CO2 Energy Transition Corp.
MANAGEMENT & BOARD
Executive Officers
Brady Rodgers, 44
President and Chief Executive Officer
Brady Rodgers will serve as our President & Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our Board. Mr. Rodgers is currently President and CEO of Antelope Energy Partners, LLC and also President and CEO of Native State CCS, a CCS development company targeting on-site geological storage for ethanol plants since 2020. Additionally, he has served as CEO of Focus Oil from 2016 to date with his primary focus on strategic, mergers & acquisitions and technical advisory for middle market oil & gas acquisitions. He was a Vice President of GulfSlope Energy from 2013-2016 in corporate development & engineering. He was formerly Group Head — Energy Acquisitions & Divestitures for J.P. Morgan from 2010-2013. He was with Venoco E & P in Denver in engineering & as an operations manager from 2008-2010. His international experience includes a stint with Endeavour International Corporation in London, UK & Houston in development & engineering lead North Sea 2005-2008 and Devon Energy Sr. Production & Reservoir Engineer from 2002-2005. Mr. Rodgers has a Masters in Global Energy Management from university of Colorado and a BS in Petroleum Engineering from University of Kansas. He has served on the Board of Directors, Unconventional Resources Technical Advisory Committee (URTAC, 2009-2010 by direct appointment of President Barack Obama. URTAC is a US Department of Energy administered board that makes annual recommendations on federal research of E & P foundational sciences in conjunction with federal, state and environmental, and industry representatives. He has been a former or current member of SPE, IPAA, ADAM, YPE, DAC and Houston Producers Forum. He is a former Board of Trustees of the Houston Hobby Center for the Performing Arts and an active volunteer with Junior achievement, Habit for Humanity and PTSD veteran support group.
Mike Lessard, 35
Vice President of Business Development
Mr. Lessard serves as our Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Lessard is a principal with Native States CCS, a CCS development company targeting on-site geological storage for ethanol plants since February 2022. Prior to joining Native States, he served as a Development Manager for Advance Energy Partners, LLC, a position he held from October 2018 through January 2022. Mr. Lessard obtained his BS degree in Petroleum Engineering from Colorado School of the Mines.
Harold R. DeMoss III, 67
Chief Financial Officer
Harold R. “Chip” DeMoss, III Harold R. “Chip” DeMoss, III serves as our CFO. Mr. DeMoss is also currently co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of Tanglewood Energy Partners, LLC, a privately-held energy investment management company, a position he has held since 2019. Since 1993, he has also served as chairman of DeMoss Interests, Ltd, a family office holding group composed of oil and gas, farming, and real estate interests. He was formerly the General Manager of George & Cynthia Mitchell Historic Galveston Properties. He started his career with the audit group of Coopers & Lybrand where he focused on energy and real estate clients in the Houston office. He holds FINRA investment banking and other securities registrations, in addition to Certified Public Accountant registrations in Texas and Florida. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and hold the AICPA’s Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) designation. He obtained his BBA degree from Texas A&M University and his MS degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Mark Mathews, 62
General Counsel
Mr. Mathews Mr. Mathews will serve as the General Counsel upon the closing of this offering. Mr. Mathews has been providing legal services for the energy industry for more than thirty (30) years. He has an extensive oil and gas legal and business management career in the upstream, midstream and energy services industry. During his career, Mr. Mathews has represented both publicly traded and privately held clients and has advised numerous private equity backed and sold companies as well as independent oil and gas firms including equity and debt offerings and merger and acquisition transactions, complex corporate oil and gas litigation in state and federal courts, asset acquisitions, divestitures and reorganizations. Since October 2020, Mark has served as the President for Tanglewood Energy Partners, LLC. Prior to that, from June 2018 to September 2020, he served as General Counsel for Churchill Oil & Gas, LLC and from August 2015 through September 2017, he served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Copestone Energy. He served as Managing Attorney — Oil & Gas for Denbury Resources, Inc. which included CO2 related asset acquisitions, pipeline issues and divestitures. Mr. Mathews has been a Partner/Shareholder in major U.S. law firms, practice specializing in the energy industry. Mr. Mathews holds a BBA in Petroleum Land Management from the University of Oklahoma and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from South Texas College of Law.
Board of Directors
Charles E. Fox, 62
Chairman
Charles E. “Chuck” Fox will serve as director upon the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus is part. He is chief executive officer and co-founder of Windy Cove Energy II, an oil and gas producer, and Pure Earth Plasma Holdings, an entity which is expected to own more than 20% of SynergenMet upon its listing on the Australian Stock Exchange. Chuck is expected to serve as director upon Synergen’s listing. Synergen’s primary businesses will be the carbon free production of hydrogen and carbon black, the destruction of PFAS and the manufacture of plasma torches. Prior to Pure Earth and Windy Cove Energy II, he co-founded and led Windy Cove Energy as its chief executive officer from 2014 – 2016. Previously, he was vice president of operations and engineering for Kinder Morgan CO2 Company (2000 — 2013). Chuck is a co-author of the SPE monograph, Practical Aspects of CO2 Flooding and was an SPE distinguished lecturer on carbon capture utilization and storage. He has taught numerous classes about CO2 flooding and carbon storage. He holds a M.S. degree in petroleum engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Rice University. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas and New Mexico.
William H. Flores, 68
Director
William H. “Bill” Flores will serve as a Director upon the effective date of the registration of which this prospectus forms a part. Since November 2021, Bill has served as Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). Mr. Flores recently served as Representative of the 17th District of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 2011 to January 2021. Prior to serving in Congress, Mr. Flores worked in the energy business for approximately 30 years, including 20 years as a C-level officer for oil and gas and energy service companies, culminating with his service as Director, President, CEO, and Co-Founder of Phoenix Exploration Company from 2005 to 2009, following which he retired to run for Congress. During his career, Mr. Flores served on public boards including Marine Drilling Companies Inc. (NYSE / NASDAQ) and Great Western Resources (London Stock Exchange). He is currently active on numerous private entity boards, including higher education and non-profit organizations. Bill is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Texas and an Executive Member of the Latino Corporate Directors Association (LCDA). He holds a BBA in Accounting from Texas A&M University in College Station and an MBA from Houston Baptist University.
Marcella Burke, 40
Director Nominee
Marcella Burke will serve as a Director upon the effective date of the registration of which this prospectus forms a part. She is an environmental law partner at Eversheds Sutherland US LLP since July 2022. Prior to that, from September 2019 through July 2022, she was a partner at King & Spalding LLP, where she led the Houston office’s Environmental Health and Safety practice. Before joining private practice, Ms. Burke served as Deputy Solicitor at the US Department of the Interior from July 2018 through September 2019 and as Deputy General Counsel at the Environmental Protection Agency form October 2017 through July 2018. She also served at the Department of Interior as Deputy Solicitor for Energy and Natural Resources, and Senior Counselor to the Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management, where she managed the litigation docket and regulatory portfolio of all energy and natural resource permitting and project development on federal lands, including for the federal carbon capture program. She leads her firm’s Energy Transition initiative and is a board member of the Houston ESG Council. She was named by the Petroleum Economist as a global Top 100 Women of the Energy Transition 2021, received the National Law Journal Energy/Environmental Law Trailblazer Award 2021, named Lawdragon 500 Leading Environmental & Energy Lawyers 2021, and ranked among the Legal 500 United States top environmental practices 2021. She is on the Executive Committee of the Environment & Natural Resources Division of the State Bar of Texas, the Institute for Energy Law Advisory Counsel, and is the Chair of the Environment & Natural Resources Program Committee of the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law.
James Wang, 40
Director Nominee
Mr. Wang has been a veteran investor and financier in the energy and decarbonization sectors for over two decades. He is currently a Partner and Chief Financial Officer of VP Ventures and OneLNG, an integrated micro-LNG developer in Texas, a position he has held since September 2023. From July 2018 to June 2023, he was a Managing Director at ARA Partners, one of the largest energy transition capital providers in the United States where he played an important role in sourcing, execution, portfolio management and investment realization for the firm including its investments in Centric Infrastructure Group, Priority Power, Path Environmental Technology, Anesco and Fluitron. Prior to joining ARA, from August 2008 through July 2018, he worked at First Reserve, a global private equity investment firm. He began his career in the Global Natural Resources Group, Investment Banking Division, at Lehman Brothers, a position he held from July 2006 through June 2008.