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Mr. Porter has been a member of the Gastar Board of Directors and has served as Chief Executive Officer and President since February 2004. He assumed the additional role of Chairman of the Board of Directors in mid-2006. He has approximately 15 years of natural gas and oil exploration and production experience and five years of banking and investment experience specializing in the natural gas and oil industry. From 1990 to 1994, Mr. Porter held positions of increasing responsibility in the commercial and merchant banking fields. From 1994 to 2000, Mr. Porter served as an Executive Vice President of a publicly traded exploration and production company. Mr. Porter holds a bachelor of science degree in Petroleum Land Management from Louisiana State University and a MBA from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. | 