Management

The officers of PetroSun are elected by and serve at the discretion of the Board of Directors. A brief description of the business experience of our officers and directors is set forth below.

Gordon M. LeBlanc, Jr. - CEO / Chairman PetroSun

Gordon M. LeBlanc, Jr., 57, is a third generation member of the oil and gas industry with over thirty years of experience as an operator and geological consultant. Mr. LeBlanc founded PetroSun in 2001 and is responsible for the transition into the renewable energy sector.

Driven to discover new energy production and reserves, Mr. LeBlanc founded LeBlanc Oil (1985) and Tiger Energy (1990) to concentrate on developing oil and gas prospects in the Holbrook Basin of Arizona, the San Juan Basin of New Mexico, the Canning Basin of Western Australia and the Cooper-Eromonga and Surat basins of Queensland, Australia. PetroSun and its subsidiaries will exploit oil and gas prospects both domestically and internationally.

Mr. LeBlanc oversees a variety of philanthropic endeavors. He is the co-founder and Vice Chairman of Every Kid Counts, a 501-C3 children's charity based in Phoenix, Arizona and has actively served for the past ten years with a group dedicated to fundraising efforts benefiting officers of the Phoenix Police Department.

Mr. LeBlanc majored in petroleum geology at Centenary College of Louisiana.

Mark R. Edwards, Ph.D. – Chief of Technology and Sustainability

Mark R. Edwards, Ph.D., 61, has studied algae for over 40 years and is an internationally recognized expert on algae and its many co-products. His book Green Algae Strategy is the best-selling book on algae and won the 2009 Independent Publishers Gold Medal for the “Best Science Book of 2008.”

Mark graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with degrees in engineering, oceanography and meteorology. He earned and MBA and PhD in marketing and consumer psychology at Arizona State University where he has taught marketing, entrepreneurship and sustainability for over 30 years. Mark served as a director for a Fortune 50 international foods and transportation company where he began his quest to find and develop new food sources.

He served as CEO of the advanced technology and software firm he founded, TEAMS International for twenty four years. TEAMS sold to an international consultancy after it won the Inc 500 award for profitability and growth in 1998. Mark served as lead consultant to over 400 firms and governments including Disney, GE, Intel, J&J, HP, British Petroleum, Saudi Aramco, General Mills, Nabisco, Mayo Clinic, Coca Cola, Motorola, Bank of America and several U.S. agencies including DOD, Special Forces, DOE, FAA and the National Laboratories.