People: Evolution Petroleum Corp (EPM)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Robert Herlin	57	2009	Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer
Sterling McDonald	63	2010	Chief Financial Officer, Vice President, Treasurer
Daryl Mazzanti	50	2005	Vice President - Operations
Laird Cagan	54	2009	Independent Director
Edward DiPaolo	60	2004	Independent Director
William Dozier	60	2005	Independent Director
Kelly Loyd	38	2008	Independent Director
Gene Stoever	75	2004	Independent Director

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Biographies

Name	Description
Robert Herlin	Mr. Robert S. Herlin is Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer of Evolution Petroleum Corp. Mr. Herlin, a co-founder of the Company, has been President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director since May 2004. Mr. Herlin was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors in January 2009. Prior to the merger of Natural Gas Systems, Inc. ("Old NGS") into the company, Mr. Herlin served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Old NGS since its inception in September 2003. He is responsible for operations and strategy. Mr. Herlin has 30 years of experience in engineering, energy transactions, operations and finance with small independents, larger independents and integrated oil companies. Since 2003 until early 2010, Mr. Herlin has also served as a Partner with Tatum CFO, a financial advisory firm that provides executive officers on a part-time or full-time basis to clients, where he has been assigned as a fulltime executive officer of the company. From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Herlin served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Intercontinental Towers Corporation, an international wireless infrastructure company. Mr. Herlin also served on the Board of Directors of Boots and Coots, Inc., an oil field services company, from 2003 until its sale to Halliburton Company in September 2010. He also serves on the Rice University Centennial Council for Chemical and BioMolecular Engineering. Mr. Herlin graduated with honors from Rice University with B.S. and M.E. degrees in chemical engineering and earned an MBA from Harvard University.
Sterling McDonald	Mr. Sterling H. McDonald is Chief Financial Officer, Vice President, Treasurer of Evolution Petroleum Corp. Mr. McDonald joined the company as Chief Financial Officer in November 2003 and has also been responsible for administrative functions. From 1999 to 2003, Mr. McDonald was as an independent consultant and interim Chief Financial Officer to various companies. From 1997 to 1999, he served as Chief Financial Officer for PetroAmerican Services, a subsidiary of an integrated NYSE-traded oil and gas company. Previously, he served as Chief Financial Officer of PetroStar Energy, an exploration and production company, and Treasurer of Reading and Bates Corporation, a NYSE-traded international offshore drilling services, exploration and production company. Mr. McDonald holds a B.S. in Finance, and an MBA with highest academic achievement, from the University of Tulsa.
Daryl Mazzanti	Mr. Daryl V. Mazzanti is Vice President - Operations of Evolution Petroleum Corp., since July 2005. He leads all of the company's oil and gas operations. From 1985 to 2005, Mr. Mazzanti was employed by Union Pacific Resources (UPR) and Anadarko Petroleum (the successor to UPR), where he managed operational, engineering and geotechnical teams responsible for oil and gas fields in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, the Rockies and offshore Gulf of Mexico. His duties included overseeing up to 1,200 horizontal wells, optimizing artificial lift methods for a 750 well program and supervising multi-rig drilling and service programs. Mr. Mazzanti began his career in 1985 as a Development Engineer with Champlin Oil (the predecessor to UPR), where he was responsible for drilling, completion, workover, recompletion, reservoir analysis and surface facility optimization across Texas and offshore Gulf of Mexico Mr. Mazzanti holds a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering, with distinction, from the University of Oklahoma at Norman.
Laird Cagan	Mr. Laird Q. Cagan is Independent Director of Evolution Petroleum Corp. He has been Chairman of the Board from May 2004 to January 2009. Mr. Cagan is a co-founder and Managing Director of Cagan McAfee Capital Partners, LLC ("CMCP"), a merchant bank based in Cupertino, California. From 2004 until 2008, Mr. Cagan was a Managing Director of Chadbourn Securities, Inc. (member FINRA/SIPC). In 2008 Chadbourn was absorbed by Colorado Financial Services Corporation (member FINRA/SIPC) at which time Mr. Cagan became a registered representative and principal of Colorado Financial Services Corporation. He holds his Series 7, 63, and 24 licenses. He also continues to serve as President of Cagan Capital, LLC, a merchant bank he formed in 1990, the operation of which transitioned into CMCP. Mr. Cagan serves on the Boards of Directors of Calpian, Inc., Blue Earth, Inc., Tombstone Exploration Corporation, Global Carbon Group LLC and Career College Holding Company, Inc. Mr. Cagan attended M.I.T. and received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering and his MBA from Stanford University.
Edward DiPaolo	Mr. Edward J. DiPaolo is Independent Director of Evolution Petroleum Corp., since May 2004. He serves as the Chairman of the company's Governance and Nominating Committee. Since 2003, Mr. DiPaolo has served as an Energy Advisor to Growth Capital Partners, L.P., an investment banking company acquired by Duff & Phelps in 2011. From 2002 to the present, Mr. DiPaolo has served as an independent energy producer. From 1976 to 2002, Mr. DiPaolo was with the Halliburton Company, most recently as Group Senior Vice President of Global Business Development, where he was responsible for the management of overall customer relationships with the companies within Halliburton's upstream businesses, including Halliburton Energy Services, Brown and Root Energy Services, and Landmark Graphics and Wellstream. Previously, Mr. DiPaolo was the North American Regional Vice President and Far East Regional Vice President for Halliburton, accountable for the overall operation of Halliburton Energy Services in those regions. Mr. DiPaolo served on the Board of Directors of Boots and Coots, Inc. until its sale to Halliburton Company in September 2010 and Superior Well Services until its sale to Nabors Industries Ltd, also in September 2010. Mr. DiPaolo currently serves on the boards of Willbros Group, Inc and Edgen Murray Corporation, as well as several private company boards. He received his undergraduate degree in agricultural engineering from West Virginia University in 1976 where he currently serves on the Advisory Board of the College of Engineering.
William Dozier	Mr. William E. Dozier is Independent Director of Evolution Petroleum Corp. Since 2005, Mr. Dozier has been an independent oil and gas consultant. From 1992 to 2005, Mr. Dozier served as Senior Vice President of Operations, and most recently as Senior Vice President for Business Development, for Vintage Petroleum, a publicly traded global independent oil and gas company acquired by Occidental Petroleum. From 1983 to 1992, he worked for Santa Fe Minerals, a privately held oil and gas company where he was Manager of Operations Engineering. Mr. Dozier began his career with Amoco Production Company in 1975, working in all phases of production, reservoir evaluations, drilling and completions in the Mid-Continent and Gulf Coast areas. From May 2009 to July 2011, Mr. Dozier served on the Board of Directors of CAMAC Energy, Inc (formerly Pacific Asia Petroleum, Inc.), and served as Chairman of the Technical Committee. From August 2010 to October 2010, he also served as interim CEO. Mr. Dozier also serves on several private and charitable boards. In 2005, Mr. Dozier formed Extex Consulting, Inc. based in Houston, TX. He is a licensed petroleum engineer with a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.
Kelly Loyd	Mr. Kelly William Loyd is Independent Director of Evolution Petroleum Corp., since December 09, 2008. Since 2004, Mr. Loyd has been employed by JVL Advisors, LLC, a private energy investment company that is a stockholder of the company. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Loyd was an associate in the energy corporate finance investment banking group at RBC Capital Markets and Howard Frazier Barker Elliot. Previously, Mr. Loyd served as a founder and controller of L.A.B. Sports and Entertainment, a sports/entertainment promotion and production company, a Managing Partner of Tigre Leasing, L.L.P, a commercial real estate company focused on the purchase/sale of resort properties, and as an analyst in Jefferies and Company, Inc.'s energy corporate finance investment banking group. Mr. Loyd received a B.S. in Economics with Finance Applications from Southern Methodist University and earned an MBA from Rice University.
Gene Stoever	Mr. Gene G. Stoever, CPA, is Independent Director of Evolution Petroleum Corp., since May 2004. In 1993, Mr. Stoever retired from KPMG Peat Marwick after 32 years of service, including 24 years as a partner. Since 1994, he has been an independent consultant. From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Stoever served as a trustee of the Sterling Diagnostic Imaging and SDI Liquidating Trust, from 2001 to 2005 he served as a Director of Exopack, LLC and from 2004 to 2009 he served as Director of Propex, Inc. He presently serves as director and Chairman of the Audit Committee for Orion Marine Group, Inc. Mr. Stoever earned his B.B.A. degree in accounting with honors from The University of Texas at Austin and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Texas.

Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Robert Herlin	929,138
Sterling McDonald	550,389
Daryl Mazzanti	571,003
Laird Cagan	--
Edward DiPaolo	--
William Dozier	--
Kelly Loyd	--
Gene Stoever	--

As Of 29 Jun 2012

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Robert Herlin	250,000	574,750
Sterling McDonald	0	0
Daryl Mazzanti	0	0
Laird Cagan	0	0
Edward DiPaolo	0	0
William Dozier	0	0
Kelly Loyd	0	0
Gene Stoever	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
PENINSULA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT L P	203,155	$10.25
PENINSULA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT L P	3,675	$10.32
HERLIN ROBERT S	220,000	$0.00
HERLIN ROBERT S	3,648	$10.19
MAZZANTI DARYL V	2,013	$10.18
MCDONALD STERLING H	728	$10.05
MCDONALD STERLING H	6,275	$9.96
MCDONALD STERLING H	243,725	$0.25
MCDONALD STERLING H	1,402	$9.96
HERLIN ROBERT S	993	$9.71
MAZZANTI DARYL V	488	$9.72
MCDONALD STERLING H	480	$10.25
PENINSULA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT L P	50,000	$9.50
LOVOI JOHN V	834	$7.95
LOVOI JOHN V	1,591	$7.95
MAZZANTI DARYL V	6,098	$7.78
LOVOI JOHN V	6,436	$7.95
MAZZANTI DARYL V	302	$7.80
HERLIN ROBERT S	35,000	$7.85
LOVOI JOHN V	25,698	$7.85
MAZZANTI DARYL V	2,800	$7.80
MAZZANTI DARYL V	2,156	$7.89
HERLIN ROBERT S	4,437	$7.90
LOVOI JOHN V	165,000	$7.92
PENINSULA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT L P	165,000	$7.92

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