Apache Corp.

G. STEVEN FARRIS, 58, is president, chief executive officer and chief operating officer. He was appointed chief executive officer in May 2002, having served as president and chief operating officer since 1994. He joined Apache in June 1988 as vice president of domestic exploration and production and was promoted to senior vice president in 1991. Prior to joining Apache, Mr. Farris was vice president of Terra Resources, a subsidiary of Sempra. Before working at Terra, Mr. Farris was executive vice president of Robert W. Berry, Inc., an independent exploration and production company.

Mr. Plank joined the board in May 2004. Roger Plank joined Apache in 1981 after receiving a degree in economics from Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., and his MBA from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. He has served as Vice President and CFO, Vice President of Planning and Corporate Development, Vice President of External Affairs, and Vice President of Corporate Communications. Plank is immediate past president of the Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association (TIPRO) and was named Mr. TIPRO 2003. Earlier, Plank was appointed to the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission by Texas Governor George W. Bush and served as a Director of the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association (OIPA) and the Domestic Petroleum Council. His civic activities include membership on the Board of Trustees for Wyoming's Ucross Foundation.

TIMOTHY O. WALL, 47, was appointed President of Apache Canada in 2009. Mr. Wall has been region vice president Australia and managing director, Apache Energy Ltd. since March 2006. He joined Apache in 1990 as an engineer in Houston, and moved to Midland as Permian Basin district manager in 1993. He became Gulf Coast production manager in 1996, country manager in China in 1997, Central Region operations manager in 2000, Apache North Sea operations manager in 2004, and Australia deputy managing director and operations manager in 2005. Mr. Wall graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering.

Barton C. Birdsall, Consulting Exploration Project Manager, Over the last four years, Mr. Birdsall has been involved in five geologic and economic successes in exploration and drilling for oil and gas in the Texas Gulf coast. These discoveries have an estimated ultimate recovery of 30 BCE and 1 MBO. His examination of several thousand square miles of seismic 3-D data and more than 46,000 linear miles of 2-D data played a key role in these finds. Prior to this accomplishment, as Apache Corporation's chief geologist in Poland, he set up, shot and interpreted several thousand miles of 2-D and 3-D seismic data that led to the first of three discoveries in that country by an outside operator. A Navy veteran with a Master of Science degree in Geology from the University of South Florida, he has also drilled, or caused to be drilled, multiple Gulf Coast discoveries, including Conn Brown Harbor and Stedman Island South. These two fields will ultimately recover 1.5 MBO and 10 BCF. Both were found using 3-D seismic. In the course of Mr. Birdsall's career, he has also overseen ambitious exploration and development programs in the U.S. and around the world. These discoveries, conducted in conjunction with many companies and numerous people, will ultimately exceed a 1.2 TCF (trillion cubic feet of gas equivalent) of gas. In his work, he has had extensive experience interfacing with engineering firms and representing companies at state hearings. He is a member of the Houston Geological Society and the American Association of Professional Geologists, as well as a registered professional geologist in Arkansas, Florida and Texas.

REBECCA A. HOYT, 44, was appointed vice president and controller in November 2006, having been assistant controller since 2003. Prior to that, she held positions of increasing responsibility within the accounting area since joining the company in 1993. Previously, Ms. Hoyt was an audit manager with Arthur Andersen LLP, an independent public accounting firm from 1992 to 1993. She holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Houston.

FLOYD R. PRICE, 60, was appointed executive vice president and exploration officer in February 2009, having been executive vice president — Eurasia, Latin America and New Ventures from 2004 to 2009. He was executive vice president — Canada in 2003 and 2004, president of Apache Canada Ltd. from 1999 to 2004, and president of the Company’s international exploration and production subsidiaries from 1995 to 1999. Mr. Price served as exploration manager from 1991 to 1994, and geologic manager from 1990 to 1991, for the Company’s Mid-continent region. Prior to joining the Company, he was vice president of exploration and development from 1988 to 1989, and vice president of mid-continent exploration from 1989 to 1990, for Pacific Enterprises Oil Company, Dallas, Texas. A graduate of Rutgers College, Price received his master’s degree in geology from the University of Michigan. A member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, he also is on the Board of Advisors for The Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah.

JON A. JEPPESEN, 61, was appointed senior vice president in February 2003, having been the Company's regional vice president for the Gulf Coast region since 2002 and the Offshore region since 1996. He served as the company's vice president of Exploration and Development for North America from 1994 to 1996, and manager of the company's offshore exploration and development from 1993 to 1994. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Jeppesen was vice president of Exploration and Development for Pacific Enterprises Oil Company, Dallas, Texas, from 1989 to 1992. Mr. Jeppesen received his bachelor's and master's degrees in geology from Kansas State University. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Houston Geological Society.

MICHAEL S. BAHORICH, 52, was appointed executive vice president and technology officer in February 2009, having been executive vice president — exploration and production technology since May 2000. He was the Company’s vice president — exploration and production technology from 1999 to 2000, vice president — exploration technology from 1997 to 1999, and the Company’s chief geophysicist in 1996 and 1997. From 1981 until joining the Company, he held positions of increasing responsibility at Amoco Corporation in Denver, Colorado and Tulsa, Oklahoma. A graduate of the University of Missouri at Columbia, he received his master’s degree in geophysics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI). Mr. Bahorich is a member of the board of trustees of the Houston Museum of Natural Science and serves on advisory boards at Stanford and Yale Universities. He holds eight patents.

RODNEY J. EICHLER, 60, was recently appointed co-chief operating officer and president - International of Apache Corporation. He leads the North Sea, Egypt, Australia and Argentina regions. Mr. Eichler, an executive vice president since 2003, has headed Apache's Egyptian operations since 1999, having been vice president for exploration and development for Egypt since 1997. Prior to that he was regional vice president for the Western Region in Houston and regional exploration and development manager for the Rocky Mountain region in Denver. Prior to joining Apache, Eichler was vice president, exploration for Axem Resources, LLC and exploration manager for Tenneco Oil Company, both in Denver. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in geological engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and is a certified professional geologist and a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas. Eichler is president and a director of Springboard - Educating the Future, a non-profit corporation that funded construction of 200 schools for girls in Egypt's rural

W. KREGG OLSON, 55, was appointed senior vice president Corporate Reservoir Engineering in September 2007, having been vice president since January 2004. Prior to that, Mr. Olson held positions of increasing responsibility within Corporate Reservoir Engineering since joining the company in 1992. Previously, he was associated with Grace Petroleum Corporation. Mr. Olson received a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and is a registered professional engineer in the state of Oklahoma.

P. ANTHONY LANNIE, 54, was appointed senior vice president and general counsel in May 2004, having been vice president and general counsel since March 2003. Prior to joining the company, he was president of Kinder Morgan Power Company, Houston, Texas, from 2000 through February 2003, and president of Coral Energy Canada in 1999. Mr. Lannie was senior vice president and general counsel of Coral Energy, an affiliate of Shell Oil Company and Tejas Gas Corporation, from 1995 through 1999, and of Tejas Gas Corporation from 1994 until its combination with Coral Energy in 1998. Mr. Lannie earned his undergraduate and law degrees from Vanderbilt University.

SARAH B. TESLIK, 54, was appointed senior vice president — Policy and Governance in October 2006. Prior to joining the Company, she was chief executive officer of the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. from November 2004 to October 2006, and executive director of the Council of Institutional Directors from July 1988 to October 2004. Ms. Teslik holds a bachelor’s degree from Whitman College, a master’s degree from Oxford University, and a juris doctorate from Georgetown University.

AARON MERRICK, 47, is vice president Information Technology. Mr. Merrick has served as director of Information Technology since 2006. After a prior stint with Apache from 1991 to 1994, he was a vice president of T-NETIX, Inc., a company with specialized telephone operations across the United States and in the United Kingdom, and later consulted with Apache on the development of Scout, the company's data warehouse. Previously, he spent seven years at KPMG Peat Marwick. Mr. Merrick has a bachelor's degree in accounting from Bob Jones University.

ALEX C. DE ALVAREZ, 45, was appointed Vice President — Security, in January 2008. He joined Apache with an extensive background in corporate and national security, specializing in energy infrastructure security. Shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Mr. de Alvarez accepted a position as an infrastructure security expert with the U.S. Department of Energy. He was instrumental in setting up the Department of Homeland Security while serving in the White House Homeland Security Transition Planning Office during President George W. Bush’s first administration. His highest-ranking appointment was as the director of Energy Assurance at the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to the 9/11 attacks, he was director of Security and Safety at Enron Broadband Services. His previous experience includes several years as a clandestine operations officer at the Central Intelligence Agency and as a captain in the United States Marine Corps. Mr. de Alvarez is a member of Business Executives for National Security and the American Society for Industrial Security’s CSO Roundtable. He serves on the board of the Energy Security Council, and on the Department of Homeland Security’s Oil & Gas Sector Coordination Council. He holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in political philosophy from the University of Dallas.

JANINE J. MCARDLE, 47, was appointed vice president — Oil and Gas Marketing in November 2002. In her position, she directs Apache’s worldwide crude oil and natural gas marketing activities. Prior to joining the company, she served as managing director for Aquila Europe Ltd. from November 2001 to October 2002, and held executive and management positions with Aquila Energy Marketing since 1993, including vice president — Trading and vice president — Mergers and Acquisitions. Previously, she was a partner in Hesse Gas from 1991 to 1993, and was a member of the board of directors of Intercontinental Exchange, the electronic trading platform, from 2000 to October 2002. Ms. McArdle currently serves on the board of the Palmer Drug Abuse Program. She holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Nebraska and a master of business administration from the University of Houston.

JOHN BEDINGFIELD was appointed Region Vice President Australia and Managing Director, Apache Energy Ltd. in Perth. He has been deputy managing director and exploration manager in Perth since August 2005. Mr. Bedingfield joined the company in Houston in 1998 as senior staff geophysicist in the Houston Egypt Exploration Team and spent six years in Cairo, first as geophysical manager and later as exploration manager. Prior to joining Apache, he worked as a geophysicist at Exxon Company, USA; Esso Production Malaysia; Petronas, and Exxon Exploration Company in various domestic and international assignments. Mr. Bedingfield holds bachelor's and master's degrees in geoscience from Northeast Louisiana University.

JOHN J. CHRISTMANN, IV, 41, was appointed vice president — Business Development in January 2004, having been production manager for the Gulf Coast region since April 2003. Prior to that, Mr. Christmann held various positions of increasing responsibility in the business development area since joining the Company in 1997. Previously, he was employed by Vastar Resources/ARCO Oil and Gas Company in business development, crude oil marketing and engineering assignments. He received his bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and master of business administration from Southern Methodist University.

JON W. SAUER, 48, was appointed vice president — Tax in May 2001, having been director of Tax since March 1997, and manager of Tax from August 1992. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Sauer was tax manager with Swift Energy Company, Houston, Texas, from 1989 to 1992, and a manager in the tax practice of Arthur Andersen & Co., an independent public accounting firm, from 1983 to 1989. Mr. Sauer received his bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of North Dakota. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and currently serves as chairman of the American Exploration & Production Council (formerly Domestic Petroleum Council) tax committee.

MARGERY M. HARRIS, was appointed Apache’s vice president — Human Resources, reporting directly to President and CEO Steve Farris, effective Sept. 1, 2007. As executive vice president, Ms. Harris established the human resources group at Texas Genco, a privately held, wholesale power generation company. Prior to joining Texas Genco, she served as senior vice president at Integrated Electrical Services and vice president at Santa Fe Snyder Corporation, an independent oil and gas exploration and production company. Ms. Harris also was a lead consultant at Hewitt Associates, a top human resources consulting firm; worked as financial controller for the international division of Continental Airlines, and started her professional career as a landman at Shell Oil Company. She has a bachelor’s degree from the Ohio State University and a master of business administration from the University of St. Thomas.

ROBERT J. DYE, 53, was appointed Vice President – Corporate Services in 2009, leading the public affairs, government affairs and corporate outreach, aviation, corporate land and information technology groups. Mr. Dye was previously vice president – investor relations from 1997 to 2009 and director of investor relations from 1995 to 1997. He joined the company in 1992 as director of corporate planning. Previously, he was planning manager for the offshore division of BP Exploration. A chemical engineering graduate from the University of Oklahoma, Mr. Dye received his MBA from Stanford University. He serves on the board of advisors for the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering at the University of Oklahoma

ROBERT V. JOHNSTON, 54, was named Region Vice President – Central Region in 2009. He held that position from 2002 until 2006, when he transferred to Argentina as the country's first region manager. Mr. Johnston joined Apache in 1982 as a geologist in the Mid-Continent region, before transferring to Cairo as development manager in 1996 and to Calgary as exploitation manager in 2000. He holds a bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of Tulsa.

RODMAN D. PATTON, 64, joined the company’s board of directors in December 1999. Mr. Patton has nearly 30 years experience in oil and gas investment banking and corporate finance activity, most recently serving as managing director of the Merrill Lynch Energy Group from 1993 until April 1999. Previously, he was with The First Boston Corporation (later Credit Suisse First Boston) and Eastman Dillon, Union Securities (later Blyth Eastman Dillon). Mr. Patton is a director of NuStar GP, LLC (formerly Valero GP, LLC), San Antonio, Texas, and is chairman of its audit committee and a member of its compensation committee. NuStar GP, LLC is the general partner of NuStar Energy LP (formerly Valero LP), owner and operator of crude oil and refined products pipeline, terminalling, and storage assets. At Apache, Mr. Patton is a member of the audit committee and has been a director since 1999.

THOMAS E. VOYTOVICH, 52, was named Region Vice President and General Manager, Apache Egypt Companies in 2009. Mr. Voytovich was previously vice president of the Central Region since March 2006. After joining the company in Tulsa in 1993, he worked in the reservoir engineering and exploration groups before becoming Central Region exploration manager in 2004. Prior to joining Apache, he worked in geological, engineering and management positions with Shell Oil Company, Petro-Lewis, Berexco, and Hillin-Simon Oil Company. Mr. Voytovich received a bachelor’s degree in geological engineering from Michigan Tech in 1978.

THOMAS P. CHAMBERS, 52, was named Vice President – Planning and Investor Relations in 2009. He was previously vice president – corporate planning from 2001 to 2009 and director of planning from 1995 to 2001. Prior to joining Apache, Mr. Chambers was in the international business development group at Pennzoil Exploration and Production and held a variety of management positions with the BP plc group of companies. Mr. Chambers earned his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and serves on the Advisory Board for the Houston Foundation for Life.

RAYMOND PLANK is chairman of the board, having held that position since 1979. He was chief executive officer from 1966 until May 2002 and president from 1954 to 1979. He founded the company in 1954 and is a member of its executive committee. Mr. Plank has been consistently active in civic, educational and business affairs. He founded the Fund for Teachers, which provides summer travel and enrichment grants to kindergarten through 12th grade teachers. He chairs the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming and is on the board of trustees of the Washington, D.C.-based Committee for Economic Development. He served as chairman of the Wyoming Futures Project and the Minneapolis Heart Institute, and co-chairman of Minnesota Wellspring. He also has been a member of the Denver Art Museum board of trustees. He has been a trustee of Carleton College where Apache established the Raymond Plank Chair in Incentive Economics, and he is past chairman of the University of Minnesota Foundation. Mr. Plank graduated from Yale University in 1944 with a bachelor of arts degree. During World War II, he served with the U.S. Army Air Corps as a bomber pilot in the South Pacific Theater of Operations.

Mark Canno mark@apachedesignbuild.com , managing partner at Apache, graduated from Boston College in 1989. Mark gained extensive experience working in the real estate sector in New York City for several years before starting his own company, Mark Canno Realty in 1995. After completing several homes in Westchester County, he joined Dan Horowitz in founding Apache Design-Build in 1996. Mark brings great organizational, management, and communication skills to the company, and has innate insight and expertise regarding home location, property value, and market conditions. Mark oversees the construction process and assists many of our clients in purchasing new property or selling their existing homes. For the last 8 years, Mark has been instrumental in facilitating the production of some of the highest quality homes in Fairfield and Westchester Counties, while developing and maintaining trusted relationships with clients and sub-contractors.

Gene is the retired owner and CEO of Martin Cement Company, a large, Romeoville based commercial concrete contractor. Gene has accumulated over 4,000 hours in a 40 year flying career. He is the current owner of a Citabria and Apache in addition to his T-34. He and wife Debbie split their time between residences in Naperville, Steamboat Springs and Venice, Florida...with new daughter Molly. Gene was the founder of the team and retired in 1996. Gene passed away in August of 2006.

Jenn Eckart jenn@apachedesignbuild.com , Jenn Eckart is Apache's office operations manager and media relations director. After graduating from College of New Rochelle with summa cum laude honors in 1990, Jenn spent several years in the fashion and publishing industries before joining Apache Design-Build in 2002. Jenn has gained an eye for design and a head for organization as a copy editor for Harper Collins, as an art director with Kevin McDevitt photography and as a product developer for Nickelodeon and MTV. Along with being a writer and a musician, she is the co-founder and board member of Children's Rescue Mission Inc, an orphanage for 450 children in rural Honduras created after Hurricane Mitch in 1998.

PATRICIA ALBJERG GRAHAM, 70, joined the Company Warren Research Professor of the History of American Education at Harvard University. Dr. Graham joined the faculty of Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1974, and was its dean from 1982 to 1991. From 1991 to 2000, she served as president of the Spencer Foundation, which supports research into educational improvement. Dr. Graham is also a director of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, as well as a director of Rural School Community Trust, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Central European University, the Higher Education Support Sub-Board of the Open Society Institute, and the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation.

CHERI L. PEPER, 54, was appointed corporate secretary of the company in May 1995, having been assistant secretary since 1992. Prior to joining Apache, she was assistant secretary for Panhandle Eastern Corporation (subsequently PanEnergy Corp.) since 1988. Ms. Peper is a director of MemberSource Credit Union, formerly known as PT&T Federal Credit Union. Ms. Peper graduated cum laude from the University of Houston and is a certified public accountant. She is a member of the Corporate Secretaries & Governance Professionals and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Cindy has years of hands on experience and training in working with infant, toddler, and preschool populations. With fifteen years of experience working in preschools and seven of those years in an Assistant Director capacity. In 1995, Cindy became a service provider for Northland Therapy Services, with an emphasis on children 0-3. She has provided quality home and community based early intervention services to special needs children and families in Show Low, Lakeside, Pinetop, Whiteriver, Cibecue, Heber, Snowflake, Taylor, Holbrook, and Winslow. She is creative, resourceful, independent, empathetic, and a self-starter, directing great attention to detail. In 1997 Cindy was promoted to a supervisory position. In 1999, she began to also provide Arizona Department of Health Service support coordination for eligible children and their families. She assists families in setting and prioritizing their strengths and needs through the Individual Family Service Planning process, and provides follow through and monitoring of the plan and coordinating federal, state and local resources in meeting the unique needs of the families she serves. Cindy's areas of expertise include: children with a vision/hearing loss, American Sign Language, and behaviorally challenged children. She is also a Certified Infant Massage Instructor. Cindy possesses advanced skills in sign language and is currently working toward the level system and her interpreter's license. She has completed the V.I.I.S.A infant/toddler vision training program through the Arizona State Department of Education and provides direct services to families with hearing/vision impaired children. Training is provided by Cindy, for the whole family in the understanding and use of American Sign in order to better help the children hearing/vision impaired child. Cindy is currently serving children with dual deaf/blind diagnosis, and children with visual impairments in Navajo and Apache Counties. Cindy is a member of the C.E.C (Counsel for Exceptional Children), the A.A.E.Y.C. (Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children), and the N.A.E.Y.C. (National Association for the Education of Young Children).

John W. Horn PhD has been programming since 1983 and is currently the CEO of Interstate Software; the only MySQL training center in North America. His company is the only "Gold Level" MySQL training, support and consulting group in the world. Being one of the largest open source training groups in the world they also do training, support and consulting for: Apache, PHP, LPI, SuSE and CodeCharge. He is the author of MySQL Essential Knowledge McGraw-Hill Osbourne July 2004, MySQL Considerations , Pros and Cons of MySQL Table Types Developer.com 2003 and can also be found in articles such as Simplifying Linux Management Eweek July 12, 2004. He is based in Kansas City, Missouri.

Kelly Blake kblake@jhsph.edu is the Communications/Publications Coordinator for the Johns Hopkins Center for Human Nutrition. She brings skills in writing, graphic design and website development to the Healthy Stores projects and is interested in the power of effectively-designed messages and materials to promote social and behavioral change. She designs brochures, posters, and educational displays for the Apache Healthy Stores and Baltimore Healthy Stores projects and oversees the development of the Healthy Stores website.

Dave is an accomplished, successful executive with over 20 years of experience in the EDA industry. Most recently Dave was at Cadence for over 7 years in a variety of executive roles. In his first role as General Manager of Cadence's PCB business he drove Cadence to the worldwide leadership position in the PCB and IC Packaging markets. He was then promoted to Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, with responsibility for all of Cadence's products and services and for the company's strategic planning efforts. Dave was then promoted to Executive Vice President of Cadence's Systems Business, which included the Silicon-Package-Board and Emulation solutions. Prior to Cadence, Dave was Group Vice President of Viewlogic's Systems business. Dave began his career in EDA in 1983 at Racal-Redac, which was later acquired by Zuken. Dave spent six years living in Europe driving Racal-Redac's worldwide product development and marketing activities. He was instrumental in merging Racal-Redac with Zuken, and in his last role was Managing Director of Zuken-Redac, responsible for all of the companies' product development, marketing, sales and operations activities in Europe and North America. Dave earned a BS degree in computer engineering from Boston University.

Apache North Sea's Mark Richardson, subsea projects manager, left photo, and Ross Littlewood, onshore platform engineer, right photo, participated in the Monaco Ironman 70.3 event on Sept. 7, 2008, in Monaco. The race involved a 1.2-mile (1.9 km) swim in the Mediterranean Sea, a 56-mile (90 km) cycle in the Maritime Alps, and a 13.1-mile (21.1 km) run. The two raised a total of $22,500 ( 12,479) for VSA Free Talk, a charity counselling service for children who have been placed in state care by Aberdeen's social work department. Richardson and Littlewood offer thanks to co-workers who gave generously and to Apache for its matching gift program. Thirty employees from Apache s four Permian Basin districts served as volunteers.

Sangita Sharma, PhD (Consultant), is a Research Assistant Professor at the Cancer Research Center of Hawai'i. She has significant experience developing quantitative food frequency questionnaires for African origin peoples, including those living in urban settings. Dr. Sharma is currently a consultant on the Apache Healthy Stores project, where she took the lead in developing the food frequency questionnaire and in training the data collectors in its use. She will develop the quantitative food frequency for use in the inner city population for the Baltimore Healthy Stores project, conduct training of data collectors in the use of the instrument, and will contribute to the analysis and writing up of these data.

Sanju brings a background of strong technological experience both in studies and practical experience to desme. With a Bachelor Degree in Chemistry, Sanju continued his studies in Computer Sciences, obtaining first a post graduate diploma in Computer Applications (DBA specialization), then his Master's Degree in Computer Science. Sanju has 5 solid years of Project Management experience, as well as ERP and CRM applications expertise. Included in Sanju's skill sets include: programming in such as Ejb, J2EE, J2ME, Coldfusion, Asp, Php, XML, WAP, Visual Basic, Dev/designer 2k tools, MS SQL SERVER, Oracle, Sybase SqlServer, MS Access as well as UML and RATIONAL ROSS. Sanju works with Weblogic,WebSphere,IIS, Apache, Tomcat, Jboss, and Jrun servers, and can code in C, C++, C#, Java,Delphi, Cobol, and Pascal.

Steve Perea, the owner of eSells.com has been in the software and hardware industry for over 20 years and is well versed in Microsoft technologies like Visual Basic, Visual Studio, ASP/VBScript and Transact SQL along with open source technologies PHP, Apache, Linux and MySQL. Along with these software tools, Steve maintains the servers and networks located in our server rack at viawest.net. Mr. Perea moved the company from California to Colorado in 1989 after many years working with manufacturing companies in Southern California.

Steven E. Bailey has been working as a Systems Administrator since 1997 and has been programming ever since he got his hands on his first computer, a Sinclair zx81 in 1981. He has extensive Linux/Unix and shell/PHP/C programming knowledge, and has hands-on experience with LDAP, Apache, MySQL, Postfix, PHP, Sendmail, SSL, IP Tables, TCP/IP on Linux, Unix, Macintosh and Windows platforms. He has BA from Monmouth University, New Jersey and was a Sytems Administrator and Technical Writer for the Lucent Technologies LMOS project before moving to The Netherlands.

CHARLES J. PITMAN, 66, joined the Company s board of directors in May 2000. He retired from BP Amoco plc in late 1999, having served as regional president Middle East/Caspian/Egypt/India. Prior to the merger of British Petroleum and Amoco Corporation in 1998, Mr. Pitman held a variety of executive positions at Amoco. He served as a non-executive director of Urals Energy Public Company Limited, an oil exploration and production company operating in Russia, from September 2005 until January 2009, chairman of the board of First Calgary Petroleums Ltd., an oil and gas exploration company engaged in exploration and development activities in Algeria, from June 2007 to March 2008, and was sole member of Shaker Mountain Energy Associates LLC from September 1999 to November 2007. At Apache, Mr. Pitman is chairman of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee.

FREDERICK M. BOHEN, 71, has served as senior advisor to the president of The Rockefeller University since his retirement in November 2005, and as executive vice president and chief operating officer of The Rockefeller University having served in those capacities from February 2002 to November 2005, and from 1990 through September 1999. He was senior vice president of Brown University from 1983 to 1990, and served as vice president of finance and operations at the University of Minnesota from 1981 to 1983. Mr. Bohen was with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as assistant secretary for management and budget from 1977 to 1981. He is a director of American Council of Learned Societies and a member of its executive committee, a director of the Polish American Freedom Foundation and chairman of its investment committee, and a director of the TEAK Fellowship, a not-for-profit organization that mentors and assists gifted adolescent children from disadvantaged circumstances. Mr. Bohen is also non-executive chairman of the board of The Fund for Teachers, a Texas non-profit corporation, serving in that capacity without compensation. At Apache, he is chairman of the Management Development and Compensation Committee and chairman of the Stock Option Plan Committee.

RANDOLPH M. FERLIC, 71, is a private investor. He retired in December 1993 from his practice as a thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon. Dr. Ferlic is the founder of Surgical Services of the Great Plains, P.C., and served as its president from 1974 to 1993. He has been a regent of the University of Nebraska since November 2000 and was chairman of its audit committee until March 2008, at which time he became vice chairman. Dr. Ferlic serves as a director of the Nebraska Medical Center and chairman of its audit committee, as well as commissioner for the Midwestern Higher Education Compact. At Apache, Dr. Ferlic is chairman of the audit committee and a member of the executive committee. He has been a director since 1986.

EUGENE C. FIEDOREK, 76, is a private investor. Formerly, he was managing director of EnCap Investments L.C., a Dallas, Texas, energy investment banking firm, from 1988 until March 1999, when EnCap was acquired by El Paso Energy. Mr. Fiedorek was the managing director of the Energy Banking Group of First RepublicBank Corp. in Dallas, Texas, from 1978 to 1988. At Apache, he is a member of the audit committee. He has been a director since 1988.

EUGENE C. FIEDOREK, 76, is a private investor. Formerly, he was managing director of EnCap Investments L.C., a Dallas, Texas, energy investment banking firm, from 1988 until March 1999, when EnCap was acquired by El Paso Energy. Mr. Fiedorek was the managing director of the Energy Banking Group of First RepublicBank Corp. in Dallas, Texas, from 1978 to 1988. At Apache, he is a member of the audit committee. He has been a director since 1988.

F. H. MERELLI, 71, became chairman of the board, chief executive officer, president, and a director of Cimarex Energy Co., a Denver, Colo., independent oil and gas exploration and production company, on Sept. 30, 2002, upon the acquisition by Cimarex of Key Production Company, Inc. and the exploration and production division of Helmerich & Payne, Inc. He was chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Key from 1992 until October 2002, and served as Key’s president from 1992 to September 1999 and from March 2002 to October 2002. Formerly, Mr. Merelli served as Apache’s president and chief operating officer from 1988 to 1991. Prior to that, he was president of Terra Resources, Inc., a Tulsa, Okla., oil and gas company, from 1979 to 1988. At Apache, Mr. Merelli is a member of the audit committee and the executive committee. He has been a director since 1997.

JOHN A. KOCUR, 80, is retired from the private practice of law. He served as vice chairman of the company’s board of directors from 1988 to 1991. Mr. Kocur was employed by the company from 1969 until his retirement in 1991, and served as the company’s president from 1979 to 1988. At Apache, he is chairman of the Executive Committee, a member of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, and a member of the Management Development and Compensation Committee. He has been a director since 1977.

PATRICIA ALBJERG GRAHAM, 72, joined the company’s board of directors in September 2002. She is the Charles Warren Professor of the History of Education Emerita at Harvard University. Dr. Graham joined the faculty of Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1974, and was its dean from 1982 to 1991. From 1991 to 2000, she served as president of the Spencer Foundation, which supports research into educational improvement. Dr. Graham is a director of Rural School Community Trust, Central European University, the Higher Education Support Sub-Board of the Open Society Institute, The Fund for Teachers, a Texas nonprofit corporation, Smolny College of St. Petersburg State University, Russia, and the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation. At Apache, she is a member of the corporate governance and nominating committee. She has been a director since 2002.

Barry Weigele, a veteran pilot with more than a quarter of a century of experience flying aircraft while working in both the public and private sectors, is a member of the team of aerial camera pilots which provides services to clients of Production Helicopters, Inc., a Los Angeles, CA-based helicopter company which specializes in providing aerial services to the film industry and for television commercials. During his aviation career, Mr. Weigele has logged nearly 8,500 hours of flight time as a chief pilot flying turbine rotary and fixed winged aircraft. He holds a commercial airman certificate, rated airplane, and is certified to fly single engine land and rotocraft helicopters. Mr. Weigele began his career with the Phoenix (AZ) Police Department whom he served for two decades as a Senior Police Officer and pilot. For his services to the department, which included aerial photography and filming, he was the recipient of numerous honors, awards and commendations as well as medals for life saving. During his professional career, Mr. Weigele served in numerous positions with several helicopter companies based in the Southwest United States, ranging from being a pilot to serving as an Assistant Safety Director and Logistics Control Analyst. In 1992, he joined Arizona Heliservices, Inc. and served as President and Director of Operations with responsibilities for all aspects of flight operations. His duties also included: conducting helicopter tours, charter transportation, external load operations, aerial filming and coordination, on-camera helicopter pilot and production ground safety coordination. Mr. Weigele's numerous professional affiliations have included membership in the Screen Actors Guild, Arizona Production Association, Airborne Law Enforcement Association and the Fraternal Order of Police. Among his civic and community involvements, he is a member of the Phoenix, Mesa (AZ) and Apache Junction (AZ) Chambers of Commerce. A native of Philadelphia, PA who was raised in Phoenix and San Diego, CA, Mr. Weigele is married and has one child and currently resides in Chandler, AZ.

GEORGE D. LAWRENCE, 57, is a private investor, and joined the company’s board of directors in May 1996. Formerly, he was president, chief executive officer and a director of The Phoenix Resource Companies, Inc. from 1990 until May 1996, when Phoenix became a wholly owned subsidiary of Apache. Mr. Lawrence is non-executive chairman of Ucross Foundation, a Wyoming nonprofit corporation, and non-executive chairman of Springboard — Educating the Future, a Texas non-profit corporation, serving in those capacities without compensation. At Apache, he is a member of the executive committee and the management development and compensation committee. He has been a director since 1996.

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