Personnel: Resumes: William E. Weidner

WILLIAM E. WEIDNER has been active in the oil and gas industry and the oil and gas investment management and advisory business since 1980. He and his family have resided in the Hartford, Connecticut, area since 1988.

1997 - Present
Mr. Weidner is a Managing Director of Rodman & Renshaw, formerly COSCO Capital Management LLC, with which he started working in 1997. Mr. Weidner advises U.S. oil and gas companies regarding private placements of equity and debt securities with professional investors and advises institutions with their oil and gas investment objectives. Financings on which Mr. Weidner has worked include secured notes with equity kickers to fund gas reserve development; common and preferred equity to fund growth of reserve acquisition, exploration and production companies, the secondary buyout of an institutional oil and gas loan portfolio, and various M&A and general corporate advisory assignments. His consulting and asset management assignments have included business appraisals, strategic advice for start-ups, workouts and roll-ups, joint venture development, oil and gas property management and divestitures, and management of institutional sales for an oil and gas fund. Mr. Weidner was also a Founder and the President of Private Energy Securities, Inc (member NASD, SIPC), the broker-dealer affiliate through which COSCO conducted all of its securities placements.

1994 - 1997
In 1994, Mr. Weidner established Weidner & Co. to provide almost exactly the same services as he now provides at Rodman Energy. Weidner & Co. arranged production payment and debt financings for a carbon dioxide production and liquefaction business, managed the divestiture of institutional oil and gas partnership interests, provided workout and bankruptcy management services, and acquired oil and gas property interests as a principal.

1988 - 1994
Mr. Weidner served in all phases of the investment management business of Resource Investors Management Company (RIMCO), a Hartford, CT-based oil and gas investment firm. He originated, analyzed, structured, negotiated, closed and managed mezzanine debt and equity investments in oil and gas companies. He also led a portfolio management program in which he proactively identified troubled investments, developed and negotiated solutions to problems and managed several bankruptcies, preventing the loss of assets under management. Mr. Weidner also served in market planning and institutional sales to pension funds, endowments, insurance companies and other private investors in the marketing of mezzanine and exploration fund products.

1987-1988
Mr. Weidner served as a credit analyst in the commercial lending group at the Bank of New England in Boston, MA, focusing on the origination of new loans to support growth and trade credit for manufacturing, export and finance businesses.

1983 - 1986
Mr. Weidner served as a wellsite geologist and as an explorationist for Park-Ohio Energy, Inc. in Cleveland, OH. He played a key role in the development of 18 MMCFGD and 1,000 BOPD in production from tight sands in northeast Ohio, and in directing lease and seismic acquisition budgets to the development of new plays in New York and Pennsylvania following the acquisition of Delta Drilling's exploratory holdings in the Appalachian Basin.

1981 - 1983
MS-Geology, Kent State (See below)

1980 - 1981
Mr. Weidner served as a logging geologist for Exploration Logging, Inc. in New Orleans, Louisiana, providing wellsite geological services to major oil company clients in south Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico offshore Louisiana and Florida.

Education
Mr. Weidner was graduated in 1980 by The College of Wooster with a BA in Geology with department honors. He received an MS in Geology from Kent State University in 1983, and completed courses in Northeastern University's Master of Business Program.

Publications & Presentations
Mr. Weidner has published numerous articles in Pension & Investments, American Oil & Gas Reporter, and Oil and Gas Investor, among other industry publications, and has been featured as a speaker on oil and gas investing for numerous investment symposiums, oil and gas finance conferences, and bi-annually at COSCO’s Private Equity for Energy Forums in Calgary and Houston.