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Mr. Hicks, joined Superior Pipeline Company, LLC in April 2013 as Vice President of Operations. In December 2014, he was promoted to Senior Vice President of Operations and Engineering. In June 2019, he was promoted to the position of Chief Operating Officer, and effective April 1, 2020, he became President. Prior to joining Superior, Mr. Hicks worked as the Executive Vice President - Operations for Aka Energy Group from 2011 to 2013. He was the President of Frontier Field Services and Lumen Midstream Services from 2007 to 2011, both owned by the Aka Energy Group, which is part of the Southern Ute Growth Fund. From 2005 to 2007, he was President of Frontier only. He was the Director of Operations for Frontier Energy from 2003 to 2005, a privately owned, private equity based company. He was the Director of Operations and Engineering from 2000 to 2003 for CMS Field Services. He began his career in 1988 until 2000 as a plant engineer, maintenance engineer, process and project engineer, operations supervisor, plant manager, and area manager for Warren Petroleum (1988 - 1997) and Dynegy (1997 - 2000), after Dynegy bought Warren from Chevron. Mr. Hicks earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tulsa in 1988.