STAR POLYOLEFINS - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Managing Director, Besso Re
• Managing Director, London / STARUS Asset Insurance, Ltd

David has 35 years experience as a broker in the London and international wholesale insurance markets. He started placing global business on behalf of large multinational companies and onshore energy clients including Enron where he was personally responsible for the placement of all of their International Non Recourse Finance Construction Project risks. David has held a number of senior positions within the industry including Head of Global broking at Heath Lambert, Chief Operating Officer of Arthur J Gallagher UK Ltd and Chairman and Chief Executive of C J Coleman & Co Ltd.

Job Titles:

• Senior Vice President

Federico Baptista has held senior managerial positions at energy companies servicing Venezuela and the Caribbean including: MEDIDO, C.A., a joint venture in Oil & Gas drilling and upstream technology service provider; Exxon Americas and Exxon Chemicals de Venezuela; Industrias Venoco, C.A., a Venezuelan lubricants and petrochemical intermediates manufacturing group; and a partner in Phoenix Internacional, an Original Equipment Manufacturer for upstream and downstream technologies, and water and gas secondary recovery services provider. He was elected four years as First Vice-President of the Centro Venezolano-Americano, a private non-profit association promoting cultural exchange between Venezuela and the U.S. He is a Chemical Engineer graduated from the Universidad Central de Venezuela and Purdue University-West Lafayette, Indiana campus.

Job Titles:

• Controller
• Vice President

Jeff Anderson's background is the unification of detailed financial modeling and corporate project development. He is highly accomplished in new global enterprises with a diverse background with both public and private companies; comprehending P&L responsibility, capital formation, and organizational structuring. Prior to his private investment activities and independent financial consulting, he was Business Manager, Americas for the Melded Fabrics, Inc. and Division Controller, China General Plastics Corporation America. Both are subsidiaries of BTR, PLC in London which is a $20 billion global conglomerate. Prior to that, he was Controller for Genovation, Inc., a developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary modular microprocessor software and hardware technology. Early in his career, he was employed Deloitte & Touche LLP. His professional background includes U.S. Navy, SEAL Team 1 and the University of Arizona, BSBA, Accounting Major, Tucson, Arizona.

Job Titles:

• Vice President
• Vice President, Structured Finance Coordination and Administration

Jennifer M. Randle has over 10 years' experience in the financial industry most recently with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. She focused on affluent clientele, tailoring specific financial solutions to individuals and business owners. Jennifer strived to know each one of her customers personally and to earn their trust. She also managed her own JPMorgan Chase branch as Branch Manager, Vice President. She ensured proper staffing, employee knowledge of financial solutions and procedures, prepared and met goals, coached employees and provided and exceptional customer and employee experience. Prior to banking, Jennifer started her career as a Marketing Coordinator for a subprime mortgage company, Home Loan Corporation where she learned about mortgage operations, guidelines and marketing. Jennifer attended college at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing, with a minor in Communication, from the W.P. Carey School of Business. She also holds a series of financial licenses.

Job Titles:

• STAR Olefins Consultant

Jerry Laird joined Sinclair Group, a U.S. based Management Consulting organization in 2007, as EVP in Strategy & Operations Management. He has provided leadership in many technical assessments of operating assets including, most recently with U.S. Petrochemical and refining industry leaders. Mr. Laird specializes in chemicals, refining, petrochemicals and polymers, with 30 years experience at ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, Westlake Group and Townsend Polymer Services. Mr. Laird has expertise in performance benchmarking, strategic planning, due diligence and business assessments. At Townsend he led a global petrochemical, polymer, and packaging consulting business with focus on product and applications development, technology selection and collaborative cost and performance benchmarking. At Koch he served as Downstream Chemicals M&A Director for the largest North American privately held energy and chemicals company. As technology manager and commercial director for global olefin / polyolefin manufacturing of ExxonMobil, Laird led product development and market introduction of Specialty LDPE and metallocene products in U.S. & Europe. Jerry Laird served six years as USAF Pilot in the Strategic Air Command, working with B-52 heavy bomber aircraft. Laird earned his BS in Chemical Engineering from University of Pittsburgh and MS in Systems Engineering from University of Southern California.

Job Titles:

• Chairman
• Chief Executive Officer
• Founder
• Managing Director
• Member of the Management Team
• Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer / STAR Chemical Development LLC / Energy Capital Group Holdings LLC
• Managing Director / STARUS Asset Insurance Ltd
• Visionary Developer

John Pinkerton is a visionary developer of multi billion dollar, capital intensive energy infrastructure projects, with 40 years of experience in the petrochemicals industry. He founded and initially capitalized the STAR Group of Companies including: Energy Capital Group Holdings LLC, the parent investment holding company; STAR Chemical Development LLC, the development company for multi-billion CAPEX petrochemical projects; and STAR-USI Victoria LLC, the operating company. Mr. Pinkerton formed investment based alliances with S&B Engineers and Constructors Ltd. in Houston, alongside S&B's EPC Joint Venture with JGC America, Inc. / JGC Corporation Yokohama, the largest EPC contractor in the Middle East. He co-developed the STAR Risk Mitigation Platform for non-recourse financing in London and obtained the insurance coverages from major investment grade insurance underwriters serving the global energy infrastructure market sector. He recruited and hired the STAR Management Team; W. H. Murphy & Co., Investment Banker; Cushman & Wakefield of Texas, Inc., industrial real estate Broker and Advisor; Robert M. Stafford, Chairman & CEO, Stafford Capital Management; Triten IAG, Owner's Engineer; and Amec Foster Wheeler - all of whom are necessary to develop, finance, execute and operate the assets. Prior to STAR, Mr. Pinkerton was CEO and Co-Founder of Uni-Pure Corporation, an energy technology development company in which a Division of Mannesmann in Germany, Gordon Cain of Cain Chemical, Sterling Chemical and Vista Chemical, and Chevron Texaco, Inc. were all investors. Pinkerton started his career with the Saran Lined Pipe Company, the exclusive marketing agent for the Dow Chemical Company's plastic lined pipe division. Mr. Pinkerton has a B.S. in Marketing from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. He served on the Board of Directors of Storm Ventures International (SVI) in the British Virgin Islands and Barbados. SVI was a Canadian-based Oil & Gas exploration and production company operating under the corporate umbrella of Chinook Energy, Inc. in Alberta, Canada.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Management Team
• STAR Olefins Chief Engineer

Job Titles:

• Director of Information, Technology and Administration

Job Titles:

• Chief Financial Officer
• Member of the Management Team

Michael Crace was the senior partner with the Atlanta, GA CPA firm of Crace Galvis McGrath when it was formed in 2012 out of Moore & Cubbedge CPAs (a firm established in 1972) in Marietta, GA. In his role as the partner-in-charge of Consulting Services for both Moore & Cubbedge (where he was a partner since 1985) and in Crace Galvis McGrath, Michael was responsible for mergers & acquisitions, due diligence on company buyouts, financing for developmental and established company entities, projections and forecasts, and for business valuations. Areas of expertise were in high-end real estate development, including mixed-use projects and residential and resort developments with golf amenities, manufacturing & distribution, medical practices, quasi-governmental and private development and services organizations, hotel and hospitality-related projects and consulting with family-owned businesses for planning and transition of ownership. Prior to managing the Consulting Services area for both CPA firms, he was the manager of the Audit Division of Moore & Cubbedge and specialized in governmental, banking, manufacturing and construction industry audits. Michael has a BBA in Accounting from Georgia Southern University, has served on the Executive Board of the Cobb County Chamber of Commerce for 10 years and has been on the Georgia Society of CPAs' leadership committees for Auditing and for Consulting Services. Michael also has served on the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts and the Internal Revenue Service task force committees for establishment of policies and procedures in specialized industries.

Job Titles:

• Chairman & CEO / Pacific Asset Partners / San Francisco, CA

Job Titles:

• Chief Operating Officer
• Member of the Management Team
• President

Building on a successful career in technical and management roles in corporate industry, in 2008 Ron J. Epperson founded Intellectual Energy LLC, a consulting firm in the energy industry. Ron gained experience in the technology licensing business at Arthur Andersen LLP and Ernst & Young LLP after first establishing his career in the chemical industry. During nearly 20 years at Shell in Louisiana and later in Houston, Ron worked in operations and planning, most recently as Venture Manager in the Chemicals New Business Development Group which analyzes commercialization opportunities for products and processes from R&D. He built an international technology licensing organization, establishing partnerships with SK Chemical in South Korea, Lurgi AG in Germany, and Hoescht-Celanese in the US and Mexico. Prior to that, in Shell Oil Company's Corporate Planning Group, Ron supported the President of Shell Oil in analyzing investment opportunities for the Refining, Pipeline and Chemicals businesses. Ron had progressed to Shell Oil Corporate Planning from his earlier position as Planning & Scheduling Manager at Shell Chemical headquarters where he managed supply chain strategies for the Ethylene Oxide/Ethylene Glycol Business Unit and assisted with trade arbitration, partnerships and strategic raw materials. Earlier, at Shell Chemical's Geismar, LA plant, as Economics & Scheduling Team Leader and then as Process Manager, Ron was responsible for logistics, leading the budget process, performance tracking and automation of process controls. Prior to Shell Ron began his career as Process Contact Engineer for Hydrocracking, Hydrotreating and Hydrogen Compression at the Exxon Baton Rouge Refinery. Ron earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, summa cum laude, from Virginia Tech. He is a Certified Licensing Professional and a Certified Patent Valuation Analyst.

Job Titles:

• Senior Vice President

Job Titles:

• STAR Olefins Chief Engineer
• STAR Olefins Consultant

Job Titles:

• Financial Consultant
• Senior Vice President / Project Finance
• Senior Vice President / Project Finance and

Steve Nordaker has been a financial consultant specializing in acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings and corporate finance since retiring from JPMorgan Chase in 2001. At JPMorganChase Bank and JPM Securities and their predecessor entities, Mr. Nordaker served as a Managing Director in the Energy Group. He specialized in the downstream energy area and handled petrochemical, oil refining, pipeline and mining companies for the bank. His background includes traditional banking, investment banking, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, corporate finance, capital market products, and numerous domestic and international project financings. Prior to joining the bank in 1982, he was Manager of Projects for an engineering consulting firm and a Chemical Engineer with UOP responsible for startup and operation of UOP licensed units at 17 petrochemical or refinery plant sites in 5 different countries. His chemical engineering work encompassed project management, process design, economic evaluation, plant inspection and supervision of plant operations. Mr. Nordaker currently serves on the board of directors of Mallard Creek Polymers and Energy Capital Group Holdings LLC. Previously, he served on the boards of 7 other energy companies; including 3 public companies. He has a BS in Chemical Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and an MBA from the University of Houston.