Board of Directors
The Company has an experienced group of oil and gas professionals as members of its Board of Directors. Their years of expertise come from such major energy companies as Amoco, Kemp Geophysical and 3D Geophysical. Royale also employs independent consultants on a regular basis to advise the Company on engineering, geologic, marketing, and corporate planning matters.
HARRY E. HOSMER
Chairman of the Board
Prior to his founding of Royale Energy, Mr. Hosmer was Vice President of an Oklahoma oil and natural gas exploration and development company. He was a member of the Independent Petroleum Association's Speaker's Bureau and its Capital Formation Committee. Mr. Hosmer also served as President of Brookhill Publishing Company, a publisher of leading trade publications, which was subsequently acquired by Harcourt, World, Jovanovich & Brace. He was also an officer of Petra Company, a real estate development company. Mr. Hosmer serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Council, an international organization providing scholarships for the education of young leaders in third world countries, and of New Europe Vision, which provides help to developing Eastern European countries.
DONALD H. HOSMER
President, Chief Executive Officer, Director and co-founder of Royale Energy, Inc.
1985 Mr. Hosmer, along with his father and brothers, founded Royale Petroleum Corporation. In October, 1986, Royale Energy, Inc. was incorporated in preparation for the involvement of outside shareholders for the first time. Mr. Hosmer was responsible for the marketing aspects of the Company. In this capacity, his department has funded over $40,000,000 in oil and natural gas acquisitions since 1984. Mr. Hosmer publishes the Royale Energy Report, a quarterly publication that provides an informative summary of company activities as well as the state of the natural gas industry. He is a member of the Speakers Bureau of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) and registered as an oil and gas industry expert on the Business Wire's ExpertSource service. He has successfully directed the funding of 150 oil and natural gas wells throughout the major geologic basins in the US. Under his leadership, Royale became the largest independent natural gas producer in California.
STEPHEN M. HOSMER
Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President, Secretary
Mr. Hosmer joined Royale Energy, Inc. in May 1988. He brought the company into the Sacramento Basin through a joint venture with Pacific Gas & Electric Resources resulting in the drilling of Victor Ranch wells. Mr. Hosmer has also been responsible for heading up the acquisition team. He is responsible for successfully completing the acquisition of Arkoma Production Company from Dallas Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones and the acquisition of Vernon E. Faulconer Inc. in 1997. In June of 1995, the Board of Directors appointed Mr. Hosmer as Chief Financial Officer. Once again, in March 2003 the Board appointed Mr. Hosmer as Executive Vice President. Mr. Hosmer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as well as earning his MBA degree via the prestigious President/Key Executive program at Pepperdine University.
GEORGE M. WATTERS
Director
Mr. Watters has been a Director of Royale Energy, Inc. since 1991. He has several years of senior management experience, including 23 years with Amoco, in all phases of downstream petroleum operations - marketing, refining, trading, and commercial development. He was instrumental in the conception and development of two successful grass roots refining and marketing projects in Australia and Singapore. His last assignment was CEO of Amoco Shipping and Trading Company. Prior to his affiliation with Amoco, he held various management positions with the former Standard-Vacuum Oil Company, jointly owned by Exxon and Mobil. He is a graduate of MIT and also attended their Management Program for Senior Executives.
DR. OSCAR HILDEBRANDT
Director
Dr. Hildebrandt has been a director of Royale Energy, Inc. since 1995. He is currently a financial advisor and educator. Dr. Hildebrandt practiced veterinary medicine for 35 years, organizing and acting as senior partner of a 10 veterinarian group practice. During that time he managed the pension plan and profit-sharing plan for the group practice. Dr. Hildebrandt was instrumental in starting several businesses that subsequently were sold to large national corporations and was the director, organizer and Chairman of the Board of Fidelity National Bank of Medford, Wisconsin. He attended both the University of Wisconsin and University of Minnesota, graduating from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor's degree and D.V.M. degree. He has been involved in oil and gas investments for 34 years.
LEN KEMP
Director
Mr. Kemp, the founder of Kemp Geophysical is one of the industry's foremost experts in 2D and 3D seismic data acquisition. Since 1954, Mr. Kemp has acquired data throughout the US and the world. Mr. Kemp directed the acquisition of data in a number of challenging areas, and developed techniques for improving data quality, resulting in greater reserve recovery. In his efforts to improve data quality while reducing costs, Mr. Kemp led the industry in acquiring simultaneous multi-line data. This early 3D provided greater data accuracy at a cost significantly less than independently acquired single lines. Kemp Geophysical along with three other geophysical companies merged to become 3D Geophysical. This was the first company to put its primary focus on 3D seismic in 1996. Western Atlas bought 3D Geophysical and Len is Western Atlas' Manager of California Operations.
GARY GRINSFELDER
Director
Mr. Grinsfelder is a qualified manager and geologist with 33 years experience in oil and gas exploration, exploitation and property evaluation. Currently, Mr. Grinsfelder is Vice President of Exploration of TXCO Resources, Inc. and is responsible for the company’s exploration and development activities. He was Executive Vice President of Exploration and Business Development for Output Exploration LLC prior to its acquisition by TXCO Resources in April 2007. He has also served in geologic and management roles for Araxas Exploration, Inc., Triad Energy Corporation, Spartan Petroleum Corporation, American Petrofina Company of Texas, Union Oil Company of California and Degolyer and MacNaughton. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1972 from Southern Methodist University and has preformed graduate studies at the University of Puerto Rico Department of Marine Science and University of Houston Department of Geology.
TONY HALL
Director
Ambassador Hall served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the people of the Third District of Ohio, for almost twenty-four years, from 1979 to 2002. In 2002 he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture. He served as chief of the U.S. Mission to the U.N. Agencies in Rome – the Work Food Program, Food and Agriculture Organization and International Fund for Agricultural Development. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on three occasions for his humanitarian and hunger-related work. He received his A. B. degree from Denison University, Granville, Ohio, in 1964.
