Jesse Mohrbacher, President and CEO

Jesse Mohrbacher has been President of SolstenXP since December 2002.  Since then, he has assembled a management team that has substantially grown the company’s income and profitability under his leadership while expanding the scope of services offered to industry and government.  He began his oilfield career in Anchorage, Alaska working for a large engineering consulting firm prior to being a founding principal of SolstenXP in 1993.  During the last 20 years, his experience in the onshore and offshore upstream oil and gas industry has included drilling engineering and supervision, pipeline engineering and construction, permitting and regulatory affairs, decommissioning, well abandonments, AFE and cost estimation, offshore geophysical operations, project management and other upstream related project functions.  His primary focus in SolstenXP is new project development and organizational development to meet the needs of the company’s expanding service suite and client base.  Mr. Mohrbacher holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.

Randy Frazier, Chief Operating Officer

Randy Frazier has over 30 years of experience in the upstream oil and gas business including over 25 years in management positions.  Most of this time was working for BP Exploration; however, he has also worked for small independents and has run his own rig business in Alaska. His experience includes production engineering and operations, reservoir engineering, drilling engineering and operations and project management roles for both onshore and offshore developments.  He has spent 17 years working in Alaska and has also worked domestically in Oklahoma City and Houston and internationally in Columbia, Russia, Azerbaijan and Australia.  Mr. Frazier holds a degree in Petroleum Engineering from Oklahoma State University.

Duane Dudley, Chief Financial Officer

Duane Dudley is the CFO of SolstenXP, overseeing the financial and administrative service center that supports SolstenXP and Jago Contracting & Management, LLC.  Under his supervision is the Accounting Department, Finance, Insurance and Risk Management, Information Technology as well as other corporate functions, including new ventures evaluation and shared responsibility for corporate benefits administration.  Mr. Dudley spent more than 20 years in various commercial and corporate lending environments.  Prior to joining SolstenXP in 2009, he was responsible for corporate lending functions for Merrill Lynch in the Pacific Northwest.  Mr. Dudley holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Pacific Lutheran University.

Bill Penrose, Vice President and Drilling Manager

Bill Penrose has 31 years of experience in upstream oil and gas operations.  Mr. Penrose spent fifteen years as a production/reservoir engineer, drilling engineer and drilling supervisor for Mobil Oil Corporation and ARCO Alaska, Inc. before joining SolstenXP in 1995.  His experience includes both engineering and operations, domestic and overseas, onshore and offshore, and in the high Arctic.  Mr. Penrose and his staff manage exploration and development drilling projects for operators in Alaska that require project management and engineering support to complete their objectives.  Mr. Penrose holds degrees in Geology from Oregon State University and Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.

Tom Redmond, Director of Human Resources

Tom Redmond has over 30 years of oilfield experience and over 20 years of experience in Human Resources.  Mr. Redmond started his oilfield career in 1978 with Gearhart Owen Wireline Services at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska and worked for Camco Products & Services for 14 years.  He spent 10 years in the field on the North Slope as an electric line operator and field engineer performing cased hole and open hole logging operations before moving from the field into management positions for safety and human resources. Subsequently, he worked with two Bristol Bay Native Corporation (BBNC) entities and their subsidiaries that specialize in oilfield services.  At BBNC he helped start Kakivik Asset Management, LLC, which is a company that provides non-destructive examination and quality control inspection services. He also worked for the CCI family of companies which perform oilfield environmental and construction services in addition to engineering and construction program management for 8(a) government contracts. Mr. Redmond holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Willamette University, a master's degree in Human Resource Development from Alaska Pacific University, and a current Senior Professional of Human Resources (SPHR) certification from the Human Resource Certification Institute.

Tara Kulin, Corporate HSE Manager

Tara Kulin is the Corporate HSE Manager and oversees the health, safety, environmental, and training department that supports SolstenXP and Jago. Ms. Kulin has extensive North Slope and Risk Management experience that includes field HSE, training, drug and alcohol testing, worker’s compensation, and HSE management. Ms. Kulin is a certified Construction Health Safety Technologist (CHST) and Occupational Health and Safety Technologist (OHST). She holds a degree in Occupational Safety and another in Health Technology, both from the University of Alaska, Anchorage.