The Southern Ute Indian Tribal Council recently appointed Kourtney Hadrick as the new director of energy for the Southern Ute Growth Fund.

Hadrick has over 22 years of technical and management experience in the oil and gas and petrochemical industries. She has held various leadership roles with the tribe’s energy businesses since 2012, most recently as the president and COO of both Red Cedar Gathering Company and Aka Energy, LLC. Prior to her employment with the tribe, Hadrick was employed by BP America Production Company. Her experience with BP included engineering, operations, and multiple management positions for upstream and midstream assets located in Colorado, Louisiana, Texas and Wyoming.

Hadrick holds a bachelor of science in chemical engineering from Purdue University and a management certificate from MIT Sloan Business School.

Hadrick has been married to Rob Hadrick for 17 years and they have three children: Will, 15, Ellie, 14, and Maddi, 8. Away from the office, Hadrick enjoys spending time with her family, yoga, running, skiing and mountain biking.