W. Richard Anderson, 72, has served as a director of T1 Energy since November 2024. Mr. Anderson has been Chief Executive Officer of Coastline Exploration Limited (formerly SOMA Oil and Gas), since 2015, with exploration license interests in deep water, offshore Somalia. Since November 2025, Mr. Anderson has also served as a director and the chairman of the board of Alussa Energy Acquisition Corp. II (NYSE: ALUB), a special purpose acquisition company focused on energy and power infrastructure. Mr. Anderson has over 40 years experience in the financial aspects of energy related companies, and started his career in audit with PricewaterhouseCoopers, followed by 16 years as a managing and tax partner of Hein & Associates LLP, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions and numerous initial and secondary public offerings. From December 1998 to August 2007, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Prime Natural Resources, Inc. an independent oil and gas exploration and production company, active in the United States, South America and Kurdistan. From 2008 to 2015 he was Chief Financial Officer of Eurasia Drilling Company Ltd (LSE: EDCL), a large oil and gas drilling company in Russia, where he led the company in various executive and director capacities from its initial public offering in 2007 to a privatization in 2015. For the past 26 years, Mr. Anderson has also been a director of various public companies in the energy, exploration and resource extraction industries, assisting companies with initial public offerings and debt issuances, sourcing of other third-party financing, reorganizations, trade sales, pay outs of special dividends, issuing special awards to management teams and conducting internal investigations with the assistance of outside counsel and forensic accountants. He has served on various Audit Committees and as Chairman of the same. From April 2014 to April 2019, he served as a Director and Chairman of the Compensation Committee of Gulf Marine Services (LON: GMS); from August 2008 to the present as a Director of Eurasia Drilling Company Limited and member of the Audit Committee (LON: EDCL) and from December 2013 to the present as a Director of Coastline Exploration Limited (formerly SOMA Oil and Gas). Mr. Anderson s professional qualifications include membership in the AICPA, Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, Houston Chapter of Texas Society of CPAs and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. Mr. Anderson graduated from the University of Colorado, magna cum laude, in 1978 and then obtained a Masters in taxation from the University of Denver in 1985. We believe Mr. Anderson is qualified to serve on the Board because of his extensive operational, public company director and finance experience in the energy, exploration and resource extraction industries, and extensive experience on numerous public company audit committees.