Our Management Team

Cliffe Killam is a President & CEO at Killam Oil.  He has been instrumental in positioning the company into unconventional opportunities. 

Prior to joining Killam Oil, he worked for 3 years at Standard Chartered Bank (formerly Harrison Lovegrove) in the oil and gas investment banking group specializing in international oil and gas corporate and asset transactions.  He has completed over $600 million in transactions in the US, Latin America, and Africa and performed numerous advisory mandates services to executive management teams. Prior to Standard Chartered, he worked as an analyst at Wood Mackenzie, where he was a part of the team that launched and built out the US upstream research and consulting services.

Cliffe received an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business, Master’s in Energy and Mineral Resources from The University of Texas at Austin’s the Petroleum Engineering College (which is now called Energy & Earth Resources within the Jackson School of Geosciences), and a Bachelor’s in English Literature from Boston University. 

He is deeply involved across South Texas in various non-profits, with a focus on education, economic development, healthcare, and the arts.  Cliffe believes in servant leadership with a passion to see others succeed, grow, and prosper.  

Cliffe enjoys spending time with his family and friends, reading, traveling, watching movies, the outdoors, and archery hunting.