Mr. Brinkerhoff has served as a director of ARC since June 30, 2005 and serves on the compensation committee of ARC. Mr. Brinkerhoff founded a Native American owned joint venture, Doyon LTD, in 1978 and served as its operations Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer until selling his venture interests in 1995 and moving to Denver in 1996. Doyon LTD designed, built, leased and operated state of the art mobile drilling rigs for ARCO and British Petroleum in conjunction with their development of the North Slope Alaska petroleum fields. Mr. Brinkerhoff now resides in Denver and manages on a full-time basis family interests including oil and gas production, a securities portfolio and various other business interests, and he actively participates in numerous philanthropic organizations. Mr. Brinkerhoff is a graduate of Montana School of Mines with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Petroleum Engineering. |