Management Team

Charles B. Crowell - Chief Executive Officer
Carmen J. Lotito - Executive Vice President of Business Development
Thomas Ahlbrandt - VP - Exploration & Chief Geologist
Lyle R. Nelson - Vice President - Operations

 

Board of Directors

Charles B. Crowell - Chairman
Carmen J. Lotito
Anthony Keith Yeats
Martin B. Oring
Matthew R. Silverman


Management Team

  Charles B. Crowell - Chairman and CEO
Charles Crowell is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of PetroHunter Energy Corporation. Mr. Crowell has 38 years of experience as an attorney, officer and consultant to oil and gas companies. He has held executive positions at several public and private companies, including manager and principal of Enigma Energy Company, LLC and Executive Vice President, of Administration of Triton Energy Corporation. Mr. Crowell also has 18 years experience as a director in several other public companies, including Gasco Energy, Inc., Comanche Energy, Inc., Arakis Energy Corporation, Aero Services International, Inc., and Triton Europe, plc.
     
  Carmen J. Lotito - Executive Vice President of Business Development and Director
Carmen J. Lotito, age 62, is Executive Vice President of Business Development and Director of PetroHunter Energy Corporation. Mr. Lotito has been a director and chairman of the audit and compensation committees of Gasco Energy, Inc. since April 2001, and was a director of Galaxy Energy Corporation from November 2002 to August 2006. He served as chief financial officer and treasurer of Galaxy Energy Corporation from November 2002 to July 2005, and as executive vice president from August 2004 to July 2005. Both Gasco Energy and Galaxy Energy are subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Mr. Lotito served as vice president, chief financial officer, and director of Coriko Corporation, a private business development company, from November 2000 to August 2002. Prior to joining Coriko, Mr. Lotito was self-employed as a financial consultant. Mr. Lotito holds a B.S. degree in accounting from the University of Southern California.
     
  Dr. Thomas Ahlbrandt - Vice President of Exploration and Chief Geologist
Dr. Thomas Ahlbrandt, age 58, is Vice President of Exploration and Chief Geologist of PetroHunter Energy Corporation. Dr. Ahlbrandt has 19 years of industry experience in exploration and research with Esso (predecessor to Exxon Mobil), Pan American (predecessor to PB Amoco), Amerada and other independents, including serving as General Partner for PetroStrat Exploration. For more than 20 years, Dr. Ahlbrandt worked for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) where he served as a chief for the World Energy Project, and led the USGS World Petroleum Assessment in 2000. He currently serves as Vice Chairman for the United Nations Committee (UNECE), Ad Hoc Group of Experts on the Supply of Fossil Fuel. Dr. Ahlbrandt also served on the Executive Committee of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) as Chairman of the House of Delegates from 1995 to 1996. He has received numerous awards including Distinguished Lecturer of the AAPG, the Distinguished Service Award from AAPG, Outstanding Scientist from the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Wyoming and Meritorious Service Award from the Department of the Interior.
     
  Lyle R. Nelson - Vice President, Operations
Lyle R. Nelson is the Vice President, Operations, for PetroHunter Energy Corporation. Previously Mr. Nelson served as Senior Project Manager for Integrated Solutions Group of Halliburton where he worked since September 1998. He was Vice President and Operations Manager of Nescor Energy and Vice President of Petroleum Engineering for Micro-Bac International, Inc. Mr. Nelson has been Manager and Owner of Williston Basin Consulting, Inc and has worked with Amerado Hess Corporation and Texaco, Inc. Mr. Nelson has more than 30 years of experience drilling wells throughout the United States and abroad, including Hungary, Canada, Iraq, Russia, Mexico and Mongolia. He holds a B.S. in civil engineering from South Dakota State University and a B.S. in mathematics from Dakota State College. He has been a registered Professional Petroleum Engineer since 1983.
     

Board of Directors

  Charles B. Crowell - Chairman and CEO
Charles Crowell is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of PetroHunter Energy Corporation. Mr. Crowell has 38 years of experience as an attorney, officer and consultant to oil and gas companies. He has held executive positions at several public and private companies, including manager and principal of Enigma Energy Company, LLC and Executive Vice President, of Administration of Triton Energy Corporation. Mr. Crowell also has 18 years experience as a director in several other public companies, including Gasco Energy, Inc., Comanche Energy, Inc., Arakis Energy Corporation, Aero Services International, Inc., and Triton Europe, plc.
     
  Carmen J. Lotito - Executive Vice President of Business Development and Director
Carmen J. Lotito, age 62, is Executive Vice President of Business Development and Director of PetroHunter Energy Corporation. Mr. Lotito has been a director and chairman of the audit and compensation committees of Gasco Energy, Inc. since April 2001, and was a director of Galaxy Energy Corporation from November 2002 to August 2006. He served as chief financial officer and treasurer of Galaxy Energy Corporation from November 2002 to July 2005, and as executive vice president from August 2004 to July 2005. Both Gasco Energy and Galaxy Energy are subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Mr. Lotito served as vice president, chief financial officer, and director of Coriko Corporation, a private business development company, from November 2000 to August 2002. Prior to joining Coriko, Mr. Lotito was self-employed as a financial consultant. Mr. Lotito holds a B.S. degree in accounting from the University of Southern California.
     
  Dr. Anthony Keith Yeats - Director
Dr. Yeats is the President of Cambridge Earth Sciences Ltd., through which he consults to a number of natural resources companies in the areas of geology and exploration management. He also manages an active research program at the University of Cambridge, UK. Through his participation in a portfolio of international resource exploration and production companies, he has extensive connections with sector finance brokers in Edinburgh and London. Dr. Yeats was previously Vice-President of New Blue Ribbon Resources Ltd., as well as Exploration Manager and Coordinator for Total (10 years), British Petroleum (8 years), and Royal Dutch Shell (13 years). He holds a B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Bristol, and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Cambridge.
     
  Martin B. Oring - Director
Martin B. Oring is a recognized expert in the areas of analyzing business problems, identifying cost reduction opportunities, developing new financial products, and negotiating and implementing transactions. He formed Wealth Preservation, LLC in 2001, and has extensive previous management experience including Managing Director Executive Services of Prudential Securities, Manager of Capital Planning at Chase Manhattan Corporation, and Manager, Capital Markets & Investment Banking at Mobil Corporation. Mr. Oring is also currently a director of Parallel Petroleum Corporation.
     
  Matthew R. Silverman - Director
Mr. Silverman has over 30 years experience in petroleum exploration and production, and has been instrumental in finding and developing oil and gas reserves in Europe, Asia and the western United States. Since 2001, Mr. Silverman has been affiliated with Robert L. Bayless, Producer LLC for whom he serves as Exploration Manager, directing its geology and land departments. As Exploration Manager of Bayless's affiliate, Sweetpea Petroleum, he also directed the company's efforts to explore for oil and gas in the Beetaloo Basin, Northern Territory, Australia, the 7-million acre project that PetroHunter now owns and operates. From 1989-2000, Mr. Silverman was employed by Gustavson Associates, Inc., an international oil and gas consulting group, principally as Vice President, International. From 1976-1989, he also held positions with TOTAL Minatome and its predecessors, CSX Oil & Gas and Texas Gas Exploration, and Evans Energy. Mr. Silverman is an active member of several industry associations and a Certified Petroleum Geologist.
     

 

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