YPE Houston

YPE Houston Leadership

Young Professionals in Energy (YPE) is a non-profit organization with more than 10,000 members in its Houston Chapter. By providing a forum for networking and career development through social, educational and civic service opportunities, YPE aims to facilitate the advancement of young professionals in the global energy industry.

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    Ashley Sloan

    Advisory Board Member

    Ashley Sloan serves as Senior Vice President and Senior Wealth Strategist at Northern Trust. In this role, Ashley serves as trusted advisor to ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families with a focus on business owners and corporate executives.

    acs12@ntrs.com

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    Tori Tolbert

    Director of Community Outreach & Women’s Engagement

    Tori Tolbert works closely with clients across the energy industry to recruit top talent for corporate officer roles and board appointments. Tori joined Russell Reynolds Associates from Koch Industries, where she was a natural gas scheduler.

    tori.tolbert@russellreynolds.com

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    Patrick Elder

    Director

    Patrick is an Associate of Carnelian Energy Capital Management, L.P., where he focuses on transaction due diligence, analytics and execution and monitoring active portfolio companies.

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    Matt Gelotti

    Advisory Board Member

    Matt serves as Managing Director, North American Growth Leader, within Willis Towers Watson’s Natural Resources group. In this role, he focuses on leading business development, client-advocacy and daily client servicing for the North American Natural Resources team.

    matt.gelotti@wtwco.com

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    Matt Goodell

    Director of Membership Events and Programming

    Matt serves as a Pipeline Engineer with H2O Midstream. H2O Midstream is committed to serving oil and gas operators in the Permian Basin by bringing sustainable water solutions through gathering, transportation, recycling, storage, and disposal services.

    matt.goodell@h2omidstream.com

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    Stephen C. Morgan

    Advisory Board Member

    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. .

    smorgan@transtextreating.com

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    Bella Jiacomin

    Director of Marketing & PR

    Bella Jiacomin serves as a Marketing Associate on the segment marketing team at Willis Towers Watson (WTW). Bella focuses on overseeing a diverse range of campaigns to generate leads, coordinating marketing projects, and managing a wide variety of client events to grow the business.

    isabelle.jiacomin@wtwco.com

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    Colin Burns

    President

    Colin serves as a Associate Director within the North American Natural Resources team at Willis Towers Watson (WTW). WTW is committed to providing risk management and insurance solutions to all facets of the energy industry, including: traditional upstream, midstream, downstream, petrochemicals, power generation and renewables.

    colin.burns@wtwco.com

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    Philip Norwood

    Treasurer

    Philip currently works as an analyst for Petrie Partners, a boutique investment bank in Houston focused on Energy M&A. At Petrie, he is involved in all stages of deal origination, valuation, technical analysis, and asset marketing.

    philip.norwood@petrie.com

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    Tanner Jones

    Director of Strategic Partnerships

    Tanner currently is a Crude Distribution Coordinator for Enterprise Products where he’s covered logistics over their Permian Basin, Cushing, and Houston Ship Channel assets. In this role, Tanner also does extensive work with customer nominations, book reconciliation, and commercial operations.

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