Management Team

Monica Brisnehan joined Elk in November 2017 and has served as Chief Financial Officer since April 2019. Prior to joining Elk, she was Senior Vice President - Corporate Finance at Sunshine Silver Mining and Refining and Senior Director of Investor Relations at Newmont Mining. Prior to her employment at Newmont, Ms. Brisnehan held finance positions at Welton Street Investments, RBC Capital Markets, McDonald Investments, and Lehman Brothers. 

Ms. Brisnehan has a bachelor of science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with concentrations in analytic finance and accounting. She is also a CFA Charterholder.

Jeff Roedell is the Vice President of Operations.  Mr. Roedell has held management positions in the Greater Aneth field since 2012.   Prior to working for Elk Petroleum, Mr. Roedell's experience includes 21 years of increasing responsibility in engineering and management for the Rangely CO2 flood with Chevron. 

Mr. Roedell holds a MS in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University.

Ryan Williams is the Vice President of Drilling. Prior to joining Elk, Mr. Williams held various subsurface and operations engineering roles of increasing responsibility, with a primary focus on drilling operations, at EP Energy, formerly El Paso. Mr. Williams has both engineering and well-site supervisory experience drilling conventional vertical well designs as well as unconventional extended reach horizontal well designs in major basins located within the Lower 48. Specifically he has extensive experience in North Louisiana Haynesville, South Louisiana Wilcox, South Texas Eagle Ford, West Texas Permian, and Northeast Utah Uinta Basin.

Mr. Williams holds a BS of Petroleum Engineering from Colorado School of Mines. 

Jeff Langlois is the Vice President of Production and has over 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Prior to joining Elk Petroleum, Mr. Langlois was Production Manager for EP Energy in the Uinta Basin in Utah, where he led a team that safely and successfully reduced lifting costs and failures. Prior to joining Elk Petroleum, Mr. Langlois held various roles of increasing responsibility with Baker Atlas, Merit Energy, OXY and EP Energy and has extensive experience in the Uinta Basin, Elk Hills in California, West Texas Permian Basin, Rock Springs in Wyoming, and the Midcontinent US.

Mr. Langlois holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Geology and Petroleum Engineering from LSU.