Company: VGASW
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-020032
Chunk: 18

Company: Verde Clean Fuels, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 18
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 director of AleAnna as well as the chairman of AleAnna’s audit committee since December 2024. Mr. Palmer served as an independent director, the chairman of the audit committee, a member of the nominating and compensation committees of Bluescape Opportunities Acquisition Corp. from October 2020 through November 2023. Additionally, he is the former chief financial officer of Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK), a leading global real estate services company, and served in this position from November 2014 to February 2021. From 2012 to 2014, Mr. Palmer served as the chief financial officer of RELX (NYSE: RELX), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools, and from 2007 to 2012, Mr. Palmer served as the chief financial officer of Owens Corning (NYSE: OC), a global manufacturer of building materials and fiber glass reinforcements. As chief financial officer, Mr. Palmer led Cushman & Wakefield’s initial public offering and oversaw all aspects of the company’s financial operations, including multiple corporate functions from treasury and investor relations to tax and internal audit. Mr. Palmer has extensive financial operations, transactional, and business development knowledge and experience through previous chief financial officer appointments at Cushman & Wakefield, RELX, Owens Corning and through his experience as a senior finance executive at Shell (formerly known as Royal Dutch Shell). Mr. Palmer’s extensive international business experience includes leadership of finance organizations ranging in size from 500 to 2,000 employees and encompasses multi-billion dollar capital allocation programs, merger integrations, debt offerings and share repurchase programs. His experience spans many segments of the energy, lubricants, materials, information services and real estate services sectors. Mr. Palmer also has deep transactional and business development experience, having overseen mergers and acquisitions execution, as well as corporate strategy. Mr. Palmer earned a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Master’s degree from St. John’s College Cambridge (UK). He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK). We believe Mr. Palmer’s extensive experience in business qualifies him to serve on the Board.

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#### Johnny Dossey
, 59, has served as the vice president of marketing at Diamondback Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: FANG) (“

#### Diamondback
”) since February 2022 and has led marketing and midstream efforts at Diamondback since