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Douglas P. Heller
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Mr. Heller is a Partner in the Philadelphia-based private equity investment firm of Heller Hickox & Company.  

Formed in 1991 with George K. Hickox, Jr., the firm invests partners’ capital by structuring and leading oil 
and gas equity investments involving recapitalizations, restructurings, start-ups, turn-arounds, workouts, 
and other special situations.  

Previously, Mr. Heller served as Vice President of Butcher Resources, Inc., a wholly owned 
subsidiary of Butcher & Company from 1987 to 1991, and was responsible for oil and gas 
investment and merchant banking activity, with a primary emphasis on corporate and project 
finance transactions.  Mr. Heller began his career in the oil and gas industry in 1979 as an 
exploration geologist with Texaco Inc. in New Orleans, LA where he held various 
technical and managerial positions prior to 1987 with primary responsibility for offshore 
exploration and production activities in the Louisiana Shelf region of the Gulf of Mexico.
Mr. Heller holds a B.S. in Geosciences from The Pennsylvania State University (1979).  He is a 
member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Society of Petroleum 
Engineers and the Foreign Policy Research Institute of Philadelphia.  He currently serves as 
Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Sun Drilling Products Corp. having held those 
positions since 2003.  

He has also served on the Boards of various portfolio companies in which his firm has had a controlling interest over the years.
Mr. Heller and his wife Ellen are the parents of six children and reside in Houston, Texas.

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