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Asher E. Fogel. Mr. Fogel served as a director of US Energy from 1998 to 2001 and was appointed to serve as Chief Executive Officer and a director in August 2005. In December 2006, he was appointed to serve as President of the Company and Chairman of the Board. He worked for Citigroup in London and New York where he held a variety of senior positions in the corporate finance, capital markets, and investment advisory areas. Mr. Fogel was a Managing Director of Citicorp Securities Inc. Prior to joining Citicorp, he held a number of positions at both Bank of America and Samuel Montagu & Co. In June 1997, Mr. Fogel founded Dovertower Capital, a merchant banking boutique providing corporate finance services in both the US and international markets. In 1998, Mr. Fogel led a US investor group to acquire the Ampa Group in Israel. The Ampa Group is a diversified group involved in real estate, packaging, consumer products and financial services. Subsequent to this acquisition, Mr. Fogel has served as chairman of Ampa Investments the financial services arm of the Ampa Group and as a member of the four team management committee of the Ampa Group. In 2000, Ampa Investments acquired the Industrial Development Investment Company (IDIC) from the State of Israel’s Industrial Development Bank in a privatization transaction and established Ampa Capital as a leading non-bank finance company in Israel. Mr. Fogel has extensive experience in the areas of corporate finance, capital markets and investments in the US and the international markets. Mr. Fogel holds a BA in economics and an MBA from the Hebrew University. He also attended the Advanced Management program in the Harvard Business School specializing in Finance.
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