Laird Cagan

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Mr. Cagan currently serves as a Director of the Company. He is an Angel Investor. He is also the Managing Director and co-founder of Cagan McAfee Capital Partners, LLC, (CMCP), a private investment firm and merchant bank, as well as its predecessor firm, Cagan Capital, LLC. In the '90s, Cagan Capital invested in and helped build 15 high-tech companies with over $500 million of equity capital invested in those companies. He is also the founder and serves as Board Member at MoneyOnMobile. Since 2000, CMCP has founded, funded and taken public 10 companies in a variety of industries including energy, alternative energy, healthcare, information technologies and environmental. CMCP portfolio companies have raised over $600 million of equity capital and over $2 billion of capital has been invested in those companies or their projects. Prior to working for CMCP, he was the Founder/Chairman of Evolution Petroleum Corporation ("EPM"), which develops mature oil & gas fields with advanced technologies, and was a former founding director of AE BioFuels ("AEBF") and Pacific Asia Petroleum ("PAP"). He is also a Registered Representative of Colorado Financial Services Corporation ("CFSC"; Member FINRA/SIPC) and holds Series 7, 63 and 24 licenses. Additionally, he previously worked for two of the largest investment banks in the world, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Drexel Burnham Lambert. In all, he was involved in over 30 transactions valued at more than $15 billion.