Mr. Kase L. Lawal
CEO, CAMAC Holdings Inc., USA

Mr. Lawal is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CAMAC Holdings Inc., a company with approximately $573 million in revenue in 2003, primarily in oil and gas exploration, production, refining and energy trading. The company is listed as America's second largest African-American owned company on the Black Enterprise 100s list.

The City of Houston Mayor appointed Mr. Lawal in September 2001 to serve as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Houston Airport System (HAS) Development Corporation. HAS is the sixth largest airport system in the world and fourth largest in the United States, with over 44 million passengers in 2000.

Mr. Lawal was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Port of Houston Authority in July 2000, having been sworn in as a Port Commissioner in June 1999. The Port of Houston ranks first in the U.S. in foreign tonnage and includes the nation's largest petrochemical complex, with total cargo value in 2001 of approximately $55 billion. Mr. Lawal currently serves as Chairman of the Houston Mayoral Advisory Board on International Affairs and Development.

In February 1999, Mr. Lawal was appointed as a member of the United States Trade Advisory Committee on Africa, an advisory group to the U.S. President and the U.S. Trade Representative on trade policy in Africa.

Mr. Lawal is the Chairman of Allied Energy Corporation, an independent oil and gas company. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Cape Investment Holdings, a leading thermal insulation company. Mr. Lawal serves on the Board of Directors of the Greater Houston Partnership and the Houston International Festival, an Arts and Cultural organization.

Mr. Lawal was named as a finalist for the 1994 United States Entrepreneur of the Year Award and also received the Houston 100 Award for the fastest growing company in Houston.

In 2003, Mr. Lawal established a one million dollar endowment at Texas Southern University's Jesse H. Jones School of Business, creating the Kase and Eileen Lawal Center for International Business Development.

In 1992, Mr. Lawal established a quarter-million dollar (currently $600,000) Petroleum Engineering Endowment at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering to benefit graduate petroleum engineering students. Mr. Lawal serves as Director of the Cullen Engineering Research Foundation

Previously, Mr. Lawal was President of Baker Investments, Inc.; Vice President, Suncrest Investment Corporation; Research Chemist, Dresser Industries; and Process Engineer, Shell Oil Refining Company. Mr. Lawal studied Chemical Engineering at Georgia Tech and holds a Bachelor of Science from Texas Southern University and a Masters of Business Administration in Finance and Marketing from Prairie View A&M University of Texas.