Team Details

Mr. John Weinzierl co-founded Memorial Resource Development LLC, an oil and gas production company, in 2011. Since the company’s formation, John led the public listing and of two subsidiary companies, Memorial Resource Development Corp. and Memorial Production Partners LP, and was CEO of an organization that had over 500 employees, produced over 1 billion cubic feet equivalent of gas per day, and operated in six states. In 1999, Weinzierl moved to Dallas and joined Natural Gas Partners (NGP), a private equity firm focused on the energy industry, and rose to the position of managing director and operating partner. He moved back to Houston in 2007 to open and lead the firm’s Houston office. He began his career as a petroleum engineer for Conoco, Inc. John is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of Texas, and earned a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, which recognized him as both a Distinguished Alumnus from the Department of Petroleum Engineering.