Company: PED
Filing Date: 2025-07-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001654954-25-007979
Chunk: 69

Company: PEDEVCO CORP
Filing Date: 2025-07-11
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 69
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 companies, including Range Resources Corporation, Apache Corporation, and Amoco Corporation (from 1982 to 1999). Mr. Howie holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, from New Mexico State University, and is a Registered Professional Engineer in Texas.  The board of directors believes that Mr. Howie’s over 40 years’ experience in engineering, management and finance in the energy industry, and the insights he has gained from his experiences, will provide crucial guidance for our management and operations. |

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| H. DOUGLAS EVANS (AGE 77) DIRECTORCHAIRMAN OF THE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND NOMINATING COMMITTEEMEMBER OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEEMEMBER OF THE COMPENSATION COMMITTEEDirector since September 2018 |

| Mr. Evans has 50 years of oil and gas industry experience, 40 years of which have been spent in various executive management positions with Gulf Interstate Engineering Company (“GIE”), a privately-held Houston, Texas-based firm specializing in the engineering of oil, gas and liquid pipeline systems, where he has served as Honorary Chairman since November 2017, and previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer (July 2004-November 2017), President (February 2003-November 2017), Senior Vice President (September 1994-July 2004), and in various other roles since he joined the company in 1978. During Mr. Evans’ tenure as an executive at GIE, he has successfully overseen the company’s organic growth from $25 million in sales in 1996 to over $250 million in sales in recent years, with GIE involved in almost every major onshore oil and gas pipeline in the world over the last 20 years. Mr. Evans holds a B.S. Civil Engineering and Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, and is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario and Alberta, Canada. Mr. Evans currently serves as Honorary Chairman of GIE (since November 2017), and previously a member of the Board of Directors of Gulf Interstate Field Services, a GIE affiliate engaged in providing oil and gas pipeline construction inspection services, and a number of other GIE affiliated companies, the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Strategy Committee for the International Pipe Line and Offshore Contractors Association (IPLOCA) (through September 2019), a member of the Board of Houston, Texas-based Crossroads School, Inc. (since 2004