Steve C. Nicandros (age 51), President and Chief Executive Officer, Chairman
Mr. Nicandros has been the President and a director of the Company since it was founded in 1996. He also became its Chief Executive Officer in 1997 and its Chairman in 2002. Mr. Nicandros was President and a member of the board of managers of Frontera Limited from July 1996 until its dissolution and replacement by Frontera Resources Corporation. From 1994 until joining Frontera Limited, Mr. Nicandros was President of Conoco Overseas Oil Company, where he was responsible for Conoco’s worldwide development of upstream new business and mergers and acquisitions. Between 1992 and 1994, Mr. Nicandros was Manager of Reserves Acquisitions and Asset Management, following which he became Manager of Upstream Commercial Development for Conoco Inc. He began his career in the oil industry in 1982 with Conoco Inc. Mr. Nicandros graduated from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas in 1982 with a B.S. degree in political science. He currently serves as an Advisory Board Member at the Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah.