Personnel: Resumes: Cameron O. Smith

CAMERON O. SMITH, born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has been engaged in the energy business since 1975. Mr. Smith is a citizen of both the United States and Canada and resides in New York City..

1992 to Present
As COSCO's Founder, Managing Member, and Senior Managing Director, Mr. Smith takes the lead in developing COSCO’s business strategy and overseeing its execution. Over the past five years, he has opened COSCO’s offices in Houston and Calgary, developed its network of Colleagues throughout the US, Canada, and around the world, co-founded Private Energy Securities, Inc. (member NASD, SIPC), COSCO’s broker-dealer affiliate, of which he is a principal, and has led fourteen of COSCO’s line of equity financing and advisory engagements. Mr. Smith is currently an officer or director of Hunter Energy LLC, a private E&P company based in Denver CO, Marine Oil Company and Ogle Resources, Inc., both private companies based in Santa Barbara, California, Saracen Explorations Ltd., a conduit for an oil and gas royalty trust in Canada, of which he is also a Trustee, and Corporacion de Tierras Bahia de Salinas, a private real estate company in Venezuela. For COSCO, Mr. Smith also sits as an observer to the boards of Ausam Energy Corporation and Red Arrow Energy, LLC. From 1997 until May 2000, he was a director and Chairman of BlackRock Ventures, Inc., of Calgary, Alberta, a TSE-listed heavy oil company, which moved from a market capitalization of approximately C$50MM, when he became Chairman, to a sale for over C$3 billion several years after he left. From mid-1997 until late 1998, Mr. Smith also served on the board of Mercantile International Petroleum Inc., a TSE-listed international exploration company based in Peru.

1985 to 1992
During this period, Mr. Smith served as a director and chief executive officer of Taconic Petroleum Corporation and several related independent exploration and production companies with operations in the Mid Continent, Alberta, and Ontario. In such capacities he assisted in the formation and management of over a dozen exploration projects in the U.S. and Canada designed for industry participants. He also organized, financed and served as the managing general partner of several private limited partnerships open to individual accredited investors. As part of his operational duties, Mr. Smith managed the acquisition, enhancement, and divestiture of producing properties, secondary recovery projects, and individual companies.

1973 to 1985
Prior to 1985, Mr. Smith was employed for twelve years by The Catawba Corporation, serving the last six as its president. Based in New York City, Catawba for thirty years through 1978 provided financial, technical, and administrative services principally to seven public companies founded by the Buckley Family, all of which were engaged in the international petroleum or mineral exploration industries.

1972 to 1973
The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville CT: Master of English

1970 (Summer)
Parker Drilling Company, Odessa TX: Roughneck

Education & Memberships
Mr. Smith was graduated in 1972 by Princeton University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with an A.B. in Art History. He was captain of Princeton’s 1971 All-Ivy soccer team. He received an MSc in Geology from Penn State University in 1975. He is a member of the Independent Petroleum Association of America and the Energy Advocates of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the Union League Club of New York City (Board of Governors 1978-1982 and 1995-1998).

Publications & Presentations:
Mr. Smith has published articles or letters in the Wall Street Journal, Oil & Gas Journal, Oil and Gas Investor, the Oil & Gas Reporter, and Hart's Oil World. Mr. Smith has been featured in numerous articles in the financial press and founded and has hosted several conferences on energy investment, including the IPAA Private Capital Conference in New York (1997, 1998), the COSCO Private Capital for Energy Forum, held in Houston (1999–2007), and a similar conference in Calgary (2000-2006). (See Articles.)