Christopher Sorrells

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Mr. Christopher Sorrells served as our Chief Executive Officer, Director and Board Member at Wellsite Fishing & Rental Services. He served as Lead Independent Director at Renewable Energy Group. He serves as Board Member at NuScale. He also serves as Managing Director at Pearl Energy Investments. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Spring Valley Acquisition II. He has been an investor, operator, advisor and board member in the Sustainability industry for over 20 years. He served as Lead Director and Chairman of the Compensation Committee for Renewable Energy Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: REGI), having previously served as Vice Chairman of its board. Previously, He served as a Managing Director and then as an Operating Partner of NGP ETP, an affiliate of NGP, a leading energy private equity fund with $20 billion of assets under management, which he helped grow into one of the most successful Sustainability-focused private equity funds. He and/or his former firms including NGP ETP have invested in a broad range of companies across the Sustainability industry, including Renewable Energy Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: REGI), Power-One, Inc. (formerly Nasdaq: PWER), Caminus Corporation (formerly Nasdaq: CAMZ), Waste Resource Management, Inc., TPI Composites, Inc. (Nasdaq: TPIC) and others. In addition to leading investments, he has held a number of board positions for numerous public and private firms, including groSolar (which was later sold to EDF Renewables Inc.), GSE Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: GVP) and Living Earth (which was later sold to Bain Capital Double Impact). As an operator, he has held a variety of senior executive leadership roles at Sustainability-focused companies including serving as Chief Operating Officer and Director of GSE Systems, Inc. He started his career in the energy, power and Sustainability industries as an investment banker at Salomon Smith Barney in 1996 and later at Banc of America Securities LLC where he created one of the first Sustainability-focused investment banking teams in 2000. He received his Master of Accounting from University of Southern California, an M.B.A. from The College of William and Mary and a B.A. from Washington and Lee University.