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Maston N.
Cunningham
President and Chief Executive
Officer.
Mr.
Cunningham was elected by the board of directors as
President and Chief Executive Officer in March 2010
following the retirement of F. Lynn Blystone who had
served as the company's CEO for 29 years. Mr. Cunningham
had been Tri-Valley's President and Chief Operating
Officer since May 2009 and had joined the company in
January 2009 as Vice President of Corporate Development,
ending an early retirement that began in 2002 after a
distinguished 22-year international career with
Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Oxy) that included
over 15 years in Pakistan, Peru and Ecuador. In 1996, he was
appointed President & General Manager of Oxy's
Ecuadorian subsidiary where he led a successful oil
exploration and development program, and restructuring
of the business unit that included renegotiation of its
Oriente Basin Block 15 contract to increase oil
reserves, production and profitability. He was
co-founder and first president of ASOPEC, an Ecuadorian
petroleum industry association that spearheaded the
industry's efforts to secure government approval for
construction of a private $1.1 billion heavy oil
pipeline and marine terminal to facilitate additional
heavy oil development in the Oriente Basin. Following
government approval in early 2001, the pipeline, known
as Oleoducto de
Crudos Pesados or OCP and designed to transport up
to 450,000 barrels per day over a 300-mile route from
eastern Ecuador over the Andes Mountains to the Pacific
Coast for export, was constructed and began operating in
late 2003. During his
four-year tenure in Ecuador, Mr. Cunningham was
responsible for increasing Block 15's daily oil
production from approximately 16,000 to over 30,000
barrels per day; and by 2004 following his departure,
production had further expanded to over 100,000 barrels
per day with additional investments by Oxy facilitated
by new capacity on the OCP pipeline. He was also
responsible for obtaining ISO 14001 certification in
1997 for Block 15's Environmental Management System
which, at the time, was the first Oxy operation
worldwide to obtain this certification, the first
enterprise in Ecuador to be certified, and only the
third oil and gas operation certified in South America.
Mr.
Cunningham is a past president of the Association of
American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America (AACCLA),
a leading regional trade advocacy organization
affiliated with the US Chamber of Commerce in
Washington, D.C. that serves as the umbrella for
AmCham's in 21 countries whose 20,000 members manage
over 80 percent of U.S. investment in the region. AACCLA has been a
major advocate for the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) and other bilateral trade agreements
and business facilitation pacts between the US and
countries in the region. He currently serves as
treasurer on the Board of Trustees of the Pan American
Development Foundation (PADF), an affiliate of the
Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington,
D.C., which implements over $50 million of projects
annually to assist disadvantaged people in the
hemisphere through public and private grants. He is a graduate
of Trinity University and received an M.B.A. from the
University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Cunningham is
also a Certified Public Accountant and fluent in
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Joseph R.
Kandle
Senior Vice-President of Corporate
Development, Tri-Valley Corporation
President , Tri-Valley Oil & Gas Co
(TVOG)
President, Great Valley Production Services
(GVPS)
President, Great Valley Drilling Co (GVDC)
Mr. Kandle joined Tri-Valley Oil & Gas in
June 1998 as Vice President - Engineering and was named
as its President in February 1999. Mr. Kandle is a 1965
graduate of the Montana School of Mines where he
received a B.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering. Mr.
Kandle has almost 45 years of experience in
drilling, production, and operations, commencing his
professional career with Mobil in 1965 where he
specialized in deep drilling. After his time with Mobil,
Mr. Kandle held positions of V.P. & Chief Engineer
of Great Basins Petroleum, V.P. Engineering with Star
Resources and V.P.- Engineering with Atlantic Oil
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James G.
Bush
President, Select Resources
Corporation.
Mr. Bush brings a wide range of
experience with over 30 years in the natural resource
industry (oil, gas, and minerals), the consulting
business, and in heavy industry. Prior to
Tri-Valley, Jim spent 10 years with the Department of
Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the
previous 10 years with ICF Kaiser Engineers. Prior
to that, he worked for Atlantic Richfield (on and
off-shore Alaska and Texas), Aspen Exploration, and the
Anaconda Copper Co. His areas of expertise include
oil and gas exploration and drilling, uranium
exploration and drilling, and metals exploration, with
particular expertise in gold placer exploration and
mining (he was the finding geologist for Alaska’s recent
Valdez Creek gold mine). Jim received his
Bachelors of Science degree in Geology from Ohio State
University and his Masters of Science from South Dakota
School of Mines and Technology. Jim is certified
by the American Institute of Professional Geologists
(No. 7715), and is a registered geologist in the States
of Alaska (License No. A 220) and Washington (License
No. 1405). It should be noted that Jim also served
three years in the U.S. Navy
Seabees.
John E.
Durbin
Chief Financial Officer
Prior
to joining Tri-Valley Corporation as Chief Financial
Officer in October 2009, a majority of Mr. Durbin’s
30-year career was spent in various senior management
positions in finance and treasury with subsidiaries of
Conoco Inc., and The DuPont Company. During his career,
he has worked internationally from assignments in
Bermuda, Switzerland, and Brazil. His last position at
ConocoPhillips was as Assistant Treasurer for Risk
Management in Houston, Texas, and involved the design
and implementation of an Enterprise Risk Management
Program across the corporation. After opting for early
retirement from ConocoPhillips in 2005, he relocated to
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and founded JED Consulting LLC
to provide capital formation and business consulting
services for select private clients in such areas as
gasoline refining, sugar cane optimization, and iron ore
development. After returning to the U.S. late in 2008,
he joined Utah-based, U.S. coal producer, America West
Resources, Inc., as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Durbin
holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Montana
State University and an M.B.A. in International
Financial Management from the Thunderbird School of
Global Management. He is multilingual with abilities in
Arabic, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian,
and Spanish.
James C.
Kromer
Vice-President of Operations
Mr. Kromer joined
Tri-Valley Oil and Gas in May 2009 as Operations
Manager, and has over 44 years of experience in
drilling, production, reservoir engineering, and
operations. Prior to Tri-Valley, he has held engineering
and management positions at Continental Oil Company
(CONOCO), Exxon, Amerada Hess, Omni Exploration, Damson
Oil, Ely and Associates, Stream Energy, Matris
Exploration, and Delta Petroleum; and his experience
includes 7 years in foreign assignments in Libya and Abu
Dhabi. Mr. Kromer is a graduate of The Pennsylvania
State University where he received a B. S. degree in
Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering.
Jerold
L. Anderson, Jr.
Director of Financial
Planning & Analysis
Mr. Anderson became
Director of Financial Planning & Analysis at
Tri-Valley Corporation in October 2009 after joining the
company in July 2007 as Accounting Manager. Prior to
Tri-Valley, he was an auditor at the accounting firm
Brown & Armstrong, specializing in oil and gas, SEC
regulations and Sarbanes-Oxley. Mr. Anderson also has 10
years of experience in portfolio management of energy
investments, real estate, and securities. During this
time, he covered Latin America Emerging Markets as an
analyst for Nicholas Applegate Capital Management, and
serviced client portfolios at Fisher Investments. Mr.
Anderson holds a B.S. degree in accounting and in
finance from the University of San Diego.
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