National Fuel Gas Co.

Former Chief Executive Officer of the Company from October 2001 until February 21, 2008. Chairman of the Board effective January 3, 2002 to present. President of the Company from July 1999 until February 2006. Senior Vice President of the Company from June 1989 until July 1999 and Vice President from 1980 to June 1989. President of National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation (1) from October 1995 until July 1999 and Executive Vice President from June 1989 to October 1995. Executive Vice President of National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation (1) from October 1994 to March 2002. President of Seneca Resources Corporation (1) from June 1989 to October 1996. President of Horizon Energy Development, Inc. (1) from September 1995 to March 2008 and certain other non-regulated subsidiaries of the Company since prior to 1992 to March 2008. Director of Associated Electric and Gas Insurance Services Limited. Mr. Ackerman is also the Chair of the Erie County Industrial Development Agency.

Former President, CEO and Director of NUI Corporation, a diversified energy company acquired by AGL Resources Inc. on November 30, 2004, from February 2004 until December 2004. Vice Chairman, Chief Operating Officer and Director of KeySpan Corporation (previously Brooklyn Union Gas Co.) from March 2001 until March 2002. Director of Hess Corporation (formerly Amerada Hess Corporation) since 2002. Member and Former Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Polytechnic University. Board member of Republic Financial Corporation since May 2007.

Mr. Salerno has since 2006 served as a Senior Advisor to New Mountain Capital, L.L.C. Mr. Salerno retired as Vice Chairman and CFO of Verizon, Inc. in September 2002 after more than 37 years in the telecommunications industry. Prior to the Bell Atlantic/GTE merger, which created Verizon, Mr. Salerno was Senior Vice Chairman and CFO of Bell Atlantic. Mr. Salerno joined New York Telephone in 1965. In 1983 Mr. Salerno became Vice President and in 1987, he was appointed President and CEO. Mr. Salerno serves as trustee of the Inner City Scholarship Fund and the Partnership for Quality Education. In 1990 Mr. Salerno was appointed Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York, a position he held until 1996. Mr. Salerno currently is a director of Akamai Technologies, Inc., Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., Popular, Inc., Viacom, Inc., and CBS Corp.

Former Vice Chairman, from 1989 until October 1996, of PanEnergy Corporation, Houston, Texas, a diversified energy company (now part of Spectra). Advisor to the Chief Operating Officer of Duke Energy Corporation from August 1997 to 2000. Director of TEPPCO, LP from 1992 to 1997, Director of Northern Border Pipeline Company Partnership from 1993 to 1998, Director of Westcoast Energy Inc. from 1998 to 2002 and Director of the Northern Trust Bank of Texas, NA from 1998 to 2007. Director of Dynegy Inc. since May 2004 and Director of Associated Electric and Gas Insurance Services Limited since 1995. Former Chairman of the Management Committee of Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, L.L.C. Member of the Board of Trustees of DePauw University since 1996.

Cash has been on the Zions Bancorporation board of directors since 1989. He was Questar Corporation's chief executive officer from 1984 to 2002 and was chairman of the board from 1985 to 2003. Cash was also president of Questar from 1984 to 2001. He has been a director of Questar since 1977 and also serves on the boards of National Fuel Gas Company, TODCO, Associated Electric and Gas Insurance Services Limited, and Texas Tech Foundation, Inc., and is a former director of Zions First National Bank, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Salt Lake City branch), and Energen Corporation. Cash received a B.S. from Texas Tech University.

Chairman of Moog Inc. since February 1996. Moog is a worldwide designer, manufacturer and integrator of precision control components and systems. President and Chief Executive Officer of Moog Inc. since 1988 and Board member since 1984. Director of Astronics Corporation, M&T Bank Corporation and Seneca Foods Corporation. Also, named to the UB Council in January of 2008. Chairs the regular executive sessions of nonmanagement directors, and is the designated contact for stockholders and other interested parties to communicate with the non-management directors on the Board.

Executive Director of the Robert H. Jackson Center, Inc., in Jamestown, New York, from 2002 until 2006. Founder of Kidder Exploration, Inc., an independent Appalachian oil and gas company; Chairman and President from 1984 to 1994. Mr. Kidder is also a former Director of the Independent Oil and Gas Association of New York and the Pennsylvania Natural Gas Associates – both Appalachian-based energy associations. An elected member of the New York State Assembly from 1975 to 1982. Former Trustee of the New York Power Authority. On the Dean’s Advisory Council of the University at Buffalo School of Law from 1996 to 2001. Vice President and investment advisor for P.B. Sullivan & Co., Inc. from 1994 until 2001.