Brian Matlock is a partner in with BKD LLP and serves as the firm’s National Energy and Natural Resource Leader, specializing in oil and gas private equity. Prior to joining BKD, Brian was a partner with KPMG serving as one of the firm’s energy private equity fund leaders. Through his experience with energy private equity funds, Brian has experience with auditing and accounting matters related to mineral extraction, power generation and energy companies, such as: upstream oil and gas, midstream oil and gas, downstream oil and gas, oil and gas participation funds, oil and gas royalty funds, master limited partnerships, oil and gas industrial manufacturing, workover and wireline servicing companies, solar power, wind power, biomass and other traditional power generation plants. In addition to his responsibilities at BKD, Brian is very active in the energy industry, serving as the former chairman of the North American Petroleum Accounting Conference and a current board member, a member of the following organizations: Dallas and Fort Worth Council of Petroleum Accounting Societies, Dallas ADAMs Energy Forum, Dallas Petroleum Engineering Club, and the Dallas Petroleum Club. Brian was also selected as one of the “Who’s Who is Energy” in 2013 by the Dallas Business Journal and was selected for the AICPA Oil and Gas Revenue Task Force in 2013. Brian is a graduate of Texas Wesleyan University, where he received his Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting as well as his Master of Business Administration in accounting and management information systems. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants (TSCPA) and the Financial Executives Networking Group.

Buddy Clark is the co-chair for the firm’s Energy Practice Group representing clients in the oil and gas industry, including banks, private capital providers and producers in secured and unsecured credit transactions and equity investments; producers, joint venturers and midstream companies in oil and gas exploration, production and development agreements, and producing property and midstream acquisitions, joint developments and partnerships; and energy related litigation and bankruptcies. In June 2016, Buddy published Oil Capital: The History of American Oil, Wildcatters, Independents and Their Bankers, which traces the relationship between independent producers and their capital providers in America’s oil and gas industry. Buddy is a frequent speaker at oil and gas conferences and is often cited as an authority on current issues facing the oil and gas industry in trade publications and financial journals.

Chris Micsak is a Director at Pickering Energy Partners. Prior to joining PEP, he was a director at Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Asset Management. Micsak was a Vice President at Haddington Ventures, a midstream infrastructure focused private equity fund prior to TPH Asset Management. Before that, Micsak was a senior analyst at Bentek Energy, a boutique energy consulting and analytics firm where he covered North American and global energy markets. Micsak has also held trading and analytical positions at investment banks and hedge funds in New York, Connecticut and Hong Kong. He received a BA in Economics and Asian Studies and graduated magna cum laude with Honors from Colgate University.