People: BPZ Resources Inc (BPZ)

Mr. Manuel Pablo Zuniga-Pflucker serves as President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of BPZ Resources Inc. Mr. Zúñiga-Pflücker has been President of the Company since September 2004 and in May 2005 he was also appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr. Zúñiga-Pflücker is a petroleum engineer and fourth generation oilman who has spent the past 20 plus years in the international oil and gas business. He began his career with Occidental Petroleum, before founding BPZ & Associates, Inc. a technical consulting company he established in 1989, which was the predecessor of BPZ Energy that was established in 2001. He is a reservoir engineer with experience reappraising previously drilled fields and developing stranded natural gas fields using diverse technologies. With BPZ Energy he is developing oil and gas projects in Peru where BPZ Energy has a total of four blocks totaling 2.2 million acres. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, and a Master’s Degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University.