Keyser, LLC
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Will McDonald
Director
Will joined RedOaks in January 2019. Prior to RedOaks, Will served as an analyst at TCWM, a private wealth management group. Will earned a B.A. in Economics with a concentration in Energy Management from Southern Methodist University. Will serves as a board member for the Young Professionals in Energy (YPE) – Dallas chapter. He holds the Series 7 and 66 licenses.
Adam Shear
Vice President - Geology
Adam joined RedOaks in October of 2024. Adam has 19 years of onshore US experience as a multidisciplinary geologist across numerous basins. Prior to joining RedOaks, Adam worked in the Midland Basin as Senior Staff Geologist at Pioneer Natural Resources/ExxonMobil. Previously, Adam served as geoscience manager at Rockall Energy/Formentera where he focused on new drills in the Williston Basin and Gulf Coast recompletion opportunities. Adam developed assets in the Anadarko/Arkoma basins and Northwest Shelf of the Permian Basin while at Silver Creek Oil and Gas, LLC. Adam started his career in Denver at Encana Oil & Gas, USA, working the Wind River/Green River Basins and Jonah Field before transferring to Encana’s Dallas office to help develop emerging plays in Oklahoma, Kansas, East Texas, and the Haynesville Shale of Louisiana. Adam holds a M.S. in Petroleum Geology from the University of Oklahoma as well as a B.S. from St. Cloud State University.
Tara Sharma
Director - Engineering
Tara joined RedOaks in February of 2020. Prior to joining RedOaks, Tara worked for Anadarko Petroleum starting in 2015. Tara held multiple reservoir and production engineering roles within Anadarko in their Houston and Midland offices. These roles included performing multi-variate statistical modeling and serving as the production engineer over assets in the Northern and Eastern Delaware Basin. Most recently, Tara worked with Anadarko’s planning team dynamically modeling their capital and production budgets. While in Midland, Tara served as the Social Director for the Midland chapter of Young Professionals in Energy. Tara was born and raised in Austin, Texas and attended The University of Texas at Austin, where she graduated with a B.S. (Honors) in Petroleum Engineering in 2015. While on campus she served as President of the UT Austin Student Chapter of SPE and as an active member of the Friar Society. Tara was featured in 2022’s Forty Under 40.
Eli Garcia
Analyst
Eli joined RedOaks in March of 2024. Prior to joining RedOaks, Elias served as a Land & Business Development intern at Pine Wave Energy Partners. Elias earned a B.S. in Political Science and an MBA with specialization in Energy from Texas Christian University, where he also played Football. Elias is a Registered Landman of the American Association of Professional Landman (AAPL) and is a native of Monterrey, Mexico.
Austin Cain
Associate
Austin Joined RedOaks in December of 2021. Prior to joining RedOaks, Austin was a business consultant at Ernst and Young where he supported the audit for a variety of public companies in the financial services sector. Austin attended the University of Texas at Austin where he earned a BBA in Finance from the McCombs School of Business. Most recently, Austin completed an internship with RedOaks while earning his MS in Finance from Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of business.