Excelerate Energy EE

Steven M. Kobos has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of EELP since March 2018 and President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Excelerate since September 2021. Prior to his current role, Mr. Kobos served as a board member of EELP since 2017 and its counsel for the previous 11 years. Prior to joining EELP, Mr. Kobos formally supported our company as Managing Counsel with primary legal responsibility for EELP global projects, while also employed by Frederic Dorwart, Lawyers PLLC. Mr. Kobos earned a bachelor's degree and Juris Doctorate from the University of Oklahoma.

Dana A. Armstrong has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of EELP since April 2020 and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Excelerate since September 2021. Prior to joining EELP, from September 2015 to April 2020, Ms. Armstrong served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Scientific Drilling International, a leading energy services provider and manufacturer. Before joining Scientific Drilling International, between 2007 and 2015, Ms. Armstrong served in various leadership roles at ION Geophysical, a global provider of technology-driven geophysical solutions including as the Vice President and Treasurer from 2012 to 2015. Prior to that, Ms. Armstrong served in various senior financial leadership roles at Thermo Fisher Scientific, a world leader in serving science. Ms. Armstrong serves as a director of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation. Ms. Armstrong earned a bachelor's degree in accounting and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Houston. She is also a licensed Certified Public Accountant.

David A. Liner has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Excelerate since January 2023. Previously, Mr. Liner served as Vice President of Operations and Maintenance of EELP from August 2021 through December 2022. Prior to joining EELP, Mr. Liner served in various leadership roles over his 20-year career at SeaRiver Maritime, Inc., a U.S. marine transportation company and wholly owned subsidiary of ExxonMobil. These roles included the Americas Freight Trading Manager (2021), Americas Crude & Feedstocks Manager (2020), Planning & Strategy Manager (2018-2020), and the Chief Commercial and Planning Officer for Qatar Gas Transport Company Ltd. (Nakilat) (on secondment from ExxonMobil) (2015-2018). Mr. Liner also served in various roles for SeaRiver Maritime Inc. and ExxonMobil Development Company from 2001 to 2015, as an engineer for BMT Designs & Planners, Inc. from 2000 to 2001, and as an engineer for the American Bureau of Shipping from 1996 to 2000. Mr. Liner holds a bachelor's degree in Ocean Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology.

Oliver L. Simpson has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of Excelerate since November 2023. Mr. Simpson joined EELP in 2014 and has served in various roles, including as Vice President, Commercial of EELP from 2017 to 2023, where he was responsible for managing the commercial shipping business and supporting and executing a wide range of transactions on behalf of EELP. Prior to joining EELP in 2014, Mr. Simpson served in various roles at affiliates of Astrup Fearnley Group, an international ship brokering and consulting company, and was responsible for overseeing various roles in the LNG division, including the LNG chartering department. Between 2004 and 2008, Mr. Simpson served in various trading and risk positions within the Gas & Power division of Total Energies in London and Houston. Mr. Simpson earned a Master of Arts in Modern History from University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Alisa Newman Hood has served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of EELP since January 2021. Ms. Newman Hood has served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Excelerate since September 2021. Previously, Ms. Newman Hood served as General Counsel at ARTIC, a Qatari real estate holding company, between September 2017 and April 2019; Akfel Commodities, the largest private importer of natural gas in Turkey, between August 2016 and September 2017; and Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C., traded on the London Stock Exchange and one of the world's largest aluminium smelters, between December 2009 and October 2012. From 2012 to 2016, Ms. Newman Hood served as Senior Advisor to the U.S. Special Envoy for International Energy Affairs at the State Department. She began her legal career in the project finance and energy practice at White & Case LLP in New York and Washington. Ms. Newman Hood earned a bachelor's degree from Brown University and a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center, where she has been on the adjunct faculty teaching oil and gas law since 2007.

Paul T. Hanrahan joined Excelerate's board of directors in April 2022. Mr. Hanrahan serves as the Chairman of Cubico Sustainable Investments, a privately-owned world leader in providing renewable energy. Mr. Hanrahan previously served as Interim Chief Executive Officer and a director of Hygo Energy Transitions Ltd., a company that developed and operated integrated LNG-to-Power facilities globally, from October 2020 until its acquisition by New Fortress Energy in April 2021. Mr. Hanrahan served as the Chief Executive Officer of Globeleq Advisors Limited, an independent power producer operating and developing power projects in Africa, from September 2017 to December 2019. Mr. Hanrahan has served on Globeleq's board of directors since January 2020. Previously, Mr. Hanrahan served as the Chief Executive Officer of American Capital Energy & Infrastructure Management, LLC, an investment company formed to raise, invest and manage funds in the energy and infrastructure industries, from September 2012 until its acquisition by Ares Capital Corporation in December 2016. Mr. Hanrahan served as the President and Chief Executive Officer and as a director of The AES Corporation, an independent power producer, from June 2002 to September 2011. Mr. Hanrahan served as a director of Ingredion Inc. from March 2006 to October 2023. Mr. Hanrahan served as a director of BMR Energy, owned by Virgin, until BMR Energy was sold in December 2024, and Mr. Hanrahan serves as a board member for the Infrastructure Acceleration Fund (Africa 50). Mr. Hanrahan earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.

Deborah L. Byers joined Excelerate's board of directors in July 2022. Ms. Byers retired as a Partner from Ernst & Young LLP (EY), a multinational professional services partnership on July 1, 2022, after 36 years of service in Public Accounting, while holding multiple leadership roles. From July 2018 until her retirement, she was EY's Americas Industry Leader overseeing the market and growth strategy across its primary industry markets including Energy, Industrials & Automotive, Consumer, Technology, Telecom, Media & Entertainment, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Real Estate, Private Equity, and Government. Ms. Byers was EY's Houston Office Managing Partner and U.S. Energy Leader from July 2013 to July 2018 and Managing Partner of the Southwest Region Strategy & Transactions business unit from July 2008 to July 2013. In these roles, she was a leader in the global energy market and worked with corporations and investment funds in all phases of energy investment across the sector. She was admitted to the EY Partnership in October 1997 after joining the firm in July 1986. Ms. Byers has served as a director of Kinetik Holdings Inc., a midstream energy company, since July 2022, and of DTE, a public utility since May 2023. She previously served as a director of Civitas Resources, Inc., an upstream energy company, from February 2023 to Q1 2026. She also serves as a Senior Advisor to Veriten, an energy research and strategy firm. Ms. Byers holds a BBA from Baylor University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Nisha D. Biswal joined Excelerate's board of directors in January 2025. Ms. Biswal is a Partner at The Asia Group, an international strategic advisory firm, where she oversees the Middle East and South Asia practice areas as well as the Energy and Sustainability practice areas. Ms. Biswal previously served as the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), a development finance institution and agency of the United States federal government, a position she held from August 2023 through January 2025. In her position with DFC, Ms. Biswal oversaw operations and strategy supporting private-sector-led global projects in energy, infrastructure, health, agriculture, and climate and also ensured the adequacy of DFC's risk management and environmental and social compliance measures. From October 2017 to August 2023, Ms. Biswal was the Senior Vice President, International Strategy & Global Initiatives for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In her position with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Ms. Biswal led the U.S.-India Business Council and U.S.-Bangladesh Business Council, oversaw teams across multiple regions and managed cross-cutting measures. From 2013 to 2017, Ms. Biswal was the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs with the U.S. Department of State, and from 2010 to 2013, Ms. Biswal was the Assistant Administrator for Asia for the U.S. Agency for International Development. Ms. Biswal previously served as a director on the Board of two not-for-profit organizations, the National Democratic Institute (January 2022 to June 2023) and the Institute for Sustainable Communities (March 2017 to February 2021). Ms. Biswal holds a Bachelor of Arts, Arts & Sciences from the University of Virginia.

Tyler D. Todd joined Excelerate's board of directors in October 2024. Since 2023, Mr. Todd has served as Senior Vice President of Business Development at Kaiser-Francis and is also affiliated with other Kaiser-controlled entities in various senior capacities. From 2019 to 2023, Mr. Todd served as the Director of Business Development for Kaiser-Francis, and from 2015 to 2019, Mr. Todd served as an Associate in Business Development for Kaiser-Francis. Prior to joining Kaiser-Francis, Mr. Todd worked at WPX Energy where he held various petroleum engineering roles. Mr. Todd currently serves as a member of the industry advisory board for the Mewbourne School of Petroleum & Geologic Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Mr. Todd earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Oklahoma and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.

Don P. Millican has served as a member of the board of directors of EELP since 2008 and as a director of Excelerate since April 2022. Until his retirement in July 2024, Mr. Millican served as the Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Kaiser-Francis Oil Company (Kaiser-Francis), an upstream oil and gas company owned by Kaiser, our controlling stockholder, and was also affiliated with other Kaiser-controlled entities in various senior capacities. Prior to Kaiser-Francis, Mr. Millican was a partner in the international accounting firm of Ernst & Young, LLP between 1982 and 2003. Mr. Millican previously served as Chief Financial Officer of EELP from December 2003 to May 2008. Since October 2024, Mr. Millican has served on the Board of Directors of the George Kaiser Family Foundation. Mr. Millican is engaged in many civic activities, having served on the board of Community Action Project, Tulsa Educare, Inc., Neighbor for Neighbor, Oklahoma Policy Institute, Tulsa Neighborhood Networks and Crossover Community Impact. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of Oklahoma Christian University, having formerly served as Chairman. Mr. Millican serves as a director of Memjet, Ltd. and Memjet Home and Office, Inc. He is a Certified Public Accountant. He earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of North Texas.

Michael A. Bent has served as Vice President, Controller of EELP since May 2021 and Vice President, Controller of Excelerate since September 2021 and was appointed Chief Accounting Officer of Excelerate in January 2022. Prior to joining EELP, Mr. Bent served in various leadership positions at Exterran Corporation, a global systems and process company offering solutions in oil, gas, water and power markets, including as its Vice President Accounting, Tax and Treasurer, responsible for the company's accounting function, from September 2019 to April 2021, its Vice President Tax and Treasurer from March 2017 to September 2019 and its Vice President Finance and Treasurer from November 2015 to March 2017. Mr. Bent joined Exterran Corporation's predecessor Exterran Holdings, Inc. (now Archrock Inc. and previously Hanover Compressor Company) in 2001 and served in various accounting and finance roles at the company. Prior to joining Exterran, Mr. Bent served as Alpha Technologies Group's Corporate Controller. Mr. Bent has served as a director of Luzon LNG Terminals Inc. since 2023. He began his career in public accounting at Pannell Kerr Forster of Texas. He earned a bachelor's degree in accounting and finance from Loyola University, New Orleans and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant.

Robert A. Waldo has served as a member of the board of directors of EELP since 2014 and as a director of Excelerate since April 2022. Since 2016, Mr. Waldo has served as the President of Kaiser-Francis, and is also affiliated with other Kaiser-controlled entities in various senior capacities. From 2012 to 2015, Mr. Waldo was the Executive Vice President of Kaiser-Francis. Mr. Waldo has worked at Kaiser-Francis in various roles since 2004 and, in addition to the upstream oil and gas business, he is involved in various investment activities of Mr. Kaiser, including Cactus Drilling and multiple private and public equity investments. In April 2025, Mr. Waldo was elected to serve as a director of BOK Financial Corporation. Mr. Waldo served as a director of StepStone Group Inc. (including its predecessor) from 2007 to 2021. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Waldo worked as an associate at Evercore Partners, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments, and from 1998 to 2000, he was an analyst in the investment banking division of Merrill Lynch. Mr. Waldo earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a master's degree in business administration from Duke University.

Amy Thompson Broussard has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of EELP since December 2020. Ms. Thompson Broussard has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of Excelerate since September 2021. Prior to joining EELP between May 2018 and September 2020, Ms. Thompson Broussard served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of Apergy Corporation, a leading oil and gas technology and services company, and was responsible for establishing the company's human resources function, talent management processes, and executive compensation programs. Before that, between 2014 and 2018, Ms. Thompson Broussard served as Segment HR Vice President for Dover Energy, a segment of Dover Corporation, a diversified global manufacturer. Prior to that, between 1998 and 2014, she held various human resources roles within Baker Hughes, an international industrial service company and one of the world's largest oil field services companies, and she served as a Human Resources Advisor for Oxy Oil and Gas, a hydrocarbon exploration company. Ms. Thompson Broussard earned a bachelor's degree from Louisiana State University and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Dallas.