Mr. Tombar has served as one of our directors since July 2021. Mr. Tombar is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of Arcadius Capital Partners and its predecessor SW Capital Partners. Since 2011, Arcadius Capital Partners, an energy private equity firm, has invested growth capital into start-ups and early-stage companies in the upstream oil and gas industry. From 2007 to 2011, he was a Managing Director and co-head of Scotiabank s Energy Private Equity group. He has served on the board of directors of Stellar Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE:STEL) since June 2024. Since 2007, Mr. Tombar has served on the boards of over 12 private oil and gas companies. Prior to April 2007, he was a Vice President with Goldman, Sachs & Co. ( Goldman ) and led deal teams through sourcing, execution, and management of a variety of primary market energy investments in securities and loans. Prior to that, Mr. Tombar worked in Goldman s Investment Banking Division in New York, London and Houston, where he advised several upstream oil and gas, oilfield services and petrochemical clients and executed a variety of transactions for public and private oil and gas companies. Mr. Tombar began his career with Goldman in its Energy & Power Principal Investment Area and Banking Group based in New York in 1994. Mr. Tombar graduated with a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University s Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Applied Math from Harvard University. We believe Mr. Tombar s qualifications to serve on our Board include his executive leadership and 25 years of investment and finance experience in the energy industry.