Ward Polzin

Ward Polzin is a board member of Chord Energy and serves on the Audit and Reserves Committee and the Safety and Sustainability Committee. He previously served as a Director of Enerplus Corporation until its combination with Chord Energy in May 2024.

Mr. Polzin is the Founder and Executive Chairman at Camino Natural Resources. He is a Venture Partner of NGP Energy (“NGP”), a private equity investment firm based in Dallas, TX, and brings with him over 35 years of leadership, engineering, commercial, financial, and investing experience in the energy industry. Mr. Polzin is the Executive Chairman of Camino Natural Resources, LLC (“Camino”), an NGP portfolio oil and gas company started in 2017. Previously, he served as CEO of Centennial Resource Development, LLC (“Centennial”), an NGP portfolio company focused on the Permian basin of West Texas, from 2013 to 2016. Prior to forming Camino and Centennial, he served as a Managing Director and a founding partner in Investment Banking at Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co., where he spearheaded the firm’s E&P asset acquisition and divestiture practice. Prior thereto, Mr. Polzin worked in roles spanning advisory, financing, business development, and engineering in the energy sector. He earned a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 1984 and an M.B.A. from Rice University in 1986. He is also a CFA charter holder.