our team

Steven H. Pruett is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Elevation Resources LLC, a Permian Basin focused exploration and production company which he co-founded in 2013. Mr. Pruett was previously Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of Concho Resources over 2012-13. He co-founded and served as President and CFO of Legacy Reserves LP, a public MLP from 2006-2012. Mr. Pruett has over 37 years of oil and gas operating, financial and management experience, most of which has been in the Permian Basin. Prior to forming Legacy Reserves, Mr. Pruett was a Venture Partner with Quantum Energy Partners, was President of Petroleum Place and P2 Energy Solutions, and was a vice president at Enron managing oil and gas direct investments. He previously served as President and CEO of First Permian, founded and was president and CEO of First Reserve Oil & Gas Co, and served as a Vice President for First Reserve Corporation originating upstream equity investments. He was an energy investment banker with CS First Boston. Mr. Pruett worked in planning and business development for Amoco Production Company. He began his career as a petroleum engineer for ARCO Oil & Gas where he earned his registered professional engineer certificate. Mr. Pruett received his B.S in Petroleum Engineering, High Honors, from the University of Texas at Austin and graduated with an MBA from the Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar. 

Steve is the past chairman of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, a Washington, D.C. based oil & natural gas advocacy firm, and past chairman of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association. He serves on the Board of Governors of Midland Memorial Hospital Foundation where he chairs the Investment Committee. Steve is a Trustee of the Alpine Chapel and is a former trustee and elder of First Presbyterian Church of Midland. He serves on the advisory board of the College of Business at The University of Texas Permian Basin and is a Director of the Trinity School Endowment Corporation. Mr. Pruett serves on the board of The Henry Foundation.

Blake Case joined Elevation Resources shortly after its founding and serves as a Senior Vice President and its CFO. Mr. Case has over 17 years of accounting and finance experience focusing primarily on the energy sector. Prior to joining Elevation, he served as Controller of Parallel Petroleum. At Parallel, in addition to normal responsibilities, he led the implementation of the international financial reporting standards subsequent to Samsung’s acquisition of Parallel. Before Parallel, Blake worked as an auditor at BDO USA, LLP where he focused on both private and public companies in the oil and gas industry, leaving as a senior manager. He has significant experience in SEC audit requirements and reporting rules as well as public and private placement offerings.

Mr. Case holds a BBA degree in Accounting and Masters of Science degree in Finance, both from Texas A&M University and is a Certified Public Accountant. He and his wife Angie, and their 3 children reside in Midland, Texas.

Brian Zachry is the Vice President-Engineering for Elevation Resources where he is responsible for managing reservoir, completions and production engineering activities across the company. Prior to joining Elevation at its inception, Mr. Zachry was a District Engineer for Samson Resources – Permian Division, overseeing the profitability of capital investments and management of certain existing assets in the Midland Basin. His other responsibilities included reserve estimations, design/execution of completions, and artificial lift installations associated with ongoing Wolfberry drilling programs. Before joining Samson in 2010, his career began as an Operations Engineer with XTO Energy in the Permian Basin where he was assigned to daily operations of Clearfork and San Andres waterfloods on the Central Basin Platform. Brian’s duties entailed flood monitoring, completions, workover identification, and artificial lift optimization. Mr. Zachry holds a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Texas Tech University.