Company: NOEMW
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001013762-25-004368
Chunk: 473

Company: CO2 Energy Transition Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1B
Chunk 473
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 and gas, farming, and real
estate interests. He was formerly the General Manager of George & Cynthia Mitchell Historic Galveston Properties. He started
his career with the audit group of Coopers & Lybrand where he focused on energy and real estate clients in the Houston office.
He holds FINRA investment banking and other securities registrations, in addition to Certified Public Accountant registrations in Texas
and Florida. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and holds the AICPA’s Chartered Global Management
Accountant (CGMA) designation. He obtained his BBA degree from Texas A&M University and his MS degree from Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT).

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Mike Lessard
Vice President of Business Development

Mr. Lessard serves as our
Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Lessard has served as a principal with Native States CCS, a CCS development company targeting
on-site geological storage for ethanol plants since February 2022. Prior to joining Native States, he served as a Development Manager
for Advance Energy Partners, LLC, a position he held from October 2018 through January 2022. Mr. Lessard obtained his BS degree in Petroleum
Engineering from Colorado School of the Mines.

Mark Mathews
General Counsel

Mr. Mathews serves
as the General Counsel. Mr. Mathews has been providing legal services for the energy industry for more than thirty (30) years.
He has an extensive oil and gas legal and business management career in the upstream, midstream and energy services industry. During
his career, Mr. Mathews has represented both publicly-traded and privately held clients and has advised numerous private equity
backed entities, as well as independent oil and gas firms including equity and debt offerings and merger and acquisition transactions, complex
corporate oil and gas litigation in state and federal courts, asset acquisitions, divestitures and reorganizations. Since October 2020,
Mr. Matthews has served as the President for Tanglewood Energy Partners, LLC. Prior to that, from June 2018 to September 2020,
he served as General Counsel for Churchill Oil & Gas, LLC and from August 2015 through September 2017, he served as
Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Copestone Energy. He served as Managing Attorney — Oil & Gas for
Denbury Resources, Inc. which included CO2 related asset acquisitions, pipeline issues and