Marsha Hendler is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TerraFina Energy, an independent oil company based in Texas established in 2011. It allowed her to leverage her academic background in Business Management with a specialization in Global Hospitality Leadership from the Hilton College at University of Houston.

Following graduation in 1973, she entered the male dominated world of hotel management. She was told, “A good girl would never work in a building with so many bedrooms.” It didn’t matter; she had discovered a field that she loved and believed it was a perfect fit for women. Early on she was often the only woman in the room, but that glass ceiling has been shattered evidenced by the fall 2025 freshman class at the Hilton College is 68% female. When Marsha moved on from the hospitality industry in 1995, she had represented multiple hotel corporations as their Vice President of Marketing. Her second career was as an entrepreneur when she founded the firm Marketing+ which was originally designed to provide hospitality firms with marketing support. Over its 25-years, the reputation of Marketing+ grew and other industries began knocking on their door.

During the early 2000s and the Eagle Ford Shale boom, Ms. Hendler provided marketing services to numerous oil and gas companies, which inspired her transition into oil and gas production. Encouraged by experienced industry professionals, she became an Oil & Gas Operator and currently owns and operates more than fifty (50) wells. Since the beginning, her ambition has been to become the largest woman-owned independent company in Texas.

Ms. Hendler has applied her business management expertise to the oil industry, while developing her skills and knowledge in drilling, completions, workovers, and land operations. She has assembled a skilled and diverse team to support ongoing operations at TerraFina Energy and the evaluation and execution of additional oil and gas production projects.

Active within her community, Ms. Hendler has served on several boards, including the North San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and the Association for the United States Army. She was appointed by the San Antonio Mayor and City Council to the City’s Airport Advisory Commission and has participated in organizations such as the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers, South Texas Wildcatters, and South Texas Women's Energy Network. Additionally, she is a member of the Dallas Federal Reserve Energy Committee and holds membership in the Daughter’s of the Republic of Texas. Her volunteerism has been recognized with induction into the Order of the Cascaron by the Fiesta San Antonio Commission Inc, and she served on committees for the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo’s Wine Committee and International Committee.

Active within her community, Ms. Hendler HAS served on several boards, including the North San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and the Association for the United States Army. She was appointed by the San Antonio Mayor and City Council to the City’s Airport Advisory Commission and has participated in organizations such as the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers, South Texas Wildcatters, and South Texas Women's Energy Network. Additionally, she is a member of the Dallas Federal Reserve Energy Committee and holds membership in the Daughter’s of the Republic of Texas. Her volunteerism has been recognized with induction into the Order of the Cascaron by the Fiesta San Antonio Commission Inc, and she served on committees for the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo’s Wine Committee and International Committee.

Ms. Hendler received recognition from the University of Houston's Hilton College of Global Hospitality Leadership as a distinguished alumni and currently serves as its Vice Chairman. In 2021, she was selected out of more than 10,000 applicants to the Forbes Magazine's inaugural “Women 50 Over 50” and joined the magazine for International Women's Day events in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Further honors include being named "Most Influential Oil and Gas Businesswoman for 2021" and "Female Oil and Gas CEO of the Year" by Acquisitions International, receiving the GRIT award from ALLY, and earning the San Antonio Business Journal's 2022 Women's Leadership Award.

Ms. Hendler has long believed that women belong in every arena and if no one else is going to open that door, she might as well. Ms. Hendler has consistently advocated for the inclusion of women across all fields and has demonstrated initiative in pursuing opportunities where access is limited. As she has long stated, “you can’t be afraid of a little falling glass if the goal is to break the ceiling.”

Mr. Schneider is a senior-level petroleum geologist whose career began in 1975 with the Michigan-Wisconsin Pipe Line Company (now ANR Pipeline Company and part of TC Energy) as a staff geologist working in South Louisiana on both onshore and offshore projects. His initial job duties included producing detailed field studies and F.E.R.C. (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) filings in Washington, D.C. Having a passion for exploration, Mr. Schneider later joined American Petrofina Company of Texas, working on various projects located within South Louisiana and Texas. Possessing a strong desire to perform “hands-on” prospecting led Mr. Schneider to join and materially contribute to several small independent “wildcat” operations throughout his early career. By focusing on the southeast Louisiana, Mr. Schneider joined firms including L&T Exploration, Energy Development Corporation, Meridian Oil & Gas, Universal Seismic, and Tema Oil & Gas Company. The large, Miocene oil fields of southeast Louisiana provided unlimited opportunities for field prospecting. Later self-generated oil and natural gas production projects were assembled and leased with Schneider & Coffey and Veraison Energy LP, and now TerraFina Energy LLC.

Currently, Mr. Schneider continues to generate projects utilizing a career in log analysis, 2D and 3D seismic, reserve estimate procedures, and regional mapping. His current active projects include multiple shallow oil stratigraphic traps in Texas and close-in low-risk drilling ventures.

Mr. Clary has a forty (40) year career suppling oilfield operators, including corporations and independent entities, with engineering support and field supervision which activities include overseeing drilling, workovers, and production operations as a private consultant. His primary focus has been assisting operators with the management of their oil and gas properties on the Texas Gulf Coast region of Texas and Louisiana. Management activites include day-to-day production, design and implementation of artificial lift systems, optimizing the exploitation of producing horizons, and the development of behind-pipe reserves. Mr. Clary possesses a B.S in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Mr. Laird is a bargain shopper, and fortunately for TerraFina Energy and its projects, he has a knack for finding oilfields and heavy equipment at the best price. Ronnie has historically also served TerraFina Energy as the head of Drilling and Field Operations where he is responsible for managing a wide range of tasks and responsibilities that are related to the TerraFina Energy drilling program. Mr. Larid develops the drilling plan, paying special attention to the costs to TerraFina Energy, the health and safety of the workers, and environmental policies. Apart from the planning, Ronnie’s experience is a key component in reducing expenditure, maximizing returns, and managing all the associated personnel.

With fifty (50) years of experience in the oilfield, Ronnie estimates he has drilled more than eight thousand (8,000) wells. Among his notable projects are a twenty-two thousand (22,000) foot Eagle Ford well which was drilled in only seven (7) days and while with Placid Oil Company, Ronnie drilled what was at the time the deepest well in the world. Mr. Larid’s field experience includes drilling both onshore and offshore in Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi where he has supervised production and drilling on multi-well platforms, jack-up rigs, and semi-submersible operations. Ronnie has conducted ultra-deep drilling, horizontal drilling in the Haynesville shale in Louisiana and Texas, and the Wolf Camp and Bone Springs in Texas and New Mexico, as well as the Austin Chalk, Buda, and Eagle Ford shale in Texas. Mr. Larid’s experience and understanding of drilling operations and the local geology is an absolute asset to TerraFina Energy.

In large portions of Texas, the oil business is a family business. This is so true in East Texas, where it can be generational. The Naconiche Creek Field was run by Amanda Woodard, a lovely blonde, no-frills kinda gal. We were brokenhearted when we lost her to breast cancer, but who stepped up to take her place? Her daughter, JaCee. Her Mother taught her well, and she has a similar work ethic and natural instinct as her predecessor. Though JaCee has an interest in the medical field, for now, she’s committed to TerraFina Energy projects and the Naconiche Creek field. I am so proud to have her on our team.

Mr. Sikich has been associated with TerraFina Energy since its conception and he and Ms. Hendler have had a business relationship for more than forty (40) years.

The Sikich CPA firm specializes in small and medium-sized businesses (sales ranging from $100,000 to $400,000,000). Mr. Sikich formed his CPA practice in September 1982 to serve the needs of growing companies and individuals who need quality advice from accounting, business consulting, personal income tax and tax planning, estate tax, and estate tax planning, and from an audit perspective.

With the Eagle Ford oil boom, Mr. Sikich expanded his CPA practice to include clients in the Oil and Gas industry, and as TerraFina Energy has grown, his role counseling and assisting TerraFina Energy continues to expand as well.

Chris Castaneda joined TerraFina Energy as part of the Oakville Field acquisition. adding more than 20 years of practical, field-based oil and gas experience to the company’s operations team. A South Texas native raised in George West, Chris built his career from the ground up, developing a strong work ethic early through the ranch work before transitioning into the oilfield, where he quickly established himself as a dependable, solutions-driven operator.

Chris brings a rare breadth of technical capability across welding, mechanical repair, plumbing, and oilfield gauging — skills that translate directly into reduced downtime, lower service costs, and faster problem resolution in the field. His hands-on expertise allows TerraFina to address maintenance, repairs, and operational challenges internally and efficiently, improving both safety and economics at the asset level.

For the past six years, Chris has worked as an independent contractor, earning a reputation for accountability, craftsmanship, and getting critical work completed right the first time — qualities that directly support production continuity and asset performance.

When he’s not in the field, Chris enjoys woodworking, gardening, fishing, and hunting. reflecting the self-reliant, practical mindset that defines both his work and his life.