{"id":989,"date":"2022-09-14T19:41:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T19:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pilotwatersolutions.com\/?page_id=989"},"modified":"2026-01-14T17:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:52:57","slug":"our-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pilotwatersolutions.com\/?page_id=989","title":{"rendered":"Our Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Experienced Management Team with History of Operating Excellence<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Mr. Ellis serves as the Executive Vice President of Finance & Control for Pilot Water Solutions. Mr. Ellis has over 17 years\u2019 experience in the oil and gas industry. Prior to joining Pilot Water Solutions, Mr. Ellis served as Vice President of Finance & Controller with H2O Midstream, a premier water midstream company operating in the Permian basis. While at H2O, Mr. Ellis managed the finance and accounting functions, information technology, and human resources. Prior to H2O, Mr. Ellis served in multiple finance and accounting leadership roles across a range of companies including Harkand, Direct Energy, and Fluor Corporation. His over 17 years of experiences have been centered around establishing controlled financial frameworks and ensuring integrity to the financial metrics. Mr. Ellis received his Bachelor of Business Administration from Millsaps College in Jackson, MS and a MBA from Tulane University in New Orleans where he graduated with an International business concentration and an Energy markets specialization.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Mr. Grounds joined Pilot Water Solutions in January 2021. Mr. Grounds has more than 19 years\u2019 experience in the oil & gas and water midstream industry managing health, safety, environmental, and regulatory compliance. Prior to joining Pilot Water Solutions, Mr. Grounds served as Director of Health, Safety, Environmental & Regulatory with H2O Midstream. Prior to joining H2O, Mr. Grounds served as an EHS Consultant for EOG Resources for 10 years\u2019 and worked with drilling, completions, production, midstream, and shared services operations. Prior to joining EOG, Mr. Grounds served as an HSE Supervisor for Nabors Drilling. Mr. Grounds has an AS from North Central Texas College, and a BS and MS in HSE Management from Columbia Southern University.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Mr. Whiting is the CEO of Pilot Water Solutions and has more than 35 years of experience in the energy industry. Prior to joining Pilot Water Solutions, Mr. Whiting was the Vice President of Energy Supply Operations for Pilot Travel Centers LLC and served as a board member of Voltagrid LLC and Olympus Terminals LLC. Mr. Whiting previously worked for Mitsubishi Corporation where he focused on the development of the internal infrastructure and market contracts supporting their LNG export from the Cameron LNG terminal. He has served in finance and structuring leadership roles with Castleton Commodities, Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch and Enron. Mr. Whiting received his Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from Lamar University and his MBA with a concentration in finance and accounting from Texas A&M University.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Mr. Gupta has more than 17 years of experience in the oil and gas industry with an extensive background in Drilling, Production & Facilities Engineering.\u00a0 Prior to joining Pilot, Mr. Gupta served as Production and Facilities Manager for Ecopetrol Permian, LLC. At Ecopetrol, Mr. Gupta helped develop water infrastructure and management system for their joint venture with Oxy along with managing production for several hundred wells.\u00a0 Mr. Gupta started his career in the oil and gas industry in 2007 with Talisman Energy where he worked with various upstream drilling\/completions groups along with being involved with construction\/production of several high-profile facilities both in Canada and US. Ankush holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Management from McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Mr. Bennett joined Pilot Water Solutions in Oct 2022. Mr. Bennett has over 30 years\u2019 experience in Quality, Health Safety and Environment. Prior to joining PWS, Mr. Bennett served as Global Sr. Director HSE, with Weatherford International. Mr. Bennett has held senior QHSE roles in Australasia, USA and Europe. Mr. Bennett is a subject matter expert in a wide range of disciplines including Health and Safety, Risk Management, Incident Investigation, Occupational Health, Industrial Hygiene & Monitoring, Environmental Protection, Auditing, Water Safety, Technical Rope Rescue and Environmental Health and Communicable Disease. During his career, he has served in the British Military, Australian Law Enforcement and worked in various facets of the energy\/mining industry including in situ leach mining (Uranium) and gold mining. Mr. Bennett is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Management.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet Our Team Experienced Management Team with History of Operating Excellence James Ellis, EVP Finance & Control Mr. Ellis serves as the Executive Vice President of Finance & Control for Pilot Water Solutions. Mr. Ellis has over 17 years\u2019 experience in the oil and gas industry. 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