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Yoon Suck Nam: Yoon Suck Nam

Chairman of the Board and Independent Director

Mr. Nam is Managing Director of Majuko Corporation, an investment company that is also a shareholder of the Company, since December 2006. Mr. Nam has an extensive background in international business and, via Majuko, has had extensive business dealings with KNOC, the Company's joint venture partner in two of the licences in Kamchatka. Mr. Nam has been a Director and Chairman of the Board since August 2007.
Jonathan Morley-Kirk: Jonathan Morley-Kirk

Independent Director

Mr. Morley-Kirk is a chartered accountant with experience in merchant banking, securities trading and investment management. He specializes in emerging market investments and structures. Mr. Morley-Kirk is a Fellow of the Securities Institute, a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and a member of the Expert Witness Institute. Mr. Morley-Kirk has extensive public company experience and is the past non-executive Chairman of Fox-Davies Capital Limited, a U.K. based investment bank from 2003 until 2008. Mr. Morley-Kirk has been a Director since August 2007.
Teck Soon Kong: Teck Soon Kong

Independent Director

Mr. Kong is an independent businessman with more than forty years of international oil and gas industry and related experience including senior positions with the Royal Dutch Shell group, Nimir Petroleum and as an advisor in the Minister's Office, Ministry of Petroleum & Mineral Resources, Saudi Arabia. Mr. Kong has had direct Russian experience with the Sakhalin oil and gas basin. Mr. Kong has been a Director since November 2008.
Adam Landes: Adam Landes

Independent Director

Mr. Landes is well known in the Russian and international investment community, having worked at Renaissance Capital Ltd., an investment bank focussed on emerging markets in Russia based in London, where he was Managing Director of Oil and Gas Research from 2002 until December 2006 and, until August 2008 as a consultant. Prior thereto, Mr. Landes worked in various positions, and ultimately was the head of EMEA Oil & Gas Research at JP Morgan (and legacy firms). Mr. Landes has been a Director since November 2008.
Robert McClinton: Robert McClinton

Director

Mr. McClinton, a Canadian Chartered Accountant, has 40 years of highly diversified financial and managerial expertise within the exploration and production business at both senior management and board levels. He has worked with Deloitte & Touche LLP, Canadian Turbo Inc, and was an owner and President of BMP Energy Systems Ltd. Mr. McClinton is past Chief Financial Officer of the Company and has been a director since November 2008.
Greame Phipps: Greame Phipps

President and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Phipps has 35 years of experience in the Canadian and international oil and gas industry. He is a professional geophysicist and geologist and has held management and executive positions at Esso Resources, Exxon, Canadian Occidental, Nexen, and Petro-Canada. He was a Director and incoming President and Chief Executive Officer of PetroKazakhstan prior to its sale in 2005. He is also a director of three public international oil and gas companies. Mr. Phipps has been a Director since August 2007.
Allan H. Stevens: Allan H. Stevens

Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Stevens is a Canadian Chartered Accountant with over 30 years of experience in various financial roles. He developed a broad range of experience in the financing of, accounting for and taxation of public and private companies involved in oil and gas exploration, oil and gas services, and ocean transportation. From 2003 until 2008, Mr. Stevens provided independent consulting services to Clark Valuation Services, a Canadian valuation firm. He is a graduate of the University of Alberta and was articled with Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, a predecessor of Deloitte and Touche LLP.
Brian Skinner: Brian Skinner

Senior Vice President, Exploration

Mr. Skinner is a professional geologist with a wealth of Canadian and international petroleum exploration experience. Since February 7 2007, he has been the Vice President of Exploration for Solara Exploration Ltd., a Canadian oil company. Prior to that time, he was a senior geologist with Celtic Exploration Ltd., also a Canadian oil company, from its start-up. In addition, Mr. Skinner brings strong business acumen from his years as the President and CEO of several publicly traded Canadian oil and gas companies. Mr. Skinner is a graduate of the University of Alberta and started his professional career with Texaco Exploration Ltd. as a geologist.
Rustem Chinakaev: Rustem Chinakaev

Senior Vice President, Russia

Mr. Chinakaev has over 25 years experience in exploration and project management in Russia. He has worked with MAGE, a USSR Government geophysical exploration company, LARGE, a private Russian geophysical company, and Gazprom. He has been with the Company since inception in 1998. Mr. Chinakaev is also an officer of LukinCholot, PetroKamchatka's 85%-owned Russian subsidiary company.
Henry Wolski: Henry Wolski

Vice President, Operations

Mr. Wolski has over 25 years of oil industry operational experience with almost 20 years being in Russia and Kazakhstan. He has held senior management positions with Magma, Khanty Mansiysk Oil Corporation, PetroKazakhstan and PanCanadian (Samotlor Services). Mr. Wolski is fluent in Russian and is also an officer of LukinCholot.
Calvin Brackman: Calvin Brackman

Vice President, Corporate Planning

Mr. Brackman brings over 15 years of oil industry experience, including three years as Director of Government Relations at PetroKazakhstan Inc. in Windsor, United Kingdom. Mr. Brackman holds a Masters Degree in Economics.