Principals of NAmerico Partners are an experienced team with many years of combined expertise in project development, engineering, construction, operations, trading, risk management and asset optimization across the hydrocarbon value chain with emphasis in natural gas, natural gas liquids, liquefied natural gas and crude oil.
Leadership Team
MICHAEL C. BILBERRY
Chief Commercial Officer
Former Chief Commercial Officer and Partner of PE funded companies (Haddington I/IV) with 35 years diversified experience originating/funding/developing projects in upstream and midstream sectors.
Recent focus on salt dome storage of NGLs, Natural Gas & Crude. Extensive large and small company experience in operating/marketing/trading along with independent development activity.
Mike holds a BS in Petroleum Land Management from the University of Houston.
E. WEST HICKHAM
Chief Operating Officer
Former Chief Commercial Officer and Partner of a multi-national engineering company with over 30 years in the energy sector. Past roles include project management, business development and executive roles for Transco, Williams, Hanover and Exterran.
Expertise includes international and domestic LNG, NGL, oil, gas and products pipelines, terminals, storage, processing, treating and refining.
West holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana State University.
JEFF W. WELCH
President
Former Sr VP and Head of EDF Trading’s North American business with responsibility for natural gas, NGLs and LNG in N. America.
Active role in JV discussion with a number of Asian and Mexican companies; Fortune 100 Officer of two energy organizations with extensive operational, managerial and trading roles in mid- and downstream companies.
Jeff holds a BBA in Business Analysis and Research from Texas A&M University.
JORDAN MAXWELL
Chief Financial Officer
Jordan has over 9 years of experience in accounting and finance with his most recent role as Controller of Wildcat. Prior to Wildcat, Jordan worked as a Director for an accounting consulting firm. Jordan started his career in public accounting for BDO USA, LLP servicing both private and public sector companies. He holds a B.B.A in Accounting from Hardin-Simmons University and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the State of Texas.
ROBERT B. TRUMAN
Vice President
Former Senior Director of Asset Optimization and Financial Trading for CenterPoint Energy Services (CES). His responsibilities included the financial hedging and deal structure for the retail, wholesale trading and origination businesses, the commercial operations of the CenterPoint Energy Intrastate Pipeline (CEIP) assets, and the management of the Transportation Services.
Over his tenure at CenterPoint, Bob developed pipeline and storage facilities and negotiated numerous interconnect and upstream supply agreements involving both intrastate and interstate transportation and storage assets. Prior to CenterPoint Energy Services, Bob was Director of Risk Management at El Paso Corporation.
Bob is a licensed Professional Engineer and holds a BSME degree and an MBA from Texas Tech University.