Harvest Natural Resources Inc.

Mr. Speirs was elected Vice President, Eastern Operations on December 6, 2007. He joined Harvest Natural Resources in June 2006 as President and General Manager, Russia. Previously Mr. Speirs was President of Marathon Petroleum Russia and General Director of their wholly owned subsidiary, Khanty Manscisk Nefte Gas Geologia from March 2004. Prior to joining Marathon, Mr. Speirs was Executive Vice President of YUKOS EP responsible for engineering and construction from June 2001. During both these periods, Mr. Speirs spent considerable time in West Siberia where he oversaw substantial increasesin production at both Companies. From November 1997 until March 2001, Mr. Speirs resided in Jakarta where he served as President of Premier Oil Indonesia. During this period, Premier was active in all phases of the Upstream business, culminating in the commissioning of the West NatunaGas Project. Prior to 1997, Mr. Speirs was with Conoco for 21 years in various leadership positions in the US, UK, Russia, Indonesia, Singapore and Dubai, UAE. Mr. Speirs earned a Bachelor of Science degree with Honors in Engineering Science from the University of Edinburgh. He also attended the Executive Management Program at INSEAD.

Mr. Morgan was elected as Vice President, Business Development effective May 19, 2008. Prior to joining Harvest, he served in several capacities at Sempra Energy since 2000 including Corporate Vice President - International, Vice President - Special Projects and President and General Manager - South America Operations. Before joining Sempra, Mr. Morgan was Vice President Latin America New Ventures for Unocal Corporation and held various international and domestic positions at Enron Corporation, Tenneco Corporation, Shell International and Gulf Oil. He has served as a director on the board of several energy companies based in Latin America. Mr. Morgan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in geology from the University of Texas.

Mr. Nesselrode has served Vice President, Engineering and Business Development of the Company since November 17, 2003. From February 2002 until November 2003, Mr. Nesselrode was President of Reserve Insights, LLC, a strategy and management consulting company for oil and gas. He was employed with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation as Manager Minerals and Special Projects from July 2000 to February 2002. Mr. Nesselrode served in various managerial positions with Union Pacific Resources Company from August 1979 to July 2000. Mr. Nesselrode holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa and completed the Harvard Business School Program for Management Development.

Mr. Head has served as our Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since May 7, 2007. He received both a Juris Doctorate and Masters in Business Administration from the University of Texas in 1983. He joined Texas Eastern upon graduation from law school and remained with the same organization through mergers with Panhandle Eastern, Duke Energy Corporation and Cinergy Corp. Mr. Head held various business development positions with Duke Energy Corporation from 1995 to 2001. His corporate development work included the identification, evaluation and negotiation of acquisitions in Latin America, North America and the United Kingdom. Mr. Head was Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Duke Energy North America from 2001 to 2004.

Dr. Igor Effimoff is founder and principal of a firm which provides upstream and midstream consulting services since 2005. From 2002 until 2005 he was Chief Operating Officer for Teton Petroleum Company. Between 1996 and 2001, he was President of Pennzoil Caspian Corporation, managing their interests in the Caspian Region. Between 1994 and 1996 he was the Chief Executive Officer of Larmag Energy, NV, a privately held Dutch oil and gas production company with its primary assets in the Caspian Sea. He has served in senior executive roles with Ashland Exploration Inc., Zilkha Energy Company and Kriti Exploration, Inc. Dr. Effimoff has authored numerous technical and business articles. He is a member of American Association of Petroleum Geology, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and the Geological Society of America. He has a Doctorate in Geology from the University of Cincinnati and completed the Harvard Advanced Management Program.

Mr. Hardee has been a Senior Vice President-Investment Officer with RBC Dain Rauscher, an investment banking firm, since 1994. From 1991 through 1994, Mr. Hardee was a Senior Vice President with Kidder Peabody, an investment banking firm. From 1977 through 1991, Mr. Hardee was a Senior Vice President at Rotan Mosle/Paine Webber Inc., an investment banking firm. During his tenure at Dain Rauscher, he has been in the top 1 percent of his peer group and has been a member of the Chairman's Council since joining the firm. Mr. Hardee is a licensed investment advisor and has served in various board capacities including investment policy and syndicate underwriting. He currently advises/manages over $300 million in assets. He is also a published author in the area of financial investing. Mr. Hardee is a former director of the Bank of Almeda and Gamma Biologicals. He is also a former limited partner and advisory director of the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. Mr. Hardee has a degree in finance from the University of Texas and holds an Accredited Wealth Management Certification and a director education certification from the National Association of Corporate Directors.

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Since December 2004, Mr. Clarke has been Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of NATCO Group, Inc., a publicly traded oil services and equipment company. From May 2001 until assuming his current position with NATCO, Mr. Clarke was the President of Concept Capital Group, a financial and strategic advisory firm originally founded by Mr. Clarke in 1995. During 2001, Mr. Clarke was a Managing Director of SCF Partners, a private equity investment company focused on the oil and gas services and equipment sectors of the energy industry. From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Clarke was Executive Vice President of Dynegy, Inc., a publicly traded global energy merchant, where he was also an Advisory Director and member of the Office of the Chairman. Mr. Clarke joined Dynegy in April 1997 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Dynegy, Mr. Clarke was a managing director and co-head of a specialty energy practice group with Simmons & Company International, a Houston-based investment banking firm. From 1995 to 1997, he served as President of Concept Capital Group. Mr. Clarke was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer with Cabot Oil and Gas, a publicly traded Appalachian oil and gas producer, from 1993 to 1995. He was with Transco Energy, a publicly traded interstate pipeline company, from 1981 to 1993, last serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Clarke began his professional career with Tenneco, Inc. in 1978. In addition to being on the Board of Directors of NATCO, Mr. Clarke is a member of the Board of Directors of the Houston Exploration Company, a publicly traded North American exploration and production company. He is also Chairman and a member of the Board of Directors of FuelQuest, a market service provider to petroleum marketers. Mr. Clarke earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Texas in 1975 and a Master of Business Administration degree from Southern Methodist University in 1977.

Mr. Irelan has over 37 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Mr. Irelan retired from Occidental Petroleum in 2002 where he had served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations since 1998. Prior to Occidental Petroleum, Bob held various positions at Conoco, Inc. during his 28-year tenure, last serving as Regional Manager for their upstream onshore business. Mr. Irelan earned a Professional Engineering degree in Petroleum Engineering with advanced studies in Mineral Economics from the Colorado School of Mines.

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