Mr. Mills is Interim President and Chief Executive Officer effective August 30, 2024. Mr. Mills was appointed to the Talos board of directors in March 2024 in connection with our acquisition of QuarterNorth Energy where he served on the board of directors beginning in August 2021. Mr. Mills has over forty years of experience in the oil and gas exploration and production industry and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Samson Resources II, LLC (“Samson”), a position he has held since September 2023 and previously from March 2017 to May 2021. Mr. Mills also serves as a member of Samson’s board of directors. Mr. Mills previously served as the Executive Chairman, Principal Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Roan Resources Company (“Roan”) (NYSE: ROAN) from November 2018 to December 2019, where he led the company through a strategic evaluation that resulted in the sale of Roan to a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus. Mr. Mills also served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Eagle Rock Energy Partners, L.P. (NASDAQ: EROC) from May 2007 to October 2015. In addition to his service on the Samson board of directors, Mr. Mills is also a member of the boards of directors of Riviera Resources, Inc. since January 2020, Liberty Resources Company since October 2021 and Caliber Midstream Company, where he serves as Chairman of the Board, since March 2022. Mr. Mills holds a Masters of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Petroleum Land Management from The University of Texas at Austin.