James H. Brandi

Director

Director Since: 2007
Approach Resources Inc.
Committee Membership: Audit Committee

James H. Brandi joined us as a director in June 2007 and is a member of our Audit Committee. Mr. Brandi’s prior work experience includes serving as Managing Director in investment banking at BNP Paribas, a global bank and financial services company, from May 2010, when BNP Paribas acquired Hill Street Capital, until November 2011.

From November 2005 to May 2010, Mr. Brandi was a partner at Hill Street Capital, a financial advisory and private investment firm. From 2000 until November 2005, Mr. Brandi was a Managing Director at UBS Securities, LLC, where he was the Deputy Global Head of the Energy and Power Groups.

Before 2000, Mr. Brandi was a Managing Director at Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and later its successor firm, UBS Warburg, concentrating on transactions in the energy and consumer goods areas. Mr. Brandi is a director of OGE Energy Corp., an energy and energy services provider for electricity and natural gas, and Chairman of the Board of Carbon Natural Gas Company, an independent oil and gas company.

During the past five years, Mr. Brandi also has been a director of Energy East Corp., a utility holding company. Mr. Brandi is a trustee of The Kenyon Review and a former trustee of Kenyon College.

Mr. Brandi holds a B.A. in History from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and attended Columbia Law School as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.