"Petro Vista Energy's management team represent on the ground regional experience, state-of-the-art geotechnical analysis, operations expertise, and specialties in mergers, acquisitions and financing" ~Read B. Taylor, President & CEO
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Strategic Advisors

GARY GUIDRY, Advisor

Gary Guidry draws on his extensive background of energy industry business management. Gary is currently President and CEO of Pearl Exploration and Production Ltd., and President and CEO of Tanganyika Oil Company Ltd. Formerly, Gary served as President and CEO of Calpine Natural Gas Trust, President of AEC (Encana) International, and in Senior Management positions at Nexxen, Benton Oil and Gas, and Occidental Petroleum Corporation. Gary holds a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering and is currently a Registered Professional Engineer in Alberta, Canada.

ANDY MIRKIN, Technical Advisor

Andy Mirkin is President and Founder of Rincon Energy LLC, a highly experienced and successful company actively involved in generating oil and gas prospects and developing fields around the world. Founded in 2001, Rincon has a team of professionals with more than 130 years of collective experience that takes an integrated approach to generating exploration opportunities using 3D seismic combined with geologic expertise. Rincon has extensive experience in seismic processing and currently performs in-house pre-stack time migration, and high-resolution velocity analysis and CDP gather conditioning for AVO interpretation. Andy has over 28 years experience in Asset Management, New Ventures, and E&P geology. He has worked with Shell Oil, Saga Petroleum, and Benton Oil & Gas Co.

RINCON ENERGY LLC, Strategic Advisors

In today's tight labor market, highly qualified geotechnical and engineering staff are often difficult if not impossible to obtain for growing independents. As part of our "technical excellence" strategy and commitment to reducing risk we have developed a long-term strategic alliance with Rincon Energy for professional support and state of the art geotechnical processing and workstation interpretation capabilities. Rincon Energy, LLC is actively involved in generating high impact oil and gas prospects and developing fields around the world. Rincon has extensive experience in seismic processing and currently performs in-house pre-stack time migration, and high-resolution velocity analysis and CDP gather conditioning for AVO interpretation. Using this unique inhouse capability and extensive experience base we can make better, more accurate and timely technical decisions leading to higher overall success rates.