Mr. DesAutels is an oil and gas industry executive with over 40 years upstream experience in development and exploration. He has worked on over 100 development projects worldwide, both conventional and unconventional. Mr. DesAutels gained senior executive experience by working for Noble Energy (Director, Development Geoscience, 2008-2016) and Occidental Oil (Chief of Production Geoscience and Vice President of Geoscience, 2000-2007) and founding Synertia Energy, LLC and Seregon Energy, LLC, two oil and gas consulting companies. In addition, he has international experience from working in Colombia, Indonesia, Equatorial Guinea, Qatar, Oman, Argentina, Israel, UK, Ecuador, Peru, Russia, Canada, and the UAE. Mr. DesAutels is also a published author of two books, one fiction and one non-fiction.

Dave holds an M.S. and BA in Geology from University of Minnesota- Twin Cities.