BRYAN H. LAWRENCE, a director, is a founder and senior manager of Yorktown Partners LLC, the manager of the Yorktown group of investment partnerships, which make investments in companies engaged in the energy industry. The Yorktown partnerships were formerly affiliated with the investment firm of Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., where Mr. Lawrence had been employed since 1966, serving as a Managing Director until the merger of Dillon Read with SBC Warburg in September 1997. Mr. Lawrence also serves as a director of Epsilon Energy Ltd., Riley Exploration Permian, Inc., Ramaco Resources, Inc., and Star Group, LP (each a United States publicly traded company) and certain non-public companies in the energy industry in which Yorktown partnerships hold equity interests. Mr. Lawrence is a graduate of Hamilton College and has an MBA from Columbia University. Mr. Lawrence, who controls 1.06% of our Common Stock, has been a Board member for the last 31 years. We believe that Mr. Lawrence's wealth of industry-specific transactional skills and experience qualifies him to serve on our Board. As with most of our other Board members, he too has a significant indirect monetary investment in our Company and accordingly has a vested interest in our success.