Stephen K. Gardner

Stephen K. Gardner is our President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Gardner has over 18 years experience in financial and transactional management in the oil and gas industry. From December 2005 to June 2011, Mr. Gardner served as the Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Treasurer; from January 2005 to December 2005, Mr. Gardner served as Director of Finance.  From September 2002 to May 2004, Mr. Gardner was Chief Financial Officer of Dunhill Resources, Inc., a private-held oil and natural gas production company, which hired him to address its over-levered financial condition. In August of 2003, certain unsecured creditors filed an involuntary petition in Federal Bankruptcy Court, which petition was soon converted to voluntary.  Mr. Gardner managed this company through the bankruptcy process until a Trustee was appointed.  Prior to September 2002, Mr. Gardner served as president of a private construction firm and as Chief Financial Officer of Mesa, Inc., the predecessor to Pioneer Natural Resources.  Mr. Gardner graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Economics from Southwestern University in 1982 and an M.A. in Economics from Columbia University in 1985.