Max Easley

CEO

A native-born Alaskan, Max Easley has over thirty years of experience as an energy executive, balanced between domestic and international experience in the upstream industry. Over the course of his career, Max has held executive roles at BP, Apache Corporation and PETRONAS. Max has considerable technical and financial leadership skills that have yielded material value growth and differentiated competitive results everywhere he has been.

Max graduated from the University of Alaska in 1991 with a degree in Petroleum Engineering. Following his early days as an engineer on the North Slope of Alaska, he moved to the North Sea where he held a variety of operating and financial leadership roles. Following his subsequent time as CFO of BP Trinidad and Tobago, he returned to BP Alaska as SVP of Resource Management. Max joined Apache Corporation in 2016, became President of their Permian business in Midland Texas, and then SVP of Global Production in Houston. Max joined PETRONAS in 2022 as COO of their unconventional Montney gas business. Over the past decade, Max has become a recognized industry leader in the capital efficient appraisal, development and operations of unconventional assets in North America.

Max is a member of the Conflicts Committee the Anti-Corruption and Bribery Committee and the Nominations Committee.