Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

T.J. Thom joined us in October 2000 and is currently serving as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Ms. Thom began her career with EPL as a Senior Asset Management Engineer, a position she held until appointed Director of Corporate Reserves in September 2001. She was named our Director of Investor Relations in April 2006, Vice President, Treasurer and Investor Relations in July 2008. In July 2009, she was designated as the Company’s Principal Financial Officer and, in September 2009, she was appointed to be a Senior Vice President. She was named our Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer in June 2010. She has over 15 years of energy industry experience and prior to joining us, she was a Senior Reservoir Engineer with Exxon Production Company and ExxonMobil Company with operational roles including reservoir engineering and subsurface completion engineering for numerous offshore Gulf of Mexico properties. She holds a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Illinois and a M.B.A. in Management with a concentration in Finance from Tulane University.