About Us
New Dawn Energy, LLC (NDE), is a privately owned, Texas based, Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Company formed in April 2015.
New Dawn Energy, LLC is a collaboration between:
- SCC Soft Computer, Inc.
Located at 5400 Tech Data Drive, Clearwater, FL 33760 - Mines Energy Resources, LLC,
Located at 3100 S. Gessner, Suite 105, Houston, TX 77063
New Dawn Energy was formed to acquire and develop oil and gas operated and non-operated assets in major basins in the US. The initial efforts of the company were focused on the acquisition of non-operated oil and gas assets. However we have now reached our goal and are actively pursuing good operated as well as non-operated projects.
The company is managed by: Mr. Ehsan Bayat, Executive Vice President for Business Development, and Dr. Ghasem Bayat, Chief Executive Officer.
Our Team
Meet Our Key Company Personnel

Dr. Ghasem Bayat
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Ghasem Bayat is the Chief Executive Officer at New Dawn Energy. He brings 40+ years of diverse oil and gas exploration and production experience with major E&P companies. Dr. Bayat holds B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Petroleum Engineering and has worked in many oil and gas regions around the world including the Gulf of Mexico, Texas, Alaska, the North Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Middle East and South America since 1971. His expertise in production operations, engineering support to exploration, reservoir and production engineering and technical and economic evaluation of oil and gas properties has been very beneficial to New Dawn’s success. Dr. Bayat brings world-class technical specialization in oil and gas field development, well completion, artificial lift design and optimization, reservoir evaluation, and the management of water flood and other improved recovery processes.

Mr. Ehsan Bayat
Executive Vice President for Business Development

Robert (Don) Gray
B.A. Government, consulting landman with 30+ years of experience in acquisitions, negotiations, drafting of operating agreements and Purchase & sales Agreements, farm-outs, due-diligence, lease administration, regulatory matters.

David Brandl
BS Petroleum Engineering, Senior Drilling Engineer, with more than 15 years of experience in drilling wells.

Neda Ganji
B.Sc., M.Sc. Chief of Engineering. In Petroleum Engineering, with more than 5 years of experience in reservoir engineering, reserve evaluation, and production performance analysis.

Richard J Keogh
BA and MS Geology, consulting geologist with 20+ years of development, exploration and acquisition experience.

Dr. Mo Khoshghadam
7 years of work and research experience in reservoir simulation, production forecasting and evaluation of unconventional resources. Mo holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Houston.

Dr. Arta Sadrzadeh
Consulting Geophysicist with over 15+ Years of work and research experience in applied physics, exploration geophysics and seismic imaging. Ph.D. in Theoretical Applied Physics

Kaveh Kanan
Revenue and JIB accountant M.S. Human Resource Development, M.S. Sociology