Laura Capper is founder and President of CAP Resources, and brings 25 years’ experience in managing aggressive growth strategies for emerging companies and new product lines.  Focus areas include strategic business development, market research and characterization, transaction modeling, transaction support services and due diligence, new business line development, technology commercialization and technology portfolio management.   Prior to founding CAP Resources Laura oversaw Business Development in the San Francisco/Bay Area for Advanced Micro Devices, was an early employee and subsequently ran North American Sales for Landmark Graphics (now a Halliburton company) and held management roles at four VC-backed energy and emerging technology companies, assisting with the exit of each company.  Laura holds ...Read More

Aaron is an experienced operational and business development professional with a passion for analytical problem solving, new business line development and establishing systems and best practices for startups. Aaron is intimately familiar with all aspects of oilfield operations and current practices, and has been “in the field” on several hundred well sites in his roles with Newfield Exploration and oilfield service companies specializing in water treatment. Having grown up in the oilfield, Aaron also enjoys a historical perspective on the market as well as having current relationships with a breadth of specialists across some one hundred major and large oil and gas companies. Aaron’s most recent experience involved fielding and commercializing water treatment technology in the hydraulic fracturing industry. Aaron served as President for two separate technology companies, where he played a critical role in the startup phase of each. Focus areas include ...Read More

Stuart Maudlin is a Principal Strategist with CAP Resources focusing on M&A and Due Diligence. Stuart has over 30 years’ experience in accounting system design, comprehensive strategic management and consulting services. He is the former President and CEO of three high-tech startups, CEO of SABRE Energy Network (a JV with Columbia Energy), and CFO of Mad Croc Brands. Prior to these roles, he was a Director at Dynegy, VP of Software Development for PetroComp Systems and VP of Marketing for Computyme.  Stuart is an expert on commercial forward and reverse auctions, and he cofounded one of the first online energy information services companies (now part of the Financial Times of London).  He holds ...Read More

Hemant Kane is a Business Analyst at CAP Resources and is a former consultant in the Business Advisory Service practice of Ernst & Young. Hemant brings with him 8 years’ experience providing a breadth of management planning, business valuation, financial modeling/forecasting, cost analysis, due diligence, deal structuring, transaction support, project management, market research and market sizing services across diverse industry sectors including Energy, Technology, Telecommunications and Healthcare. In the Energy space, he specializes in ...Read More

Larry Hope is a Principal with CAP Resources.  He is shockingly passionate about helping new ideas and companies transition from the back-of-the-envelope, whiteboard stage to the marketplace.  Prior to joining the Team at CAP Resources, Larry was a Technology Licensing Manager with Baylor College of Medicine’s Licensing Group where he completed over 90 licenses and other commercialization / equity transactions.  While at Baylor, Larry’s primary focus was on commercializing inventions and ideas arising from the Departments of Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Biochemistry and Physical Medicine.  Prior to Baylor, Larry held marketing and business development positions with LifeCell Corporation (burn, plastic surgery, neurosurgery, urology), Aronex Pharmaceutics (oncology, anti-infectives) and research / manufacturing positions at Houston Biotechnology, Inc. (ophthalmology).  Larry specializes in all aspects of due diligence contract review ...Read More

Ted Moon is a Consulting Associate at CAP Resources. Ted specializes in primary and secondary market research including primary interviews, feature articles for trade publications, technical papers, brochures, case histories, and all aspects of technical and commercial writing. Ted’s technical training includes expertise in surfactants and interfacial phenomena, which he applied as a Senior Engineer with Nalco Company in the development of new corrosion inhibitor formulations for oil and gas operators around the world. Ted was also Technical Marketing Manager and Global Product Marketer for Nalco’s corrosion inhibitor product line. More recently, Ted was the first Technology Editor for JPT Online and Technology Editor for Offshore Magazine. Currently, Ted is the Principal of LaunchPad Writing + Research, a technical writing and market research firm specializing in ...Read More

Allen Blanchard is a Consulting Associate at CAP Resources. With over 20 years E&P experience with 100+ oil and gas companies and 250+ field projects, he is passionate about helping clients by mapping their goals to their business landscape. Allen has been deeply involved in waste treatment and disposal of oil and gas, radioactive, industrial and hazardous wastes, including for both onshore and offshore GOM areas and internationally. He has served as Operations and ES&H Manager for the treatment and/or injection disposal of > 15,000,000 bbl of E&P waste and has designed and operated facilities for Class 1 industrial fluid injection, Frac water treatment, E&P waste separation and recycling, hazardous waste landfill disposal and oil and aggregate recovery. Allen’s extensive environmental life-cycle experience includes: siting, permitting, regulatory process management, engineering design, operations, decontamination, remediation, ES&H, compliance ...Read More