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 director of M&B Holding Inc. a provider of cement walls and floors for industrial buildings, office buildings and home developers.

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.

Victor G. Carrillo – President and Chief Operating Officer

Victor G. Carrillo was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer in October 2011. He served as executive vice president since January 2011 and has been a director since September 2010. Mr. Carrillo is a petroleum geologist and geophysicist, attorney, former Abilene City Councilman, former Taylor County Judge, and for eight years served as statewide-elected commissioner of the Railroad Commission of Texas (the state’s regulatory authority over oil and gas drilling). He has over 20 years of professional experience, much of it in the oil and gas industry, specifically in exploration and production. He holds a law degree from the University of Houston Law Center, a Master of Science degree in geology from Baylor University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in geology from Hardin-Simmons University. Mr. Carrillo also received an honorary doctorate degree from Hardin-Simmons University in May 2006.

Ilan Sheena – Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director in Israel

Ilan Sheena C.P.A. (Israel) was appointed Chief Financial Officer in April 2011. He originally joined Zion in October 2009. Ilan is an accounting professional with broad local and international experience and has a degree in Accounting and Economics from Tel Aviv University. After qualifying as a C.P.A. and working for three years with KPMG Somekh Chaikin in Israel, he spent four years at Alcatel in Sydney, Australia. Returning to Israel, he joined a high-tech start-up that, with his help, subsequently listed on NASDAQ. He then joined Bezeq International as the Financial Controller and Finance Manager and, after that, Verint Systems, a subsidiary of the Comverse group. He then joined a venture capital fund (with investors such as JP Morgan, Siemens, EDF, AXA, Schlumberger) and dealt with over eighteen start-up companies.

Michael Croswell – Corporate Controller

Michael Croswell (C.P.A.) was appointed Corporate Controller in April 2011 and is an accounting professional with over 17 years experience working for various corporations, including Monitronics International, Genpass Technologies and Maxus Energy Corporation. Mr. Croswell is a Certified Public Accountant and earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Stephen F. Austin State University. At present, he is pursuing his Masters of Business Administration at the University of Dallas.

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, and is a director at the Youth Orchestra of San Antonio (YOSA).

Marc Singer – Director

Marc Singer was appointed a Director in July 2010. He is a founding principal of Singer Xenos Wealth Management, a registered investment advisor since 1991. He is also President and Principal of Singer Xenos Securities Corp., a broker-dealer. Mr. Singer holds a Masters of Business Administration and a Bachelors of Business Administration from Florida International University and is also a Certified Financial Planner.

Julian Taylor – Director

Julian Taylor was appointed a director in June 2009. Mr. Taylor is the founder of Tangent Trading Ltd, an international non-ferrous scrap metal trading company formed in 1985 with offices in London, U.K. and Los Angeles, U.S.A. In 2006, Tangent Trading Ltd was elected to the membership of the London Metal Exchange and in 2008 Tangent Trading Ltd was included by The Sunday Times newspaper (in the U.K.) in its ‘Profit Track 100′ list of Britain’s fastest growing private companies. Mr. Taylor has led Tangent Trading from inception in 1985. Mr. Taylor has over 37 years experience in trading metals internationally. Prior to forming Tangent in 1985, he was affiliated with S & W Beresford plc (a U.K. listed merchanting and commodity trading conglomerate) as a trader from 1978. Prior to this time, from 1972 to 1978, he was a trader at a subsidiary of Amalgamated Metal Corporation plc (an international company with origins in metal merchanting).

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.

Robert Render – Director

Robert Render was reappointed a director in January 2011. He previously served as a Zion director from September 2004 to June 2009. Mr. Render served from 1994 to 2002 as Chairman and CEO of the Green Thumb Companies and Milburn Peat. From 1985 to 1992, he was a director of and consultant to Hyponex Corporation (NASDAQ) and, from 1992 to 1994, he was a consultant to the Scotts’ Corporation (NYSE), the controlling shareholder of Hyponex. Between 1978 and 1985, he served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hyponex Corporation (NASDAQ) previously known as Old Fort Industries. From 1964 until its acquisition by Old Fort Industries in 1969, Mr. Render served as President of Anderson Peat Company and, from 1969 to 1978, he served as Executive Vice President of Old Fort Industries. From 1952 to 1963, Mr. Render served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Sno-Bol Company. In 1957 he founded Render Associates, a national sales company specializing in lawn and garden products which later merged into Anderson Peat Company. In 1962-1963 Mr. Render was President of the Christian Businessmen’s Club in Pontiac, Michigan and in 1964-1965, he served as Chairman of the Industrial Group of the United Fund in Pontiac. In 1967-1968, Mr. Render was a member of the Executive Committee of the American Society of Testing and Materials and in 1969-1970; he served as President of the U.S. Peat Producers Association.

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.