YPE Houston

Stephen Morgan is the President and Chief Executive Officer of TransTex Treating.  Previously at TransTex, he served as Senior Vice President in charge of managing all commercial and operational aspects of the  business, and Vice President of Business Development in which he directed the business development and marketing efforts prior to the acquisition by Eureka Midstream.  Stephen has been a member of the TransTex team since 2010.

Stephen is affiliated with many social and civic organizations, which include serving as President of Young Professionals in Energy (YPE) in Houston, and chairing annual events benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, The Center, and Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS). He also volunteers as a Big Brother through BBBS and as a Vice Chairman for HLSR Rodeo Express.  Stephen is also a graduate of the Center for Houston’s Future Business/Civic Leadership Forum.

For his service to the community and industry, Stephen has been honored with the Future Industry Leader Award at the Texas Oil & Gas Awards, named as one of Houston’s Top 30 Under 30 by Young Texans Against Cancer, and was recognized by BBBS as a Big Believer of the Year Award recipient.

Stephen holds a BBA in Management from Sam Houston State University.

Ashley Sloan is an Executive Director for JPMorgan Chase, the state’s largest financial institution. She serves clients in commercial banking with dynamic middle-market businesses across all industries. Ashley’s primary focus is delivering a suite of financial services to companies with revenues generally ranging from $20 million to $500 million. Her diverse background includes managing transactions involving leveraged acquisition financing, asset-based lending, comprehensive treasury services, foreign currency and interest rate hedging, corporate finance, asset management, and underwriting. Ashley also focuses on Oilfield Services companies and Foreign Multinational business in Houston. Prior to joining Chase, she worked for nine years at regional banks with a prominence in oilfield services and manufacturing companies.

Ashley received her BBA in Finance from Southern Methodist University where she was a member of Chi Omega. She earned the FINRA Series 79 and 63 licenses. Ashley’s other involvements include, The Junior League of Houston, Inc., Daughters of the American Revolution, and Bellaire Young Mothers Club. She joined the YPE leadership team in 2011.

ashley.c.sloan@jpmorgan.com

Maria is part of Aon’s Business Development group in Houston. Aon is one of the largest insurance brokers in the country and specialises in providing risk, employee benefits and cyber solutions to its clients. Maria works with companies across all industries to sharpen their risk management strategy and drive efficiencies across the board. Maria is responsible for onboarding new clients, delivering Aon’s resources to them, and ensuring they are successful in achieving their risk management goals.

Prior to joining Aon, Maria worked at Willis Towers Watson and started her career at ISN in Dallas. Maria is an active member of the Women’s Energy Network and has a B.A. in Economics and International Studies from Southern Methodist University.

John O’Brien joined Pelican in 2013. John has nearly 20 years of corporate finance experience, including investment banking, merchant banking and corporate development, and has primarily served the energy industry in these previous capacities.

Prior to joining Pelican, John spent ten years in investment banking working with both the GulfStar Group and Morgan Keegan. In these roles, John focused on providing merger, acquisition, private placement and other general advisory services to middle market clients, most of which served the energy industry. Over this time, John completed over 60 transactions with an aggregate transaction value over $5.0 billion. Prior to his career in investment banking, John was a Business Development Analyst with J.B. Poindexter & Co., focusing on supporting all corporate development activities including acquisitions, divestitures, capital structuring and financial management.

John serves on the Board of Directors of Global Heat Transfer and Q2 Artificial Lift.  Additionally, John works with Rapid Rod Service and Elite Production Services. John also helped facilitate the sale of Downhole Technology to Schoeller Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment in April 2016, the sale of Multilift Welltec to Forum and was instrumental in the sale of Flowco Production Solutions in November of 2017 to Global Energy Capital.

Matt is a Senior Vice President in Aon’s client development group in Houston. His responsibilities include new client development and daily servicing and account management activities. Prior to his employment with Aon, Matt worked for a regional Houston insurance agency in the same capacity. His experience incudes working with clients in upstream oil and gas, utilities/power, and renewable fuels industries.