Mr. Claugus is an entrepreneur and independent businessman, with extensive experience in petroleum engineering. From 2014 to 2022, Mr. Claugus was the Engineering Manager for MECO IV, LLC, which, prior to its acquisition, was a private oil and gas exploration and production company based in Denver, Colorado. Following the sale, Mr. Claugus founded Cerrito Energy, a privately backed oil and gas company investing in non-operated interests in core areas of established basins. Mr. Claugus holds a Master of Engineering in Petroleum Engineering from Colorado School of Mines, and a BSc in Chemical Engineering, from Case Western Reserve University.

Mr. Payne is currently Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of dynaCERT Inc., a Canadian company that specializes in delivering carbon emission reduction technologies to the global marketplace. He brings more than 40 years of experience in strategic leadership roles within both public and private companies, corporate governance, finance and accounting, capital markets, executive leadership and business performance improvements. Mr. Payne also serves as Chief Executive Officer of a privately-held consulting, project management and real estate development company operating in the Greater Toronto Area. Mr. Payne graduated from St. Clair College in Construction Engineering, Project Management and Estimating.

Mr. Bergerman started his career in 2002 practicing primarily general corporate commercial, securities, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and oil and gas law with a major Calgary law firm. In 2006, he relocated back to his hometown of Saskatoon and continued practicing business law with a major Saskatoon law firm. In 2010, Mr. Bergerman made the decision to strike out on his own and founded what is now Bergerman Smith LLP with principal practice areas including public company advising (having worked with companies listed on the TSXV, TSX, CSE, NASDAQ, NYSE and NYSE MKT LLC), initial public offerings, exempt market distributions, corporate governance, M&A, corporate structuring and restructuring, financing, natural resources, intellectual property, general corporate and commercial. He is a graduate from the University of Saskatchewan, College of Law.

Mr. Ryan is the Chief Executive Officer of Broadbill Energy Inc, an oil and gas technology infrastructure company. Prior there to, he was the Director of Midstream and Director of Operation Services for Kingston Midstream (formally Tundra Energy Marketing Ltd) and an exploitation engineer with Tundra Oil and Gas. He has published 25 scientific publications, many of which were published during his time as a Research Scientist at the Canadian Light Source Inc. Mr. Ryan currently sits on the Board for the Canadian Crude Quality Technical Association (CCQTA) as the Director of Midstream, and he is the Co-Chair of the Sampling and Frequency Working Group for the Crude Oil Quality Association (COQA). Mr. Ryan is also an honorary founding member of the Global Institute of Water Security and is on various Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) Committees, specifically the CAPP Equalization Steering Committee and is a voted Working Group member of the Canadian Transportation of Dangerous Goods General Policy Advisory Council for Classification.

Dr. Gutschlag is currently the Chairman of Deutsche Rohstoff AG (DRAG), a public company listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange which identifies, and develops resource projects globally, with a focus on oil and gas development in the United States. Dr. Gutschlag cofounded DRAG in 2006 and was its Chief Financial Officer from 2007 to 2015 and was its Chief Executive Officer from 2015 to 2022. Dr. Gutschlag is a qualified economist with a degree in economics from the University of Heidelberg and a doctorate from the University of Mannheim.

Mr. Peterson brings over 40 years of energy industry experience and extensive senior leadership, governance, and operational expertise to his role on the Board. Most recently he served as Executive Chair of the Board of Chord Energy. Prior thereto, Mr. Peterson served as President and Chief Executive Officer for Whiting Petroleum Corporation. He co-founded Kodiak Oil & Gas Corporation in 2002 and held positions as President and CEO, Director, and Chair of the Board from 2002 until its acquisition by Whiting Petroleum Corporation in 2014. Mr. Peterson was Chair of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President of SRC Energy from 2015 until its acquisition by PDC Energy in 2020. Mr. Peterson holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Northern Colorado.

Ms. Yang currently serves as Chief Financial Officer for Reveam, Inc., a developer and operator of electronic cold-pasteurization treatment systems. Prior to joining Reveam, Ms. Yang held the role of Research Director, Energy and Mining at GMT Capital Corp., and from 2018 to 2023, she was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of W&T Offshore, Inc., a Texas-based oil and gas exploration and production company traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Ms. Yang has over twenty years of varied experience in financial management, business leadership, corporate strategy, capital markets and M&A, and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Rice University.