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	F. Lynn Blystone, Chairman of the Board CEO and President of Tri-Valley Corporation and CEO of its subsidiaries. Mr. Blystone became president and chief executive officer of Tri-Valley Corporation in October 1981, and was nominally vice president from July to October 1981. His background includes institution management, venture capital and various management functions for a mainline pipeline contractor including the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Project. He has founded, run and sold companies in several fields including Learjet charter, commercial construction, municipal finance and land development. He is also president of a family corporation, Bandera Land Company, Inc., with real estate interests in Orange County, California. A graduate of Whittier College, California, he did graduate work at George Williams College, Illinois in organization management. He gives full time to Tri-Valley and its subsidiaries.
	Milton J. Carlson Investor, Kalispell, Montana Mr. Carlson is retired as the former corporate secretary of Union Sugar Company, a unit of Sara Lee Corporation. Since 1989, Mr. Carlson has been a principal in Earthsong Corporation, which, in part, consults on environmental matters and performs environmental audits for government agencies and public and private concerns. Mr. Carlson attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Denver. Mr. Carlson is an independent member of our board of directors.
	Loren J. Miller, CPA Treasurer and CFO, Jankovich Company, San Pedro, California Mr. Miller has served in a treasury and other senior financial capacities at the Jankovich Company since 1994. Prior to that he served successively as vice president and chief financial officer of Hershey Oil Corporation from 1987 to 1990 and Mock Resources from 1991 to 1992. Prior to that he was vice president and general manager of Tosco Production Finance Corporation from 1975 to 1986 and was a senior auditor the accounting firm of Touche Ross & Company from 1968 to 1973. He is experienced in exploration, production, product trading, refining and distribution as well as corporate finance. He holds a B.S. in accounting and a M.B.A. in finance from the University of Southern California. He is chairman of our audit committee. Mr. Miller is an independent member of our board of directors.
	Henry Lowenstein Director, Dean, E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina. Dr. Lowenstein has had a full career in business, public administration, and academe. Most recently he served as Dean of the School of Business and Public Administration for California State University, Bakersfield. He has also served in such business positions as vice president and Director of Education for Dominion Bankshares Corporation, Director of Corporate Education for Kemper Group Insurance/Financial Services, and executive vice president of American Furniture, Inc. He served in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and the executive office of the President of the U.S. His many posts in academe include instructor, assistant professor and professor of Management, Chairman, Divisions of Business and Economics and Public Administration for several universities, to his present Deanship and professor of Management at Cal State University, Bakersfield. He is the Vice Chair/Chair Elect of the California State University Association of Business Deans. A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, he holds an MBA from The George Washington University and a Ph.D. from University of Illinois. Dr. Lowenstein was appointed to the board of directors in August of 2005 and is an independent member of our board of directors.

	William H. (Mo) Marumoto President & CEO, Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies Mr. Marumoto is currently the president and chief executive officer of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. Mr. Marumoto has over 30 years experience in the executive and personnel search profession as chairman and chief executive officer of his own retained firm, The Interface Group, Ltd during which he was named to the Global Top 200 Executive Recruiters and several other worldwide professional awards and recognitions. He served three years as presidential aide in the Nixon White House and prior to that was assistant to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed him to the Advisory Committee of the Arts of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. A graduate of Whittier College, he was honored in 1991 by his alma mater for the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award as well as the Alumni Service Award in 1978. Mr. Marumoto is an independent member of our board of directors.
	G. Thomas Gamble Rancher and investor, Napa, California A graduate of UCLA, Mr. Gamble is a successful rancher and businessman with current active investments in agriculture, food processing, educational services, oil, gas, and minerals. In 2003, the California State Senate proclaimed privately owned Davies and Gamble, which produces critically acclaimed wines in California’s Napa Valley, its Green Entrepreneur Of The Year, and in 2005, Mozarella Fresca, the nation’s premier producer of fresh Italian cheeses, of which he is a director and original investor, received the Certificate of Special Congressional Recognitioin as business of the year. He is also a director and original investor in Boston Reed College which provides educational opportunities to busy adults seeking stable and growing careers in the California health care industry. Mr. Gamble is an independent member of the board of directors.
	Paul W. Bateman President, Klien & Saks Group Mr. Bateman is the President of the Klein & Saks Group, a Washington, DC-based public affairs firm, that advises companies, industry organizations and coalitions, principally in the mining and metals industries, on the political, regulatory and public policy environment. He joined the firm in 1994, and has been its chief executive since 1998. Since March 2004, Mr. Bateman also has been President of the Economic Club of New York, the nation’s leading nonpartisan policy forum. In 2005, Mr. Bateman was elected Chairman and chief executive of the International Cyanide Management Institute, which administers a voluntary industry program aimed at improving the management of cyanide used in gold mining and assisting in the protection of human health and the reduction of environmental impacts. Mr. Bateman’s knowledge of the precious metals industry is extensive, having earlier served as Executive Director of the Silver Institute, an international association serving the silver industry, and President of the Gold Institute, a North American industry group. Mr. Bateman began his career in San Clemente, California in the late 1970s, as an aide to then former President Richard Nixon. In 1981, he joined the White House staff under President Reagan, and subsequently served in that Administration in a senior position at the Department of Commerce and as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. From 1989 to 1993, he served on President George H.W. Bush’s White House staff as Deputy Assistant to the President for Management.
	Edward M. Gabriel President and CEO of the Gabriel Company Former U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco Dr. Gabriel brings a diverse background in a variety of petroleum and other energy sources. Dr. Gabriel’s experience is both domestic and international, with extensive relationships in U.S. and Middle Eastern governments, as well as capital resources interested in energy. He is on the advisory board of Guggenheim Partners, a private wealth management firm. His career includes senior management positions with firms such as CONCORD and Madison Public Affairs Group in which he advised Fortune 100 Companies on multi-national matters in technology, energy, banking, environmental, and tax policies. Dr. Gabriel served the Federal Energy Administration/U.S. Department of Energy as Senior Economic Analysts. He serves as Member, Global Advisory Board of George Washington University and Vice-Chairman of the American Task Force for Lebanon. He is on the board of directors of the American School of Tangier and the Casablanca American School. He is a graduate of Gannon University, was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Gannon, and he is a member of the University Economics Honor Society. Mr. Gabriel is an independent member of our board of directors.
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