William C. Glass has been President and a member of our board of directors since inception. Mr. Glass has worked in the energy industry and energy financial derivatives markets since 1996. Mr. Glass has been an independent energy trader and consultant since December 2003. From July 2000 to December 2003, Mr. Glass was Vice president of Marubeni Energy Incorporated’s North American Natural gas division. He was responsible for all natural gas transactions, transportation, marketing, trading, and operations. From February 1997 to July 2000, Mr. Glass was a senior trader at Southern Company Energy marketing. His responsibilities included managing the financial gas daily desk as well as trading gulf coast, northeast, and mid west financial products. From October 1995 to February 1997, Mr. Glass worked at Enron as part of the risk management team. Mr. Glass holds a bachelor’s in Finance and Accounting from Texas A&M University. 

  Mr. Bernard Lang Joined our board on July 15 2008. Mr Lang has over 40 years of industry experience within the energy sector. He spent the majority of his career working for Suncor Energy Inc., one of Canada's largest petroleum recovery and refining operations. While working for Suncor Energy, Mr. Lang was responsible for the planning and direction of Project Millennium, a $3.2B expansion project designed to substantially increase the output of the marketable product at Suncor's oil sands plant in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Currently, Mr. Lang serves as the Executive Vice President, Project Execution for Syneco Energy, Inc. and also sits on the board of Exall Energy. 

   Al Rahmani has been a member of our board of directors since his appointment on February 18, 2009 and has been the Chief Executive Officer of Platinum Energy Resources, Inc. since March 2, 2009. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Rahmani held the position of Senior Vice President of Engineering and Development for Triple Five Worldwide Organization, LLC since 2006.  In that capacity, Mr. Rahmani was in charge of all Triple Five domestic and international mix-use, multi-discipline projects throughout the world.  From 1995 to December 2008, Mr. Rahmani served as Managing Director of A.R. Development, Inc., a technical engineering and financial services firm. In this capacity Mr. Rahmani was responsible for a variety of development projects.  From 1981 to 1995 Mr. Rahmani was one of the Principals of G.C.G. Consulting, a multi-disciplinary engineering firm.  In this capacity he was the head of the Infrastructure Engineering department as well as being responsible for international projects providing engineering services to a variety of clients both in the public and private sector.  During this period Mr. Rahmani successfully completed engineering projects in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.  From 1976 to 1981 Mr. Rahmani was managing director of Iran M.C.A., a consulting engineering firm, which was a division of WALTERKIDDE conglomerate, a publically traded company.  In this capacity Mr. Rahmani was responsible for numerous projects in Iran and throughout the Middle East.  The firm was engaged in a series of Fire Protection projects for the airline industry, hotels, and resort developments, highways, bridges, port design and infrastructure engineering.  Mr. Rahmani received a B.S. in civil engineering and a M.S. in civil/environmental engineering from the University of Massachusetts.

  Marc Berzins joined our Board of Directors on June 3, 2009.  He has worked as a lawyer in private practice in Edmonton, Canada since 1969.  Mr. Berzins completed his undergraduate general studies at the University of Alberta, and subsequently received his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Alberta in 1962.