Lance J. Baller, Chief Executive Officer and President
Mr. Baller is the former managing partner of Shortline Equity Partners, Inc., a mid-market merger and acquisitions consulting and investment company in the United States. He has actively served on the investment committees, audit committees, committees on corporate governance, compensation and benefits committees, executive committees, finance committees, committees on public policy and social responsibility, and on the board of directors of companies in Asia and United States. Mr. Baller is also a former vice president of mergers and acquisitions, financing and corporate development at Integrated Biopharma, Inc and prior to this the vice president of the investment banking firm UBS
AG and Morgan Stanley. He is the former
chairman NetAds International, Inc. Mr. Baller is on the board of trustees of Giant 5 Mutual Funds and also serves as the chairman of the audit committee and as the audit committee financial expert under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of the United States for Giant 5 Funds.
Forest D. Dorn,
CEO and President of Iofina Natural Gas, Inc.
Mr. Dorn brings over thirty (30) years of broad
oil and gas experience to Iofina. Prior to Mr.
Dorn’s appointment he was a Member/Manger of
Avanti Exploration, LLC since 2004. Mr. Dorn
began his career with Forest Oil Corporation
(NYSE: FST US$3.12 bn cap) as a scout in
Midland, Texas in 1977. He later became a
landman in Midland, and in 1980 became Assistant
Division Manager of the Company's MAFLA
(Mississippi, Alabama and Florida) Division
located in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1984 he was
appointed Assistant Division Manager of the
Company's Southern Division located in
Lafayette, Louisiana. In 1990 he assumed the
position in Denver of Division Manager - Onshore
Division, and was appointed a Vice President of
the Company in 1991, General Business Manager in
December 1993, and Senior Vice President of the
Gulf Coast Region in 1996, and Senior Vice
President Corporate Services in 2000 until his
departure in 2004. Mr. Dorn holds a Liberal
Arts Degree from the University of Arizona in
Tucson where he graduated in 1977.
Dr. Thomas M. Becker,
CEO and President of
Iofina Chemical, Inc.
Dr. Becker was the former vice president of
Research and Development at H&S/Iofina
Chemical. Iofina bought H&S in July 2009. Dr. Becker has conducted
extensive research in both inorganic and organic
halogen based chemistry. Dr. Becker has written
a magnitude of published technical papers in his
career. Prior to H&S Dr. Becker worked as a Oak
Ridge Scholar on behalf of the US EPA and
for various other chemical manufacturing companies.
Dr. Becker earned a BS in Chemistry from
Indiana University, and a PhD in Chemistry from
the University of Cincinnati. He has extensive
experience in scale-up of chemical processes
from laboratory to pilot to full scale
production and is the inventor on several
chemical patents/patent applications.
Jamison R. Davis,
Chief Operating Officer of
Iofina Natural Gas, Inc.
Mr. Davis has previously held finance
positions at Intel Corp. and WebMD Corp. where
he evaluated new internal and external business
opportunities and worked on special projects for
the CFO’s office. In addition, Mr. Davis led the
finance department at RespondTV, an interactive
television infrastructure provider, and assisted
the company in raising over $30 million (USD).
Mr. Davis also worked with the senior management
of eMotion, a digital asset management provider,
to complete a successful restructuring and
capital raise. Mr. Davis was awarded the Chartered Financial
Analyst (CFA) designation in 2001. He graduated
with Highest Honors from the Business Honors
Program at The University of Texas at Austin
with a BBA in Finance.
Paul Ethan Mendell,
Geologist & Co-founder
Mr. Mendell is a self-educated petroleum engineer and geologist. He has been responsible for drilling and completing over 60 exploration and 50 development oil and gas wells in Oklahoma, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, Kansas, Arkansas and Saskatchewan, Canada. Mr. Mendell has formed and exited many businesses including: Mendell-Denver which was acquired by Prima Energy (the net return on capital was 6:1), Mendell Petroleum which was acquired by Gerrity (now Patina) (net return of 40:1 on capital in less than one year), Maxedon, a shallow gas discovery, which was acquired by Enron (net return of 16:1 in less than one year) and Cushing, a gas discovery which was acquired by Great Northern Natural Gas (net return on capital of 10:1 in less than one year).
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