Management Directors

Roger C.W. Tang, M.Sc.
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

The founder of Action Energy Inc., Mr. Tang has been a director and president and C.E.O. since 2001. Previous to that, in May 1998 Mr. Tang founded Action Energy Corporation, contributing capital of $8.5 million. In May 2001, Action Energy Corporation was sold, having attained an enterprise value of $60 million. In 1994, Mr. Tang co-founded Tri-Ex Oil and Gas Ltd., leading the company's growth from production of 80 boe per day to 1,200 boe per day, taking the company public on the TSX and in 1997 merging it with Real Resources Ltd. In 1990, Mr. Tang joined Morrison Petroleums Ltd., discovering the Thompson Lake Provost 'A' oil pool, which has since produced more than 25 million barrels of oil. Mr. Tang later discovered the extension of this pool. From 1985 to 1990, Mr. Tang worked at Texaco Canada Resources Ltd. Mr. Tang received his M.Sc. degree in Geological Sciences from the University of Manitoba in 1985, where he earned the SIGMA XI Award in recognition of outstanding contributions in scientific research.

Andrew J. Byrne, CFA - Director

Mr. Byrne has been a director of Action Energy and Action Energy Corporation since 1998. Since 1995, Mr. Byrne has been a financial analyst with John S. Herold, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of IHS Inc., a U.S.-based independent financial research and consulting firm specializing in the energy industry. He is currently senior analyst and vice president. Prior to this Mr. Byrne was a financial analyst with another U.S. independent research firm. Through most of the 1980s Mr. Byrne was an exploration geologist for Texaco Canada Resources Ltd. Mr. Byrnes holds a B.Sc. from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He subsequently earned his CFA designation. He is a member of Association for Investment Management and Research and the Boston Security Analyst Society.

Lamont Tolley - Director

Mr. Tolley is an independent businessman with over 30 years of experience as a participant and an investor in the oil and natural gas industry. He is currently a director of two other publicly traded Canadian energy companies. Recently he was C.E.O. of Rally Energy Corp., which is focused on Egypt and Pakistan. During the 1990s he was a director of OGY Petroleum, Alliance Energy, Renata Resources and Advantage Energy Income Fund. In the 1980s and 1990s he was managing director of Starvest Capital Inc., a private company that managed oil and natural gas investments for Canadian institutions, and which was later reorganized into two publicly traded royalty trusts, both of which were later merged with ARC Energy Trust. Mr. Tolley graduated from Dalhousie University with an MBA and from the University of Michigan with an MSE.

Scott Soler, C.P.A. - Director

Mr. Soler is a managing director of Quantum Energy Partners, with extensive responsibilities focusing on the energy sector, including investment sourcing, due diligence, transaction structuring and execution, portfolio company monitoring and transaction exits. Mr. Soler also oversees macro research at Quantum. Prior to this he was a managing director at Morgan Stanley, serving as senior equity research analyst covering various branches of the energy sector, and receiving top analyst rankings from respected industry trade magazines. In the late 1990s Mr. Soler was a member of a highly rated energy research team, and prior to that was a senior auditor at Ernst & Young, where he audited Fortune 500-ranked companies. Mr. Soler holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a BBA in Accounting from Texas A&M University, where he graduated magna cum laude.

John H. Campbell, Jr. - Director

Mr. Campbell is a managing director of Quantum Energy Partners, with responsibility for technical analysis and operational due diligence of potential and existing portfolio members, business development and portfolio board oversight. Mr. Campbell is a former senior vice president for operations at a large U.S. energy company, worked for more than a decade in operational positions for a senior U.S. energy producer, and was a field engineer with a major international oilfield service company. He is conversant in petroleum engineering, geology, geophysics and operations. He currently serves as director on the boards of a number of Quantum portfolio companies. Mr. Campbell graduated from the University of Alabama with a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering and received an M.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Gregory Turnbull - Director

Mr. Turnbull is a partner at the law firm McCarthy Tétrault LLP. Previous to that Mr. Turnbull was a partner at other major Calgary law firms. Over the past 27 years Mr. Turnbull has served as corporate secretary or assistant corporate secretary for numerous energy companies. During this period Mr. Turnbull was also a director of eight junior oil and natural gas companies that were successfully divested. In addition to Action Energy Inc., Mr. Turnbull is currently a director of eight publicly traded oil and natural gas companies or trusts. In 1976 Mr. Turnbull graduated from Queen's University with an Honours B.A. and in 1979 he graduated from the University of Toronto with an LL.B.

Walter Dawson - Director

Since early 2005 Mr. Dawson has been a director of High Plains Energy, which was taken over by Action Energy Inc. in November 2006. He is also chairman of Saxon Energy Services Inc. and a director of several other companies. Mr. Dawson has spent his career in the energy service sector. In 1972 Mr. Dawson founded and served as president, C.E.O. and director of what became Computalog Gearhart Ltd., which was engaged in oil and natural gas logging, perforating, directional drilling, fishing tool business and manufacturing of well logging technology. Computalog was later sold to a senior Canadian energy services company. In 1993 Mr. Dawson founded what became Enserco, which grew to more than 200 service rigs and 30 drilling rigs in Canada and Australia. Enserco was sold to a senior international drilling company.