John M. Brown - Chairman of the Board and Founder

John M. Brown the company’s founder, has been chairman of the board of directors since its organization in April 2000. He served as CEO until September 2004, and as president of Zion until October 2001. Mr. Brown has extensive management, marketing and sales experience, serving as corporate director of purchasing at GTE Valeron, a subsidiary of GTE Corporation from 1966 to 1986, and as corporate director of procurement at Magnetek, Inc. during 1988-89. Mr. Brown is also an officer and principal owner of M&B Holding Inc. a provider of cement walls and floors for industrial buildings, office buildings and home developers. Mr. Brown holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Fullerton College.

Richard Rinberg - Director, Chief Executive Officer

Richard Rinberg was appointed chief executive officer in March 2007. He has been a director since November 2004, and served as president since October 2005. Mr. Rinberg, a private investor since 1996, previously served as Managing Director of the Rinberg Group, a corporate group in the UK active in the casting of precious metals for the jewelry industry, jewelry manufacturing, property development and securities trading. Mr. Rinberg holds a Bachelor of Science Honors Degree in Mathematics from University College, University of London. He is a Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Glen H. Perry - Director, Chief Operating Officer and President

Glen H. Perry, appointed chief operating officer and president in March 2007, served as executive vice president of Zion since April 2000 and was elected a director in November 2000. Previously, Mr. Perry was a consultant to Delek Drilling, Ltd., with respect to the major gas discoveries offshore Israel. From 1993-98 he worked for National Petroleum Limited in Geneva, Switzerland as manager of project development, seeking viable projects in the former Soviet Union and directing an oil and gas project in the Republic of Georgia. Previously, he was an officer and director of Prairie Producing Company, an independent oil company in Louisiana and Texas with responsibility for design, construction and operation of production facilities, pipelines, and plants. Prior to joining Prairie in 1976, Mr. Perry´s experience was in drilling and production for Exxon Company, USA (now ExxonMobil Corporation) and Energy Reserves Group (now BHP). Mr. Perry holds a Masters in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Tennessee.

Philip Mandelker - Director, Executive Vice President and Secretary

Philip Mandelker has been an executive vice-president of Zion since June 2007. From April 2000 until joining the company as an employee in June 2007, he served as the company’s outside general counsel. He was elected a director of Zion in June 2001 and as corporate secretary in February 2002. From May 2003 to May 2007, Mr. Mandelker was of counsel to ADAM Law Firm in Tel-Aviv and, from May 2000 through April 2003,   of counsel to I. Amihud Ben-Porath, Hamou and Company, a law firm in Tel-Aviv,  Mr. Mandelker has practiced law in New York, Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv and has extensive experience with the oil and gas exploration industry. While at the Israeli Ministry of Finance (1974-76), Mr. Mandelker acted inter alia as Legal Advisor to the Israeli Petroleum Commissioner. In New York between 1981 and 1993, as counsel to the firm of Rosenman and Colin (now Katten Muchin Rosenman), Mr. Mandelker advised oil and gas exploration companies and sponsors of oil and gas drilling programs in structuring public and private investment vehicles; he has also advised investors in such programs. He has published and lectured on subjects related to investment in oil and gas exploration activities in Israel and in the United States. From 1997-99, Mr. Mandelker was Chief Legal Advisor of the United Mizrahi Bank, Ltd. He holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree (cum laude) from Columbia University School of Law and a B.A. (cum laude) from Columbia College.

William H. Avery - Director, Executive Vice President and Treasurer

William H. Avery has been an executive vice-president of Zion since July 2007. He was appointed a director in March 2007. Between January 2003 and June 2007 he served as a vice-president of the company and has been treasurer since January 2003. For the past thirteen years he has practiced as independent attorney in transactional work, concentrating in the area of real property law, including oil and gas transactions. Before that he was a partner for seventeen years at the Dallas law firm Storey, Armstrong, Stegar and Martin, concentrating his practice in the representation of financial institutions in loan transactions. Mr. Avery holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance from Southern Methodist University and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Duke University Law School.

Martin Van Brauman - Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President

Martin Van Brauman was appointed chief financial officer and senior vice president in July 2007. Since 2001, Mr. Van Brauman has been in private legal practice in Dallas as a member of Lowden Van Brauman and of Gibson, Wiley, Cho & Van Brauman PLLC specializing in international tax and related business structuring matters. Previously, he spent 12 years as a Senior Attorney (International Specialist and Petroleum Industry Specialist) with the Office of Chief Counsel, IRS, followed by three years as a tax consultant with Deloitte & Touche and Grant Thornton. He has published on subjects related to taxation of international oil and gas ventures. Mr. Van Brauman holds a B.E. degree from Vanderbilt University, a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from St. Mary´s University and an M.B.A. (Beta Gamma Sigma) and LL.M. (Tax Law) from Southern Methodist University.

Paul Oroian - Director

Paul Oroian was appointed a director in November 2003. Since its founding in 1983, he has served as president and managing partner of Oroian, Guest & Little, P.C., a certified public accounting and consulting firm based in San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Oroian holds a Bachelors of Science - Business Administration from Bryant College. He has served as a board member of Technology Oversight Committee and the IRS Regional Liaison Committee of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants and was vice president and a director of the San Antonio CPA Society between 1992-1998. He currently serves as treasurer of the Good Samaritan Center in San Antonio.

Kent S. Siegel - Director

Kent S. Siegel, appointed a director in November 2003, has served as president and chief operating officer of Siegel and Siegel, P.C. since 1984. Siegel and Siegel is a firm of certified public accountants and attorneys at law based in West Bloomfield, Michigan, at which Mr. Siegel practices as a tax and bankruptcy attorney and CPA. Mr. Siegel holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Michigan State University School of Business, a Juris Doctor from Wayne State University School of Law and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Lawrence Technological University School of Engineering. He currently serves as chairman of the Temple Israel School Board Fund Raising Committee.

Robert Render - Director

Robert Render was appointed a director in September 2004. Mr. Render served from 1994 to 2002 as Chairman and CEO of the Green Thumb Companies and Milburn Peat, manufacturers and distributors of peat moss, soils and mulches for the lawn and garden industries. From 1985 to 1992, he was a director of and consultant to Hyponex Corporation (NASDAQ) and thereafter, from 1992 to 1994, he was a consultant to the Scotts´ Corporation (NYSE), the controlling shareholder of Hyponex. Between 1978 and 1985, Mr. Render served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hyponex Corporation (NASDAQ) previously known as Old Fort Industries.

James (Andy) Barron - Director

James Barron was appointed a director in April 2005. He has been in private practice in orthodontics since 1991. Dr. Barron has served as president of the Central Texas Dental Society and president of the Texas Association of Orthodontists, and represents the Southwestern Association of Orthodontists as a representative to the Council of Orthodontic Practice to the American Association of Orthodontists. He currently is president of JlivesNMe Workplace Ministries which sponsors conferences for couples to learn how to bring the gospel into the workplace. He serves on the board of Christian Farms Rehabilitation Center and serves on the advisory board of American Family Radio in Waco, Texas. Dr. Barron has a degree in Chemistry from Texas Tech University, a Master of Science in Biology from University of Missouri at Kansas City, a Doctorate in Dentistry from Baylor College of Dentistry, and certificates of specialization in Pediatric Dentistry from the University of Missouri and in Orthodontic Dentistry from the University of Texas.

Dr Yehezekel (Charlie) Druckman - Director

Dr Yehezekel Druckman was appointed a director in November 2005. Dr. Druckman was Petroleum Commissioner for the State of Israel from 1995 until his retirement in 2004, where he supervised the licensing of petroleum rights both onshore and offshore Israel. Since 1965 he has been a member of the professional staff of the Geological Survey of Israel, where he headed the Mapping, Stratigraphy and Oil Division during 1982-1985 and 1991-1994. He was affiliated with the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge as Research Associate in Geology during 1978-1980 and 1989-1990.  Dr. Druckman is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Geological Society of Israel (where he served as president in 1982, and for a number of years on the Society´s editorial board). He also served as member of the Israeli National Petroleum Commission and Board of Directors of Oil Exploration (Investments) Ltd., an Israeli government company. Dr. Druckman graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in geology.

Forrest A. Garb - Director

Forrest A. Garb, appointed a director in November 2005, is a petroleum engineer well known in the petroleum industry for providing independent consulting services for more than 45 years. His consulting career began with H.J. Gruy and Associates, Inc. and its successors, where he served as a vice president for four years, executive vice president for ten years, and president for fifteen years. In 1988, Mr. Garb founded Forrest A. Garb & Associates, Inc. a privately-owned petroleum consulting firm, where he served as chairman and CEO until his retirement in 2003. Mr. Garb was educated in petroleum engineering at Texas A&M University (BSc and Professional MSc) and received his early training at Socony Mobil Oil Company in Kansas, Texas, Louisiana and Venezuela. Mr. Garb is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and is a past President of the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers. He is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery, the American Arbritration Association, the Petroleum Engineers Club of Dallas, the Dallas Geological Society, and is a member of the AAPG. He is a charter member of The American Institute of Minerals Appraisers. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas.

Elisha Roih - Vice President - Administration of Israeli Operations

Elisha Roih has served as Vice President - Administration of Israeli Operations of Zion since April 2000. Mr. Roih has over forty years experience in senior management positions in the Israeli petroleum industry. Between 1997-1998, he served as acting general manager of Lapidoth, Israel Oil Prospectors Company, Ltd. and its subsidiary Metsada-United Drilling Co. (oil and gas producers and oilfield service providers). During 1983-89, Mr. Roih served as general manager of Naphta-Israel Petroleum Corp. (an oil and gas exploration and production company) and its subsidiaries Lapidoth and Metsada-United. Between 1990-1996 and from 1998 to 2000, Mr. Roih was a management consultant to the petroleum industry in Israel, during which periods he also consulted for Mr. Brown in connection with the Joseph Project. Mr. Roih holds a BA degree in Political Science and Oriental Studies from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and has continuing educational course certificates in Business Administration, Production Technology and Offshore Operations.

Dr. Eliezer L. Kashai - Vice President - Israeli Exploration

Dr. Eliezer Kashai, has been Vice President - Israeli Exploration of Zion since October 2000. Dr. Kashai studied geology in the University of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, holds Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Hebrew University, Jerusalem and is a widely recognized authority on the Triassic formation of Israel. Dr. Kashai has over fifty years of geological experience in Israel working until his retirement in 1987 for the national petroleum companies of Israel, including almost thirty years for Lapidoth Israel Oil Prospectors Company, Ltd. and Oil Exploration (Investments) Ltd., where he served in progressively responsible positions, including deputy managing director responsible for all of that company´s exploration efforts. Following his retirement in 1987 and through 1998, Dr. Kashai worked as an exploration consultant for various companies active in petroleum exploration in Israel, including Sedot Neft, Ltd. where he was responsible for the original geological interpretation of Ma´anit. He began consulting for Mr. Brown in connection with the Joseph Project in late 1999. Dr. Kashai has served as president of the Israel Geological Society.

Sandra Green - Chief Accounting Officer, Vice President

Sandra Green was appointed chief accounting officer and vice president in July 2007. She was Zion´s Director of Planning from March 2005 until July 2007. From 1999-2005, she was the Accounting Manager of Hunt Properties, Inc., a real estate development and management company. From 1994 to 1999, she provided accounting and auditing services for clients in North Texas and New Mexico, including governments, schools, not-for-profit organizations, financial institutions, family trusts, private entrepreneurs and oil and gas companies. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Tyler and has taken graduate classes at the University of Texas at Tyler and at Arlington. She is a Certified Public Accountant in Texas and is also a lay minister at First Assembly of God Church at Dawson, Texas.

Stephen E. Pierce - Exploration Manager

Stephen E. Pierce was retained as our consulting geologist for the drilling of the Ma´anit #1 well and subsequent exploration and development in February 2005. He joined Zion on a full time basis in October 2005 and was appointed our Exploration Manager in June 2006. From 1995-2005, Mr. Pierce served as project geologist for Murfin Drilling Co. in the Caribbean, primarily in the Dominican Republic. For the period of 1992-1995, Mr. Pierce was consulting geologist for several small independent companies working on onshore and offshore projects in the U.S., the Dominican Republic, Colombia and Guyana. From 1985-1992, he acted as senior geological advisor for Mobil Oil Corporation, and from 1980-1985, he worked as senior geologist for Superior Oil Co. He served as senior geologist in Pakistan for AMOCO from 1979-1980 and as geologist for UNOCAL from 1974-1979. Mr. Pierce received his M.S. in geology from San Diego State University in 1974 and his B.S. in geology from California State University in 1971. Mr. Pierce holds the title of Professional Geologist in Wyoming and memberships with the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the American Institute of Professional Geologists.