Laredo Oil Inc
Officers & Directors
DONALD BECKHAM has served as a director of the Company since March 1, 2011. Since
July 2015, he has served as Senior Vice President of Operations for Copestone
Energy Partners, LLC. In 1993 he founded Beckham Resources, Inc. (“BRI”)
which for the past 20 years has been a licensed, bonded and insured operator in
good standing with the Railroad Commission of Texas. Through BRI, Mr. Beckham
has drilled and operated fields for his own account. His expertise is in the acquisition,
exploitation, exploration and production enhancement of mature oil and gas fields
through which he has been able to enhance production by compressor optimization,
pump design, work-over programs, stimulation techniques and identifying new pay
zones. BRI has operated wells in the following fields: Hull, Liberty, Aransas
Pass, McCampbell, Mission River, Garcitas Creek, Sour Lake, Batson, Barton Ranch
and Dayton. Prior to BRI, Mr. Beckham was the chief operations manager for Houston
Oil Fields Corporation (“HOFCO”) where he began his career. There
he was responsible for drilling, production and field operations and managed approximately
100 people including engineers, geologists, land men, pumpers, and other contract
personnel, as well as state and federal environmental and regulatory functions.
He managed an annual capital budget of approximately $30 million and operated
approximately 100 wells. HOFCO drilled about 20 wells per annum and performed
approximately 30 recompletions and work over operations each year. HOFCO owned
interests in about 10 key fields principally in Texas, and company-managed production
was approximately 1,000 bpd of crude oil and 10 mm cfd of natural gas. Fields
that he managed were as follows: Manvell, Cold Springs, Shepherd, Turtle Bay,
Red Fish Bay, Dickinson, Refugio, Lost Lake, Liberty and Abbeville. Mr. Beckham
is a petroleum engineer and 1984 graduate of Mississippi State University.
CHRISTOPHER E. LINDSEY has served as the General Counsel and Secretary of the
Company since October 16, 2013. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Lindsey served
briefly as a partner in the Houston office of Liskow & Lewis, representing
oil and gas clients. Prior to Liskow, in 2013 Mr. Lindsey was a partner at Gordon
Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan LLC as an oil and gas partner in the Houston
office. Before that Mr. Lindsey was an oil and gas partner in the Houston office
of Burleson LLP from 2011 to 2012. From 2010 to 2011, Mr. Lindsey was in the legal
department of Boxer Property Management Corporation. Prior to that Mr. Lindsey
was a partner in the Greensboro, North Carolina office of Purrington Moody WeilLLP
from 2001 to 2009. He has practiced law both in-house and at various firms for
over 21 years, including in-house positions as general counsel of Mariner Energy,
LLC from 1998 to 2000 and SalvageSale.com from 2000 to 2001. Mr. Lindsey began
his career as an associate in the Houston office of Bracewell and Giuliani LLP
from 1993 to 1998. Mr. Lindsey graduated from the University of Virginia with
a BA in Economics in 1988, from the University of Texas School of Law with a JD
in 1993 and from the University of Texas at Austin with an MBA in 2003.
MICHAEL H. PRICE, has over 40 years of senior financial and petroleum experience
in the global oil and gas industry. He has been a principal in Octagon Energy
Advisors, a Houston based energy investment advisory firm, from 2002 to the present.
The firm advises financial institutions and institutional investors participating
in energy investments. Since 2008, he has been a Managing Director at ING Capital
which provides debt financing to domestic exploration and production companies.
From 1998 through 2002, Mr. Price was the Chief Financial Officer of Forman Petroleum
Corporation. Before that, Mr. Price was Managing Director at Chase Manhattan Bank
for fifteen years, and was in charge of technical support for Chase’s worldwide
energy merchant banking activities. In his early career, he worked as a consulting
principal on domestic petroleum engineering and landowner matters, and gained
extensive international experience working with major oil companies in a variety
of operating positions. He holds a BS and MS from Illinois Institute of Technology,
a MBA from the University of Chicago, a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics,
and a MS in Petroleum Engineering from Tulane University.
MARK SEE has been the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors
for the Company since October 16, 2009. He has over 25 years experience in tunneling,
natural resources and the petroleum industries. He was the founder and founding
CEO of Rock Well Petroleum, a private oil & gas company from January 2005
until December 2008 and worked from then until October of 2009 forming Laredo
Oil. He was employed with Albian Sands as the Manager for the Alberta Oil Sands
Projects at Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, a joint venture between Shell Canada
and Chevron. Mr. See was also President of Oil Recovery Enhancement LLC in Bozeman,
Montana, a private oil company. He was selected as one of the top 25 Engineers
in North America by the Engineering News Record for his innovations in the petroleum
industry. He is a member of the Society of Mining Engineers and the Society of
Petroleum Engineers.
BRADLEY E. SPARKS currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
and has been a director of the Company since March 1, 2011. Before joining Laredo
Oil in October 2009, he was the Chief Executive Officer, President and a Director
of Visualant, Inc. Prior to joining Visualant, he was the Chief Financial Officer
of WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. from 2005-2006. Before joining WatchGuard, he
was the founder and managing director of Sunburst Growth Ventures, LLC, a private
investment firm specializing in emerging-growth companies. Previously, he founded
Pointer Communications and served as Chief Financial Officer for several telecommunications
and internet companies, including eSpire Communications, Inc., Digex, Inc., Omnipoint
Corporation, and WAM!NET. He also served as Vice President and Treasurer of MCI
Communications from 1988-1993 and as Vice President and Controller from 1993-1995.
Before his tenure at MCI, Mr. Sparks held various financial management positions
at Ryder System, Inc. Mr. Sparks currently serves on the Board of Directors of
iCIMS and Comrise. Mr. Sparks graduated from the United States Military Academy
at West Point in 1969 and is a former Army Captain in the Signal Corps. He has
a Master of Science in Management degree from the Sloan School of Management at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a licensed CPA in Florida.
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