Company: PED
Filing Date: 2025-07-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001654954-25-007979
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Company: PEDEVCO CORP
Filing Date: 2025-07-11
Form: DEF 14A
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 degree from the University of Houston. Mr. Pinkston is a Certified Public Accountant registered in the State of Texas.

Clark R. Moore, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Mr. Moore has served as the Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of Pacific Energy Development since its inception in February 2011, and has served as the Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of the Company since its acquisition of Pacific Energy Development in July 2012. Mr. Moore began his career in 2000 as a corporate attorney at the law firm of Venture Law Group located in Menlo Park, California, which later merged into Heller Ehrman LLP in 2003. In 2004, Mr. Moore left Heller Ehrman LLP and launched a legal consulting practice focused on representation of private and public company clients in the energy and high-tech industries. In September 2006, Mr. Moore joined Erin Energy Corporation (OTCMKTS:ERN) (formerly CAMAC Energy, Inc.), an independent energy company headquartered in Houston, Texas, as its acting General Counsel and continued to serve in that role through February 2011, when he left to serve as a co-founder of Pacific Energy Development. In addition, since June 1, 2018, Mr. Moore has served as a partner at Foundation Law Group, LLP.

Mr. Moore received his J.D. with Distinction from Stanford Law School and his B.A. with Honors from the University of Washington.

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Jody D. Crook,Chief Commercial Officer

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