LESLIE ARMENTROUT
Leslie Armentrout is President, Co-Founder, and Chief Executive Officer of Silver Cross Energy Partners. Ms. Armentrout has over 25 years of experience in the upstream energy business. She started her career in Midland, Texas as a Production Engineer in the Permian Basin with Texaco and progressed through roles of increasing responsibility in Planning, Reservoir Engineering and Development, moving to Houston in 2003 after completing her MBA. After Chevron, she went to Hess and worked in technical, planning and leadership roles supporting US Onshore, Offshore and International assets. In 2013, she and her family transitioned from Malaysia back to their home base in Houston where Leslie began the first step in one day starting her own oil and gas company.
In 2013, Leslie transitioned into executive leadership roles in Unconventionals and the Private Equity space, joining Atinum Energy Investments as Director of Engineering and then Murphy Oil as Reservoir Engineering Manager for US Onshore Unconventional assets. In 2018 she and her family moved to Pittsburgh to lead the development team at CNX to continue to build CNX’s top tier Marcellus and Utica asset base. In 2020 Ms. Armentrout joined Encino Energy, a private equity backed upstream operating company. As the Corporate Reserves Manager she implemented SEC reporting standards and helped grow the Ohio Utica asset. She and her family returned to their home in the Houston area in 2020.
In 2023, Ms Armentrout founded Silver Cross Energy Partners LLC ("SCEP"). She has a passion for the energy industry and providing energy to enhance and enable growth in the lives of consumers in all of the countries she has worked.
She is a recognized leader in Reserves, Business Development and Reservoir Dynamics as well as Unconventional Resource Development and Economic Assessment. She has a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin.
TRAVIS MELSTER
Travis Melster is Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Silver Cross Energy Partners. Mr. Melster has over 25 years of experience in the upstream energy industry. He previously served as director of production engineering for Encino Energy, leading production engineering, facility engineering, and production accounting teams. Previously he was Vice President of EOR for Breitburn Energy Partners where he led multi-disciplinary teams that managed both miscible CO2 and nitrogen WAG floods. Before merging with Breitburn he was the operations manager for Quantum Resources with responsibilities covering Arklatex and Gulf Coast regions. Mr. Melster has also held various engineering positions with Burlington Resources and a Canadian start-up company, NuVista Energy Ltd. Mr. Melster has a Mechanical Engineering degree from University of Washington.
Danielle Dobratz
Danielle Dobratz serves as Co-Founder & Controller of Silver Cross Energy Partners. Previously Danielle held the position of Assistant Controller of Extraction Oil & Gas Inc (now Civitas Resources Inc) and has 15 years of accounting and financial management experience in the upstream energy sector. Prior to her time at Extraction, Danielle held various positions of increasing responsibility at Resolute Energy Corporation, EOG Resources and EnCana Oil & Gas. Danielle holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Colorado.