Anthony J Gumbiner

Mr. Gumbiner currently serves as Chairman and Managing Director of the Hallwood Family Office and as a Director of BlueCrest Energy Inc.

During his career, Mr. Gumbiner has served as Chairman and Chief Executive of companies on the London Stock Exchange, The New York Stock Exchange, The American Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.

Mr. Gumbiner attended the College of Law in Guildford England and qualified as a Solicitor of the English Supreme Court in 1968 with First Class Honors and distinctions in Company Law and Partnership.

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William (Bill) L. Guzzetti

Mr. Guzzetti currently serves as a Managing Director of the Hallwood Family Office and as President of both Hallwood Group LLC and Hallwood Oil and Gas Inc.

Mr. Guzzetti has 40 years of experience in the oil and gas industry and has held senior management positions with Saxon Oil Company and previous Hallwood entities.

Mr. Guzzetti received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1964 and holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Florida.

William (Bill) H. Marble

Mr. Marble has worked as Chief Engineering Officer of Hallwood through previous Hallwood Energy entities.

His experience includes work with Schlumberger, Texas American Bank and various Permian basin independents.

Mr. Marble holds a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. He is a registered engineer in the State of Colorado, a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the Houston Geological Society and the American Association of Professional Land men.

Gert Lessing

Mr. Lessing serves as a Managing Director of the Hallwood Family Office. He is responsible for the management of the Dallas based family office, and the operations of Hallwood Modular.

Mr. Lessing currently serves as President and co-CEO of Hallwood Modular and President of Hallwood Financial Limited.

His role and responsibilities include management of Hallwood’s banking relationships, new business development, financial management and reporting, strategic and investment management, and estate and tax planning, capital formation, corporate restructuring, and crisis management.

He received his professional education in his home country of South Africa.

Celine Gumbiner Jacobson

Mrs. Jacobson serves as Managing Director of the Hallwood Family Office and as Chairman of Brookwood Companies.

Mrs. Jacobson’s responsibilities include portfolio management, research and development of investment ideas and strategies, and investment banking and legal relationships.

Mrs. Jacobson received her B.A. from Southern Methodist University. She was also the co-founder and publisher of a national women’s magazine, BeE WOMAN.

Joe Koenig

Mr. Koenig serves as Chief Financial Officer and secretary with Hallwood Modular Buildings, LLC since June 2012.He has also served as treasurer for Hallwood Group since 1984 and as treasurer for Hallwood Financial Limited since August 2014.

He is a Certified Public Accountant and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Mr. Koenig received his B.B.A. from Cleveland State University in 1978. He worked with Touche Ross & Co for six years.

Richard Kelley

Mr. Kelley serves as Chief Financial Officer of Hallwood Group and as Hallwood’s Director of Human Resources.

He received his BSBA in Professional and Public Accounting from The University of Southern Mississippi in May 1983.

Russell (Russ) Meduna

Mr. Meduna has worked as President of several Hallwood entities with great experience in all phases of oil and gas engineering, operations, and management.

He is a registered engineer in Texas and Colorado, and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Society of Professional Engineers.

George Brinkworth

Mr. Brinkworth has worked for Hallwood as a consulting geologist in exploration for many years.

He has experience with various exploration and production companies in the United Kingdom, Spain, Morocco, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia and Peru, as well as in the United States. He is a registered geophysicist in the State of California

Mark Lowndes

Mr. Lowndes serves as a director of the Hallwood Company limited, the corporate trustee of the Chancery Trust, which controls, inter alia, the Hallwood Family Office.

He is the founder and managing director of Lowndes Law, a leading New Zealand corporate and commercial law firm and is admitted to the bar in Australia and New Zealand. He has served as global Chair of Multi-law, a leading global association of over 9,000 lawyers practicing in 100 countries.

Hallwood’s Professional and Board Relationships

Professionals and Lawyers

Chrystal Capital is a London based independent corporate finance firm providing alternative sources of funding for select private and public companies globally.

In the past we have worked with Paul Tetlow, senior oil and gas partner at K&L Gates; he acted for us along with Vinson & Elkins of Houston in our Alaskan transaction and with the Weil Gotshal Warsaw office in our Polish investment.

Board Relationships

In our Polish oil and gas venture Dr Chris Fay serves as Chairman. Dr. Fay formerly served as Chairman and Chief Executive of Shell UK. He also currently serves as a director of several major companies listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Another prominent Hallwood director in our Polish oil and gas venture was Todd Mitchell, a geologist well respected in the industry. When Mitchell Energy was sold to Devon Energy Corporation, Todd as representative of the Mitchell Family Office and as Devon’s largest shareholder, served for many years on the Devon Energy board.

Our Alaskan venture BlueCrest Energy Inc is chaired by Bob Israel, the former Head of the Energy Department of Schroders in New York. We also have on this board Vadim Gluzman, formerly VP of Lukoil USA and Robert McKee, formerly the Executive VP of global Exploration and Production for ConocoPhillips.