Decades of cross-border deal-making.

Tyler serves as the Deputy CEO and Head of Finance at Tigbourne Capital, heading the global fundraising initiative for Organic Oil Recovery projects with IOCs and NOCs. He is a finance professional and entrepreneur with deep experience, including equity research at J.P. Morgan, investment management at AllianceBernstein, and consulting work at RSM International. As an entrepreneur, Tyler worked at a startup where he helped raise Series-A funding from venture capitalists and played a pivotal role in overseeing the company's operations and driving strategic growth initiatives. Tyler holds an MS in Finance and a BS in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis.

Connor Whitworth serves as Head of Operations at Tigbourne Capital, where he oversees the strategic execution, workflow integration, and performance management of the firm's eight specialized teams. Combining deep corporate finance expertise with operational oversight, he ensures seamless cross-functional execution to support the firm's global energy investment mandates. Connor holds dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Finance and Economics from the University of Utah, with academic focus spanning advanced asset valuation, corporate finance, and econometric data modeling. He brings a proven track record of institutional control from prior corporate experience — managing multi-million-dollar accounting balances, engineering automated data-integration systems, and delivering critical data insights to executive leadership to optimize operational efficiency.

Nicklaus Ohlweiler is the Head of Asia, directing a team of Tigbourne analysts across deal origination, financial modeling, and investment proposals for prospective partners. He manages transaction pipeline opportunities in the energy and natural resources sector, overseeing outreach to VP- and C-suite-level decision-makers, due diligence, and the structuring of profit-sharing arrangements for upstream operators. His background pairs that analytical foundation with hands-on asset ownership. As a Property Operations Analyst at Groma REIT, he led asset onboarding and market pricing analysis that helped expand the portfolio by 50% to $100M+ AUM. Over five years with End of Elm, he managed a $1.5M+ real estate portfolio generating $200K+ in annual revenue, leading tenant relations, lease negotiations, property financials, and tax accounting, and directing the repositioning of 17,500 square feet into more than ten commercial tenancies at sustained full occupancy. Earlier, as a Business Development Intern at Pelagic Research Services, he conducted valuation analyses and co-developed an investor- and lender-facing business plan. His modeling toolkit spans DCF, LBO, M&A, and comparable company analysis, alongside enterprise valuation and financial statement analysis. Nicklaus is a rising senior pursuing a BSBA at Northeastern University, with majors in Finance and Fintech, and a minor in Managing Human Capital. He is SIE (Securities Industry Essential) certified and is a recognized campus leader; named his university's 2025 IFC Member of the Year, serving on the Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) executive board, and facilitating Northeastern's FSL LEAD360 leadership program. He brings disciplined execution, a competitive drive, and strong cross-functional communication to Tigbourne's Asia team.

Besnik Hysenaj serves as Head of Europe at Tigbourne Capital, where he leads the European Union Origination Group, building and maintaining target lists of upstream oil and gas producers across the EU and driving the firm's deal origination efforts in the region. Besnik is a Finance student at the Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University, where he maintains a 4.0 GPA and holds a merit-based Transfer Honors Scholarship. He previously studied at the Rawls School of Business at Texas Tech University, also with a 4.0 GPA and earning a place on the 2024 President's Honor List. At SMU, Besnik is active in the Private Equity & Venture Capital Club, Data Analytics Club, and Sales Club. He brings additional experience from Project Destined's competitive real estate private equity training program, where he has underwritten multifamily assets, and from a prior internship shadowing the Director of Sales at Savoya. Of Albanian heritage, Besnik is fluent in English with intermediate proficiency in Albanian, and brings a strong analytical foundation in financial modeling and statistical data analysis to his work at Tigbourne Capital.

Madeline Paul is Co-Head of North America, overseeing Tigbourne's outreach and business development efforts across the region. She works with a team of analysts sourcing energy opportunities across North America — identifying upstream oil and gas targets and engaging executives and operators across the sector. She supports outreach to industry stakeholders, conducts market research, and contributes to the evaluation of potential investment opportunities in the energy space. Madeline is pursuing a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, building a foundation in financial analysis, Excel modeling, and corporate strategy.

Isaac Hernandez Guerrero co-leads Tigbourne Capital's North American operations, contributing to deal origination, investment modeling, and market research for Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (CEOR) opportunities across U.S. operators — with a particular focus on the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale. A Finance student at Texas A&M University's Mays Business School with a minor in Artificial Intelligence in Business, Isaac combines rigorous financial analysis with a data-driven approach to evaluating complex upstream opportunities. His work at Tigbourne includes modeling IRR and deal economics across $30MM–$1BN CEOR opportunities, and overlooking operator outreach across 20 operators. Prior to Tigbourne, Isaac quantified a $40B Total Addressable Market for AI adoption across MENA, delivering findings to McKinsey & Company partners and Saudi Aramco analysts. His entrepreneurial background — including founding Sandbox Ventures, where he generated a 200% ROI for oil & gas-exposed clients — gives him a sharp instinct for identifying high-yield opportunities and translating market research into actionable investment theses. Isaac also serves as a Teaching Assistant for Business Finance at Texas A&M, reinforcing his foundation in NPV, IRR, and DCF valuation. Bilingual in English and Spanish, he brings strong communication skills and a cross-cultural perspective to his client and operator relationships.

Atharva Singh is a sophomore at UNC Charlotte's Belk College of Business studying Finance. He leads the LATAM team at Tigbourne Capital and has prior experience across private equity and equity trading internships at Okapiq, Summit Street Capital, and Ally Financial. He took first place in the 2026 Yahoo Finance Stock Pitch Competition and is a recipient of the Carolina Brokers Scholarship, selected from over 150 applicants. Atharva is focused on energy and aerospace & defense M&A, with the goal of pivoting into private equity.

Pierre Larocque serves as Head of Trading at Tigbourne Capital, overseeing the firm's trading operations, leading direct outreach to oil traders and refineries, and identifying potential business partners for the firm's CEOR initiative. A student at Bowdoin College pursuing Economics with a minor in Government and Legal Studies, Pierre is active on campus through finance, investing, and real estate clubs as well as NCAA ice hockey. His experience includes managing an investment portfolio through options trading and long-term equity positions, analyzing earnings calls, and evaluating early-stage companies through venture capital experience.

Matthias Regis is a Private Equity Intern at Tigbourne Capital, supporting the firm's ESG Green Oil Finance initiative across the UK, North Sea, and Scandinavian energy markets. His work focuses on market research, company mapping, outreach preparation, and investment-related analysis for upstream oil and gas opportunities. His background includes corporate finance, financial modelling, investment research, and commercial analysis, developed through experience in Switzerland and the UK. Prior to Tigbourne, Matthias worked on supplier bid evaluation, forecasting, renewable energy market research, and investment materials, giving him a practical foundation in assessing companies, sectors, and commercial opportunities. Matthias holds an MSc in Corporate Finance from King's College London and has also studied finance at HEC Lausanne. Fluent in English, French, and German, he brings a European perspective to Tigbourne's work across energy finance, sustainable investment, and cross-border market outreach.

Rebecca (Jiayi) Xu is a finance professional with experience in investment banking, financial analysis, and capital markets across London, New York, and Beijing. Her background spans company valuation, financial modelling, due diligence, market research, and investment analysis across energy, healthcare technology, and financial services. She has supported investment and financing decisions through rigorous fundamental research — including discounted cash flow valuation, comparable company analysis, debt capital markets transactions, and portfolio construction. Rebecca has a particular interest in the energy sector and enjoys combining quantitative analysis with industry research to identify trends, assess opportunities, and support strategic decision-making. She is currently pursuing an MSc in Finance & Accounting at Imperial College London and holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours Finance) from McMaster University, where she graduated with distinction.

Lillian Qin has experience across private equity, FP&A, and audit, supporting investment research, financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and business performance analysis across healthcare, technology, and industrial sectors. She is an MBA Candidate at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and works with private equity and venture capital firms on market research, due diligence, and investment evaluation. Prior to Duke, she held FP&A roles at Ontario Health and NielsenIQ, and worked in audit at PwC Canada. Lillian earned her Bachelor of Accounting and Financial Management from the University of Waterloo and is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) in Canada.

Nalin co-leads development of Tigbourne Capital's proprietary CEOR-suitability scoring platform – an analytics system that evaluates candidate fields for chemical enhanced oil recovery and structures the firm's screening process against established industry data vendors. Working alongside the firm's Technology team, he helps concentrate on the platform's data architecture and the analytical models that translate reservoir and production inputs into standardized suitability scores. His work spans full-stack development in Python and React, with backend services built on FastAPI and PostgreSQL and infrastructure for ingesting and normalizing large financial and operational datasets. This technical work is grounded in financial-statement analysis, with particular depth in SEC and XBRL filing data, valuation, and accounting-quality assessment. Nalin holds the Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA) and Business Intelligence & Data Analyst (BIDA) certifications from the Corporate Finance Institute. Independently, he has built EmpiricInvesting, a deployed equity-screening platform that draws on SEC EDGAR data to compute shareholder-yield metrics and flag accounting red flags, and he conducts empirical research on the predictive power of accounting-quality signals in equity returns.

Kjetil has over 30 years of international experience across onshore and offshore petroleum engineering disciplines, technology development, business development, well planning and construction, contracts, commercial evaluations, and asset management. He has held key cross-functional assignments with ConocoPhillips, BP, Cepsa, Wintershall Dea, OKEA, Equinor, and Aker BP, covering the full lifecycle of wells from target conception to plug and abandonment — including subsurface, production, completion, intervention, and drilling. His career also spans exploration and infrastructure-led exploration strategies, process and facilities, major projects, R&D, IT, and technology innovation, while building an extensive global industry network. Passionate about well stimulation, pressure transient analysis, and EOR technologies, he is recognised for meticulous attention to detail, creative problem-solving, and the ability to deliver innovation. Kjetil holds an M.Sc. in Reservoir Engineering from the University of Stavanger.

Magdalena Gatzinska, Vice Chairman, Europe, Middle East and Africa, UBS. Previously Magdalena was with commodities-focused hedge fund KLI Asset Management, where she worked in business development. Magdalena is a principal investment professional and entrepreneur with over 27 years of capital markets, VC & PE experience with global investment institutions — JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank in New York & London, and with the private investment firms LMD Capital & Catalyst Capital (C2A), which she co-founded and managed. On the investment management side, Magdalena managed LMD Capital — a multi-asset class private investment firm with offices in London & Dubai and assets under management and advisory of over $1B — sourcing, structuring and managing new direct investments, revitalising underperforming early-stage US technology investments, and advising corporates on refinancing and raising mission-critical debt & equity. As a technology entrepreneur, Magdalena is the co-founder of Bookanyservice, an AI-driven marketplace in the Middle East. Earlier in her career she ran an institutional Equity & Fund derivatives desk at JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank in New York and London. She holds an MBA in Analytical Finance and Econometrics and a BA in Economics & Mathematics from the University of Chicago, speaks five languages, and currently lives in London.

Lee has handled more than $1 billion of merger & acquisition transactions throughout his career in M&A consulting, private equity, and as a corporate attorney. Currently a Managing Director of Perkin Industries, a private equity firm focusing on growth-stage investments in healthcare, real estate, gaming and digital & new media. Previously he was Chief Operating Officer of Grandparents.com, Inc., a publicly traded company providing insurance and financial services to 76 million seniors in the US. Lee was also a corporate attorney at Proskauer Rose LLP, managing complex M&A transactions for Charterhouse, Veronis Suhler, The Related Companies, Hyperion and Integrated Resources across sports, hospitality, media, healthcare, technology and real estate. He earned a B.S. from Emory University and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law, and is a Member of the Board of Directors of Retirees For Justice.

An expert in the Oil and Gas sector with over 50 years of experience across various disciplines in the industry. Nabil's experience includes serving in the Iraqi Ministry of Oil for over 15 years, delivering strategic infrastructure projects in the oil sector and managing large-scale projects for Multinational Oil Companies. Nabil is now an entrepreneur in the Oil and Gas sector where he is Managing Director and Founder of NDT International (NDTI), affiliated with TIC, Inc. NDTI provides Asset Integrity Corrosion Control and Advanced Non-destructive Testing in Iraq. In addition, Nabil is an advisor to several major International Oil and Gas Companies in Iraq. Nabil holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Manchester University.

Saida has over 20 years of experience with international and Kazakh institutions related to the oil and gas sector. Between 2018 and 2022 Saida was the Managing Director and Editor of Kazakhstan Journal for Oil & Gas Industry, where she gained significant local knowledge of the oil and gas business in Kazakhstan. From 2012–2018 Saida was Sales and Business Development Manager — Asia for Golden Eagle Services of Kazakhstan and De Meeuw of the Netherlands, both leading manufacturers of prefabricated accommodations for remote onshore oilfields and offshore oil platforms. As Co-founder she headed the Central Asia Services Group, a major Kazakh oil and gas service provider, from 2001 to 2012. From 1997 to 2000 Saida worked at the European Union Technical Assistance Project as Project Coordinator in the Oil and Gas sector in Kazakhstan. Since 2022 Saida is Head of Diamonds Inventory at Green Rocks Diamonds, New York. Saida has a BA degree from Kazakh State Women University, Almaty.

Mohd Zaidan Khalid is a highly experienced Well Completion professional with over three decades of expertise in the oil and gas industry, holding a Diploma in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Technology Malaysia and a Master's in Safety, Health and Environment from University Selangor. His career is distinguished by leadership in setting technical direction, establishing best practices, and driving innovation in well completion and drilling operations. Prior to his current role, Zaidan served as Executive Vice President at MOGS, responsible for setting the overall company direction and leading business development and talent strategy. Before this he was the Custodian for Well Completion at PETRONAS HQ, where he set the technical direction for the discipline, established technical governance, standardised best practices, and led technology roadmaps and innovation. His earlier role as Principal Well Completion involved driving group-wide regulatory compliance, standardisation of technology systems, and the implementation of best practices. Zaidan's extensive field experience includes serving as Senior Completion Engineer for the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company in Sudan and for the Erb West Project Team, specialising in planning and executing complex multilateral well completions. His earlier engineering and supervisory roles with PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd. in Sarawak and Baram Delta Operations provided a deep operational foundation in completion design, gravel packing, and daily drilling supervision. He began his career in hands-on operational roles as a Mud Engineer and Wellsite Petroleum Engineer.

CEO of Viner Burch Global. Eran is an entrepreneur with over 30 years' experience in business, having created and grown multiple companies to success. A pioneer in K-12 online eLearning systems and one of the first engineers to introduce server-based networks to the private business sector.