Charles T. Maxwell has been a director of the Company since September 2002. Mr. Maxwell is a Senior Energy Analyst and has been with Weeden & Co., an institutional research and brokerage firm located in Greenwich, Connecticut from 1999 to the present. Entering the oil and natural gas industry in 1957, Mr. Maxwell worked for what is now ExxonMobil for eleven years in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In 1968, Mr. Maxwell joined C.J. Lawrence, an institutional research and brokerage firm, as an oil analyst and was ranked by Institutional Investor magazine as No. 1 in his field in 1972, 1974, 1977, and 1981 through 1986. He rose to the position of Managing Director of C. J. Lawrence/Morgan Grenfell and retired from the firm in 1997, several years after it was acquired by Deutsche Bank. Mr. Maxwell is a director of Daleco Resources Corporation, a minerals exploration and production company located in West Chester, Pennsylvania ; Lescarden, Inc., a biotechnology company in New York; and American DG Energy Inc., a provider of on-site utilities in Waltham, Massachusetts. Mr. Maxwell graduated from Princeton University in 1953 and Oxford University in 1957. |