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IAG benefits from oversight by the Triten Corporation Advisory Board of Directors, which includes executives with expertise ranging from refinery operations and finance to petroleum E&P and mid-stream assets and chemicals. Privately held Triten Corporation has had an outside advisory board of directors since 1972. The board includes three internal management members and four outside directors:

JOHN SCOTT ARNOLDY
Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer
Triten Corporation and subsidiaries

Mr. Arnoldy has been with the company since 1972. The only son of the company founder, he began as a salesman, later became a sales manager and then progressed to division manager for the Overlay Products group in 1977. He was promoted to president of the parent company in 1981, chief executive officer in 1990 and chairman in 2001. In 1995, he co-founded the International Alliance Group (IAG), the largest operating subsidiary of Triten Corporation.

Mr. Baumgartner joined Triten Corporation in 1974. Beginning as a salesman, he was promoted to sales manager in 1978. In 1986, he was promoted to general manager of the company’s Tapco Valve subsidiary. While in that role, he co-founded the International Alliance Group of Triten Corporation (IAG), for which he now serves as the executive vice president and chief operating officer. Mr. Baumgartner has served on the Triten board since September 2006.

Mr. Bainter joined the company in 1979. Previously, he held accounting and management positions with other companies, including serving as secretary and treasurer of Sline Industrial Painters (1973-1979) and as controller for the Belmas subsidiary of the International Systems and Controls Company (1967-1973). Mr. Bainter has served on the Triten board since September 2006.

Since 1999, Mr. Amonett has led Champion Technologies, a nearly $1B Houston-based provider of specialty chemicals and related services to the international oilfield production and processing sector. After beginning his career as a lawyer with the Fulbright and Jaworski law firm in Houston, he served as president of Houston Oilfields (1982-1986) and Reunion Resources (1992-1996), interim president of Weatherford Enterra (1996-1997) and as the CEO of ARS (American Residential Services), a group of residential services companies (1997-1999). Mr. Amonett has served on the Triten board since September 2006, and is the head of the compensation committee.

In addition to leading Huff International, the advisory and capital management company he formed to invest in new technology for the energy industry, Mr. Huff is chairman of the board of Oceaneering International, where he served as chief executive officer from 1986 through 2006. Previously, he served as president and CEO of Western Oceanic (1972-1986), a worldwide offshore contract-drilling company. He has been on the Triten board since January 1994, and serves on the audit committee.

Along with leading Crestwood Midstream Partners, a company that pursues, acquires and develops North American midstream assets, Mr. Phillips also serves as senior advisor to KA Fund Advisors LLC (KAFA), which serves as the advisor to Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company (NYSE:KYN), Kayne Anderson Energy Total Return Fund (NYSE:KYE) and Kayne Anderson Energy Development Company (NYSE:KED). Previously, he served as COO and later, CEO, of Enterprise Product Partners MLP, one of Houston’s largest companies. Prior to that, he served as CEO of Gulf Terra Energy Partners (1999-2004) and president of El Paso Field Services of El Paso Corporation (1996-2004). Before that he was chairman, president and CEO of Eastex Energy Inc. (1981-1995), which he sold to El Paso Corporation. Mr. Phillips has served on the Triten board since September 2006, and is chairman of the audit committee.

Mr. Wilkinson has more than 30 years of senior management experience in engineering and construction and energy-related industries, including 18 years at CRSS, where he was CEO from 1982 to 1996. Between 1996 and 2000, Mr. Wilkinson served as interim president and CEO of two NYSE companies in various states of duress, successfully turning them around for their ownership and/or their banks. Mr. Wilkinson has served on the Triten board since December 1990, and is a member of the compensation committee.