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Penn Virginia Corp. announced that Tiffany ("TJ") Thom Cepak and Jeffrey E. Wojahn have been appointed to the Company's Board of Directors, effective immediately.
About Cepak
Ms. Cepak has more than 20 years of operational and financial experience within the energy industry and was the Chief Financial Officer ("CFO") of Energy XXI Gulf Coast Inc. from August 2017 until October 2018. She was also CFO of KLR Energy Acquisition Corp. (and subsequent to its business combination, Rosehill Resources Inc.) from January 2015 to June 2017 and CFO of EPL Oil & Gas, Inc. for four years until it was sold in 2014. Ms. Cepak has been a director of Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. since August 2014. She served as a director of Yates Petroleum Corporation, a privately owned onshore exploration and production company, from October 2015 to October 2016. Ms. Cepak holds a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Illinois and a Masters of Business Administration in Management with a concentration in Finance from Tulane University.
About Wojahn
Mr. Wojahn served as Executive Vice President of EnCana Corporation from 2003 to 2013 and was President of Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. from 2006 to 2013. Beginning in 1985, Mr. Wojahn held senior management and operational positions in Canada and the United States and has extensive experience in unconventional resource play development. He served as Advisory Board member for Morgan Stanley Energy Partners from October 2014 until 2017. Currently, Mr. Wojahn is Executive Chairman of MiddleFork Energy Partners and also serves as a director of Bonanza Creek Energy Inc. Mr. Wojahn received his B.S. in Geophysics from the University of Calgary in 1985.
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