Company: VGASW
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-020032
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Company: Verde Clean Fuels, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 November 2023. Mr. Hébert earned a Juris Doctorate from the Mississippi College School of Law and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Mississippi. We believe Mr. Hébert’s extensive experience in corporate governance and regulatory matters qualify him to serve on the Board.

#### Ron Hulme
, 67, has served as Chairman of the Board since February 2023. Mr. Hulme currently serves as the chief executive officer of Parallel Resource Partners, an energy-focused private equity firm jointly sponsored by Carlson Capital LP and Bluescape Resources Company, where he has served since February 2011, and as the managing director of Bluescape Energy Partners, a successor institutional private equity firm that invests in both upstream energy and electric power, where he has served in various leadership roles since August 2015. Parallel Resource Partners raised an institutional fund in 2021 and Mr. Hulme continues to manage the fund’s portfolio of upstream energy assets. Mr. Hulme formerly served as a senior partner at McKinsey & Company (“

#### McKinsey
”) from 1982 to 2008, a 26-year career. He led several of McKinsey’s global energy practices and led the firm’s client relationships with several leading energy companies. Mr. Hulme also co-founded and co-led McKinsey’s Global Corporate Finance Practice, which established the firm’s M&A Advisory and Private Equity Practices. He led McKinsey’s Global Strategy Practice, and he founded and led the firm’s Global Risk Practice. In these roles, Mr. Hulme advised dozens of the firm’s clients on financial restructurings, operational turnaround, major M&A transactions and risk mitigation strategies across a wide range of industries. Mr. Hulme left McKinsey in 2008 to become the chief executive officer of Carlson Capital LP, a multi-strategy hedge fund with approximately $5.0 billion of assets under management and $20.0 billion of gross market value. Mr. Hulme was also head of energy at Carlson Capital LP, overseeing a portfolio with approximately $2.0 billion gross market value of energy investments in public equities, credit and private equity. Mr. Hulme earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas, where he graduated first in his class, and earned a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. We believe Mr. Hulme’s extensive experience in business qualifies him