2013 annual meeting to serve a one-year term or until their successors are duly elected and qualified or until their earlier death, resignation or removal. The members of the board of managers designated by our Class A unit holders have consented to be named in this proxy statement.
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Manager
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Antonio R. Sanchez, III
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39
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Manager
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2013
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Gerald F. Willinger
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45
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Manager
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2013
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Antonio R. Sanchez, III
has been a member of our board of managers since August 2013. Mr. Sanchez
has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Sanchez Energy Corporation (NYSE: SN) and
has been a member of SN’s board of directors since its formation in August 2011. He has been directly
involved in the oil and gas industry for over 12 years. Mr. Sanchez, III is also the President of Sanchez Oil
& Gas Corporation, which he joined in October 2001, as well as the President of SEP Management I, LLC
and a Managing Director of Sanchez Energy Partners I, LP. In his capacities as a director and officer of
these companies, Mr. Sanchez, III manages all aspects of their daily operations, including exploration,
production, finance, capital markets activities, engineering and land management. From 1997 to 1999,
Mr. Sanchez, III was an investment banker specializing in mergers and acquisitions with J.P. Morgan
Securities Inc. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Sanchez, III worked in a variety of positions, including sales and
marketing, product development and investor relations, at Zix Corporation, a publicly traded encryption
technology (NASDAQ: ZIXI). Mr. Sanchez, III has also been a member of the board of directors of Zix
Corporation since May 2003.
Gerald F. Willinger
has been a member of our board of managers since August 2013. Mr. Willinger is
currently a Managing Partner of Sanchez Capital Advisors, LLC and Manager and Co-founder of Sanchez
Resources, LLC, an oil and gas company since February 2010. Mr. Willinger currently serves as a Director
of Sanchez Resources. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Willinger was an investment banker with Goldman, Sachs &
Co. Mr. Willinger served in various private equity investment management roles at MidOcean Partners,
LLC and its predecessor entity, DB Capital Partners, LLC, from 2000 to 2003 and at the Cypress Group,
LLC from 2003 to 2006. Prior to joining Sanchez Capital Advisors, LLC, Mr. Willinger was a Senior
Analyst for Silver Point Capital, LLC, a credit-opportunity fund, from 2006 to 2009.
John N. Seitz
, age 60, has been an independent member of our board of managers and our audit,
compensation, conflicts, and nominating and governance committees and chair of our compensation and
nominating and governance committees since November 2006. Mr. Seitz is also currently Vice Chairman of
the Board of Directors of Endeavour International Corporation, a publicly traded oil and gas exploration
and production company which he founded in February 2004. Prior to founding Endeavour International
Corporation, Mr. Seitz served as Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Operating Officer of
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation from January 2002 to March 2003, and prior to being named Chief
Executive Officer, President and Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Seitz was the Chief Operating Officer and
President of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation beginning in 1999. Mr. Seitz also served as Anadarko
Petroleum Corporation’s Executive Vice President, Exploration and Production and as a member of its
Board of Directors from 1997 to 1999. Mr. Seitz also serves as a Director for ION Geophysical
Corporation, f/k/a Input Output, Inc., a publicly traded provider of seismic products and services, and as a
Director of Gulf United Energy, Inc., a publicly traded energy company with interests in international oil
and natural gas properties.
The Company has received timely notice from Constellation Energy Partners Management LLC (“CEPM”) that it intends to solicit proxies to support two separate nominees as Class B managers, and CEPM has complied with the Company’s nomination procedures as set forth in the Company’s operating agreement. The Company does not have sufficient information about CEPM’s nominees to make a determination whether they satisfy the criteria for manager nominees as described below under “— Corporate Governance
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Nominations for Manager.” Even if the nominating and governance