Management Team
J. Douglas Schick - President & CEO
Mr. Schick has over twenty years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Schick was employed by American Resources, Inc., a Houston, Texas-based privately-held oil and gas investment, development and operating company which he co-founded and continues to serve as Chief Executive Officer (from August 2017 to the present) and formerly as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Business Development (from August 2013 to August 2017). Prior to starting American Resources, Mr. Schick served as the founder, owner and principal of J. Douglas Enterprises, a Houston, Texas-based energy industry focused business development and financial consulting firm (from June 2011 to August 2013) as Vice President of Finance (from January 2011 until its sale in June 2011) for Highland Oil and Gas, a private equity-backed E&P company headquartered in Houston, Texas, as Manager of Planning and then Director of Planning at Houston, Texas-based Mariner Energy, Inc. (from December 2006 until its merger with Apache Corp. in December 2010), and in various roles of increasing responsibility in finance, planning, M&A, treasury and accounting at The Houston Exploration Company, ConocoPhillips and Shell Oil Company (from 1998 to 2006).
Mr. Schick holds a BBA in Finance from New Mexico State University and an MBA with a specialization in Finance from Tulane University.
Reagan Tuck (R.T.) Dukes - Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Dukes has nearly 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, with extensive experience in oil and gas investing, finance, research, and consulting. Prior to joining PEDEVCO in October 2025, from October 2019 to May 2021, Mr. Dukes served as Chief Financial Officer, and from June 2021 to October 2025, as the Chief Executive Officer, of Century Natural Resources, LLC, a privately held Houston, Texas-based oil and gas exploration and production company that previously managed certain assets acquired by PEDEVCO in October 2025. Prior to Century Natural Resources, from June 2014 to September 2019, Mr. Dukes served as a Research Director and Director of North American Supply at the Houston, Texas office of Wood Mckenzie Limited, a global energy research and consulting group, where he supported commodities research and contributed to valuation and due-diligence work that accounted for billions of dollars in transactions. Before joining Wood Mackenzie, from May 2011 to May 2014, Mr. Dukes worked as a Manager at KED Interests, LLC, a Houston, Texas-based mineral investing firm.
Mr. Dukes earned his BS in Accounting and MS in Finance from Texas A&M University. He also serves on the advisory board for the Professional Program in Accounting at Texas A&M University.
Robert “Bobby” J. Long – Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Long has nearly 25 years of financial experience in management, corporate finance, and principal investing in the energy industry. Prior to joining PEDEVCO in October 2025, from February 2022 to October 2025, Mr. Long served as the Chief Financial Officer of Century Natural Resources, LLC, a privately held Houston, Texas-based oil and gas exploration and production company that previously managed certain assets acquired by PEDEVCO in October 2025. At Century Natural Resources, Mr. Long managed all accounting, finance and commercial functions of four oil and gas companies operating in the Powder River Basin. Prior to Century Natural Resources, from August 2018 to January 2022, Mr. Long was the Chief Financial Officer of Navigation Petroleum, LLC, a Houston, Texas-based oil and gas exploration and production company that managed assets in the Powder River Basin. From February 2018 to August 2018, Mr. Long served as an Executive Director of CIBC Capital Markets in Houston, Texas; from September 2008 to January 2018, he served as a Partner in Rivington Holdings, LLC, a Houston, Texas-based capital advisory firm specializing in the oil and gas industry; and from July 2000 to September 2008, he served as an Associate, and then Vice President, of BNP Paribas, Global Energy Group, in its Houston, Texas office. Mr. Long began his professional career as an Analyst at JP Morgan Chase & Co., Energy Finance, in Houston, Texas, from July 1999 to July 2000.
Mr. Long holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin.
Clark Moore - EVP & General Counsel
Mr. Moore has over fifteen years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Mr. Moore began his career in 2000 as a corporate attorney at the law firm of Venture Law Group located in Menlo Park, California, which later merged into Heller Ehrman LLP in 2003. In 2004, Mr. Moore left Heller Ehrman LLP and launched a legal consulting practice focused on representation of private and public company clients in the energy and high-tech industries. In September 2006, Mr. Moore joined Erin Energy Corporation (OTCMKTS:ERN) (formerly CAMAC Energy, Inc.), an independent energy company headquartered in Houston, Texas, as its acting General Counsel and continued to serve in that role through February 2011, when he left to serve as a co-founder of PEDEVCO.
Mr. Moore received his J.D. with Distinction from Stanford Law School and his B.A. with Honors from the University of Washington.
Jody Crook - Chief Commercial Officer
Mr. Crook has over twenty-five years of experience in the energy industry. Mr. Crook has served as a Senior Advisor for Land and Business Development activities for the Company since April 2020. Prior to joining the Company, in 2015 Mr. Crook co-founded Tenet Advisory Group LLC, a Houston-based consulting firm that provides engineering, land, regulatory, and business development services to the oil and gas sector, and from 2017 to 2018 Mr. Crook co-founded and served as principal of Bronze Four Resources, LLC, an Austin-based contract operating company focused on contract drilling, completion, and production operations in the Anadarko basins. From 2004 to 2014 Mr. Crook held various leadership roles at Jones Energy, Ltd., a public oil and gas company based in Austin, Texas, including as Land Manager, Senior Vice President of Land, Senior Vice President for the Arkoma Region, and Senior Vice President of Acquisitions & Exploration. Mr. Crook holds a BBA in Finance & PLM from the University of Oklahoma and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.