Our Team
Our team is dedicated to driving transformation and unlocking new American energy resources.
Our team is dedicated to driving transformation and unlocking new American energy resources.
Tiffiny Boulet is the Executive Administrator at TerraVolta Resources. Tiffiny has 30 years of experience in office management and executive administrative roles. She has extensive experience managing travel, event planning, and new employee training. She previously worked at Merrill Lynch, Creekstone Companies, and Amegy Bank. Tiffiny has a Bachelor of Science from Texas A&M-Commerce and is a licensed Notary Public in Texas.
Jamie Liang is the President and Chief Executive Officer of TerraVolta Resources, a company he founded in 2022. Mr. Liang has over 22 years of management and leadership experience. He has co-founded several companies in the energy and sustainability sectors, leading them from inception to successful exits. Prior to his entrepreneurial and executive leadership roles, Mr. Liang served as an investment banker at major Wall Street firms, leading complex project and structured financings in excess of $20 billion for major infrastructure clients. He received a B.A. in Economics from Rice University and a M.B.A. in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he is a CFA and CAIA charterholder.
Nicholas Muscara is the Vice President of Land & Business Development of TerraVolta Resources. He is a seasoned energy professional with over 13 years of experience overseeing all phases of land management activities and cultivating strategic business development opportunities. Prior to joining the founding team at TerraVolta, Mr. Muscara was the Manager of Land & Business Development at EnerVest, where he led the land team responsible for the oversight and management of 6,500+ oil and gas wells and 600,000+ net acres in multiple basins across the onshore United States. Mr. Muscara received a B.A. in History (Honors) from Rice University and a M.B.A. in Energy from the Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma.
Kyle Rhoden is the Land Manager of TerraVolta Resources. Mr. Rhoden is a passionate and skilled professional with 15 years of experience in the energy industry and 20 years of experience in land. He has leveraged his abilities and expertise to deliver high-quality results and find innovative solutions to complex problems. He has spearheaded multiple high-value acquisitions and divestitures, assembled large acreage positions, and overseen the land-related functions of aggressive development programs. Mr. Rhoden obtained a bachelor’s degree from the University of Houston, and a Master of Energy Business degree from the University of Tulsa. He is also a designated Certified Professional Landman (CPL) with the American Association of Professional Landmen.
Ethan Shear is a Finance Associate at TerraVolta Resources. Mr. Shear is a finance professional with over 7 years of experience in the energy industry. Prior to joining TerraVolta, he worked as a consultant in the industrials practice at a strategy consulting firm. Mr. Shear started his career as a reservoir engineer within the oil and gas industry in both operational and consulting roles. He has extensive experience evaluating energy assets for operators, banks, government entities, private equity firms, and other financial institutions. He holds an M.B.A. from Rice University and a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University.
Robert Sims is the Vice President, Controller of TerraVolta Resources. Mr. Sims has over 19 years of accounting and finance leadership experience within the energy industry, with increasing responsibilities in areas focusing on financial controllership and systems, operational accounting and finance, and process development and improvement. Mr. Sims began his career in public accounting at KPMG and has held leadership positions in companies that operated upstream, midstream, downstream and oilfield service assets. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Baylor University and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in Texas.
Nick Soto-Kerans is a Project Geologist at TerraVolta Resources. He is a hydrogeologist and carbonate geologist with both academic research and exploration experience. Nick specializes in critical mineral geochemistry with TerraVolta Resources where he works on identifying producible critical mineral geology across TerraVolta's resources. Nick has published several research studies in hydrogeology and carbonate geology. He holds a B.S. in Hydrogeology from The University of Texas and an M.S. in Geology from the University of South Florida.
Ross Tomson is the Chief Technology Officer of TerraVolta Resources. Mr. Tomson is a high energy entrepreneur and executive with over 16 years of energy industry experience, bringing an exacting focus on delivering large-scale technology and business goals. He has founded, grown, and exited companies to a large publicly traded company. Mr. Tomson holds over 30 publications and multiple patents in the water chemistry and technology areas. Mr. Tomson has originated, managed, and completed numerous multi-party technology development and commercial deployment projects. He received a B.A. in Economics from Rice University, a Masters in Environmental Science from Rice University, and a J.D. from South Texas College of Law.
Joyce Zhang is the Chief Financial Officer of TerraVolta Resources. She comes to TerraVolta from the Energy and Minerals Group where she is currently a Principal. Prior to joining EMG in July 2015, Ms. Zhang served as Analyst in the Energy Investment Banking Group at Evercore Partners from 2013 to 2015. While at Evercore, Ms. Zhang worked on a large assortment of mergers and acquisitions assignments in the upstream oil and gas and midstream/Master Limited Partnership sectors of the energy industry. Ms. Zhang graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Economics with concentrations in Finance and Operations and Information Management in 2013.