Leadership Team

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Jason Long

Chief Executive Officer and Director
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A native of West Texas, Mr. Long is an oil and gas entrepreneur with more than 16 years of experience founding and operating businesses that invest and provide services across the upstream and midstream value chains.


Most recently, he was president and founder of EnWater Solutions LLC and Pelagic Water Systems LLC, where he led the funding, construction and commercialization of a produced water-gathering and disposal system located in the Southern Delaware Basin in West Texas.


Mr. Long also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of WaterBridge. Mr. Long holds a B.S. from Texas Christian University.


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Scott L. McNeely

Chief Financial Officer
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Mr. McNeely joined LandBridge in September 2021 as Vice President, Finance. He also currently serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of WaterBridge and has held this role since September 2024. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President, Finance of WaterBridge from July 2019 to August 2024, and Director of Finance of WaterBridge from April 2018 to June 2019.


Prior to joining WaterBridge, Mr. McNeely served as an Investment Banking Senior Associate at Citigroup from June 2015 to March 2018. Before that, he served in various roles within the intelligence community, including for CACI International Inc. from 2010 to 2012, and Leidos Holdings Inc. from 2012 to 2014. Before joining CACI International, Mr. McNeely served as an active-duty Air Force intelligence officer from 2005 to 2010.


Mr. McNeely graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a Bachelor of Science in Computational Mathematics in 2005, the University of Oklahoma with a Master of Arts in International Relations in 2011, and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University with a Master of Business Administration in 2016.


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Harrison Bolling

Executive Vice President, General Counsel
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Mr. Bolling has more than 15 years of experience advising energy clients, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, midstream commercial agreements and surface land transactions. He has served as the General Counsel of LandBridge since October 2021 and joined WaterBridge as General Counsel in 2018. Prior to WaterBridge, he served as assistant general counsel at PennTex Midstream Partners LP, a publicly-traded natural gas gathering and processing master limited partnership. He began his practice at Bracewell LLP, where he focused on capital markets and M&A transactions.

 

Mr. Bolling also serves as the Executive Vice President and General Counsel of WaterBridge. He holds a J.D. from the University of Texas and a B.S. in economics and history from Vanderbilt University.


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Jason Williams

Chief Administrative Officer
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Mr. Williams has more than 16 years of accounting and finance leadership experience within the oil & gas industry. In his time at LandBridge, Mr. Williams has streamlined our accounting, tax, reporting, and control processes to accommodate our rapid expansion and growth.


Prior to joining LandBridge, Mr. Williams spent 9 years at BHP where he served in various North America and global leadership roles focused on asset acquisition and integration, financial and production systems, organizational transformation, and operational finance and accounting.


Mr. Williams also serves as the Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer of WaterBridge. Mr. Williams began his career in public accounting at Grant Thornton and holds a BS in Accounting from the University of Houston.

Board of Directors

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David N. Capobianco

Director, Chairman of the board
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Mr. Capobianco has served as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of Five Point since its founding in 2012. Prior to founding Five Point, Mr. Capobianco was a founder and co-head of the private equity group at Vulcan Capital.


Mr. Capobianco also currently serves as a director on the boards of NDB Midstream LLC, WaterBridge Holdings LLC, Twin Eagle Resource Management, LLC, Deep Blue Midland Basin LLC, Northwind Midstream Holdings LLC, and San Mateo Midstream, LLC. He previously served as the Chairman of the Board of Vulcan Energy Corporation (formerly Plains Resources), a member of the Board and Chairman of the Compensation Committee of Plains All American (NYSE: PAA), a member of the Board of PAA/Vulcan Gas Storage (formerly Energy Center Investments), and Chairman of the Board of Vulcan Resources (formerly Calumet Florida).


Before joining Vulcan, Mr. Capobianco served as a senior member of the investment team at Greenhill Capital Partners, a member of the investment team of Harvest Partners, and a member of the Energy Corporate Finance Group at Salomon Brothers.


Mr. Capobianco received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University.


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Matthew K. Morrow

Director
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Mr. Morrow has served as the Chief Operating Officer and Managing Partner of Five Point since its founding in 2012. Prior to founding Five Point, Mr. Morrow served as President and Chief Executive Officer of ENSTOR Inc., one of the largest independent natural gas storage franchises in North America, prior to its sale to Iberdrola Energy Holdings, a North American natural gas marketing business. Following the sale of ENSTOR Inc. to Iberdrola Energy Holdings, Mr. Morrow served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Iberdrola Energy Holdings.


Mr. Morrow also served as a senior member at PPM Energy Canada Ltd, which focused on power generation, wind renewable and natural gas marketing and storage businesses. Prior to joining ENSTOR Inc. and PPM Energy Canada Ltd, Mr. Morrow held various senior positions with Texaco Natural Gas, culminating with his position as President.


Mr. Morrow also currently serves as a director on the boards of NDB LLC, WaterBridge Holdings LLC, Twin Eagle Resource Management, LLC, Deep Blue Midland Basin LLC, Northwind Midstream Holdings LLC, and San Mateo Midstream, LLC. He also serves on the board of directors of Mission Lazarus, a non-profit organization with operations in Honduras and Haiti. He previously served as a director on the board of ENSTOR Inc., Iberdrola Energy Holdings, and PPM Energy Canada Ltd.


Mr. Morrow received a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A&M University.


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Michael Sulton

Director
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Mr. Sulton joined Five Point in January 2021 as its Executive Vice President and Partner. Prior to joining Five Point, Mr. Sulton served as a Managing Director of Piper Sandler & Co. (formerly Simmons & Company International), specializing in the energy industry.


Throughout his 20-year investment banking career, Mr. Sulton has executed a wide range of transactions including mergers, divestitures and capital raises and participated in over 100 successful transactions.


Mr. Sulton also currently serves on the board of Desert Environmental. Mr. Sulton received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas.


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Frank Bayouth

Director
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Mr. Bayouth currently serves as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Five Point and has served in such role since joining Five Point in January 2022. Prior to joining Five Point, Mr. Bayouth served in various roles with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP for over 30 years, including over 20 years as a Partner, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions and general corporate and securities law matters.


Mr. Bayouth also currently serves on the boards of NDB Midstream LLC and WaterBridge Holdings LLC.


Mr. Bayouth received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Texas Tech University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law.


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Ben Moore

Director
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Mr. Moore joined Five Point in 2015, and currently serves as Executive Vice President and Partner.


Prior to Five Point, Mr. Moore served as CEO and President of NorTex Midstream Partners, a gas storage and processing company located in the Fort Worth Basin. Prior to joining Nortex, Mr. Moore served for 12 years with Enstor, the gas midstream subsidiary of Iberdrola, working as the Vice President of Operations and Engineering and formerly as the Vice President of Business Development.


Mr. Moore also served in various engineering and marketing roles in the upstream industry for Dominion Energy, Shell Oil, and Tenneco Oil. Mr. Moore earned a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1986 and a Master of Business Administration from Duke University in 1994.


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Kara Goodloe Harling

Director
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Mrs. Harling serves as the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer of Five Point. Prior to joining Five Point in February 2024, Mrs. Harling served as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer of Mountain Capital Management, LLC from January 2016 to February 2024.


Mrs. Harling also previously served as Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller for Ascent Resources from January 2015 to January 2016. Prior to joining Ascent Resources, she served in multiple roles with American Energy Partners, LP.


Mrs. Harling began her career with Arthur Anderson in 2000 and joined Ernst & Young LLP in 2002, where she ultimately served as Partner before joining American Energy Partners, LP. Mrs. Harling received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Texas A&M University. Mrs. Harling is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Texas.


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Charles Watson

Director
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Mr. Watson has served as Chairman of Twin Eagle Resource Management, an energy marketer and midstream operator, which he co-founded in 2010. Prior to Twin Eagle Resource Management, Mr. Watson served as Chairman of Eagle Energy Partners, an oil and gas acquisition and management company, which he co-founded in 2003 and sold to Lehman Brothers in 2007.


Mr. Watson served as Chairman and CEO of Dynegy Inc. (f/k/a NGC Corp.), an asset based, integrated energy provider, from 1985 to 2003. Prior to joining Dynegy, Mr. Watson worked in a variety of roles at Conoco from 1972 to 1985. Mr. Watson currently serves on the board of directors of Baylor College of Medicine and Mainstream Renewable Power. He is a senior energy advisor to GSO/Blackstone, serves on the advisory counsel for DocuSign and has been a member of the Angeleno Group’s Board of Advisors since 2005.


Mr. Watson served as governor, trustee and chairman of the Oklahoma State University Foundation and as vice chairman of the ownership group that brought the Houston Texans NFL franchise to Houston. Mr. Watson earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Oklahoma State University in 1972.


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Ty Daul

Director
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Mr. Daul has served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Primergy Solar, a developer, owner and operator of both distributed and utility scale solar PV and energy storage projects across North America since May 2020.


Prior to Primergy, Mr. Daul served as Vice President of Canadian Solar’s energy project development business throughout North and South America from March 2017 to May 2020, and was President of Recurrent Energy Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Solar that functions as the company’s U.S. project development arm. Prior to Canadian Solar, Mr. Daul served as Senior Vice President, Americas Power Plants of SunPower Corporation from May 2015 to March 2017. In addition, Mr. Daul served on the Board of 8point3 Energy Partners LP, the publicly traded “yieldco” formed by SunPower Corporation and First Solar, Inc., from June 2015 to March 2017.


Prior to joining SunPower, he co-founded Element Power in 2009 and oversaw the company’s wind and solar businesses in the Americas for five years. With more than three decades of experience in the power generation industry, Mr. Daul has been integrally involved in more than 11 gigawatts of operating wind, solar and battery energy storage projects representing well over $13 billion of total investment and is currently responsible for a 22 GW portfolio of solar and battery energy storage projects, with over 1.7 GW of solar and 1.5 GW hours of energy storage in under construction or in operations totaling over $2.2 billion of investment.


A seasoned leader with an ability to execute complex transactions across diverse technologies and teams, Ty’s energy industry experience also includes seven years at Iberdrola Renewables Inc. (formerly PPM Energy Inc.), Entergy Corp. and Newport Generation Ventures, LLC. He is currently on the Board of Directors at Shoals Technologies Group, Inc. where he is on the Audit Committee; a member of the Board of Directors of the Solar Energy Industries Association; and on the Board of Directors of Infinigen Renewables, a Puerto Rico based clean energy IPP. Ty also served on the Wind Solar Alliance Board for more than seven years.


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Valerie P. Chase

Director
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Ms. Chase’s experience includes 19 years in the finance and accounting industry. She has broad experience across the finance function including technical accounting and SEC reporting, internal controls implementation and compliance, acquisitions and divestitures, cybersecurity and system implementations.


From 2018 to 2021, Ms. Chase served as the Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller of Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation. From 2010 to 2018, Ms. Chase served in roles of increasing responsibility with Apache Corporation (now APA Corporation), culminating in her role as the head of accounting policy and financial controls.


Ms. Chase began her career with Ernst & Young LLP in 2005. From 2021 to 2024 Ms. Chase served on the board of HF Foods Group Inc. (NASDAQ: HFFG), serving as chair of both the Audit Committee and the Special Transaction Review Committee. Ms. Chase holds a Bachelor of Economics degree and a Master of Accounting degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Texas.


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Andrea Nicolás

Director
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Ms. Nicolás served in various roles with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP for over 20 years, including 14 years as a Partner, where she specialized in capital markets financing and general corporate and securities law matters. Ms. Nicolás also currently serves on the board of Ohmium International Inc.


Ms. Nicolás received a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from State University of Maryland at College Park, a Ph.D. in Molecular Microbiology from Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and a Juris Doctor from Columbia University School of Law.



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