Team

Kimberly Ayers, CEO of Hewitt Energy Strategies Operating (HESO), forward thinking, rapidly evolving company that believes energy should be produced ethically and utilized close to the source to increase efficiency, reliability, profitability, and sustainability. Ayers is a transformational executive surpassing ambitious business goals and delivering revolutionary technology innovation to the energy sector. As CEO, Ayers is launching Project Fusion, an evolution of the E&P with sustainable modular growth and removal of market variance. 

Ayers has a track record with several successful E&P companies operating in the Appalachian Basin. including Northeast Natural Energy, Tenaska Resources, Inflection Energy, and Lola Energy. Where she has driven strategic development, production management and reserves evaluations. Ayers is known by her colleagues as a positive force who leads with perseverance and commitment to success. 

She is an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and is currently on the board of the Pittsburgh Section. Ayers was recognized as one of the “Top Women in Energy” by the Denver Business Journal. She has authored several professional articles published by the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the American Oil & Gas Reporter. 

Jay Hewitt leads the modern, technologically advanced, and environmentally conscious company Hewitt Energy Strategies Operating (HESO) as Chief Operations Officer. Hewitt is well known in the Appalachian Basin for his quick grasp of innovative technology but remaining grounded in traditional oil and gas views. Hewitt’s success can be attributed to his inquisitive nature, evaluating new technologies and pushing the limits of excellence. As COO, Hewitt intends to trailblaze HESO into a new energy sector, where energy is utilized close to the source to increase efficiency and sustainability.

Jay Hewitt is the owner of Hewitt Energy Strategies LLC, located in Morgantown, West Virginia. In May 2019, he formed Hewitt Energy Strategies, specializing in oil and gas management. HES focuses on corporate- level efficiencies and crosscollaborations that encourages energy efficiency and transition to invite change within varying economics, communities and climate.

In his previous role with Northeast Natural Energy, he served as Drilling Manager where he completed numerous high-profile projects. Including director for the MSEEL project; coordinating with academic institutions, particularly West Virginia University and Ohio State University, as well as government organizations such as the Department of Energy, and United States Geological Survey. Hewitt works creatively to ensure success of a complex research project, while simultaneously maintaining budget controls that maintain the profitability of the project. 

Before joining Northeast Natural Energy, Hewitt served as a Rig Manager for CNX Gas. During that time, he drilled some of the first Marcellus wells and the first Utica well. It was a remarkable start to his career, and one that helped fuel his enthusiasm for working in the industry.

In addition, Hewitt holds a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Marietta College, is apart of the USDA Natural Gas Utilization Roundtable, West Virginia Water Research Advisory Committee, International Forum on Unconventional Gas Sustainability and the Environment lecturer. Most recently, SPE Regional Driller of the Year and Hart’s Energy Innovator of the year. 

Joe Mader is the leading technological vision for Hewitt Energy Strategies Operating (HESO) as Chief Technology Officer. Mader spearheads the AI, predictive analytics and machine learning for Project Fusion. As a technology industry problem solver, he uses his extensive knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming, Microservices, Event-driven automation, Model-View-Controller (MVC), and Database design to effectively launch HESO into groundbreaking energy analysis technology. 

Mader earned M.B.A at West Virginia University and a B.S. in Computer Science from Marietta College. He first became interested in science and technology by providing office IT and web solutions to kickstart his career and come out of academia immediately with relevant domain experience. He leveraged this to secure an internship and exposure to the energy services market with Halliburton ESG. 

Mader has run the gauntlet of technology problem spaces, platforms, and regulated industries. With an early start to his career in the financial telecommunications space supporting globally distributed low-latency transaction systems, he went on to spend the majority of his career in the DoD and Intelligence Community space securing operating systems, building the infrastructure for enterprise decision support systems, automating datacenters, and creating value-added cloud solutions.

Recently, Mader has continued to navigate regulated industry by diving deep into public cloud-driven data processing, aggregation, and operational analysis in the healthcare space. Specifically, RDS data automation engineering, end to end data processing, transformation, and enrichment framework development systems and security architecture design.