine & Arctic Engineering Group. Cameron earned a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.