Robert S. Herlin , age 70, the founder of Evolution, has been a director since the Company s inception in September 2003 and has been as Chairman of the Board since January 2009. He also serves as a member of the Investment, Reserves, and Sustainability Committees. Mr. Herlin served as the Company s interim Chief Executive Officer from June 2018 to July 2019, Chief Executive Officer from 2003 until December 2015, and President from 2003 through September 2014. Mr. Herlin has over 40 years of experience in engineering, energy transactions, operations, and finance with small independents, larger independents, and major integrated oil companies. Mr. Herlin currently serves as director and a member of the audit and compensation committees for Enservco Corporation, a publicly traded company specializing in well enhancement and fluids logistics for E&P operators in the U.S., and as a director of Well Lift, Inc., a privately held company partially owned by our Company that applies the well enhancement technology developed in part by the Company. Mr. Herlin also served on the Board of Directors of Boots and Coots, Inc., an oil field services company, from 2003 until its sale to Halliburton Company in September 2010. Mr. Herlin is the President and owner of AVL Resources, LLC, a privately held investment company. Prior to 2003, Mr. Herlin served in various officer capacities for upstream and midstream oil and gas and telecom companies, both private and public. Mr. Herlin served on the Engineering Advisory Board for the Brown School of Engineering at Rice University and the Centennial Council for Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Mr. Herlin graduated with honors from Rice University with B.S. and M.E. degrees in chemical engineering and earned an MBA from Harvard University. Mr. Herlin s qualifications include executive leadership, energy industry expertise, mergers & acquisitions, and financial oversight. His founding role and extensive background in managing both technical, field and financial operations within the energy industry, as well as his experience in guiding corporate development and leading the company through several industry downturns, are instrumental to Evolution s strategic initiatives and are of significant value to the Board.