Enhanced Energy Board of Directors
William R. Benz - Chairman
Throughout his career, Bill has held financial and executive functions at a variety of companies, large and small, public and private. Recently, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for EnergySolutions, a $2 billion nuclear energy services company listed on the NYSE.
As CFO of Western Digital, he took the company public on the American Stock Exchange, and then raised over $100 million through additional common stock offerings. During his tenure as CFO of FHP International, he took the company public on the NASDAQ, led its financial growth from $270 million to over $2 billion in revenue, and raised $175 million in additional capital through follow-on common stock offerings,. As CFO of MetLife Healthcare, a $3.5 billion revenue health insurer, he was responsible for preparing that company to go public, and then for the due diligence and valuation work that led to the merger of the company with Travelers Managed Care creating one of the nation’s largest healthcare companies.
Bill holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences from UCLA and a Masters in Business Administration from California State University Long Beach.
Reid B. Grigg
Reid has had a distinguished career in the oil and gas industry, and currently serves as the Senior Engineer and Section Head of the Gas Flooding Processes and Flow Heterogeneities Section at New Mexico Petroleum Recovery Research Center (PRRC), a division of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, New Mexico. Reid holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Brigham Young University (BYU) in Utah, a PhD in Physical Chemistry from BYU, and has done post-doctorate work in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. Prior to joining PRRC, Reid served in a variety of positions, including Senior Research Scientist and Senior Research Chemist at Conoco, Inc. at their Production Research facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma.
His specialty is in the areas of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and carbon sequestration or storage, and he has authored or co-authored over one hundred publications in these and related areas over the past thirty years.
Steven J. Lund
Steve has an extensive background in the oil and gas industry, and currently serves as the Managing Member of Savoy Energy, LLC, a Utah-based company that focuses on the acquisition of natural CO2 resources. He is also the founder of Energy of the Rockies, an independent operator of oil and gas properties that focuses on advanced technologies for recovering oil from existing depleted oil fields. Earlier in his career, Steve held various positions at Williams, Mesa Petroleum, and Schlumberger.
Steve holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.