Personnel

Directors

Matthew Brister, President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Brister is a registered Professional Geologist with 25 years experience in Western Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, NWT), North Africa and the North Sea. Mr. Brister was the President and C.E.O. of three successful junior oil and gas producers that were profitably grown and sold over the last ten years. In that role, he gained valuable oil, gas, heavy oil and power project experience in generation, execution and management as well as capital markets experience in Canada and the United States.

P. Grant Wierzba, Vice President, Operations and Director. Mr. Wierzba has over 30 years of experience in Western Canada including senior management level with the most aggressive exploitation operations in Western Canada while at Renaissance Energy Ltd. and Pinnacle Resources Inc. Mr. Wierzba has valuable expertise in production optimization, and facility design, construction and operation as well as drilling and completions. Mr. Wierzba has strong contacts across the Canadian oilfield service sector and has international experience in Iran.

Raymond I. Woods, Director. Mr. Woods is a former Senior Vice President of Shell Canada Limited with 35 years of oil and gas industry experience. Mr. Woods was appointed Vice President in 1990 and Senior Vice President in 1993. Between 1994 and 1998 Mr. Woods served in senior executive positions with Royal Dutch/Shell, first in London as Area Coordinator Middle East and South Asia and later as Managing Director of Shell Norway. In 1998 he was appointed Senior Operating Officer, Resources, responsible for Shell Canada’s Exploration and Production business. Mr. Woods is a Past Chair of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and currently serves as director of Northwest Territories Power Corporation and Chair of the Alberta Regional Board of the Nature Conservatory of Canada. He was recently appointed to the Government of Canada’s External Advisory Committee on Smart Regulation.

Mr. Stuart G. Clark, Director. Mr. Clark has a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from the University of Manitoba. Mr. Clark was the Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Storm Energy Inc. from November 1998 to November 2001. From January 1986 to July 1998, Mr. Clark was employed by Pinnacle Resources Ltd. in positions of increasing responsibility, the last being Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Clark was also a director of Pinnacle from January 1986 to July 1998. Mr. Clark is and has been a director of a number of private and publicly traded entities.

Simon Munro, Director. Mr. Munro joined the Lime Rock Partners team in 2002 as a Director. Mr. Munro has played a vital role in many Lime Rock Partners’ investments including Acteon Group, Bridge Energy, Caledus, PSL Energy Services, Reservoir Exploration Technology, Serimax Holdings, Silverstone Energy, Storm Ventures International, Twister, and V-Tech. Mr. Munro’s career began in 1992 at Rutherford Manson Dowds, a Scottish chartered accountancy firm. He gained his professional accounting qualifications in 1994 and thereafter, worked solely on corporate finance transactions. In 1999, he joined Simmons & Company’s Aberdeen office as a Vice President, and in 2001 he joined J.P. Morgan as a member of the Hong Kong-based oil and gas industry team. Mr. Munro currently serves on the Board of Directors of Bridge Energy, Caledus, Gas2, Silverstone Energy, Storm Ventures International, and V-Tech. He formerly served on the Board of Directors of Serimax Holdings. Mr. Munro has over 16 years experience in private equity, accounting, and corporate finance.

John A. Brussa, Director. Mr. Brussa is a partner in the Calgary-based energy law firm of Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP specializing in the area of taxation. He is also a director of a number of energy and energy related trusts and oil and gas growth companies. John is a past governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation and is a director or trustee of a number of charitable and non-profit organizations.

Robert Cook, Director. Mr. Cook is a Senior Vice-President with ARC Financial Corp. where his responsibilities include deal origination, structuring, execution and portfolio management. Mr. Cook currently also serves on the boards of Profound Energy, Milestone Exploration, Temple Energy and Vigilant Exploration. Prior to joining ARC, Mr. Cook was a staff reservoir engineer at Shell with assignments in Canada, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Mr. Cook is a CFA Charterholder, a registered Professional Engineer and holds an MBA degree.

Management

Storm Ventures International is led by a team of professionals who have demonstrated a successful track record of corporate and project initiation, growth and value crystallization in Western Canada over the last 25 years. Between them, the partners possess 50 + years of strong "hands on" production, project management and business development skills that have been focused on international oil operations in North Africa and the Middle East.

Roy Smitshoek, Chief Operating Officer and Vice President, Engineering. A professional engineer with 25 years of varied experience in the energy business much of it in senior management capacities in both small and large organizations. At Renaissance Energy Ltd. Mr. Smitshoek led the development of the Exploitation Department and subsequently headed up corporate development. He was responsible for property and corporate acquisitions as well as international business development. He has experience in Western Canada, the North Sea and other producing regions.

L. Geoffrey Barlow, Chief Financial Officer and Vice-President, Finance. Mr. Barlow was appointed Chief Financial Officer effective November 1st 2007. Previously he was Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of a major publicly held integrated energy and energy related company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. He also held senior management positions at Renaissance Energy. Mr. Barlow is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Institute of Charted Accountants of Alberta and Financial Executive Institute of Canada.

Tom Lindskog, Vice President, Exploration. Mr. Lindskog is a registered Professional Geologist with 25 years experience in Western Canada and North Africa. Mr. Lindskog has successfully managed a team of technical professionals in the execution of annual drilling programs encompassing over 250 wells and budgets of more than $100 million in addition to having play generation experience and success over a wide range of play types in Western Canada. Tom has found new reserves and production in a number of areas including Peace River Arch, Bigoray and Calling Lake.

Ernest Edwards, Vice President, Reservoir Engineering is a registered Professional Engineer with over 20 years experience in the upstream oil and gas business. Prior to joining Storm in August 2008 he has held senior management positions at Talisman Energy UK Ltd. and at Mobil North Sea Ltd. He has broad experience including subsurface engineering and management, production operations and business development and has lengthy track record of identifying and delivering value adding projects in the North Sea.

Jim Brunton, Vice President and Finance Director. Mr. Brunton has 30 years experience in the E&P industry. He joined Silverstone in March 2006 following 3 years with Paladin Resources where he was Finance and Administration Manger for the UK region. Prior he worked for Hess, Clyde Petroleum, Texas Eastern, Fina, Charterhouse, Marathon and BNOC. He has lived and worked overseas in Myanmar, Yemen and Indonesia. He has degrees in Business Studies and Accounting.

Tom Reynolds, Vice President Commercial and MD. Mr. Reynolds has 18 years experience within the energy sector. Tom is a chartered Chemical Engineer and has held a variety of commercial and business development posts within British Nuclear Fuels plc, Total SA and BP plc. In 2002 Tom left BP to join the private equity firm 3i plc working within its oil & gas team where he was responsible for a number of new investments, principally in the upstream sector. In 2004 he joined the 3i backed company Energy Development Partners where he raised an investment fund of $350 million for North Sea development projects. As EDP’s Chief Investment Officer Tom was responsible for the identification assessment and execution of investment opportunities. Tom joined Silverstone Energy in 2008.

Jameleddine Lazreg, General Manager, North Africa. Prior to joining Storm Ventures International in 2005, Jamel was with Entreprise Tunisienne D’Activités Pétrolières (ETAP) in the capacity of Manager Promotions where he was responsible for the introduction of Tunisian business opportunities to prospective new entrants to the country on behalf of ETAP and the Directorate of Energy, Ministry of Industry and Energy, Tunisia (DGE). He facilitated the technical review and business negotiations leading to several block awards. Jamel also has a good grasp on the regional prospectivity and specific potential of many of the blocks in Tunisia. He also has input into business development roles throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.