Company: PED
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001654954-25-003703
Chunk: 1731

Company: PEDEVCO CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 4
Chunk 1731
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 NYSE-listed Parker Drilling Company), a global provider of contract drilling and drilling-related services.

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Dr. Kukes holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, a PhD in Physical Chemistry, and he attended Rice University in Houston, Texas, where he was a Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Kukes has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Delaware and on the Editorial Board of Fuel Magazine, and is also the holder of more than 130 U.S. patents. Dr. Kukes has been recognized for many of achievements over his lifetime, including being voted by the Wall Street Journal as one of the Top 10 Central European Executives in 1999, and named by The Financial Times and PricewaterhouseCoopers as one of the 64 most respected business leaders in the world in 2003.

J. Douglas Schick, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (President since August 2018 and Chief Executive Officer and Director since January 2025)

Mr. Schick has over twenty-five years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Prior to joining the Company as President on August 1, 2018, followed by his appointment as Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Company in January 2025, Mr. Schick was employed by American Resources, Inc., a Houston, Texas-based privately-held oil and gas investment, development and operating company which he co-founded and continues to serve as Chief Executive Officer (from August 2017 to the present) and formerly as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Business Development (from August 2013 to August 2017), provided that Mr. Schick’s service to American Resources requires only minimal time commitment from Mr. Schick that does not conflict with his duties and responsibilities to the Company. Prior to starting American Resources, Mr. Schick served as the founder, owner and principal of J. Douglas Enterprises, a Houston, Texas-based energy industry focused business development and financial consulting firm (from June 2011 to August 2013) as Vice President of Finance (from January 2011 until its sale in June 2011) for Highland Oil and Gas, a private equity-backed E&P company headquartered in Houston, Texas, as Manager of Planning and then Director of Planning at Houston, Texas-based Mariner Energy, Inc. (from December 2006 until its merger with Apache Corp. in December 2010), and in various roles of increasing responsibility in finance, planning, M&A,