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G. Thomas
Gamble, Chairman of the Board
Rancher and Investor
A graduate
of UCLA, Mr. Gamble is a successful rancher and
businessman with current active investments in
agriculture, food processing, educational services, oil,
gas, and minerals. In 2003, the California State
Senate proclaimed privately owned Davies and Gamble,
which produces critically acclaimed wines in
California’s Napa Valley, its Green Entrepreneur Of The
Year, and in 2005, Mozarella Fresca, the nation’s
premier producer of fresh Italian cheeses, of which he
is a director and original investor, received the
Certificate of Special Congressional Recognitioin as
business of the year. He is also a director and
original investor in Boston Reed College which provides
educational opportunities to busy adults seeking stable
and growing careers in the California health care
industry. Mr. Gamble is Tri-Valley's largest
individual shareholder and is an investor in its Opus-I
Drilling Partnership. Mr. Gamble is an independent
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Loren J.
Miller, CPA
Treasurer
and CFO, Jankovich Company, San Pedro,
California
Mr. Miller has served in a treasury
and other senior financial capacities at the Jankovich
Company since 1994. Prior to that he served
successively as vice president and chief financial
officer of Hershey Oil Corporation from 1987 to 1990 and
Mock Resources from 1991 to 1992. Prior to that he
was vice president and general manager of Tosco
Production Finance Corporation from 1975 to 1986 and was
a senior auditor the accounting firm of Touche Ross
& Company from 1968 to 1973. He is experienced
in exploration, production, product trading, refining
and distribution as well as corporate finance. He
holds a B.S. in accounting and a M.B.A. in finance from
the University of Southern California. He is
chairman of our audit committee. Mr. Miller is an
independent member of our board of
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Henry
Lowenstein
Director,
Dean, E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business
Administration, Coastal Carolina University, Conway,
South Carolina
Dr. Lowenstein is Dean and
Professor of Management at the E. Craig Wall Sr. College
of Business Administration, Coastal Carolina University,
Conway, South Carolina since 2007. Previously, he was
Dean of Business and Public Administration at California
State University Bakersfield. Dr. Lowenstein has broad
background in management within business, academic,
government and public service organizations. He serves
on the Pre-Accreditation Committee of AACSB
International, the top accreditation agency for business
schools worldwide. Previous academic positions include
universities in Illinois, Virginia and West Virginia.
Dr. Lowenstein is published in fields of human resource
management, public policy and transportation. In
business he was a corporate officer for Kemper
Group-Insurance and Financial Services, Dominion
Bankshares Corporation, and Americana Furniture, Inc.
Under President Gerald Ford he served as a management
analyst for the Executive Office of the President,
Office of Management and Budget Dr. Lowenstein received
his Ph.D. in Labor and Industrial Relations from the
University of Illinois; an M.B.A. from George Washington
University; and B.S. in Business Administration from
Virginia Commonwealth University. He serves on
Tri-Valley's Personnel and Compensation Committee and is
Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance
Committee. Dr. Lowenstein is an independent member of
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Paul W.
Bateman
President,
Klein & Saks Group
Mr. Bateman is the
President of the Klein & Saks Group, a Washington,
DC-based firm that advises clients, principally in the
mining and metals industries, on public policy matters.
His knowledge of the precious metals industry is
extensive, having earlier served as Executive Director
of the Silver Institute, an international association
serving the silver industry, and President of the Gold
Institute, a North American industry group. Mr. Bateman
began his career in San Clemente, California, in the
late 1970s, as an aide to then former President Richard
Nixon. In 1981, he joined the White House staff under
President Reagan and subsequently served in that
Administration in senior positions at the Departments of
Commerce and Treasury. From 1989 to 1993, he served on
President George H.W. Bush's White House staff as Deputy
Assistant to the President for Management. Since 2005,
Mr. Bateman has been the Chairman and chief executive of
the International Cyanide Management Institute, which
administers a voluntary industry program aimed at
improving the management of cyanide used in gold mining.
He is a member of the Economic Club of New York, the
nation's leading nonpartisan policy forum, and was its
president from 2004-2007. He is currently the Chairman
of the Reform Institute, a nonpartisan think tank
dedicated to advancing a solutions-based reform agenda.
Mr. Bateman is an independent member of our Board of
Directors and serves on the Audit Committee.
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Edward M. Gabriel
President
and CEO of the Gabriel Company
Ambassasdor
Gabriel is the former. U.S. Ambassador to Morocco during
the Clinton administration and now President and CEO of
the Washington D.C. based international business
consulting firm, The Gabriel Company, LLC.
Ambassador Gabriel brings a diverse background in a
variety of petroleum and other energy sources. Dr.
Gabriel's experience is both domestic and international,
with extensive relationships in U.S. and Middle Eastern
governments, as well as capital resources interested in
energy. He is on the advisory board of Guggenheim
Partners, a private wealth management firm. His career
includes senior management positions with firms such as
CONCORD and Madison Public Affairs Group in which he
advised Fortune 100 Companies on multi-national matters
in technology, energy, banking, environmental, and tax
policies. Ambassador Gabriel served the Federal Energy
Administration/U.S. Department of Energy as Senior
Economic Analysts. He serves as Member, Global Advisory
Board of George Washington University and Vice-Chairman
of the American Task Force for Lebanon. He is on the
board of directors of the American School of Tangier and
the Casablanca American School. He is a graduate of
Gannon University, was awarded an honorary Doctorate of
Laws from Gannon, and he is a member of the University
Economics Honor Society. Ambassador Gabriel is an
independent member of our board of directors and serves
on the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
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James S. Mayer
President,
MAGIC Investment Projects LLC
Mr. Mayer is
president of MAGIC Investment Projects LLC, a private
equity firm targeting co-investments in Morocco with
American firms focusing on the recently signed Free
Trade Agreement with the U.S.A.. Mr. Mayer served as
First Vice President, investments for Citigroup Global
Markets, Inc. focused on energy, real estate and private
equity and hedge funds. Prior to that, he served as
vice-president for Merrill Lynch Investment Managers,
raising several billion dollars with mid-sized
institutions, family offices, and pension funds. He
directed private client alternative investments, capital
raising and deal structuring for the alternative
investment group. He was formerly executive
vice-president, North American operations for Netzsch,
Inc., a large German private firm and before that he
served as director of strategic business development for
Perkin-Elmer Corporation. At Perkin-Elmer he directed
licensing negotiations, partnerships, joint venture and
new technology agreements for the firm expanding into
rapidly growing areas of biotechnology and life
sciences. A graduate of the State University of New York
at Courland, Mr. Mayer holds a Bachelor's Degree in
Chemistry and a physics minor. He did graduate work in
finance, securities law, alternative investments, and
international marketing. Mr. Mayer is an independent
member and serves on the finance committee of the
Tri-Valley Corporation board.
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