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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Michael D. Suder. Mr.
Suder has been the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of
the Company since May 7, 2008, and our President since August
18, 2008. From September 2005 through 2007, Mr. Suder was the
Director of New Business Development for LBC Tank Terminals.
Prior to that time, from 2001 through 2005, Mr. Suder was the
General Manager of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP's Lower Mississippi
River region. Prior to his tenure with Kinder Morgan, Mr. Suder
was the President and COO of Delta Terminal Services in Harvey,
Louisiana, from 1995 through December 2000. Mr. Suder holds a
B.A. from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Christopher A. Wilson.
Mr. Wilson has been a Director of the Company since May 5,
2008, and he served as our Chief Financial Officer, Secretary
and President from May 5, 2008 through August 18, 2008. Mr.
Wilson serves on the Audit Committee of the Company. He
is currently a partner in the law firm of Wilson, Haglund & Paulsen,
P.C., a general corporate and securities practice firm he founded
in 2003, which is located in Irvine, California. Prior to that
time, since 2001, Mr. Wilson was general counsel for Stagecoach
Properties Co. LLC., a real estate development firm in Newport
Beach, California. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Wilson was a partner
in the Orange County corporate department of the law firm of
Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, located in Costa Mesa, California. From
August 1991 to 1999, Mr. Wilson was a founding partner in the
securities boutique firm of Jeffers, Wilson, Shaff & Falk
LLP. From 1987 to 1991, Mr. Wilson was an associate attorney
at the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers in its Los Angeles Capital
Markets Group. Mr. Wilson obtained his B.A. in International
Relations with minors in French and Economics from Brigham Young
University in 1985. Mr. Wilson obtained his Juris Doctorate magna
cum laude and Order of the Coif from Brigham Young University
in 1987, where he was also the executive editor of the BYU Law
Review.
Herbert
N. Whitney. Mr. Whitney was appointed as a
Director of the Company on May 29, 2008, and serves as the
Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Company. From 1966
through 2006, Mr. Whitney was with CITGO Petroleum Corporation
("CITGO") in positions of increasing general management
responsibility. From 2004 through 2006, Mr. Whitney was the
General Manager of CITGO's Marine Transportation and Logistics
Division. From 2002 through 2004, Mr. Whitney was the General
Manager of CITGO's Supply Planning and Administration Division.
From 1998 to 2002, Mr. Whitney was the General Manager of
CITGO's Product Supply, Distribution, Trading and Commercial/Aviation
Sales division. From 1993 through 1998, Mr. Whitney was the
General Manager of CITGO's Operations and Crude Oil Supply
division. From 1985 through 1998, Mr. Whitney was the President
of CITGO Pipeline Company. Mr. Whitney served on the Board
of Directors of Colonial Pipeline Company from 1987 until
2006, and was Chairman of the Board of Colonial from 1996
through 2003. Mr. Whitney holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering
from Kansas State University. Mr. Whitney is the President
of Wildcat Consulting, LLC in Houston, Texas. He is
also employed by Lazarus Energy, LLC, a private Houston-based
company, assisting them in starting up several small
shutdown refineries in Texas and Louisiana.
Mathijs
van Houweninge. Mr. van Houweninge has served
a Director of the Company since August 12, 2008, and serves on
the Audit Committee of the Company. He served as partner
of Falcon Capital, LLP ("Falcon"), a venture capital
firm based in London, from May through December 2008, where he
is now an advisor. In 1990, Mr. Houweninge started iEffective,
a Netherlands-based software company specializing in consultancy
and software development for the financial industry. The company
was sold in 2000. He also serves on the board of directors of SkyPostal,
Inc.; Cybercity, Inc.; IonIP bv, and a school in Utrecht in the
Netherlands. Mr. van Houweninge studied Computer Science at Utrecht
University in the Netherlands during the 1990s, specializing in
artificial intelligence. Falcon has served as placement agent of
the Company in two rounds of capital raises in 2008. |