OFFICERS

GEORGE F. CANJAR

George F. Canjar has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Davis since April 2006. He has over 25 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Prior to becoming Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer he served as Exploration Manager for the Company. Mr. Canjar served as Vice President of Exploration for Carrizo Oil and Gas Company from 1996 until 2002. He also served in a variety of technical and managerial positions, including Manager of Geology and Geophysics and Team Lead at Shell Oil Company from 1981 until 1996. Mr. Canjar earned a B.S. degree in Geological Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and is a Certified Petroleum Engineer and Registered Geologist.


DANIEL D. HAWK

Mr. Hawk joined Davis Petroleum Corp. in June 2006 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining the Company, he served for approximately five years as Vice President – Treasurer for Burlington Resources Inc. Before Mr. Hawk joined Burlington, he served as Treasurer for Vastar Resources, Inc. Prior to Vastar, he was Assistant Treasurer for Apache Corporation in Denver, Colorado and Houston, Texas. Mr. Hawk began his career in 1978 with Getty Oil Company, serving in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Los Angeles, California and Houston, Texas in various finance and planning roles in both upstream and downstream businesses.

Mr. Hawk earned his Masters of Business Administration from the University of Chicago and received a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration from Drake University where he majored in Accounting and Actuarial Science.

Mr. Hawk is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Cash Manager.


BOARD OF DIRECTORS

JAMES R. MONTAGUE

James R. Montague has served as Chairman of Davis Petroleum since April 2006. He has been retired since 2003. From 1996 to June 2001, he served as President of two subsidiaries of International Paper Company, IP Petroleum Company, an oil and gas exploration and production company and GCO Minerals Company, a company that managed International Paper Company's mineral holdings. From 2001 to 2002, Mr. Montague served as President of EnCana Gulf of Mexico LLC, a subsidiary of EnCana Corporation, which is in the business of oil and gas exploration and production. In addition, Mr. Montague serves as a Director of Atwood Oceanics, Inc., a Director of the General Partner of Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P., and a Director of the General Partner of Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P.


SUZANNE V. BAER

Suzanne V. Baer is Chairperson of the Audit Committee. Ms. Baer also has served as a Director of TODCO as well as its successor through the merger of Hercules Offshore, Inc, since May 2005. She also serves as a director of Lufkin Industries, Inc. Previously, she served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Energy Partners, Ltd., an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company focused on the shallow to moderate depth waters of the Gulf of Mexico Shelf from April 2000 until her retirement in April 2005. From July 1998 until March 2000, Ms. Baer was Vice President and Treasurer of Burlington Resources Inc., an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company, and from October 1997 to July 1998, she was Vice President and Assistant Treasurer of Burlington Resources. Ms. Baer also serves as a Director of Lufkin Industries, Inc.


STUART DAVIES

Stuart Davies is Managing Director for Sankaty Advisors and has been in this role since 1999. Previously, he worked for Prudential Capital Group where he originated private placements and managed a portfolio of private placement investments primarily in the industrial manufacturing, mining and service industries. Mr. Davies received an M.B.A. from MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.A. degree from Yale University. Mr. Davies is a Charter Financial Analyst.


JOHN T. DILLON

Mr. Dillon is Vice Chairman of Evercore Partners and is a Senior Managing Director of the firm's investment activities and private equity business. From 1996 to 2003, Mr. Dillon served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of International Paper, and prior to that, he served as that company's President and Chief Operating Officer for one year. Mr. Dillon's professional affiliations include Chairman of the Board of Directors of TestEquity, LLC and membership on the Board of Directors of Davis Petroleum Corp., Vertis, Inc., Specialty Products & Insulation Co., Caterpillar, Inc., Kellogg Company, and DuPont. Mr. Dillon also served as Chairman of the Business Roundtable, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, and Chairman of the Board of the American Forest and Paper Association. He was a member of the President's Advisory Council on Trade Policy and Negotiations and The Business Council. Mr. Dillon also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Council on Economic Education. Mr. Dillon received his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Hartford and a Master's Degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.


WILLIAM O. HILTZ

William Hiltz is a Senior Managing Director of the corporate advisory business and is a member of Evercore Partners' Management Committee. In addition, Mr. Hiltz has management responsibility for all of the firm's investment management businesses. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Hiltz was Head of the Global Energy Group at UBS Warburg, and prior to UBS' acquisition of Dillon Read & Co. Inc., Head of the Energy Group at Dillon Read since 1995. From 1982 to 1995, Mr. Hiltz was a Managing Director at Smith Barney where at various times he headed the Energy Group, the High Yield and Merchant Banking Group, the Transportation Group and the General Industrial Group. Mr. Hiltz has 32 years of experience in the investment banking business, beginning in 1976 when he first joined Dillon Read. Since joining Evercore, Mr. Hiltz has advised General Mills on the acquisition of Pillsbury, the divestiture of its interest in Ice Cream Partners and the divestiture of its interest in SVE to PepsiCo. He has advised CVS on its acquisition of Eckerd, its acquisition of Albertson's free standing drugstores and its recently completed $28 billion merger with Caremark. He has also advised EDS on the sale of UGS PLM and on its $14 billion sale to Hewlett-Packard, Swiss Re on its acquisition of GE's reinsurance business, Tyco on its split-up into three separately traded companies, Credit Suisse on its sale of Winterhur, Novelis on its sale to Hindalco and Aquila on its sale to Great Plains. Mr. Hiltz is a former Director of Energy Partners, Ltd. He is a former Trustee of the Salisbury School and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Lenox Hill Hospital. He received a B.A. in History and Government from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.


WILLEM MESDAG

Willem Mesdag is the Founder and Managing Director of Red Mountain Capital Partners LLC. He was previously a Senior Advisor at the Davis Companies, Mr. Marvin Davis' family office and holding company. Mr. Mesdag joined the Davis Companies in March 2002 where he managed the firm's current investments and evaluated new ventures. Mr. Mesdag was also a Partner and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and Co. and worked for 20 years in New York, London, Frankfurt, and Los Angeles. He worked in the U.S.A., the U.K. and Germany having co-founded Goldman Sachs' Capital Markets Group in 1982, Asset Securitization Group in 1986, and its European Financial Institutions Group in 1989. Mr. Mesdag is the Chairman at Red Mountain Capital Management Inc., his family investment company. He is also a Director at Encore Capital Group, Harvard-Westlake School, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Mr. Mesdag is a Director at 3I Group plc. He also serves as a Director and Trustee at Scripps College. Mr. Mesdag is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He was also the Vice Chairman of the Board at Skandia and Advisory Director at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Mr. Mesdag is a graduate of Northwestern University and the Cornell Law School.





INVESTORS

EVERCORE PARTNERS

Established in 1996, Evercore Partners is a leading investment management business which manages private equity and venture capital funds on behalf of a broad range of institutional and high net worth investors. Evercore's private equity funds are value-oriented and focus on making controlling or influential minority investments in a range of growth-oriented companies in the middle market. Evercore's business model is based on partnering with exceptional management teams and adding value to its portfolio companies through a combination of operating, financial and deal-structuring expertise. Since the formation of Evercore's investment management business, the firm manages and has committed over $1.2 billion in investments, including Davis Petroleum.

The firm serves a diverse set of clients and investors around the world from their offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Mexico City and Monterrey.

SANKATY ADVISORS

Sankaty Advisors is the credit affiliate of Bain Capital, one of the world's leading private investment firms, with approximately $40 billion in assets under management, whose family of funds includes private equity, venture capital, public equity and leveraged debt assets. With approximately $17 billion in committed capital, Sankaty invests in a wide variety of securities and investments, including leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, distressed/stressed debt, mezzanine debt, structured products and equities. Sankaty Advisors has the ability to invest in a company's capital structure at every level, from secured debt to equity, and can also provide capital to growing companies with unique financing needs.

RED MOUNTAIN CAPITAL PARTNERS

Red Mountain Capital Partners, headquartered in Los Angeles, is a private investment firm dedicated to investing in small capitalization public and private companies with a private equity approach. Red Mountain acquires strategic or control stakes in public companies and participates in negotiated private equity transactions on a select basis. The firm was established by Willem Mesdag, a former Partner of Goldman Sachs & Co. and head of its Los Angeles office.




 

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