People: KiOR Inc (KIOR.O)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Fred Cannon	61	2010	President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
John Karnes	51	2011	Chief Financial Officer
John Kasbaum	54	2010	Senior Vice President - Commercial
Christopher Artzer	41	2011	Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary
Samir Kaul		2007	Director
Ralph Alexander		2011	Independent Director
Condoleezza Rice	57	2011	Independent Director
William Roach	55	2010	Independent Director
Gary Whitlock	63	2010	Independent Director

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Biographies

Name	Description
Fred Cannon	Mr. Fred Cannon is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Kior Inc. Mr. Cannon joined KiOR as President and Chief Operating Officer and as a director in June 2008 and was elected Chief Executive Officer in July 2010. He brings to the company leadership skills, technical experience and a 30-year track record of international business management in the fuels and chemicals industries, with a particular focus on catalyst and fluidic catalytic cracking (FCC) technologies. Prior to KiOR, Mr. Cannon led a distinguished 30 year career at AkzoNobel, leader in refining catalysts and specialty chemicals manufacturing. Mr. Cannon was president of AkzoNobel Catalysts LLC from 1997 until the divestment of the business in August 2004. In his role, Mr. Cannon had full profit and loss responsibilities for the company’s Americas business and managed various joint ventures around the world. In August 2004, AkzoNobel’s refinery catalyst business was sold to Albemarle Corporation. Mr. Cannon served in several executive roles in transitioning the business to ensure continued smooth operations and integration across the new company until June 2008 when he joined KiOR. In all, Mr. Cannon has 20 years in the refining catalyst business, where he has managed the development, scaling and commercialization of new catalyst technologies, including FCC and hydro-processing catalysts. Mr. Cannon holds an MBA and a B.S. in Engineering from the University of South Alabama.
John Karnes	Mr. John H. Karnes is Chief Financial Officer of Kior Inc., since February 2011. From February 2010 until February 2011, Mr. Karnes was Chief Financial Officer of Highland Oil & Gas, LLC. From September 2006 to November 2009, he served as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Mariner Energy, Inc. From January 2006 to September 2006, Mr. Karnes provided advisory services in a variety of industries, including oil and gas. He served as Chief Financial Officer of The Houston Exploration Company from 2002 until December 2005. Earlier in his career, Mr. Karnes served in Chief Financial Officer and in other senior management roles with several other public growth companies including Encore Acquisition Company, CyberCash, Inc., Snyder Oil Company and Apache Corporation. He began his career in the securities industry and also practiced law with the national firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions. Mr. Karnes holds a BBA in Accounting from The University of Texas at Austin and a J.D. from Southern Methodist University School of Law.
John Kasbaum	Mr. John Kasbaum is Senior Vice President - Commercial of Kior Inc., since June 2010. Previously, Mr. Kasbaum served as Division Vice President of the FCC division of Albemarle Corporation, leader in refining catalysts and specialty chemicals manufacturing, from September 2009 to May 2010. He also served on the Board of Directors for Albemarle’s joint venture with PetroBras, the Brazilian energy company, for the manufacture, sales and marketing of FCC catalysts in South America. In a previous role at Albemarle, Mr. Kasbaum was Division Vice President of Alternative Fuel Technologies from December 2007 to August 2009. He served as Alliance Director for Albemarle’s petroleum refining Hydroprocessing Alliance with Honeywell’s UOP division from 2006 to December 2007. Mr. Kasbaum has 20 years of experience in catalysis business strategy, sales, marketing, manufacturing and technology. Mr. Kasbaum holds an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a bachelors degree in Engineering and Business Management, also from the University of Texas at Austin.
Christopher Artzer	Mr. Christopher A. Artzer is Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary of Kior Inc., since March 2011. From December 2004 to March 2011, Mr. Artzer served as Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary of TPC Group, Inc. Prior to joining TPC Group in December 2004, Mr. Artzer was counsel at the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in Houston, Texas. Mr. Artzer received a B.A. in Government from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law.
Samir Kaul	Mr. Samir Kaul is a Director of Kior Inc. Mr. Kaul has been a General Partner at Khosla Ventures, a venture capital firm focusing on clean technologies, since February 2006. Previously, Mr. Kaul was a member of Flagship Ventures, a venture capital firm, from 2002 to May 2006. Prior to Flagship, Mr. Kaul worked at The Institute for Genomic Research. Mr. Kaul currently serves on the board of directors of Amyris, Inc. and on the boards of directors of several private companies. Mr. Kaul holds a B.S. in Biology from the University of Michigan, an M.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Ralph Alexander	Mr. Ralph Alexander is an Independent Director of Kior Inc. He has been a Managing Director of Riverstone Holdings, LLC, a private equity fund focused on the energy and power sectors, since September 2007. During 2007, Mr. Alexander served as a consultant to TPG Capital. For nearly 25 years, Mr. Alexander served in various senior management positions with subsidiaries and affiliates of BP plc, most recently as Chief Executive Officer of Innovene, BP’s olefins and derivatives subsidiary, from 2004 to December 2005, as Chief Executive Officer of BP’s Gas, Power and Renewables and Solar segment from 2001 to 2004, and as a Group Vice President in BP’s Exploration and Production segment and BP’s Refinery and Marketing segment. He also has been a director of Amyris, Inc. and Stein Mart Corporation, in each case since May 2007. He previously served on the board of Foster Wheeler from May 2006 to February 2007 and Anglo-American plc from April 2005 to October 2007. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in nuclear engineering from Brooklyn Polytech (now NYU Polytechnic) and holds an M.S. in management science from Stanford University. He is currently Chairman of the Board of NYU Polytechnic.
Condoleezza Rice	Ms. Condoleezza Rice, Ph.D., is Independent Director of Kior Inc. Dr. Rice has been a professor of political economy in the Stanford Graduate School of Business since September 2010. Dr. Rice has also served as a senior fellow of public policy at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University since March 2009. Prior to returning to academia, from January 2005 to January 2009, she served as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States. Dr. Rice also served as Chief National Security Advisor to the President from January 2001 to January 2005. She served as Stanford University’s Provost from 1993 to 1999, during which she was the institution’s chief budget and academic officer responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and academic performance. Currently, Dr. Rice is on the board of Makena Capital, a private endowment firm, and C3, an energy software company. She has also served on the boards of directors for Chevron Corporation, Charles Schwab Corporation, Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company and the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan.
William Roach	Dr. William J. F. Roach, Ph.D., is an Independent Director of Kior Inc. Dr. Roach currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Cavalier Energy, Inc., a Canadian oil and gas company, a position he has held since January 2012. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer and a director of Calera Corporation, a green energy company, a position he has held since October 2010. From June 2004 to October 2010, Dr. Roach served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of UTS Energy Corporation, a Canadian oil sands exploration and development company. Prior to joining UTS Energy, Dr. Roach served in international project management roles with Husky Energy, British-Borneo Oil & Gas and Shell. Dr. Roach currently serves on the board of Sonde Resources, a natural gas development company, and Porto Energy Corp., an international oil and gas company, both of which trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange, and on the boards of several private companies engaged in oil and gas production and transportation. He is a professional engineer in Canada and the U.K. and holds a B.S. in metallurgy and a Ph.D. in physical metallurgy from the University of Swansea in the U.K.
Gary Whitlock	Mr. Gary L. Whitlock is an Independent Director of Kior Inc. Mr. Whitlock serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CenterPoint Energy, Inc., a position he has held since September 2002. He served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Delivery Group of Reliant Energy, Incorporated, from July 2001 to September 2002. Prior to joining Reliant, Mr. Whitlock served as the Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Dow AgroSciences, a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, from 1998 to 2001. He began his career with Dow in 1972, where he held a number of financial leadership positions, both in the United States and globally. Mr. Whitlock is a Certified Public Accountant and received a BBA from Sam Houston State University.

Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Fred Cannon	4,254,820
John Karnes	7,747,890
John Kasbaum	628,548
Christopher Artzer	1,908,140
Samir Kaul	--
Ralph Alexander	--
Condoleezza Rice	--
William Roach	--
Gary Whitlock	--

As Of 30 Dec 2011

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Fred Cannon	0	0
John Karnes	0	0
John Kasbaum	0	0
Christopher Artzer	0	0
Samir Kaul	0	0
Ralph Alexander	0	0
Condoleezza Rice	0	0
William Roach	0	0
Gary Whitlock	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
KASBAUM JOHN R	10,094	$4.88
CANNON FRED H	37,082	$4.88
ARTZER CHRISTOPHER A	9,802	$4.88
KARNES JOHN HERBERT JR	13,517	$4.88
ARTIS PARTNERS 2X LTD	215,809	$0.00
PETERSON STUART L	500,000	$0.00
WHITLOCK GARY L	5,000	$4.77
BIOECON B V	8,824	$6.05
BIOECON B V	15,000	$6.09
BIOECON B V	15,000	$6.00
KASBAUM JOHN R	33,143	$0.00
BIOECON B V	15,000	$6.03
ARTZER CHRISTOPHER A	32,571	$0.00
KARNES JOHN HERBERT JR	45,714	$0.00
CANNON FRED H	107,428	$0.00
CANNON FRED H	22,894	$5.80
KARNES JOHN HERBERT JR	10,103	$5.76
ARTZER CHRISTOPHER A	7,708	$5.82
KASBAUM JOHN R	7,866	$5.82
LYLE WALLACE ROGER	9,246	$5.77
KARNES JOHN HERBERT JR	34,408	$0.00
ARTZER CHRISTOPHER A	24,516	$0.00
KASBAUM JOHN R	24,946	$0.00
CANNON FRED H	80,833	$0.00
CANNON FRED H	9,402	$5.46

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