People: ZaZa Energy Corp (ZAZA.PH)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Herbert Williamson	64	2012	Independent Chairman of the Board
Todd Brooks	37	2012	President, Chief Executive Officer, Treasurer, Executive Director
Ian Fay		2012	Chief Financial Officer
Tony Vermeire		2012	Treasurer
John Hearn	54	2013	Non-Independent Director
Gaston Kearby	51	2012	Non-Independent Director
Travis Burris	50	2012	Independent Director
A. Haag Sherman	46	2012	Independent Director

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Biographies

Name	Description
Herbert Williamson	Mr. Herbert C. Williamson, III, is Independent Chairman of the Board of ZaZa Energy Corp., effective May 14, 2012. He has been re-appointed as Director of the Company, effective May 14, 2012. Mr. Williamson was already serving as an Independent Director on the ZaZa Board and as Chairman of the Audit Committee. Mr. Williamson has served as an Independent Director of ZaZa Energy (and its predecessor company, Toreador Resources) since 2006. Most recently, he served as a consultant to Petrie Parkman and Company for new business development. Previously, Mr. Williamson served as a Director and Interim Chief Financial Officer of Merlon Petroleum Company, a Director and Chief Financial Officer of Seven Seas Petroleum, and a Director in the Energy Group of Credit Suisse. Additionally, he serves as a Director of Eagle Rock Energy Partners, LLC, a domestic U.S. midstream and upstream oil and gas company, and served as Vice Chairman and Executive Vice President at Parker & Parsley Petroleum Company. Mr. Williamson holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School and a BA degree from Ohio Wesleyan University.
Todd Brooks	Mr. Todd Alan Brooks is President, Chief Executive Officer, Treasurer, Executive Director of ZaZa Energy Corp. He has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective August 1, 2012. Mr. Brooks has served as a director of ZaZa since the Combination. Mr. Brooks graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1997 with a degree in Economics. Immediately thereafter, he earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence from South Texas College of Law in 2000. Mr. Brooks worked as a production analyst for L.J. Melody & Co, one of the real estate investment banking firms in the U.S., from 2000 to 2003. Mr. Brooks worked in the field as a land man for OGM Land, based in Houston, from 2004 until 2006, where he delivered title work and negotiated oil & gas leases on behalf of OGM's clients in East Texas, Arkansas, and the Gulf Coast. In 2006, Mr. Brooks became trustee for mineral trusts. Mr. Brooks is also the principal of Neuhaus Brooks Investments, LLC, a company focused on making energy investments in multiple geographic regions. Mr. Brooks formed ZaZa LLC in 2009 with Messrs. Kearby and Hearn
Ian Fay	Mr. Ian H. Fay has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer of ZaZa Energy Corp., effective August 13, 2012. Mr. Fay is a Founding Partner at Odin Advisors LLC, an energy-focused financial advisory firm. Prior to Odin Advisors, Mr. Fay served as Managing Director and Head of the Energy & Natural Resources Group for the Americas at BNP Paribas, and Managing Director of Mergers and Acquisitions for RBC Capital Markets, concentrating on North American Upstream, MLP and Oil Field Services companies. Mr. Fay also advised multi-national public and private clients across multiple sectors as Director of Mergers and Acquisitions for UBS Investment Bank. Mr. Fay is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead-Cain scholar, and is currently a member of the Board of Visitors.
Tony Vermeire
John Hearn	Mr. John E. Hearn, Jr., is Non-Independent Director of ZaZa Energy Corp. He served as Chief Operating Officer of the Company. Prior to ZaZa, Mr. Hearn founded and became President of LARA Energy, Inc. in 1991, where he generated and marketed numerous exploration projects throughout South Texas. Mr. Hearn first began his career at Texas Oil & Gas (TXO) as a staff Geologist, and then as a member of the Company's Play Exploration Team. Bringing over thirty years of experience in the analysis of geological and geophysical data in the oil and gas industry, Mr. Hearn has managed the technical team and evaluated drilling efforts at ZaZa since the Company's formation in 2009. Mr. Hearn received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geology in 1980 from the University of Houston.
Gaston Kearby	Mr. Gaston L. Kearby is Non-Independent Director of ZaZa Energy Corp. Mr. Kearby has served as a director of ZaZa since the Combination. Mr. Kearby founded Omega Energy Corp. in 1988 (currently named Omega Energy, LLC) and today serves as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Omega is a privately held, Corpus Christi-based oil and gas company that owns a portfolio of interests in operated and non-operated oil and gas properties in Texas and adjoining states. Mr. Kearby began his career in the oil and gas industry in 1984, buying and selling drilling pipe to oil well operators in south Texas. Over time, his business expanded to include capping, salvaging and reselling drilling pipe reclaimed from unproductive wells, as well as purchasing and operating existing wells. In 2009, Mr. Kearby founded ZaZa with Messrs. Brooks and Hearn to pursue opportunities in the emerging Eagle Ford shale and elsewhere.
Travis Burris	Mr. Travis H. Burris is Independent Director of ZaZa Energy Corp. Mr. Burris has served as a director of ZaZa since the Combination. From April 2008 to the present, Mr. Burris has been a director of Forbes Energy Services, an oilfield services company, where he has served as a member of the Audit Committee and as the Chairman of the Compensation Committee of the board of directors. Mr. Burris also serves as the Chairman of the Board for several private companies, including: Agrow Credit Corporation, Inc., where he has been a director since 1995; Cash Box Pawn, Inc., where he has been a director since 2000; Producers Ag Finance, where he has been a director since 2001; and Resonant Finance, where he has been a director since 2007. Mr. Burris' past service on boards of director includes service as the Chairman of the Board of Falfurrias State Bank from 2001 to 2010, as a director of Mesquite Helicopter Service, Inc. from 1994 to 2008, as a director of Mesquite Aviation from 1998 to 2008, as a director of Resonant Technology since 2006, and, from 1990 to 2007, as the founder and Chairman of the Board of Alice Loan Company, a real estate development company. In addition, as a serial entrepreneur, Mr. Burris has been President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Texas Champion Bank since 1987, Founder, and President of G. and G. Loan Company since 1991, and has ownership stakes in various ranching and real estate investment businesses. Mr. Burris received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance from Texas A&M University in 1983.
A. Haag Sherman	Mr. A. Haag Sherman has been appointed as the Independent Director of Zaza Energy Corp. Mr. Sherman is a co-founder, partner and non-executive Vice Chairman of Salient Partners, L.P. (“Salient”), a Houston based investment firm with approximately $18 billion in assets. In addition, Mr. Sherman serves on the boards of directors of: Hilltop Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:HTH), which recently acquired PlainsCapital Corporation, a bank holding company with assets in excess of $6 billion; Salient MLP & Energy Infrastructure Fund (NYSE: SMF) and Salient Midstream & MLP Fund (NYSE: SMM), non-diversified, closed-end management investment companies investing primarily in the securities of master limited partnerships, energy infrastructure companies and midstream companies; Blue Dolphin Energy Corporation (OTCQX: BDCO), a Delaware corporation located in Houston which engages in crude oil and condensate processing, as well as the gathering and transportation and the exploration and production of oil and natural gas; and The Endowment Fund Complex, a collection of closed-end, non-diversified, management investment companies. From 2002 to 2011, Mr. Sherman held various executive positions with Salient and its affiliates, including Chief Investment Officer and Chief Executive Officer. Prior thereto, he served as an executive officer and partner of The Redstone Companies where he, among other things, managed a private equity portfolio. Mr. Sherman is an honors graduate of the University of Texas School of Law and a cum laude graduate of Baylor University. He also previously practiced corporate law at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP and was an auditor at Price Waterhouse, a public accounting firm. Mr. Sherman is an attorney and certified public accountant, in each case licensed in the State of Texas.

Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Herbert Williamson	--
Todd Brooks	1,050,000
Ian Fay	--
Tony Vermeire	--
John Hearn	1,068,580
Gaston Kearby	1,069,700
Travis Burris	--
A. Haag Sherman	--

As Of 30 Dec 2011

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Herbert Williamson	0	0
Todd Brooks	0	0
Ian Fay	0	0
Tony Vermeire	0	0
John Hearn	0	0
Gaston Kearby	0	0
Travis Burris	0	0
A. Haag Sherman	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
JANSEN PAUL FRANCISCUS	9,470	$1.32
JANSEN PAUL FRANCISCUS	37,879	$0.00
GAILLE SHELBY SCOTT	10,605	$1.45
BROOKS TODD ALAN	42,424	$1.45
FAY IAN H	36,363	$1.45
BROOKS TODD ALAN	1,197,861	$0.00
GAILLE SHELBY SCOTT	299,463	$0.00
FAY IAN H	1,026,738	$0.00
HEARN JOHN E JR	1,358,333	$0.00
KEARBY GASTON L	1,358,334	$0.00
BROOKS TODD ALAN	1,358,333	$0.00
BROOKS TODD ALAN	10,000	$2.41
BROOKS TODD ALAN	100,000	$2.09
BROOKS TODD ALAN	100,000	$0.00
FAY IAN H	75,000	$0.00
BROOKS TODD ALAN	54,208	$2.03
BROOKS TODD ALAN	42,642	$2.01
GAILLE SHELBY SCOTT	5,000	$2.03
FAY IAN H	25,000	$2.13
SHERMAN A HAAG	25,000	$2.02
FAY IAN H	50,000	$0.00
BROOKS TODD ALAN	93,750	$0.00
HEARN JOHN E JR	93,750	$0.00
KEARBY GASTON L	93,750	$0.00
KROLOFF ADAM	23,962	$0.00

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