Mr. Finch is a Professional Engineer (Colorado PE # 43789) with more than 30 years of experience in reservoir, production and completion operations.   He is an author of multiple SPE papers.   Over the last 6 years Ron recruited and managed teams at Samson Resources and Kodiak Oil and Gas and was responsible for completion operations, fracture stimulation design, onsite execution, and post treatment production evaluation.  The groups’ accomplishments include; 350+ horizontal completions in North Dakota and Wyoming, annual completion budgets from 50 to 500 MM$/year, implementation of completion capital costs reductions approaching ~33% per well, reservoir evaluation for high density pilots (6+) in the Bakken/Three Forks intervals and artificial lift evaluation and optimization for high volume North Dakota wells.  Mr. Finch has extensive experience with the evaluation, design and execution of hydraulic fracture treatments and has authored numerous field studies throughout the U.S. and internationally to optimize completion results by integrating the reservoir properties with the stimulation characterization.  He earned his BS-Chemical Engineering degree at the University of Colorado.