Wallis T. Marsh - Founder and CEO of the Extex Companies – Mr. Marsh graduated from The University of Oklahoma in 1990, with a degree in Petroleum Engineering and went to work for Texaco in their Midland Division where he was heavily involved in implementing a CO2 flood of the Mabee Field. After four years working as a production engineer and a crude oil analyst in Midland, Texas, Levelland, Texas and Universal City, California, Wallis left Texaco to take a position with THUMS Long Beach Company (at that time, an ARCO company) as a production and facilities engineer. At THUMS, Wallis was instrumental in the redevelopment of the Long Beach Unit, Wilmington Field - the second largest water flood in the United States. In 1996, Wallis transferred to Vastar Resources (an ARCO company) in Houston, Texas where he was a facilities engineer working in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. Wallis worked for Ocean Energy as a field production engineer in the Central Gulf of Mexico during the price collapse of 1998-1999. Wallis co-founded Extex Production, Inc. in 1996, and Extex Operating Company in 1998, opening primary offices for the Extex Companies in Houston, Texas in 2000.

Edward L. Marsh- Executive Vice President - Mr. Marsh graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1990, with a degree in Petroleum Engineering and went to work for Unocal Corporation in Van, Texas. In 1991 Edward was transferred to Lafayette, La working as a reservoir engineer in the Gulf Coast Region. From 1991 to 1996 he worked with a team of geoscientists redeveloping producing onshore and offshore fields. In 1996 Edward left Unocal and joined Flores and Rucks (which became Ocean Energy) as a reservoir engineer. His duties with Ocean included acquisitions, development and exploration both onshore and offshore Louisiana and Texas. In 2003 Edward left Ocean and worked with Extex on jointly owned wells. In 2006 Edward sold his interests to Extex and went to work with Petsec (Australian based public oil and gas exploration company) as a Senior Explorationist. During his tenor at Petsec he helped negotiate a joint venture agreement with Focus Exploration, an offshore prospect generation company. Several successful shallow gas discoveries in Mobile Bay were made under this partnership. In July of 2007 Edward left Petsec to assume his position with Extex to open the company’s Lafayette office.

James C. Row, CFA - CFO - Mr. Row is the Chief Financial Officer for Extex Operating and subsidiaries. Jim is an expert in various areas of energy finance, including; producer finance, project finance, drilling programs, securities and risk management. Since 2002 he has originated and arranged capital raises in the E&P/energy sector as a Principal with Five Star Capital, Amerifund Capital Securities, and TriStar Energy Investments. In addition, he has public CFO experience as well as significant private CFO/COO experience in the energy sector. Previously Jim was responsible for business origination and development for El Paso Corp. and Enron Corp. For six years at Enron he was involved in a variety of business development and finance positions at Enron Capital & Trade and Enron International. Jim was the Vice President for Structuring and Bids for power, E&P, and energy service companies worldwide for Enron International. Jim has worked at the IFC (International Finance Corporation - investment-banking arm of The World Bank), Smith Barney (now Citigroup-Salomon Smith Barney) and Dain Bosworth, Inc. (now RBC Dain Rauscher). Jim holds a B.S. in Finance from the University of Wyoming, an M.B.A. in Finance from Arizona State University and a CAS from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird). He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and maintains Series 7, 24, and 63 NASD securities licenses. Jim is also a member of the Houston Society of Financial Analysts, Turnaround Management Association, Houston World Affairs Council, and The Baker Institute. In addition, he is the Precinct Chair and Election Judge for his voting precinct and Committeeman for Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo.

Robert M. Eckols - VP Engineering - Robert is a Vice President for Extex Operating Company. Robert began his oil and gas career in Odessa, Texas in the late 1980’s as an Environmental and construction consultant. In 1991 he became the Field Operations Manager for Nova Group Inc., a Houston based consulting and auditing firm. In 1993, he took a position with Midwest Equipment Company as the Mid-Continent Division Coordinator. Here he created an environmental branch of the organization specializing in hydrocarbon and chloride remediation. During the mid 1990’s, Robert co-founded a new environmental and construction consulting firm based in West Texas. The new company quickly grew to one of the largest and most respected in the Permian Basin. Robert sold his interest in the organization to his partner and returned to school in the late 1990’s where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Upon graduating, Robert accepted a position with Conoco Inc. as a production engineer in the Mid-America business unit. Here he acquired experience in production, facilities and completions in the Panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma. After the merger with Phillips Petroleum Co. in 2002, Robert was transferred to the Gulf Coast business unit where he worked as a production engineer in the Gulf coast of Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. In 2004, Robert joined Extex Operating Company as an operations manager. He is currently involved in the development and implementation of the drilling program as well as recompletions and oversight of daily operations.

Chris Gehrels - VP Operations - Mr. Gehrels received a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1986. Chris began his oil & gas career in 1986 as a Petroleum Engineer specializing in operations both on and offshore. Chris was an independent consultant for numerous companies and provided supervision for work-overs, facilities design, and operations. In 1988, he became Operations Manager with Bristol Resource where his work was concentrated in South Texas and the Corpus Christi Bay area. In August of 2000, Chris joined Extex Operating Company as an Operations Manager. He is currently involved in the development and implementation of the drilling program, as well as, playing an integral role in identifying and planning re-completions and oversight of daily operations. In November of 2006, Chris was promoted to the position of Vice President at Extex Operating Company.

Rod Baker - Mr. Baker graduated from Marietta College in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering and began working for Chevron in 1991 as a Production Engineer in their Lafayette, Louisiana office handling both land and offshore properties. In 1993 he left Chevron and went to work for Ocean Energy as a Field Production Engineer working in a number of offshore properties from the bay fields of the Mississippi Delta and the OCS properties of the Central Gulf of Mexico and the Texas state properties along the Texas coast. In 1997 he was promoted to Production Superintendent/Production Engineer. During the next few years Rod worked properties over the entire Gulf of Mexico encompassing 26 properties, 80 platforms, 426 satellite caissons, and 553 active wells producing over 11,000 bopd and 90 mmcfd. In 2003 Mr. Baker began working the non-operated properties as the Production Department representative. This led to working a number of deepwater projects while representing Ocean Energy. At this time he was assigned to Ocean Energy’s first deepwater operated project as the production representative. He worked with the multi-disciplined project team on the Zia 16 mile subsea tieback. In 2004 Mr. Baker joined Extex Operating Company as a production engineer responsible for all the company’s onshore Louisiana properties. He is responsible for identifying and planning the workovers and recompletions along with the daily production optimization. Currently working out of the Lafayette office he is working with the reservoir and geology groups to identify and evaluate a number of drill prospects in the current properties along with identifying new opportunities.

Larry Sienkiewicz - Geoscientist - Mr. Sienkiewicz received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geological Sciences from the University of Wisconsin and a Master of Science in Geology from Louisiana State University. Larry has over twenty-five years experience working in the Gulf of Mexico for various organizations including the United States Geological Survey, Gulf Oil Corporation (Chevron), UNOCAL, DLB Oil and Gas, the Minerals Management Service, and Exxon Production/ExxonMobil Development Company. In his capacity as a geologist and geophysicist, Larry has performed exploration and development, geological and geophysical interpretation of prospects and producing properties. He has developed several successful prospects through initial mapping, presentation to management, logging and completion, including a seven well horizontal drilling program in South Timbalier Block 53. Larry has also worked on developing fields in Wyoming, Offshore Eastern Canada, and East Texas. During his tenure with ExxonMobil, he was a recognized expert in Integrated Seismic Interpretation and Mature Field Development. Larry has published several papers including: “Gulf of Mexico Horizontal Well Improves Attic Oil Recovery in Active Water Drive Reservoir” SPE/DOE Tenth Symposium on Improved Oil Recover, Tulsa, OK, April 1996; “Origin of Thick Ash-Rich Sediments in the Northern Gulf of Mexico”, GSA, San Diego, CA 1991; and “Volcanic Ash Slope Fan Deposits in Ship Shoal and Green Canyon”, UNOCAL Technical Memorandum. Larry joined Extex in 2004 and has worked extensively on development of properties in North Texas and South Louisiana.

Ed Moran - Production Engineer - Mr. Moran earned a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin prior to joining Extex. Previously Ed served six years as an enlisted electronics technician and nuclear reactor operator aboard a Nimitz class nuclear aircraft carrier. He has worked for both Baker Hughes INTEQ as a Gulf of Mexico MWD/LWD engineer and for Halliburton in their wire line and perforating division as a log analyst. Ed has also worked for IHS Energy Log Services as a petrophysical analyst, where his primary responsibility was reprocessing older wire line logs, including generating synthetic sonic logs. He joined Extex Operating Company in 2002 as a well surveillance coordinator and well log analyst.