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Zack is an attorney at Dorsey & Whitney LLP, where he focuses his practice on the representation of banks, financial institutions, corporate lenders, hedge and mezzanine funds, and business associations in corporate and commercial transactions spanning across multiple industries.  Zack regularly works with banks and financial institutions in the energy industry in connection with acquisition financing, reserve-based financing, and asset-based transactions, and has substantial experience representing private and public companies in various oil and gas transactional matters, including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, entity formation and structure, and general legal counsel for a broad range of corporate and commercial matters.

Before joining the Board of the Dallas Chapter of YPE, Zack previously served as a Board Member and Communications Director for the Midland Chapter (2017-2019), and as the Treasurer of the San Antonio Chapter (2015-2017).

Will McDonald works as an Associate at TenOaks Energy Advisors. He joined the company in January of 2019. Prior to beginning at TenOaks, Will worked as an analyst for a private wealth management group. Will graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science in economics with a concentration in finance and energy management.

Tara is a Vice President at RedOaks Energy Advisors. Prior to joining RedOaks, Tara worked for Anadarko Petroleum starting in 2015. Tara held multiple reservoir and production engineering roles within Anadarko in their Houston and Midland offices. These roles included performing multi-variate statistical modeling and serving as the production engineer over assets in the Northern and Eastern Delaware Basin. Most recently, Tara worked with Anadarko’s planning team dynamically modeling their capital and production budgets. While in Midland, Tara served as the Social Director for the Midland chapter of Young Professionals in Energy. Tara was born and raised in Austin, Texas and attended The University of Texas at Austin, where she graduated with a B.S. (Honors) in Petroleum Engineering in 2015.  While on campus she served as President of the UT Austin Student Chapter of SPE and as an active member of the Friar Society.

Ingrid Rechner works as an Account Manager for Producers Midstream, a natural gas midstream based in Dallas, Texas. She joined the company in 2019 as a Business Development Analyst. Ingrid graduated from the University of North Texas in 2018 with a BBA in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.