Eagle Ford Panel

Cristina serves as Managing Director at BOK Financial Securities. Prior to BOKFS, she was the Head of Business Development at Grizzly Energy where she led the divestiture of all company assets. Preceding Grizzly, she served for 13 years at Hess Corporation and began her career at PwC. Her clients and deal work span every major basin in the lower 48 including Big Horn, Wind River, DJ, Piceance, Permian, Eagle Ford, Haynesville, Gulf Coast, Arkoma, and Anadarko Basins. She has advised boards, C-suite, and executive management teams across 3 continents and 6 countries. Cristina holds a Master's in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, a Bachelor's in Economics, and a Bachelor's in Business Administration from Charles III University of Madrid.

Mr. Cozby currently serves as CFO of WildFire Energy and previously served as CFO of WildHorse Resource Development (NYSE:WRD), Memorial Resource Development (NASDAQ:MRD), Memorial Production Partners (NASDAQ:MEMP) and Greystone Oil & Gas and Greystone Drilling.  Prior those position, Mr. Cozby was Director of Finance for Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD), GulfTerra Energy Partners (NYSE:  GTM) and El Paso Energy Partners (NYSE: EPN).  Mr. Cozby holds a B.B.A. in finance from the University of Texas and an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Houston. He is also a graduate of Texas Tech University School of Law (J.D.), the University of Houston Law Center (LL.M., energy and natural resources law) and Harvard Business School (advanced management program). Further, Mr. Cozby currently serves on the Advisory Council for the Master of Science in Finance program for the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and is a Board member of the Houston Producers Forum and currently the President for 2023.

Dale Kokoski currently serves as Vice President Operations for Marathon Oil Company’s Eagle Ford assets. He also serves as the company’s Chief Reservoir Engineer and as a Corporate Officer.

Dale’s 36 year career with Marathon has spanned a variety of technical, commercial and leadership positions.  Those roles have included technical and management opportunities within most of the major US onshore basins, offshore GOM and offshore West Africa.  He has also held Director level positions within the company’s technology and business development teams.

Dale holds a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa, is a Registered Professional Engineer and serves on the Board of the Texas Oil and Gas Association (TXOGA).

Greg Bensen is the Head of Mergers and Acquisitions for bpx Energy, the onshore US division of BP p.l.c., based in Denver, Colorado.  He and his team focus on optimizing and enhancing the value of bpx’s portfolio to support BP’s aims and ambitions.

Greg joined bpx in 2017 and was Head of Planning, Communication and Community Engagement prior to leading the M&A team.  He also served as Head of Midstream during which time he and the midstream team secured multiple material third party renegotiations resulting in significant cost savings.  Prior to that he worked as finance manager for the San Juan business unit.

Prior to bpx, Greg worked at Fidelity Investments where he was an equity research analyst covering the US and Canadian upstream, oilfield service and midstream sectors.  Prior to Fidelity, Greg worked in investor relations, communications and corporate development at QEP Resources.  Before QEP, Greg was on the award-winning investor relations team at Halliburton in Houston and worked as in equity analyst at Denver-based Marsico Capital Management. 

Greg holds a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Colorado, where he co-developed a highly cited global seismic imaging technique and earned a B.S in Geophysical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.