Company: PED
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001654954-25-003703
Chunk: 1275

Company: PEDEVCO CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1B
Chunk 1275
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 2025. (4)Previously Chairman of the Board through December 31, 2025. Has served as a member of the Board of Directors since July 2018. (5)Has served as a member of the Board of Directors since September 2018.

There is no arrangement or understanding between our directors and executive officers and any other person pursuant to which any director or officer was or is to be selected as a director or officer, and there is no arrangement, plan or understanding as to whether non-management shareholders will exercise their voting rights to continue to elect the current Board of Directors (the “Board”). There are also no arrangements, agreements or understandings to our knowledge between non-management shareholders that may directly or indirectly participate in or influence the management of our affairs.

Business Experience

The following is a brief description of the business experience and background of our current directors and executive officers. There are no family relationships among any of the directors or executive officers.

Dr. Simon G. Kukes, Executive Chairman of the Company's Board of Directors (Director since July 2018 and Executive Chairman since January 2025)

Dr. Simon G. Kukes is a global investor and executive with over 40 years’ experience in the oil industry. He recently served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company from July 2018 until January 2025, when he stepped down and assumed the position of Executive Chairman of the Board of the Company. He also previously served as the principal of his personal investment company, SK Energy LLC, from April 2013 until its dissolution in December 2022. From January 2005 to April 2013, Dr. Kukes was an investor and CEO of Samara-Nafta, a joint venture with the U.S.-based international oil company Hess Corporation, and from 2003 to 2004 he served as CEO and Chairman of Yukos Oil Company. From 1998 until it combined with British Petroleum in 2003 to create TNK-BP, Dr. Kukes served as Chief Executive of Tyumen Oil Company (TNK). From 1979 to 1986 he served as Technical Director and Vice President of Business Development for Phillips Petroleum and Amoco. Dr. Kukes (who is a dual citizen of the United States and Israel) currently serves on the board of directors and is an investor in numerous international companies, including Leverate Technological Trading Ltd., an Israel-based technology company and trading platform provider (since October 2014 and as Chairman