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Board of Directors
Gary C. Evans presently serves as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Magnum Hunter Resources Corporation (NYSE Amex “MHR”), a Houston based oil and gas exploration and production company; he has held that position since May 2009. Mr. Evans previously founded and served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Magnum Hunter Resources Inc. (MHRI), a NYSE listed company, for twenty years before selling MHRI to Cimarex Energy for approximately $2.2 billion in June 2005. In 2005, Mr. Evans formed Wind Hunter Energy, LLC, a renewable energy company which was subsequently acquired in December 2006 by GreenHunter Energy, Inc.; a (NYSE Amex “GRH”) listed renewable energy company focusing on biodiesel, wind and biomass power. Mr. Evans has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GreenHunter Energy, Inc. since December 2006. Mr. Evans serves as an Individual Trustee of TEL Offshore Trust, a NASDAQ listed oil and gas trust, and is the Lead Director of Novavax Inc., a NASDAQ listed clinical-stage vaccine biotechnology company. Mr. Evans was recognized by Ernst and Young as the Southwest Area 2004 Entrepreneur of the Year for the Energy Sector and was subsequently inducted into the World Hall of Fame for Ernst & Young Entrepreneurs. Mr. Evans also serves on the Board of the Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University.
J. Raleigh Bailes has been a practicing Certified Public Accountant for over thirty years. Prior to forming his own firm, he was a partner with national and local accounting firms. Earlier in his career, he served as an Internal Revenue Service agent and instructor. He is a graduate of the University of Houston, receiving his BBA in Accounting in 1970. Upon successfully completing the 1994 U.S. Tax Court examination, he was admitted to practice before that Court on April 17, 1995. Mr. Bailes has given expert testimony on taxation in bankruptcy, corporate reorganizations, individual taxation, as well as determination of lost profits and damages sustained. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants (TSCPA), the Houston Chapter of the TSCPA and its Litigation Services Committee.
Brad Bynum is currently Chief Financial Officer of Hall-Houston Exploration Partners, L.L.C. Prior to Hall-Houston Exploration he was a Director in Merrill Lynch’s Global Energy and Power Investment Banking Group in Houston, Texas. While at Merrill Lynch, from 1997 to 2005, Mr. Bynum worked with a wide range of energy clients primarily focusing on the exploration and production sector of the oil and gas industry. Mr. Bynum received a BBA from Texas A&M University and an MBA from Rice University.
Gary L. Hall is currently President of Hall-Houston Exploration Partners, L.L.C. Prior to Hall-Houston Exploration, which was formed in December of 2004; Mr. Hall was Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Energy Partners Ltd. from January 2002 to March 2004. Prior to January 2002 Mr. Hall was the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hall-Houston Oil Company from its inception in 1983. Mr. Hall received a BS. in Geology and MS and PhD in Geological Oceanography from Texas A&M University. He has been involved in oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico since 1976, serving in various positions with major integrated and independent energy companies including Mobil Oil Company and Pogo Producing Company.
Wayne P. Hall is currently serving as Vice Chairman of Magnum Hunter Resources Corporation. Mr. Hall was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Petro Resources Corporation from April 2005 until May 2009. Between January 2004 and April 2005, Mr. Hall managed his family investments in securities and oil and gas interests. From January 2002 until January 2004 Mr. Hall served as Senior Advisor to Energy Partners, Ltd. Mr. Hall served as President and Director of Hall-Houston Oil Company, a privately owned exploration and production concern from October 1983 until January 2002. Prior to joining served in various executive and administrative positions with small independent energy companies. Mr. Hall received a BS degree from Texas State University.
Joe L. McClaugherty is a Senior Partner of McClaugherty & Silver, P.C., a full service firm engaged in the practice of civil law located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has practiced law for thirty years and has a Martindale–Hubbell rating of A.V. Prior to founding McClaugherty & Silver in 1992; he was the Managing Partner of the Santa Fe office of Kemp, Smith, Duncan & Hammond. Mr. McClaugherty has served on numerous boards of both international and domestic companies. He received a BBA with Honors from the University of Texas in 1973 and a JD with Honors from the University of Texas School of Law in 1976. He is admitted to the Bars of the State of New Mexico, State of Texas, State of Colorado, United States Federal District Court for the State of New Mexico, United States Federal District Court for the State of Colorado, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.
Ron Ormand is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Magnum Hunter Resources Corporation. Mr. Ormand served as President and Chief Financial Officer of Tremisis Energy Acquisition Corporation II from November 2007 to March 2009. Mr. Ormand has over twenty-five years of investment and commercial banking experience in the energy industry. From April 2005 to October 2007, he served as a Managing Director with West LB, a German-based international bank with over $300 billion in assets, where he covered the energy industry and served as Head of the Oil and Gas Investment Banking Group for the Americas. Mr. Ormand received a B.A. and an M.B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles and attended Cambridge University in Cambridge, England where he studied Economics.
Steven Pfeifer is the Managing Member of P.O. &G. Resources – Texas, LLC. Prior to founding P.O. &G. in 2004, Mr. Pfeifer spent eleven years in New York as a Wall Street oil and gas stock analyst. His previous employers include Deutsche Bank, Paine Webber, and Prudential Securities. From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Pfeifer was the head of Merrill Lynch’s Global Energy Research Team. From 1984 to 1993, he worked for ARCO Oil and Gas as a reservoir engineer in Tulsa, Denver, and Midland; and for Amoco Production Company in that company’s financial analysis and strategic planning groups in Houston and Chicago. Mr. Pfeifer received a BS degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Texas and an MBA from Wharton.
Jeff Swanson is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of GrailQuest Corporation; a software and service provider to the exploration and exploitation sectors of the oil and gas industry. Mr. Swanson has more than 30 years of experience primarily in upstream exploration and production. Mr. Swanson is a recognized leader in the development and application of technology to exploration and exploitation of projects. Mr. Swanson is a graduate of Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business.
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