Vincent T. Cubbage has served as our Executive Chairman, Chief Financial Officer and as a director since inception. In October 2023, Mr. Cubbage co-founded Energy Growth Holdings LLC and serves as its managing partner. From February 2021 to September 2024, Mr. Cubbage co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Tortoise Acquisition III, a blank check company that raised $345 million in its July 2021 initial public offering. Mr. Cubbage also served as Chairman of its Board from July 2021 to July 2024. Beginning in July 2020, he also served as Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board of Tortoise Acquisition II which raised $345 million in its initial public offering in September 2020, and served on the board of directors of the combined entity following the closing of its business combination with Volta in August 2021. He also played a key role in the eventual sale of Volta to Shell, which closed in March 2023. From November 2018 to September 2020, Mr. Cubbage also co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board of Tortoise Acquisition I which raised $233 million in its initial public offering in March 2019 and continues to serve on the board of directors of Hyliion Holdings Corp. following the closing of Tortoise Acquisition I’s business combination with Hyliion. In 2006, Mr. Cubbage founded private equity firm Lightfoot Capital Partners LP (together with its general partner, “Lightfoot Capital”) and served as its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner from 2007 to 2018. Mr. Cubbage also served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Arc Logistics GP LLC, the general partner of Arc Logistics Partners LP (NYSE: ARCX) (together with its general partner, “ArcLogistics”), a portfolio company formed by Lightfoot Capital in 2007 and sold in 2017. Prior to founding Lightfoot Capital, from 1994 to 2006 Mr. Cubbage was an investment banker and, among other positions, was a Senior Managing Director and sector head in the Investment Banking Division of Banc of America Securities. Before joining Banc of America Securities, Mr. Cubbage was a Vice President at Salomon Smith Barney in the Global Energy and Power Group where he worked from 1994 to 1998. Mr. Cubbage received an M.B.A. from the American Graduate School of International Management and a B.A. from Eastern Washington University.

Andrew B. Lipsher has served as our Chief Executive Officer and a director since inception. Mr. Lipsher has over thirty years of experience in the energy transition, media and entertainment, digital media, and technology industries. In October 2023, Mr. Lipsher co-founded Energy Growth Holdings LLC and serves as its managing partner. From July 2023 to September 2024 Mr. Lipsher served as a member of the Board of Directors at Tortoise Acquisition Corp. III (NYSE: TRTL). Previously, commencing in July 2016 Mr. Lipsher was the Chief Development Officer of Volta, Inc., and over the last year, worked directly with the Interim CEO leading the company through a challenging transition and helped lead its sale to Shell in March 2023. Mr. Lipsher primarily focused on capital markets and financing activities as well as finance, cost cutting and strategic priorities. Prior to June of 2022, Mr. Lipsher served as the Chief Strategy Officer (from July 2016 to May 2022) and the Chief Revenue Officer (from July 2016 to November 2020) for Volta overseeing the growth and development of the media business as well as leading high-level strategy and initiatives, M&A and partnerships. Prior to joining Volta, from April 2015 to February 2016. Mr. Lipsher served as the Chief Revenue Officer at Glamsquad (a venture backed services business) and previously held senior executive and leadership roles at Clear Channel Media Holdings (Senior Vice President, Corporate Development), Interscope Geffen A&M Records (Head of M&A, Corporate Development and Operations),News Corporation (Group Senior Vice President of Corporate Development), BMG Entertainment (Senior Vice President of Worldwide Corporate Development), and the Warner Music Group. Mr. Lipsher was also a partner at Greycroft Partners, a venture capital firm and Maroley Media Group (media and digital media private equity). Mr. Lipsher began his career as one of the founders of the New Haven Brewing Company. Mr. Lipsher graduated with a B.A. in History from Yale University and received his MBA in finance from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

David Elisofon, serves as a director and has over thirty years’ experience as an investor and operator (CFO). Elisofon was CFO of Volta Inc, where he was instrumental in leading Series A through C equity financings as well as multiple rounds of venture and other debt financings. He has also served on the advisory boards of both public and private market investment funds. In addition, he is an active angel investor and strategic advisor to startups. After beginning his career at Goldman Sachs and returning to Goldman to be a founding member of the Asian Equities Arbitrage proprietary investing team, he served in multiple investing roles across the hedge fund and mutual industries. After founding his own hedge fund, he was a partner and portfolio manager at Indus Capital, a global hedge fund group.

Stephen S. Pang, who will serve as a director and the Chairman of the Audit Committee upon the commencement of trading of our securities on Nasdaq, currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer of AirJoule Technologies Corporation, a publicly traded (NASDAQ:AIRJ) and portfolio company of Transition Equity Partners. Previously, Mr. Pang served as Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Tortoise Capital Advisors from 2014 – 2024 and was responsible for Tortoise’s public and private direct investments across its energy strategies. While at Tortoise, Mr. Pang was founding member of the Tortoise Permanent Capital SPAC Vehicles and served as director and the Chief Financial Officer and President of TortoiseEcofin Acquisition Corp. III., director and Chief Financial Officer of Tortoise Acquisition II, and director of Tortoise Acquisition I from the completion of its initial public offering in March 2019, and as Chief Financial Officer from January 2020, to the completion of its initial business combination on October 1, 2020. Mr. Pang served on the board of directors and was a member of the audit committee of Hyliion Holdings Corp. from October 2020 to February 2024. Prior to joining Tortoise in 2014, Mr. Pang was a director in Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC’s Equity Capital Markets Group. Before joining Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC in 2012, he spent eight years in Citigroup Global Markets Inc.’s Investment Banking Division, where he focused on equity underwriting and corporate finance in the energy sector. Mr. Pang received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Richmond and is a CFA charter holder. We believe Mr. Pang’s extensive background in capital markets, finance, investing, and operating experience in the energy industry brings important and valuable skills to our board of directors.

Kathy Savitt, serves as a director and the Chairman of the Compensation Committee and has extensive senior executive operating experience, as well as public and private board roles across a variety of industries. Her professional experience includes serving as past President and Chief Business Officer of Boom Supersonic, a private designer of supersonic airliners, from 2020 to 2024, Chief Marketing and Media Officer at Yahoo (NYSE: AABA) from 2012 to 2015 and holding senior leadership marketing roles at Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) from 2002 to 2006, and American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO) from 2009 to 2012. Prior to this, she served as Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lockerz, an international social commerce website and as Co-Founder and President at MWW/Savitt (part of the MWW Group, a public relations firm). Her board experience includes serving as a director for Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. which recently consummated its IPO on November 4, 2024 (NASDAQ: BACQ), Chairperson for Volta Charging (NYSE: VLTA) from 2018 to 2023 (where she served as lead independent director upon the company’s going public and then as Chairperson until its company’s sale in 2023) and as a board member for Alaska Airlines (NYSE: ALK) from 2014 to 2017, and Build-A-Bear Workshop (NYSE: BBW) from 2009 to 2011. Ms. Savitt holds a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University.