Company: PED
Filing Date: 2025-10-29
Form Type: 10-K/A
Source: 0001654954-25-012328
Chunk: 173

Company: PEDEVCO CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-29
Form: 10-K/A
Chunk 173
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 be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur due to human error or mistake. Additionally, controls, no matter how well designed, could be circumvented by the individual acts of specific persons within the organization. The design of any system of controls is also based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated objectives under all potential future conditions.

Attestation Report of the Registered Public Accounting Firm

This report does not include an attestation report of our registered public accounting firm regarding our internal controls over financial reporting. Under SEC rules, such attestation is not required for smaller reporting companies such as the Company.

ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION.

(b) Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plans.During the quarter ended December 31, 2024, none of the Company’s directors or officers (as defined in Rule 16a-1(f)) or any contract, instruction or written plan for the purchase or sale of Company securities that was intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c) or any “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement.”

ITEM 9C. DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS.

Not applicable.

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ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.

Information about our Executive Officers and Directors

The following table sets forth the name, age and position held by each of our executive officers and directors. Directors are elected for a period of one year and thereafter serve until the next annual meeting at which their successors are duly elected by the shareholders or until such director’s resignation or removal.

| Name               |     | Age |     | Position                                                   |
| Dr. Simon G. Kukes |     |  78 |     | Executive Chairman of the Company's Board of Directors (1) |
| J. Douglas Schick  |     |  49 |     | President and Chief Executive Officer and Director (2)     |
| Paul Pinkston      |     |  57 |     | Chief Accounting Officer                                   |
| Clark R. Moore     |     |  52 |     | Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary    |
| Jody D. Crook      |     |  48 |     | Chief Commercial Officer (3)                               |
| John J. Scelf