About TxIS

T. Jay Collins retired as President, Chief Executive Officer from Oceaneering International in May 2011, while continuing to serve as Director on the Board. Mr. Collins joined Oceaneering in October 1993, initially serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Collins is past Chairman of the Board of Directors for National Ocean Industries Association. He serves on the Board of the American Productivity & Quality Center, Petroleum Equipment Suppliers Association, CanCare of Houston, Nautronix, and the Texas Institute of Science. He is also a member of the National Petroleum Council. Mr. Collins received his MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business in 1972 and both his Bachelor of Arts degree and a Masters of Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering from Rice University in 1969. Mr. Collins continues his affiliation with Rice University as a member of the Rice Board of Trustees and as Chairman of the Council of Overseers of the Jones Graduate School of Business Administration.

Laslo Olah, a veteran in the High Technology sector, is the Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Texas Institute of Science (TxIS). Mr. Olah is one of the original theoreticians of Science Globalization utilizing the growing influence of Eastern Science within the world's high-tech economy.

Mr. Olah has spent his forty-year career in the high-tech arena. TxIS has been operating based upon his theory of sourcing R&D globally, using a clustered, proprietary, managed database. The model developed, implemented, and operated for seventeen years, dynamically augmenting R&D organizations' capacity by assisting them to successfully complete their programs.

Through its eighteen years of existence, TxIS has been one of the most sought after R&D groups within the global oil/gas industry. Before TxIS, Mr. Olah spent ten years as Chairman and CEO of the Gamma Group that provided much-needed international consulting expertise to the global IT industry. Throughout his career, Mr. Olah was the sole or partner inventor in thirty-eight new technologies that received US Patents.

Mr. Olah's main academic interest is educating senior undergraduate and post- graduate students in the techniques of business plan theories, structures, writing and business ethics.

Mr. Olah is a graduate of the Technical University of Budapest, holding an EECSc degree. He emigrated to the United States in the late 1980's and became a U.S. Citizen in the mid-1990's. He served as Chairman of the Board of DB Funds, Inc. (a worldwide educational non-profit organization), he is a Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow, member of the World Petroleum Council's American Board and the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA)

Galen Cobb is vice president industry relations for Halliburton and is responsible for the company's industry relations global activities. He has worked for Halliburton for over thirty-eight years serving in various executive management positions in operations, marketing, sales and business development.

From 1991 to 1994, he was Director CIS and China with oversight in establishing Halliburton's presence and operations in these emerging markets. Later he was named Director Executive Sales and Business Development with expanded responsibilities for the worldwide development and promotion of Halliburton's services and products. In his current position, Mr. Cobb has broad responsibilities that include managing the company's industry relations, energy trade policy issues, executive client relations, and trade organization oversight.

Cobb serves in leadership positions on numerous industry, trade association, and civic boards including: Petroleum Equipment Suppliers Association Past Chairman and Executive Board, Independent Producers of America Association, Board of Trustees, Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Board of Directors, National Ocean Industries Association Board of Directors, Academy of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology Board Chairman, Spindletop International Board of Trustees, Texas Alliance Foundation Board, Industry Sector Advisory Committee to the US Department of Commerce, World Energy Cities Partnership Board, and Chairman of the USA National Committee for the World Petroleum Congress.

Galen is a graduate of Oklahoma Christian University, 1974.

Mark Crews is currently an Executive-in-Residence at Summit Partners, a Boston-based private equity investing firm. Mark works closely with the Summit team to invest in leading, technology-enabled oilfield product and services businesses of scale.

From 2008 to 2013, Mark was the Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Oilfield Division of Lufkin Industries and was responsible for all manufacturing, sales, service and engineering operations worldwide until Lufkin was sold to GE Oil & Gas in July 2013. Prior to Lufkin, he was employed by Cameron International Corporation (NYSE: CAM) where he served most recently as Vice President, Subsea Technology. In addition, Mark held a number of domestic and international executive management positions with Cameron during his three-decade career at the company.

Mark holds a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Program for Management Development.He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), serves on the advisory board for the College of Engineering at Harding University and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. He is also an investor in Texas Institute of Science (TxIS).

Mark David graduated from Sherman High School and the University of Texas at Austin. From 1981 to 1987, Mark practiced law in New York City and Dallas. In 1987, he began trading commodity futures and options on the New York Mercantile Exchange and sold his trading company in 1999.

Mark is an investor in real estate in McKinney and the surrounding area. He is a past owner of the fixed base operator and corporate hangars at Collin County Regional Airport. Mark is an investor in Texas Institute of Science, a science consulting firm in Richardson.

Thomas H Roberts graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Colorado in 1977, and earned a Masters in Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School in 1984. He was Director of International Marketing for DeKalb Poultry Research until 1991, and served on the Board of Directors of publicly-traded DeKalb Energy Corporation until its merger with Apache Corporation in 1995. He currently serves on the Boards of Knowledge Mosaic and TXIS. He is the founder of Next Millennium Property Co, LLC, with investments in commercial real estate and other private ventures.