P. Dan O'Neil
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

Max Lof
Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer

Dan Polley
Vice President, Exploration

Ian Langdon
Vice President, Engineering

Craig McClelland
Vice President, Land

James Pasieka
Corporate Secretary

P. Dan O'Neil

Mr. O'Neil is a Professional Engineer with 25 years of varied exploration, production and operations experience in the Canadian oil and gas business. Prior to founding Breaker, Mr. O'Neil was Vice-president, Canadian Foothills/Frontiers Exploration with EnCana Corporation (formerly Alberta Energy Company Ltd. (AEC)). Mr. O'Neil had been employed in a number of executive and leadership roles since joining AEC in 1990, including Vice President of the Grande Prairie Business Unit, Team Lead of the Fort St. John Sub Business Unit as well as managing the Drilling and Completion Department.

Mr. O'Neil has a proven record of cost effectively optimizing production results. He is a results-driven engineer with a unique and diversified skill-set to work a play/prospect from the conceptual stage through to production. Mr. O'Neil is an experienced negotiator with industry, regulatory and aboriginal groups.

Mr. O'Neil graduated with honours from the Montana School of Mines and Mineral Technology in 1986. He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA).

Max Lof

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Prior to joining Breaker, Mr. Lof was employed by AltaLink Management Ltd. as Treasurer during the acquisition and start-up phase of the company from March 2002 to May 2004. From June 1998 to May 2001 Mr. Lof was Assistant Treasurer with Poco Petroleums Ltd. and Burlington Resources Canada Ltd. He had previously worked for both Scotia Capital and Levesque Beaubien Geoffrion performing oil and gas equity research and was employed as a Financial Planning Analyst with Amerada Hess Canada Ltd.

Mr. Lof has experience with public and private financings in both Canada and the United States, including equity financings, long and short-term debt issuance and bank and bridge financings. His experience includes involvement in the valuation, execution and integration of acquisitions, treasury, risk management, oil and gas equity research and investor relations.

Mr. Lof holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation as well as a Master of Business Administration degree from Southern Methodist University and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Alberta.

Dan Polley

Prior to joining Breaker, Mr. Polley was employed as Group Lead, North Central Exploration at EnCana Corporation (formerly AEC). His accomplishments with EnCana included drilling discovery wells in Saskatchewan's Wymark and Cadillac gas fields. Both were new field wild cat discoveries. Wymark is a significant Saskatchewan gas discovery (55-70 billion cubic feet (bcf) recoverable), which has already produced 27 bcf, while Cadillac is expected to recover 30-60+ bcf. Six years after the discoveries, daily production exceeds 30 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd), and over three hundred wells have been drilled on the trend.

Mr. Polley has drilled wildcat wells from shallow Manitoba to the deep Devonian in British Columbia where he most recently led a team at EnCana with a two-year exploration budget of $50 million. One of the projects included defining and capturing a 50-100 bcf Triassic prospect, which has been successfully drilled in part, and is undergoing extensive development drilling. Mr. Polley has participated in sizable acquisitions and was instrumental in a $30 million disposition of undeveloped land.

Mr. Polley graduated from Queen's University with a Bachelor of Science in Geological Engineering.

Ian Langdon

Prior to joining Breaker, Mr. Langdon was with EnCana Corporation, (formerly AEC) from 1994 until 2004. His positions ranged from Exploration/Exploitation Engineer to Reservoir Group Leader, Ecuador Development. Before EnCana, Mr. Langdon was with Petro-Canada from 1987 to 1994 as a Reservoir Engineer.

While Mr. Langdon was with EnCana's Ecuador Development Group, the operated production increased from 35,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) to 65,000 bopd. He participated in drilling 50 wells and developing approximately 50 million barrels of reserves. He designed and implemented the first two pressure maintenance projects in Ecuador.

Previous to working in Ecuador, Mr. Langdon launched EnCana's participation in the Pelican Lake Oil project. During that time, EnCana's oil production at Pelican Lake went from zero to approximately 20,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d). Mr. Langdon led the implementation of two successful horizontal-well waterflood pilot projects at Pelican Lake. The successful pilots and waterflood at Pelican Lake are currently being implemented on a large scale commercial basis.

Mr. Langdon graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering. He is a member of APEGGA, the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum.

Craig McClelland

Prior to joining Breaker, Mr. McClelland was with EnCana Corporation (formerly AEC) from 2000 to 2004. Previously, he was employed by Renaissance Energy Ltd. from 1999 to 2000, and Petro-Canada from 1989 to 1999.

Mr. McClelland has over 18 years of experience in several diversified operational regions, including British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Mr. McClelland spent most of the past two years leading and implementing land acquisition strategies for AEC/EnCana's Devonian exploration initiatives in Alberta and British Columbia. He has also been instrumental in leading initiatives for a variety of projects, including acquisitions, divestments and shallow gas exploration.

Mr. McClelland has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Petroleum Land Management from the University of Calgary. He is a professional member of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Landmen.

James Pasieka

Mr. Pasieka has been a barrister and solicitor with the law firm of Heenan Blaikie LLP in Calgary, Alberta since October, 2001 and has been a partner of the firm since January 1, 2003. From January, 2000 to October, 2001, Mr. Pasieka held the position of Vice President, Corporate Development - Venture Capital with Cavendish Investing Ltd., a private investment company. From August, 1995 until December, 1999, Mr. Pasieka was a barrister and solicitor with the law firm of Code Hunter Wittmann in Calgary, Alberta.

Mr. Pasieka has served as a director and acted as secretary for several public and private oil and gas companies. He is presently Chairman of Thunder Energy Inc; Secretary and a director of StarPoint Energy Ltd; Secretary of E3 Energy Inc. and a director of Bulldog Energy Inc. The shares of all companies trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Mr. Pasieka also serves as Chairman of Relentless Energy Corporation, a private company, and as Secretary to the Balancing Pool, a corporation created under the Electric Utilities Act (2003)(Alberta).