Douglas Jacobson

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Biography

Mr. Douglas Jacobson serves as Partner & Senior Advisor at Waveland Capital Group. Prior to joining Waveland, He served as CO-CEO of Primary Natural Resources IV, LLC, and CEO of Whisper Rock Resources, LLC. Prior to serving with those two private E&P companies, He served 16 years with Chesapeake Energy Corporation, before retiring in July 2015. His position at Chesapeake upon retirement was Executive Vice President - Acquisitions & Divestitures. During his career at Chesapeake, he negotiated and/or managed the consummation of over 8,500 acquisition and divestiture transactions exceeding $70 billion in value in the aggregate. Prior to joining Chesapeake, he was employed by Samson Investment Company. He was serving as Senior Vice President, Project Development and Marketing at the time of his departure from Samson and in that capacity, he managed Samson's acquisition and divestiture efforts. Prior to joining Samson, he was employed as an auditor with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. He has served on various Oklahoma legislative commissions, including the Commission of Oil and Gas Production Practices and the Natural Gas Policy Commission. He is a certified public accountant and graduated from John Brown University with a B.S.B.A. and from the University of Arkansas with a M.S.A.