Our People

By 1987, he had begun building his own investment portfolio of both minerals and oil and gas leases. In addition to managing his own investments, he has a consulting company, GBK International Group, Ltd., which provides a range of consulting services for partnerships, trusts, corporations, and individuals whose mineral asset portfolio consists of oil and gas mineral rights, oil and gas leases, non-operated working interests, royalty interests, net profit interests, overriding royalty, throughout the United States, with the primary focus being in Oklahoma and Texas.

James began his career with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and over a 27 year tenure held positions of increasing responsibilities including Land Manager, US and VP of International Business Development, Anadarko International Corporation. His expertise includes asset management, technical E&P, corporate and land/mineral owner relations.  James is a proven and versatile professional in the negotiation, management, and divestiture of oil and gas properties within the lower 48 with a primary focus in Oklahoma and Texas.

She later worked for Altria, formerly Philip Morris, as a Financial Analyst and Physicians Resource Group as a Controller. Kelly was the VP of Operations at Accounts Executive Search for 6 years and then formed her own Consulting company servicing clients in the Oil & Gas, Healthcare, Financial Services and Professional Services industries. Kelly has been the CFO for GK Minerals, LLC, a mineral acquisition company, for the past 3 years. She also volunteers with grieving teens and is the VP of Training for Adam’s Place, a non-profit organization for children who have lost a parent or sibling.

Over the past 11 years, his focus has been in relationship marketing, content marketing, customer acquisition, websites & funnels, social media marketing, and membership sites.

Zac got his start as a field landman working on lease and site acquisition projects spanning from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania. For the last 6 years he has worked as VP of Acquisitions for a broker in Tulsa, OK managing various large and small scale mineral and lease acquisitions projects in the continental US for clients such as Conoco, Oxy, and Chesapeake. Zac is an RPL and member of the AAPL, OCAPL, APLA, and LAAPL. His expertise includes client and mineral owners relations, negotiations, project management, business development, internal process implementation, and development of efficient acquisitions and divestiture strategies.

Ms. Parker entered the industry in 2006 when she became the first GIS Director for Chesapeake Energy, a large independent producer of natural gas headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma with operations throughout the U.S. During her tenure at Chesapeake, Ms. Parker built and lead a robust, cross-functional GIS department that gained a reputation for developing and deploying leading edge solutions for nearly all areas of the company. In 2013, Ms. Parker left Chesapeake Energy and joined Spatial Energy, a firm specializing in providing remote sensing and imagery products geared towards global Energy companies. A short time after joining Spatial Energy, the company was acquired by Digital Globe, a designer, owner, and operator of medium-high resolution satellites. Ms. Parker transitioned to the Commercial division of Digital Globe where she formed and guided a team focused on providing Energy customers with aerial and satellite imagery, derivative products, analytical services, and support. Just recently, Ms. Parker launched Tellus Geospatial, a consulting and services firm headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK. The company specializes in helping small companies within the Energy industry use mapping technologies to make better decisions, increase profitability, and better serve their customers.