Ben M. Brigham

In addition to founding the Company in 2012, Bud also founded Brigham Resources Operating, LLC and Brigham Resources Midstream, LLC in 2012 and served as Chairman until the sale of substantially all of their assets to Diamondback Energy, Inc., a hydrocarbon exploration company, in February 2017. Bud formed the initial Brigham Exploration in 1990 and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of its board until its sale to Statoil in December 2011. Prior to founding Brigham Exploration in 1990, Bud served for six years as an exploration geophysicist with Rosewood Resources, an oil and gas company, and as a seismic data processing geophysicist for Western Geophysical, a petroleum exploration company.

Bud earned a Bachelor of Science in Geophysics from the University of Texas. Bud has served on the National Petroleum Council, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the Independent Producers Association of America, the Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists and The Bureau of Economic Geology Visiting Committee. Bud was inducted into the All American Wildcatters in April 2012 and the University of Texas Chancellor’s Council Executive Committee in April 2015.