People: Warren Resources Inc (WRES.OQ)

WRES.OQ on NASDAQ Stock Exchange Global Select Market

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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Philip Epstein

56 2012 Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer

Timothy Larkin

49 2004 Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President

David Fleming

57 2002 Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary

Stewart Skelly

37 2004 Vice President, Corporate Controller

Dominick D'Alleva

60 2012 Lead Director

Thomas Noonan

73 1997 Director

Espy Price

2012 Director

Marcus Rowland

60 2012 Director

Chet Borgida

67 2004 Independent Director

Anthony Coelho

70 2001 Independent Director

Leonard DeCecchis

63 2006 Independent Director

Biographies

Name Description

Philip Epstein

Mr. Philip A. Epstein has been appointed as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer of Warren Resources Inc. effective December 5, 2012. He has over 20 years of experience as a senior executive in the global oil and gas industry. In 1992, Philip played an active role in the founding of Belco Oil & Gas Corp. ("Belco") and served in senior executive positions. Belco was a independent oil and gas company with operations initially focused on tight gas sand reservoirs in the Moxa Arch trend of Southwest Wyoming and horizontal drilling in the Austin Chalk trend of Texas. Belco grew in four years to $105 million of EBITDA and was taken public on the NYSE in a 1996 initial public offering valuing the company at $600 million. In 1997, Belco acquired Coda Energy, Inc., a Permian Basin and Mid-Continent oil producer specializing in secondary oil recovery operations, in a $324 million transaction. In 2001, Belco merged in a stock swap with Westport Resources Corporation.

Timothy Larkin

Mr. Timothy A. Larkin serves as Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Warren Resources, Inc., since March 2004. From January 1995 to March 2004, he was the Company's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. From 1991 to 1994, he served as Accounting Manager of Palmeri Fund Administrators, Inc., a consulting company providing accounting and investment advisory support to publicly reporting investment funds primarily sponsored by Merrill Lynch and Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. From 1985 to 1991, he was employed in the audit department of Deloitte & Touche, LLP, an international public accounting firm, attaining the level of Audit Manager. Mr. Larkin received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Villanova University in 1985.

David Fleming

Mr. David E. Fleming serves as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary of Warren Resources, Inc. He joined the company in July 2001 as a Senior Vice President and General Counsel. In September 2002, Mr. Fleming was also elected the company's Corporate Secretary. From January 1999 to June 2001, he was a partner with the law firm of Cummings & Lockwood, where he practiced corporate and securities law. For the seven years prior thereto, he practiced corporate law at Epstein, Becker & Green, P.C., New York, New York, where he was a member of the firm. Mr. Fleming received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1976 and a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1980. He is admitted to practice law in the states of New York, Connecticut and Maryland.

Stewart Skelly

Mr. Stewart P. Skelly serves as Vice President, Corporate Controller of Warren Resources, Inc. He has served as the company's Corporate Controller since 2002 and as a Vice President since March 2004. From 2000 to 2002, he served as the company's Assistant Controller. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Skelly was employed by News Corp., a global media conglomerate, attaining the level of Accounting Manager. From 1992 to 1997, Mr. Skelly was employed by Kearney McArdle, a midsize public accounting firm in Ireland, attaining the level of Audit Senior. Mr. Skelly is a graduate of Griffith College Dublin and is a Chartered Certified Accountant.

Dominick D'Alleva

Mr. Dominick D'Alleva is the Lead Director of Warren Resources, Inc. He was Secretary until 2002 and became an independent director thereafter. He serves on the Compensation, Audit and Corporate Governance Committees of the Board. Additionally, from 1995 to the present, he has been a principal with D and D Realty Company, LLC, a privately owned New York limited liability company involved in the acquisition and financing of real estate. From 1986 to 1995, he was engaged in residential New York City real estate for his own account and as general counsel to various real estate acquisition firms, where he negotiated contracts for the acquisition and financing of commercial real estate. From 1983 to 1985, he served as Executive Vice President, Director and General Counsel of Swanton Corporation, which engaged in energy, retail and financial services businesses. From 1980 to 1983 he was Associate Counsel of Damson Oil Corporation. From 1977 to 1980 he was an associate with Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett specializing in securities and corporate law. Mr. D'Alleva received a Bachelor of Arts degree Summa Cum Laude from Fordham University in 1974 and earned his Juris Doctor degree with honors from Yale University in 1977.

Thomas Noonan

Mr. Thomas G. Noonan serves as Director of Warren Resources, Inc., since November 1997. Until March 16, 2006 he served on the Compensation Committee of the Board. From 1980 to 1997, he served as Manager of Quality Assurance for Mars Inc., an international food and candy company. From 1961 to 1979, he was a microbiologist for the Environmental Department of the State of New York. Mr. Noonan's tenure at the New York State Health Dept. and M/M Mars has afforded him experience in the areas of environmental health, risk and crisis management, quality assurance system design implementation and monitoring, facility inspection, regulatory affairs and facility certification. Mr. Noonan received a Bachelor of Science degree from Fordham University in New York in 1959.

Espy Price

Mr. Espy P. Price is Director of Warren Resources, Inc. He resigned as Interim Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the company effective December 5, 2012. Mr. Price has been a member of Warren's Board of Directors since May 2007. Mr. Price has over 35 years experience in the oil and gas exploration and production industry. Until retiring in late 1999, he was Vice President and General Manager of Chevron Corp.'s Mid-Continent Business Unit, where he was responsible for all onshore USA exploration and production. From 1992 to 1996, he was Vice President of Chevron Overseas Petroleum, Inc., where he was responsible for Chevron's joint venture in the Republic of Kazakhstan. From 1990 to 1992, he was Vice President of Chevron's Gulf of Mexico Business Unit. From 1985 to 1990, he was employed at P.T. Caltex Pacific Indonesia, where he was Executive Vice President and Managing Director. Mr. Price earned a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering and a Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Southwestern Louisiana.

Marcus Rowland

Mr. Marcus C. Rowland has been appointed as Director of Warren Resources, Inc., effective December 20, 2012. Recently, Mr. Rowland served as the Chief Executive Officer at FTS International, Inc. (formally Frac Tech International, LLC) from May 2011 to November 2012. He served as the President and Chief Financial Officer of Frac Tech Services, LLC and Frac Tech International, LLC from November 2010 to May 2011. Mr. Rowland served as the Chief Financial Officer of Chesapeake Energy Corporation from 1993 to August 2010 and Executive Vice President of Finance from 1998 to August 2010. Mr. Rowland served as Senior Vice President of Chesapeake Energy Corp. from 1997 to 1998 and as Vice President of Finance from 1993 to 1997.

Chet Borgida

Mr. Chet Borgida serves as Independent Director of Warren Resources, Inc. He also serves as a member of the company's Audit Committee, which he chairs, and the company's Compensation Committee. Mr. Borgida has more than 30 years of domestic and international management experience in auditing and advising retail, distribution and media businesses. He was a partner at Grant Thornton LLP (Warren's independent auditors) from 1977 to 2001. While at Grant Thornton LLP, Mr. Borgida had no involvement in the review or preparation of Warren's audited financial statements. From 2002 until 2005 when it was acquired by another company, he was a Director and Audit Committee Chair of Correctional Services Corp., a NASDAQ listed company. From 2007 until December 2009 when it was acquired by another company, Mr. Borgida was a director of MTS Medication Technologies, Inc., a NASDAQ listed company, of which he was appointed lead director in 2009 and a member of the Audit Committee. He graduated from Hunter College with a Bachelor Degree in Business Science in 1967. Mr. Borgida is a retired Certified Public Accountant.

Anthony Coelho

Mr. Anthony L. Coelho serves as Independent Director of Warren Resources, Inc., since May 2001. He serves on the Compensation Committee, which he chairs, and the Corporate Governance Committee of the Board. From December 2000 to the present, Mr. Coelho has devoted his time to serving on the boards of directors listed below and as an independent consultant and adviser. From 1998 through November 2000, he served as the General Chairman for the U.S. Presidential campaign of Vice President Al Gore. From 1995 to 1998, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ETC w/tci, Inc. an education and training technology company in Washington, D.C. and from 1990 to 1995, he served as President and CEO of Wertheim Schroeder Investment Services, Inc. From 1978 to 1989, he served five terms in the U.S. Congress, representing the State of California as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. During his congressional terms, he served as Democratic Majority Whip from 1987 to 1989 and authored the Americans with Disabilities Act. Congressman Coelho was also appointed chairman of the President's Committee on the Employment of People with Disabilities by President Clinton. Congressman Coelho has served on a number of corporate boards. In the last five years he has served on the boards CepTor Corporation, Cyberonics, Inc., Stem Cell Innovation, Inc., Universal Access Global Holdings, Inc, and since 1991, he has been a member of the Board of Service Corporation International, a publicly traded company. Congressman Coelho earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Loyola Marymount University in 1964.

Leonard DeCecchis

Mr. Leonard DeCecchis serves as Independent Director of Warren Resources, Inc., since September 2006. He serves on the Audit Committee of the Board. Mr. DeCecchis retired from Prestone Products Corporation, where he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Prestone Products Corporation and a member of its board of directors until June 1999, and has been an investor in real estate and numerous business ventures since that time. In 1994, Mr. DeCecchis participated in a management buyout of Prestone antifreeze and other car care products from First Brands Corporation, a NYSE company. The new Prestone management team was growing in sales and doubling operating income within three years. In 1997, the company was sold to Allied Signal Corporation. From 1986 to 1994, Mr. DeCecchis was Vice President and Treasurer of First Brands Corporation, which had also been a management buyout of the automotive and home products divisions of Union Carbide Corporation. Mr. DeCecchis joined Union Carbide in 1974 and held numerous positions in auditing, treasury and financial reporting. In 1971, Mr. DeCecchis began his career at Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. Mr. DeCecchis received a Bachelor's degree from Pace University in 1971 and a Master of Business Administration from Fordham University in 1979. He was previously a Certified Public Accountant in New York.

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