Board Members

Gary C. Evans – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Gary C. Evans is the chairman and chief executive officer and founder of GreenHunter Energy. He has served as the Company's chairman and chief executive officer since December 2006. He served as the Company's President from inception until October 1, 2009.

Mr. Evans is also the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Magnum Hunter Resources Corporation, a NYSE listed company. Mr. Evans previously founded and served as the chairman and chief executive officer of Magnum Hunter Resources, Inc. (MHRI) a NYSE listed company, for twenty years before selling MHRI to Cimarex Energy for approximately $2.2 billion in June 2005.

Mr. Evans serves as an Individual Trustee of TEL Offshore Trust, a NASDAQ listed oil and gas trust, and is the lead director of Novavax Inc., a NASDAQ listed clinical-stage vaccine biotechnology company.

Mr. Evans was recognized by Ernst and Young as the Southwest Area 2004 Entrepreneur of the Year for the Energy Sector and was subsequently inducted into the World Hall of Fame for Ernst & Young Entrepreneurs.

In nominating Mr. Evans, the board concluded the Company would benefit from Mr. Evans' extensive expertise as a chief executive officer with publicly held energy companies and his industry, investment banking and commercial lending contacts and experience.

JonathAn D. hoopes – President, Chief operating Officer AND DIRECTOR

Mr. Hoopes has served as a Director, President and Chief Operating Officer of GreenHunter Energy, Inc., since October 1, 2009.

Mr. Hoopes is a fifteen-year Wall Street veteran who spent most of his professional career in the financial services industry with a focus on traditional energy, renewable energy and technology. He has served in various capital markets, investment banking, and equity research roles at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and UBS in London, Hong Kong and New York.

Mr. Hoopes also provided cross-border strategic consulting and M&A advisory services to corporate clients and private equity investors with energy technology and services interests in China.

He speaks Cantonese and Mandarin and holds an MBA in International Finance from the Wharton School and an MA in East Asian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ronald H. Walker – Director

Ronald H. Walker has been a director of the company since November 1, 2007. Prior to his retirement in 2001, Mr. Walker was a senior partner with Korn/Ferry International, the world’s largest executive search firm, for over 20 years. At Korn/Ferry, Mr. Walker’s client base included the Fortune 100 companies. Mr. Walker’s extensive record of government service includes Special Assistant to the President of the United States from 1969 to 1972, where he was the founder and first director of the White House Advance Office. In this position, he was responsible for planning and coordinating all Presidential travel both domestic and international. Those visits included all 50 states and 25 countries. He personally directed the preparations for the President’s historic trips to the People’s Republic of China and Russia.

President Nixon appointed Mr. Walker the 8th Director of the National Park Service in December 1972, where he served until 1975. In this position, he was charged with the preservation and care of the country’s 300 National Park System areas encompassing 300 million acres of land. He administered a budget of $350 million and managed 15,000 employees who served the 230 million people that visit America’s parklands annually.

Mr. Walker previously served as a consultant to the White House Personnel Office. He has also served as a senior advisor to four Presidents and on Special Diplomatic assignments abroad. In addition, he has served as a senior advisor to nine Republican Conventions, highlighted by his Chairmanship and position of CEO of the 1984 Republican National Convention held in Dallas, Texas. At the request of President Ronald Reagan, he also chaired the 50th Presidential Inauguration.

Mr. Walker has served on numerous boards, both public and private, including being a public-sector member of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Kennedy Center, Vice Chair of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, past chairman of the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, the National Park Foundation, Grand Teton National Park Foundation, Ford’s Theatre, and Vice Chairman of the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution.

Mr. Walker is a distinguished graduate from the University of Arizona with a BA in Government and American History. He also served in the U.S. Army, reaching the rank of captain.

Ronald D. Ormand - Director

Mr. Ormand has been a Director of the Company since June 2009 and has over twenty-five years of investment and commercial banking experience in the energy industry.

Mr. Ormand currently serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Director of Petro Resources Corporation.

Mr. Ormand is also a member of the Board of Directors of Tremisis Energy Acquisition Corporation II, a NYSE Amex listed special purpose acquisition corporation. Mr. Ormand previously served as President and Chief Financial Officer of Tremisis from November 2007 to March 2009. From April 2005 to October 2007, he served as a Managing Director with West LB, a German-based international bank where he served as Managing Director and Head of the North American Oil and Gas Investment Banking Group for North America. From 1988 through 2004, Mr. Ormand was with CIBC World Markets and Oppenheimer & Co., which CIBC acquired in 1997, where he served as Managing Director and Head of CIBC World Markets’ U.S. Oil and Gas Investment Banking Group. Mr. Ormand received a B.A. and an M.B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles and attended Cambridge University in Cambridge, England where he studied Economics.

 

Executive Officers

Morgan F. Johnston – Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Morgan F. Johnston has served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the Company since March 1, 2007.

From June of 2005 until March 1, 2007, Mr. Johnston was a sole practitioner representing clients in corporate and securities law. He served as the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Magnum Hunter Resources, Inc., an NYSE-listed company, from January 1, 2003 to June of 2005. He previously served as MHR’s Vice President and General Counsel since April 1997 and also served as MHR’s Secretary since May 1, 1996.

Mr. Johnston was in private practice as a sole practitioner from May 1, 1996 to April 1, 1997, specializing in corporate and securities law. From February 1994 to May 1996, Mr. Johnston served as general counsel for Millennia, Inc. and Digital Communications Technology Corporation, two American Stock Exchange-listed companies. He also previously served as Securities Counsel for Motel 6 L.P., an NYSE-listed company. Mr. Johnston graduated cum laude from Texas Tech Law School in May 1986 and was also a member of the Texas Tech Law Review. He is licensed to practice law in the State of Texas.

David S. Krueger – Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

David S. Krueger has served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the GreenHunter since May 2006. From June 2005 to May 2006, Mr. Krueger was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Sulphur River Exploration, Inc. in Dallas, Texas.

Mr. Krueger served as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of Magnum Hunter Resources, Inc. from January 1997 to June 2005. Mr. Krueger acted as Vice President-Finance of Cimarron Gas Holding Co., a gas processing and natural gas liquids marketing company in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from April 1992 until January 1997. Mr. Krueger served as Vice President/Controller of American Central Gas Companies, Inc., a gas gathering, processing and marketing company from May 1988 until April 1992. From 1974 to 1986, Mr. Krueger served in various managerial capacities for Southland Energy Corporation.

Mr. Krueger, a certified public accountant, graduated from the University of Arkansas with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration and earned his M.B.A. from the University of Tulsa.