Company: PED
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001654954-25-003703
Chunk: 2420

Company: PEDEVCO CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 9
Chunk 2420
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2025)

Mr. Crook has over twenty-five years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Prior to his appointment as Chief Commercial Officer of the Company effective January 1, 2025, Mr. Crook served as a Senior Advisor for Land and Business Development activities for the Company, both as an employee and consultant, since April 2020. Before his tenure at the Company, in 2015 Mr. Crook co-founded Tenet Advisory Group LLC, a Houston-based consulting firm that provides engineering, land, regulatory, and business development services to clients in the oil and gas sector, for which Mr. Crook continues to serve as a principal and provide limited consulting services to, provided that Mr. Crook’s service to Tenant Advisory Group and its clients requires only a minimal time commitment from Mr. Crook and does not conflict with his duties and responsibilities to the Company. Additionally, from 2017 to 2018, Mr. Crook co-founded and served as principal of Bronze Four Resources, LLC, an Austin, Texas-based contract operating company focused on contract drilling, completion, and production operations in the Anadarko basins. Prior to establishing Tenet Advisory Group and Bronze Four Resources, Mr. Crook held various leadership roles at Jones Energy, Ltd., a public oil and gas company in Austin, Texas, from June 2004 to December 2014. His positions included Land Manager, Senior Vice President of Land, Senior Vice President for the Arkoma Region, and Senior Vice President of Acquisitions & Exploration. Mr. Crook began his career in Enron Corp’s Analyst and Associates Program, where he completed rotations in Risk Management and Global LNG from January 2000 to November 2001. 

Mr. Crook holds a BBA in Finance & PLM from the University of Oklahoma and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

John J. Scelfo, Director (Director since July 2018)

Mr. Scelfo brings over 40 years of experience in oil and gas management, finance and accounting to the PEDEVCO Board. Mr. Scelfo currently serves as principal and owner of JJS Capital Group, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based family investment company that he formed in April 2014. Prior to forming JJS Capital, Mr. Scelfo was Senior Vice President, Finance and Corporate Development (from February 2004 to March 2014), and Chief Financial Officer, Worldwide Exploration & Producing (from April 2003 to January