Blue Tip Energy Partner’s team has broad interdisciplinary expertise and an extensive network of important energy industry relationships that span over 30 years.   The founding partners have been working directly together as a team since 1998.  Collectively, the entire senior management team has 154 years in all phases of energy investing and operations, the last 6 years as a formal investing team.  In total the complete professional staff has well over 250 years experience in the energy industry. 

Specific expertise includes all phases of energy-focused private equity investment, portfolio development and management, turn-around and workout expertise, asset acquisitions and divestitures, investment structuring and financing, drilling, completions, and all phases of field operations, land, lease and environment compliance management, joint operating agreements, JIB and revenue accounting, and all back office management.

In addition to the professionals listed below, we have a small, highly dedicated, group of pumpers and field personnel that are vital to the successful implementation of our investment strategy.

This is what we do, we like it, and we are good at it...

SENIOR MANAGEMENT	RICH DICLAUDIO Managing Member and Chief Executive Officer BRUCE TAYLOR Managing Member and President of Operating Company GREG BROWN Managing Member and General Counsel TOM BANDY Member, Vice President Business Development DAVID NORDT Executive Vice President
OPERATIONS AND FIELD MANAGEMENT	MIKE CERELLI Vice President of Operations Rocky Mountains DEREK SONDERGAARD Lead Geology MICHAEL ROD Reservoir Engineer JEFF RYAN Project Coordinator AARON HUGEN Project Engineer RICK HUDSPETH Landman DANA BOUGHAL Lease Records Supervisor COURTNEY STEPHENS Business Development
FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING	STEVEN MILLER Vice President of Finance TROY HATLER Assistant Controller CORY THOMAS Accounts Payable Supervisor ERIC PONDER Accounts Payable Clerk
ADMINISTRATION	WENDY CLEMENTE Executive and Legal Assistant PAM JONES Executive and HR Assistant