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Mr. Robert will serve as director, as Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. He is a financial executive with expertise in acquisitions, divestitures, economic analysis, capital formation via debt and equity markets, and financial risk management. Through the course of his career he has dealt extensively with wall street analysts, investment bankers, and commercial bankers. He is currently the Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of Nami Holding Company, LLC which is a privately owned natural gas and oil production company focused on the development and exploitation of mature long-lived natural gas and oil reserves in the Appalachian basin. In addition, he is the current co-owner and co-founder of Cova Hand-Selected Wines, Custom Living Properties, LP and Lifewear Products, LP. He served as the Interim Chief Financial Officer of Massey Energy Company (“Massey”) which is the fourth largest coal company in the United States. Mr. Robert led the successful negotiations of $487 million in new financing for Massey. Mr. Robert was the Vice President of Finance of Enbridge US, Inc. (“Enbridge”) after Enbridge’s acquisition of Midcoast Energy Resources, Inc (‘Midcoast”). Enbridge is a multibillion-dollar energy company based in Calgary, Alberta. Mr. Robert served as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Midcoast. Midcoast was a growth-oriented energy company engaged in the transportation, gathering, processing, and marketing of natural gas and other petroleum products. He was hired as the first employee of the company and helped the company grow from infancy to approximately $1 billion in sales and 330 employees in Canada and the United States. He participated in the merger between Midcoast and Enbridge that resulted in shareholder value equaling a 400% premium to the company’s initial public offering five years earlier. Midcoast raised $128 million in four common equity offerings. Mr. Robert began his career with Arthur Andersen, LLP as an energy auditor. He holds a BBA from Southwest Texas State University with a Concentration in Accounting and graduated with a 4.0 GPA | 