Company: PED
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form Type: 10-K/A
Source: 0001654954-25-012381
Chunk: 185

Company: PEDEVCO CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form: 10-K/A
Chunk 185
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| J. Douglas Schick      |     |                 |     |                        |     |                                               |     |             |
| John J. Scelfo         |     | C               |     | C                      |     | M                                             |     | X           |
| H. Douglas Evans       |     | M               |     | M                      |     | C                                             |     | X           |

C - Chairman of Committee.

M – Member.

(1) – Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Each of these committees has the duties described below and operates under a charter that has been approved by our Board of Directors. The Charters of our Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee are each incorporated by reference as Exhibits 99.4, 99.3 and 99.2, respectively, to this Annual Report and are posted on our website. Our website address is http://www.PEDEVCO.com. Information contained on our website is expressly not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report.

Audit Committee

The audit committee selects, on behalf of our Board of Directors, an independent public accounting firm to audit our financial statements, discusses with the independent auditors their independence, reviews and discusses the audited financial statements with the independent auditors and management, and recommends to the Board of Directors whether the audited financial statements should be included in our annual reports to be filed with the SEC. Mr. Scelfo serves as Chair of the Audit Committee and our Board of Directors has determined that Mr. Scelfo is an “audit committee financial expert” as defined under Item 407(d)(5) of Regulation S-K of the Exchange Act.

The Audit Committee also has various other responsibilities including: pre-approval of all audit and permitted non-audit and tax services that may be provided by the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm or by other accounting firms engaged by the Company; reviewing the Company’s annual audited financial statements and quarterly financial statements, including the notes to such financial statements, the draft annual audit report and the accompanying “management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations” with management and the independent registered public accounting firm prior to filing such financial statements with the SEC; reviewing the Company’s earnings press releases with management and the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm prior to the public dissemination of such press releases; meeting separately, and periodically, with the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Accounting Officer, members of the Company’s internal