CORPORATE STRUCTURE

• Board of Directors
• Executive Committee
• Management Team

José Antonio Cañedo White-Chairman

Mr. Cañedo has 25 years of experience in investment banking, corporate finance and capital markets transactions. He was Chairman of the Board of Grupo Televicentro, the controlling holding company of Grupo Televisa, Mexico´s largest television company. Mr. Cañedo also acted as Director of Capital Markets and Investment Banking for Nacional Financiera ("Nafin"), Mexican largest development bank, being responsible for Nafin´s equity portfolio.

Mr. Cañedo has substantial experience in industry roll ups and acquiring closely / family held businesses.


Gonzalo Gil White

Mr. Gil is the CEO of Oro Negro. He is also Founding Partner of Navix and President of its Executive Committee as well as Managing Partner at Axis Capital Management, a private investment firm.

Mr. Gil was the CEO of Navix and prior to that established several funding vehicles such as Navitas Investments, BV and Artro Holdings, BV, which have financed more than US$1 billion in projects in the oil & gas industry since 2005. Before joining Axis, he worked at Equity Group Investments, the investment arm of Sam Zell, where he was Vice-President for Latin America and oversaw corporate and real estate investments throughout the region. He also worked in the Latin America M&A and corporate finance division of Goldman Sachs & Co and was a founding member of Banamex´s structured finance division.

Mr. Gil received an MBA from Stanford University and a Law degree from ITAM.


Luis Ramírez Corzo y Hernández

Mr. Ramírez Corzo has over 30 years of experience in the energy sector and has served as an industry consultant for multiple international companies.

From 2004 to 2006 he was CEO of PEMEX, where his strategic initiatives were centered on the opening to the private sector participation of the Mexican Oil & Gas, the change of the PEMEX fiscal regime and the establishment of a new corporate governance of the Company. From 2001 to 2004 he was CEO of PEMEX Exploration and Production Division.

Previously, he was focused on the private sector, where he directed and participated in several national and international companies related to the Oil & Gas Industry such as Nova Corporation, Caterpillar Inc., and Solar Turbines Inc.

Mr. Ramirez Corzo has a bachelor degree in petroleum engineering from UNAM, a MS degree at Louisiana State University and a Management Master´s degree from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México ("ITAM") in Mexico City.


Lorenzo González Bosco

Mr. González Bosco joined Temasek in April 2008 as Managing Director, based in Mexico City. He heads Temasek´s investment activities in Spanish speaking Latin America. Mr. González Bosco currently serves also on the Board of Directors of Banco del Bajío, Supraterra and Pangea. Prior to joining Temasek, Mr. González Bosco was the Chairman and CEO of Barclays Capital Mexico, where he had direct responsibility for all investment banking activities.

He began his career with Citibank in 1985 through the Executive Training Program and subsequently joined Bank of America in 1987, where he opened its banking subsidiary in Mexico. Mr. González Bosco was with Bank of America for 14 years and was the Head of Corporate and Investment Banking. Thereafter, he was a business partner and co-investor at Advent International, the Boston-based private equity fund, before joining Barclays in 2002.

Mr. González Bosco holds an MBA from ITAM and a Bachelor´s degree (Business Administration) from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. He also graduated from the Program for Management Development at Harvard Business School.


Roberto Rocha López

Mr. Rocha joined Temasek in 2008. Based in Mexico City, he is Director of Investments for Spanish speaking Latin America. Mr. Rocha serves also on the Board of Directors of Supraterra and Pangea.

Prior to joining Temasek, Mr. Rocha was with Morgan Stanley based in Mexico City, as Vice-President of Investment Banking. Previously, he was part of JPMorgan´s Industrial and Transportation Investment Banking team, based in NY. Earlier, he was part of UBS´ Latin American Investment Banking team, based in NY.

Mr. Rocha received his Bachelor´s degree (Accounting & Finance) from ITAM, and an MBA from New York University´s Stern School of Business.


Nathan Whitecloud Walton

Mr. Walton is a Principal in the Private Equity Group and joined Ares Management LLC in 2006. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Stream Global Services, Inc., Plasco Energy Group.

Mr. Walton graduated from Princeton University with a BA in Politics and received an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.


Kevin Andrew Frankel

Mr. Frankel is a Transaction Partner in the Ares Private Equity Group where he focuses on transaction structure, negotiation, deal execution and portfolio company management. Mr. Frankel joined Ares in 2003 as Ares Management´s General Counsel.

Prior to joining Ares, Mr. Frankel was Senior Vice President-Operations and General Counsel of Aurora National Life Assurance Company, was a Partner in the law firm of Irell & Manella, President in its corporate securities group and specializing in mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Frankel received his BA from UCLA and his Juris Doctorate from the UCLA School of Law, where he was awarded a John M. Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics for academic achievement and graduated Order of the Coif.


Kevin Ryan

Mr. Ryan is a Vice President in the Ares Private Equity Group. He serves on the board of directors for Oro Negro and Marietta Corporation.

Prior to joining Ares, Mr. Ryan was with Credit Suisse, where he participated in the execution of a variety of transactions including leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, dividend recapitalizations and debt and equity financings, principally focusing on the business services and diversified industrial sectors.

Mr. Ryan graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Notre Dame with a BBA in Finance.


Frederick J. Warren

Mr. Warren co-founded Brentwood Associates which became a leading venture capital investment firm in the West Coast in the U.S. In 1984, Mr. Warren initiated and led Brentwood´s formal entry into the leveraged buyout business and its evolution as a private equity investment firm. In 2000, he formed Sage Venture Partners, LLC a venture capital fund. Mr. Warren also serves on the Board of Directors of Ooyala, Root Metrics, Slingshot Sports, Aviesta, NeoMedix and Everest Sciences.

Previously, Mr. Warren was President and CEO of Westland Capital Corporation (a venture capital investment firm) and General Television, Inc. (a leveraged buyout/roll up in the cable television industry). Mr. Warren was a founding Board Member of the National Venture Capital Association, has served on the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and serves on the Board of Overseers of Penn´s Engineering School. Mr. Warren holds an Engineering degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Wharton School.


Bernard Lambilliote

Mr. Lambilliote has overall responsibility for all funds at Ecofin Limited. He is also a non-Executive Director of Hamon et Cie (international) S.A. and an alternate Director of EW&PO plc., the London Stock Exchange listed investment company managed by Ecofin Limited which invests globally across the utility, energy and infrastructure sectors.

Prior to co-founding Ecofin Limited in 1992, Mr. Lambilliote was an investment manager with Pictet & Cie., private bankers, in Geneva and London where he was responsible for the development of sector funds. Previously, Mr. Lambilliote was an investment banker with Swiss Bank Corporation in London and Paris. Earlier, he was with Drexel Brunham Lambert in London and Hamon et Cie S.A., an international power engineering group, based in Brussels. Mr. Lambilliote is a trustee of the Ecofin Research Foundation, a UK registered charity which aims to promote the development of sustainable, low carbon solutions. Mr. Lambilliote graduated from the Université Libre de Bruxelles with a degree in engineering and from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France where he received an MBA degree.


Pablo Mijares Ortega

Mr. Mijares has been a Partner of the law firm of Mijares, Angoitia, Cortes y Fuentes, S.C. since its formation in 1994. Mr. Mijares has ample experience in mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions, structuring of private equity funds and implementing of private equity investments and divestitures in Mexican target companies, corporate and structure finance, and insurance work.

He serves on the Board of various companies and advises buyers, sellers and investors, on an on-going basis, in complex merger, acquisition, divestiture, and joint venture transactions, as well as in the strategic planning of specific projects.

Mr. Mijares has extensive experience in cross-border and international transactions, which account for most of his work today. He has actively participated in several sales and purchases of equity or equity-related securities in Mexican insurers, as well as in the sale of highly valuable assets owned or controlled by Mexican governmental agencies.

Mr. Mijares was admitted to practice law in Mexico in 1991 after receiving a law degree from ITAM, and worked as a foreign lawyer at White & Case in New York.

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