Royal Helium Ltd. has hired David Young as executive vice-president and head of US operations. Mr. Young has more than 20 years of experience as an investor, advisor and operator across a range of industries. For over a decade, Mr. Young has operated with a primary focus on the natural resources space where he has invested in and advised upstream development and midstream operations across North America.

Most recently, Mr. Young was a principal at the Carlyle Group, with over $300 billion in assets. While at the Carlyle Group, Mr. Young was part of the leadership team managing over USD 4 billion in natural resource investments, with a primary focus on upstream development and midstream related assets. Prior to joining the Carlyle Group, Mr. Young was a Director of Talara Capital Management, where he led the team's control-oriented private equity investments in the natural resources space.

During his tenure at Talara, Mr. Young represented its interests on the board of directors of multiple upstream oil and gas development companies and, most notably, led the distressed acquisition and subsequent take-private transaction of Caza Petroleum. Mr. Young led the team in building Caza Petroleum from less than 50 barrels per day of production to its current standing as a regional leader in the Delaware Basin. Mr. Young previously held positions at leading New York based investment banks, including Perella Weinberg Partners, Kramer Capital Partners, and Houlihan Lokey.

Mr. Young is graduate of the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce and has frequently returned as a guest lecturer on investment topics, including control investments in the oil and gas industry.