Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Robert B Price has assembled and managed a series of companies in the fields of energy, real estate, and manufacturing. He was Vice President, Trust Officer and Oil and Gas Trust Energy Department Manager of the First National Bank and Trust Company of Tulsa, now J P Morgan Chase Bank. Mr. Price formed Brooks Energy Company, active in both oil and natural gas and helium exploration and production in the Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions. He recently sold his 75% stake in a hydrogen electrical generation business in New Mexico to Tallgrass Energy which is funded by the Blackstone group. He owned and managed a natural gas compressor manufacturing company and rental business, S&R Compression. Mr. Price served as Chairman and CEO for Highlands Natural Resources, which primarily developed oil and gas horizontal wells in the DJ Basin of Colorado. Mr. Price was also the founder and Chairman of Zeledyne, which purchased Ford Motor Company’s Glass division with plants in Tulsa, Nashville and Juarez, Mexico, manufacturing and distributing automotive and architectural glass, employing over 1,200 employees. Mr. Price served as CEO of Total Helium, a helium exploration, production and storage company focused on bringing a reliable domestic supply of helium to the US market. Total Helium’s funding partner is Linde, a multi-billion dollar industrial gas company. Mr Price is also a partner in LN Energy which owns an 80BCF natural gas field in Italy currently being permitted to produce liquified natural gas.
Mr. Price served as a member of the U.S. Department of Interior’s Mineral Management Service (now known as The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement) Royalty Policy Committee. He also served on Tulsa Technology Center’s governing board, which provides workforce training to thousands of people. Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper appointed Mr. Price to serve as a commissioner to the State of Colorado Economic Development Commission. Mr. Price received a B.A. from the University of Colorado at Denver and J.D. from the University of Tulsa.