Principals.

Brandon founded 5thPeak in 2021 to consolidate and extend a decade of principal investing across energy, real estate, and other opportunities where his relationships and underwriting carried weight. He looks for opportunities others overlook and shapes how the firm enters them — typically through partnerships with operators who know the rock or the asset class better than anyone else at the table.

Earlier, he founded Source Minerals in 2013 and co-founded Source Energy Partners with Oaktree Capital Management, building the firm’s Permian mineral position prior to its substantial divestiture to Desert Peak Minerals in 2021. He began his career as an oil and gas attorney at Locke Liddell & Sapp and the Texas General Land Office, and served as Manager of Land & Legal at Dorchester Minerals.

Carolyn leads real estate at 5thPeak. She brings two decades of institutional real estate experience — most of it as a founding partner of Sheppard Mullin’s Dallas office, where she handled acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, and asset management for institutional clients.

At 5thPeak, her work is to take an idea and move it. She turns a thesis into terms, terms into a transaction, and a transaction into an asset that performs. The firm’s real estate platform is built around her capacity to make things happen.

Casie is President of 5thPeak, where she directs the firm’s operations across energy, real estate, and the work in between. She came to the role with thirteen years in upstream operations, most notably leading the technical integration of WPX Energy’s acquisition of RKI Exploration — work that demanded she translate complex geology and engineering into decisions that held up under scrutiny.

That same discipline runs through her work today. She turns origination into closed deals, and closed deals into managed positions. Operators trust her because she does what she says she will do, on the timeline she said she would.