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Mr. Ingriselli has over 29 years experience in the energy industry. Mr. Ingriselli began his career at Texaco, Inc. (Texaco) in 1979 and held management positions in Texaco�s Producing-Eastern Hemisphere Department, Middle East/Far East Division, and Texaco�s International Exploration Company. While at Texaco, Mr. Ingriselli negotiated a successful foreign oil development investment contract in China in 1983. In 1992, Mr. Ingriselli was named President of Texaco International Operations Inc. and over the next several years directed Texaco�s global initiatives in exploration and development. In 1996, he was appointed President and CEO of the Timan Pechora Company, a Houston, Texas headquartered company owned by affiliates of Texaco, Exxon, Amoco and Norsk Hydro, which was developing a large international investment in Russia. In 1998, Mr. Ingriselli returned to Texaco�s Executive Department with responsibilities for Texaco�s power and gas operations, merger and acquisition activities, pipeline operations and corporate development. In August 2000, Mr. Ingriselli was appointed President of Texaco Technology Ventures, which was responsible for all of Texaco�s global technology initiatives and investments. In 2001, Mr. Ingriselli retired from Texaco after its merger with Chevron, and founded Global Venture Investments LLC (GVI), an energy consulting firm, for which Mr. Ingriselli served as the President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Ingriselli is no longer active with GVI. In 2005, Mr. Ingriselli founded Inner Mongolia Production Company, LLC (IMPCO), and served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and a Manager of IMPCO prior to the merger of IMPCO with the Company, and has served as the President, Chief Executive Officer, Secretary and a member of the Board of Directors of the Company since May 2007.
From 2000 to 2006, Mr. Ingriselli sat on the Board of the Electric Drive Transportation Association (where he was also Treasurer) and the Angelino Group, and was an officer of several subsidiaries of Energy Conversion Devices Inc., a U.S. public corporation engaged in the development and commercialization of environmental energy technologies. From 2001 to 2006, he was a Director and Officer of General Energy Technologies Inc., a technology facilitator to Chinese industry serving the critical need for advanced energy technology and the growing demand for low-cost high quality components, and Eletra Ltd, a Brazilian hybrid electric bus developer. Mr. Ingriselli currently sits on the Advisory Board of the Eurasia Foundation, a Washington D.C.-based non-profit that funds programs that build democratic and free market institutions in the new independent states of the former Soviet Union. Since 2006, Mr. Ingriselli has also served on the Board of Directors and as an executive officer of Brightening Lives Foundation Inc., a New York charitable foundation headquartered in San Ramon, California.
Mr. Ingriselli graduated from Boston University in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. He also earned a Master of Business Administration degree from New York University in both Finance and International Finance in 1977 and a Juris Doctor degree from Fordham University School of Law in 1979. | 