Calgary, AB, Canada - Dan Botterill, Equal's outgoing chairman of the board, announces its board of director nominees for Equal's annual and special meeting of stockholders to be held on May 13, 2013.
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The three new board of director nominees are: Lee Canaan, Michael Coffman and Kyle Travis.
Ms. Canaan has more than 33 years of professional experience in both oil and gas operations, capital markets and investment management.
Ms. Canaan has worked for three major oil companies, one of the ten largest global mutual fund families, and is currently the founding partner and portfolio manager of a private investment management firm.
She began her career working as a petroleum geophysicist for eight years with Amoco in Houston.
Post-MBA, Ms. Canaan was a money manager and corporate finance professional at ARCO's Corporate Treasury in Los Angeles before joining AIM Management in Houston.
Currently, Ms. Canaan manages a "special situations" investment fund and has served on the executive team of a private equity firm in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
In 2009, the US Department of Energy recognized Ms. Canaan as a Geothermal Energy and Financial Valuation Expert for the purpose of reviewing public and private sector loans, grants, and awards.
Ms. Canaan has previously served as a director of two publicly-traded companies.
She has a B.S. in Geological Sciences from the University of Southern California, M.S. in Geophysics from the University of Texas in Austin, M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
She is a former member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
Mr. Coffman is President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Panhandle Oil and Gas Inc.
He has been employed by Panhandle since 1990 serving as Treasurer, Chief Financial Officer, Co-President and, since 2007, President and CEO.
Mr. Coffman graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1975 with a Bachelors' degree in Business Administration and worked in public accounting for three years before becoming involved with companies in the oil and gas industry.
Mr. Coffman is a member of the Associates of the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University, a member of the Independent Petroleum Association of America and the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association.
He is an advisory board member of The Bank of Oklahoma - Oklahoma City and in January 2013 was appointed to serve a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma City Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
Mr. Travis is a Petroleum Engineer with 34 years of diversified experience in the oil and gas industry.
He has a proven record of effectively building oil and gas companies from infancy to significance.
Mr. Travis is experienced in all phases of petroleum engineering, including economic evaluations, reservoir, drilling, completion, and production engineering.
His management experience includes both companies that have grown via drilling prospects and others through acquisitions.
In addition to being President of Patriot Resources, LLC, Mr. Travis currently teaches international and domestic completion and operations classes for Petroskills throughout the world.
He has a B.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. ■