Former Chief Financial Officer of YUKOS Oil

From early 2001 until the end of 2005, Mr. Misamore was Chief Financial Officer of YUKOS Oil Company. For periods during that time he was also Deputy Chairman of the YUKOS Management Committee and a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors. Prior to joining YUKOS, Mr. Misamore had been Senior Vice President – Finance and Treasurer of PennzEnergy Company in Houston. A 28 year veteran of the oil and gas industry, Mr. Misamore’s prior positions also included Vice President and Treasurer of Pennzoil Company in Houston, various financial management positions with Marathon Oil Company/USX Corporation, investment portfolio management for a large trust company and teaching finance at a university. Until recently Mr. Misamore was a YUKOS representative to the World Economic Forum, a member of the Board of the US-Russia Business Council, the Board of the International Institute for Management Development (IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland and the Supervisory Board of Mazeikiu Nafta in Lithuania. He is a member of Financial Executives International, and its Houston Chapter serves on FEI’s Globalization Oversight Committee. In 2004 he was named the top CEO/CFO in Russia for investor relations by IR magazine, and was recognized as an outstanding Graduate of Bowling Green State University.
He earned both his BSBA in finance and his MBA from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Mr. Misamore was born in Findlay, Ohio in 1950, and moved to Houston in 1991.