Tri-Valley Corporation Officers & Directors
F. Lynn Blystone - President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Tri-Valley Corporation
Bakersfield, California
ENERGY / OIL & GAS OPERATIONS
Officer since July 1981
Director since 1974
68 years old
Whittier College
Mr. Blystone became president of Tri-Valley Corporation in October, 1981, and was nominally vice president from July to October, 1981. His background includes institution management, venture capital and various management functions for a mainline pipeline contractor including the Trans Alaska Pipeline Project. He has founded, run and sold companies in several fields including Learjet charter, commercial construction, municipal finance and land development. He is also president of a family corporation, Bandera Land Company, Inc., with real estate interests in Kern, Riverside and Orange Counties California. A graduate of Whittler College, California, he did graduate work at George Williams College, Illinois in organization management. He gives full time to Tri-Valley.
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Joseph R Kandle - President and Chief Operating Officer- TVOG
Tri-Valley Corporation
Bakersfield, California
ENERGY / OIL & GAS OPERATIONS
Officer since June 1998
61 years old
Mr. Kandle was named as president of Tri-Valley Oil & Gas Co. February 1999 after joining the Company June 1998 as vice president - engineering. From 1995 to 1998 he was employed as a petroleum engineer for R & R Resources, self-employed as a consulting petroleum engineer from 1994 to 1995. He was vice president - engineering for Atlantic Oil Company from 1983 to 1994. From 1981 to 1983 he was vice president for Star Resources. He was vice president and chief engineer for Great Basins Petroleum from 1973 to 1981. He began his career with Mobil Oil (from 1965 to 1973) after graduating from the Montana School of Mines in 1965.
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Milton J Carlson - Director
Tri-Valley Corporation
Bakersfield, California
ENERGY / OIL & GAS OPERATIONS
Director since 1985
73 years old
Since 1989, Mr. Carlson has been a principal in Earthsong Corporation, which, in part, consults on environmental matters and performs environmental audits for government agencies and public and private concerns. Mr. Carlson attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Denver.
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Thomas J Cunningham - Chief Financial Officer, Secretary, Treasurer
Tri-Valley Corporation
Bakersfield, California
ENERGY / OIL & GAS OPERATIONS
Officer since February 1997
61 years old
Angelo State University
Mr. Cunningham was named as Tri-Valley Corporation's treasurer and chief financial officer in February 1997, and as corporate secretary on December 1998. From 1987 to 1997 he was a self employed management consultant in finance, marketing and human resources. Prior to that he was executive vice president, chief financial officer and director for Star Resources from 1977 to 1987. He was the controller for Tucker Drilling Company from 1974 to 1977. He has over 25 years experience in corporate finance, Securities Exchange Commission public company reporting, shareholder relations and employee benefits. He received his education from Angelo State University, Texas.
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C. Chase Hoffman - Director
Tri-Valley Corporation
Bakersfield, California
ENERGY / OIL & GAS OPERATIONS
Director since 2000
81 years old
Stanford University
Since 1965 Mr. Hoffman has owned and operated a milk cow dairy and farmed 4,000 acres of land. Additionally, he has been a commercial and residential land developer in California and Hawaii since 1978. From 1973 to 1978 he was a senior vice president and general manager for Knudsen for the State of California. Mr. Hoffman also sits as a director for two companies whose shares are listed on the Canadian Venture Exchange: Seine River Resources, Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, with California gold operations and Guatemala oil properties, and International Powerhouse Energy Corporation, a British Columbia, Canada, hydroelectric project. He is a graduate of Stanford University with a degree in Economics and Business Administration from Graduate School of Business.
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Dennis P Lockhart - Director
CapitalSource, Inc.
Chevy Chase, Maryland
FINANCIAL / MISC. FINANCIAL SERVICES
Director since October 2003
57 years old
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Johns Hopkins University Master of Arts
Stanford University
Mr. Lockhart, 57, has served as a professor of international business and finance at Georgetown University since August 2003. Since 2001, Mr. Lockhart has also been a partner of Zephyr Management, L.P., a private investment firm. Prior to joining Zephyr, Mr. Lockhart was an executive vice president and a member of the board of directors of Heller Financial, Inc. Before joining Heller Financial, Mr. Lockhart spent 16 years in a variety of corporate finance and management positions at Citicorp. Mr. Lockhart serves on the board of directors of Tri-Valley Corporation, a company in the business of exploring, acquiring and developing petroleum and precious metals properties. Mr. Lockhart has been a member of our Board since October 2003.
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Loren J Miller - Director
Tri-Valley Corporation
Bakersfield, California
ENERGY / OIL & GAS OPERATIONS
Director since 1992
59 years old
University of Southern California Bachelor of Science in Accounting
University of Southern California Master of Business Administration in Finance
Mr. Miller has served in a treasury and other senior financial capacities at the Jankovich Company since 1994. Prior to that he served successively as vice president and chief financial officer of Hershey Oil Corporation from 1987 to 1990 and Mock Resources from 1991 to 1992. Prior to that he was vice president and general manager of Tosco Production Finance Corporation from 1975 to 1986 and was a senior auditor the accounting firm of Touche Ross & Company from 1968 to 1973. He is experienced in exploration, production, product trading, refining and distribution as well as corporate finance. He holds a B.S. in accounting and a M.B.A. in finance from the University of Southern California.
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Harold J Noyes, Ph.D. - Director
Tri-Valley Corporation
Bakersfield, California
ENERGY / OIL & GAS OPERATIONS
Director since March 2002
55 years old
University of Chicago Masters Degree in Business Administration
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Doctor of Philosophy in Geology university of Minnesota
Since August 2000, he has been president of H.J. Noyes and Associates, Inc., a firm that provides consulting and business development services to the minerals industry. Dr. Noyes is currently a senior program manager with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He served October 2001 through October 2002 as vice president, marketing and business development for Blake Street Investments, Inc., a money management and investment advisory firm. From 1997 to 2000 he was president of North Star Exploration, Inc. He was manager, resource development for Doyon Limited from 1983 to 1997. Dr. Noyes graduated from the University of Minnesota Magna C u m Laude in geology and took his Ph.D. in geology and geochemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Later he earned a Masters in Business Administration at the University of Chicago.
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