People: Tengasco Inc (TGC)
TGC on American Stock Exchange
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17 May 2013
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17 May 2013
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Summary
| Name | Age | Since | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
Peter Salas |
57 | 2004 | Independent Chairman of the Board |
Jeffrey Bailey |
54 | 2005 | Chief Executive Officer, Director |
Michael Rugen |
51 | 2009 | Chief Financial Officer |
Cary Sorensen |
63 | 2005 | Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary |
Charles McInturff |
59 | 2007 | Vice President |
Matthew Behrent |
41 | 2007 | Independent Director |
Hughree Brooks |
57 | 2010 | Independent Director |
Biographies
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
Peter Salas |
Mr. Peter E. Salas is Independent Chairman of the Board of Tengasco, Inc. He has been President of Dolphin Asset Management Corp. and its related companies since he founded it in 1988. Prior to establishing Dolphin, he was with J.P. Morgan Investment Management, Inc. for ten years, becoming Co-manager, Small Company Fund and Director-Small Cap Research. He received an A.B. degree in Economics from Harvard in 1978. Mr. Salas was elected to the Board of Directors on October 8, 2002. Mr. Salas also serves on the board of Williams Controls, Inc. During a portion of the last five years, Mr. Salas also served on the Board of Directors of Southwall Technologies, Inc. |
Jeffrey Bailey |
Mr. Jeffrey R. Bailey is Chief Executive Officer, Director of Tengasco, Inc. He graduated in 1980 from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology with a B.S. degree in Geological Engineering. Upon graduation he joined Gearhart Industries as a field engineer working in Texas, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Gearhart Industries later merged with Halliburton Company. In 1993, after 13 years working in various field operations and management roles primarily focused on reservoir evaluation, log analysis and log data acquisition he assumed a global role with Halliburton as a petrophysics instructor in Fort Worth, Texas. His duties were to teach Halliburton personnel and customers around the world log analysis and competition technology and to review analytical reservoir problems. In this role Mr. Bailey had the opportunity to review reservoirs in Europe, Latin America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East developing a special in carbonate reservoirs. In 1997, he became technical manager for Halliburton in Mexico focusing on finding engineering solutions to the production challenges of carbonate reservoirs in Mexico. He joined the Company as its Chief Geological Engineer on March 1, 2002. The experience, qualifications, attributes, and skills gained by Mr. Bailey in these oil and gas exploration and production industry positions directly apply to the operations of the Company and lead to the conclusion that Mr. Bailey should serve as a Director of the Company. Mr. Bailey was elected as President of the Company on July 17, 2002 and is presently the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. He was elected as a Director on February 28, 2003 and served as a Director until August 11, 2004. He was again elected to the Company’s Board of Directors on October 21, 2004 and has remained a Director since that time. |
Michael Rugen |
Mr. Michael J. Rugen is Chief Financial Officer of Tengasco, Inc. He is a certified public accountant (Texas) with over 29 years of experience in exploration and production and oilfield service. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Rugen spent 2 years as Vice President of Accounting and Finance for Nighthawk Oilfield Services. From 2001 to June 2007, he was a Manager/Sr. Manager with UHY Advisors, primarily responsible for managing internal audit and Sarbanes-Oxley 404 engagements for various oil and gas clients. In 1999 and 2000, Mr. Rugen provided finance and accounting consulting services with Jefferson Wells International. From 1982 to 1998, Mr. Rugen held various accounting and management positions at BHP Petroleum, with accounting responsibilities for onshore and offshore US operations as well as operations in Trinidad and Bolivia. Mr. Rugen earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting in 1982 from Indiana University. |
Cary Sorensen |
Mr. Cary V. Sorensen is Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary of Tengasco, Inc. He is a 1976 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law and has undergraduate and graduate degrees from North Texas State University and Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the Company in July 1999, he had been continuously engaged in the practice of law in Houston, Texas relating to the energy industry since 1977, both in private law firms and a corporate law department, serving for seven years as senior counsel with the oil and gas litigation department of a Fortune 100 energy corporation in Houston before entering private practice in June, 1996. He has represented virtually all of the oil companies headquartered in Houston as well as local distribution companies and electric utilities in a variety of litigated and administrative cases before state and federal courts and agencies in nine states. These matters involved gas contracts, gas marketing, exploration and production disputes involving royalties or operating interests, land titles, oil pipelines and gas pipeline tariff matters at the state and federal levels, and general operation and regulation of interstate and intrastate gas pipelines. He has served as General Counsel of the Company since July 9, 1999. |
Charles McInturff |
Mr. Charles Patrick McInturff is Vice President of Tengasco, Inc. Mr. McInturff received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1975. He is a Registered Professional Engineer from Texas and a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Before joining the Company he was Vice President of Operations of Capco Offshore, Inc. and related companies in Houston from October 2006 until December 2007 responsible for managing and supervising offshore operations and workovers and identification and evaluation of drilling and workover candidates. From 1991 to 2006, he was employed by Ryder Scott Company in Houston performing reservoir studies including determination of oil, gas, condensate and plant product reserves, enhanced recovery and oil and gas property appraisal. For most of the period from 1978 to 1991, he worked in various petroleum engineering positions at Union Texas Petroleum Corp. in Midland and Houston, Texas, and Karachi, Pakistan and was responsible for surveillance and engineering on primary and secondary recovery projects as well as design and field supervision of workovers, pressure-transient tests and completions both onshore and offshore. During that time period he also worked for Global Natural Resources from 1983 to 1986 as senior operations engineer responsible for all engineering activities. From 1981 to 1983 he was employed by Belco Petroleum performing reservoir engineering duties including field studies, economic evaluation, reserves estimation, and initiating field studies on waterflood projects in southwestern Wyoming and West Texas. Mr. McInturff was employed by Exxon Co. USA from 1975 to 1978 primarily with the reservoir engineering group in Midland, Texas performing drilling engineering duties including cost estimation, AFE preparation, drilling programs and field supervision. He was responsible for the surveillance of fifteen Permian Basin oil and gas fields in west Texas using both primary and secondary recovery techniques. |
Matthew Behrent |
Mr. Matthew K. Behrent is Independent Director of Tengasco, Inc. He currently is the Executive Vice President, Corporate Development of EDCI Holdings, Inc (OTC Pink Sheets: EDCI), a company that is currently engaged in carrying out a plan of dissolution. Before joining EDCI in June, 2005, Mr. Behrent was an investment banker, working as a Vice-President at Revolution Partners, a technology focused investment bank in Boston, from March 2004 until June 2005 and as an associate in Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation's technology mergers and acquisitions group from June 2000 until January 2003. From June 1997 to May 2000, Mr. Behrent practiced law, most recently with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York, advising financial sponsors and corporate clients in connection with financings and mergers and acquisitions transactions. Mr. Behrent received his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1997, and his B.A. in Political Science and Political Theory from Hampshire College in 1992. He became a Director of the Company on March 27, 2007. He is also a Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Asure Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASUR). The experience, qualifications, attributes, and skills gained by Mr. Behrent in these sophisticated legal and financial positions directly apply to and support the financial oversight of the Company’s operations and lead to the conclusion that Mr. Behrent should serve as a Director of the Company. |
Hughree Brooks |
Mr. Hughree F. Brooks is Independent Director of Tengasco Inc. In 2010, he co-founded Powerhouse Energy Solutions LLC, a company engaged in providing equipment and services to clients in renewable and alternative energy industries in the United States and abroad. Powerhouse is a provider of solar energy systems as well as advisory services to biofuel producers. Since 1998, Mr. Brooks has continuously provided consulting services in the oil and gas exploration industry. These services include land management, landowner representation, deal structuring and financing, and witness services. Mr. Brooks has 35 years of experience as a land manager with independent and oil companies including Amoco Production, Mitchell Energy, Ladd Petroleum, Phoenix Exploration and Renown Petroleum Inc. His clients own in excess of 16,000 acres in South Louisiana with a long history of oil and gas production. In 2002, he founded and continues to serve as the Executive Director of Friends Of The Farm, a Texas nonprofit. Mr. Brooks is a licensed attorney who received his J.D. from Loyola Law School in 1980. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1976 from Loyola University in New Orleans. |
Basic Compensation
| Name | Fiscal Year Total |
|---|---|
Peter Salas |
-- |
Jeffrey Bailey |
263,325 |
Michael Rugen |
203,259 |
Cary Sorensen |
175,073 |
Charles McInturff |
128,024 |
Matthew Behrent |
-- |
Hughree Brooks |
-- |
As Of 30 Dec 2011
Options Compensation
| Name | Options | Value |
|---|---|---|
Peter Salas |
0 | 0 |
Jeffrey Bailey |
1,310,000 | 238,700 |
Michael Rugen |
0 | 0 |
Cary Sorensen |
40,000 | 50,800 |
Charles McInturff |
0 | 0 |
Matthew Behrent |
0 | 0 |
Hughree Brooks |
0 | 0 |
| Name | Shares Traded | Price |
|---|---|---|
SALAS PETER E |
218,000 | $1.10 |
SALAS PETER E |
15,458,321 | $1.10 |
SORENSEN CARY V |
200,000 | $1.06 |
BAILEY JEFFREY R |
500,000 | $1.06 |

