Mr. Taylor, CPA, has over 18 years of financial, accounting and tax structuring experience. After working in national public accounting firms, he has been the Chief Financial Officer of American Resources Corporation (Nasdaq: AREC) since 2015, leading the public process as well as integrations of 8 different acquisitions within the infrastructure and resource space. Mr. Taylor is also a founder and President of Land Betterment Corp, a benefit corporation, focused on positive environmental and social communities facing a changing industrial landscape, since 2020.  Mr. Taylor was up until recently the President and Chief Financial Officer of Royalty Management Holding Corporation (Nasdaq: RMCO). There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Taylor and any other persons pursuant to which he was selected as an officer. He has no direct or indirect material interest in any transaction required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

Mr. Perkowski, upon graduating from Yale and the Harvard Business School, spent almost twenty years on Wall Street rising to Head of Investment Banking at PaineWebber. Well before others recognized the significant role that China would play in the global economy, he spent three years investigating opportunities in Asia and China, leading to the founding of ASIMCO Technologies in 1994. Widely recognized as an expert on doing business in China, he authored Managing the Dragon: How I’m Building a Billion Dollar Business In China, published by Crown Publishing, a division of Random House, in March 2008. Mr. Perkowski is a frequent speaker and commentator on China to the broadcast media, including CNN, CNBC, Fox, BBC, NPR and CCTV, as well as a variety of audiences worldwide: universities, business schools, corporate and industry conferences, and various chapters of the Council on Foreign Relations, Asia Society, YPO and other professional organizations. Mr. Perkowski has no direct or indirect material interest in any transaction required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K

Mr. Dreska has 30+ years working in business development, sales, marketing, accounting and finance positions through a wide variety of companies from start-ups to fortune 500.  From 2015 through present, Mr. Dreska has worked as a commercial appraiser for Collateral Evaluation Services.  Mr. Dreska is the co-founder of Clay Resources, LLC and has served as the firm’s president since 2021.  Mr. Dreska graduated from The Ohio State University with degrees in Accounting and Finance.  Mr. Dreska has no direct or indirect material interest in any transaction required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K