Bio

Prior to joining Bayou City, Mr. Stoner was the Vice President of Finance at Alta Mesa Holdings, a privately held E&P company headquartered in Houston, Texas. Mr. Stoner joined Alta Mesa in March 2008 and helped oversee the financing of the company from an enterprise with $41 million of EBITDAX in 2007 to $261 million in 2014. While at Alta Mesa, Mark had leadership roles in the initial and subsequent High Yield debt offerings as well as the recapitalization of the Company by Highbridge Principal Strategies in 2014, and was a member of the A&D team which sourced and evaluated acquisition and divestiture opportunities. Mr. Stoner was an active member of the Company’s Leadership Team and oversaw numerous financing aspects of the Company including budgeting and financial forecasting, and managing day to day relations with private equity sponsors, banks, debt investors, and Rating Agencies. Prior to joining Alta Mesa, Mark worked as a Financial Analyst at Leor Energy, where he created financial modeling and projection tools, worked on private equity placements, and helped lead the multi-path monetization effort which ultimately ended in the sale of the company to EnCana Corporation. During his tenure at Alta Mesa and Leor Energy, Mark helped complete over $3.3 billion of acquisition and divestures. Mr. Stoner earned his Bachelor’s degree in Business from Southwestern University.