OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

FRANCIS P. JENKINS, JR. has served as our Chairman and a member of our board of directors since our inception. Mr. Jenkins served as our Chief Executive Officer from our inception until May 2009. He served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Royster-Clark, Inc., a retailer and wholesale distributor of mixed fertilizer, fertilizer materials, seed, crop protection products and agronomic services to farmers, from January 1994 to 2006. From 1988 until 1994, Mr. Jenkins served in various capacities on the board of directors for Royster-Clark, Inc. From 1988 to 1992, he served as Chairman of the Board of Royster-Clark, Inc. From 1979 to 1988, Mr. Jenkins was employed by The First Boston Corporation where he was one of the four members of the Executive Committee, co-managed First Boston's Equity Capital Investments and was the Principal Financial Officer. Prior to that position, he had responsibility for all security sales, trading and research, as well as holding positions as a Managing Director and a member of the Management Committee. Mr. Jenkins currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Babson College, as the Chairman of its Alumni and Development Committee and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board.

G. KENNETH MOSHENEK has served as a member of our board of directors since our inception. Mr. Moshenek served as our President and Chief Operating Officer from our inception until May 2009. Mr. Moshenek served as the President of Unity Envirotech LLC, a company servicing the commercial fertilizer and municipal wastewater markets, from October 2007 to December of 2007. Mr. Moshenek served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Royster-Clark, Inc., a retailer and wholesale distributor of mixed fertilizer, fertilizer materials, seed, crop protection products and agronomic services to farmers, from December 1997 to February 2006. Mr. Moshenek has served as Chief Operating Officer since 1995 and was a director from August 1997 until April 1999 of Royster-Clark, Inc. From August 1997 until April 1999, he served as Chief Investment Officer of Royster-Clark, Inc. Prior to that he held several positions during his tenure with Royster-Clark, Inc. including Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing from September 1994 until July 1995, Vice President and Divisional Sales Manager from 1992 until September 1994 and a Division Manager from 1990 to 1992. Mr. Moshenek joined W.S. Clark & Sons, Inc. in 1981. Mr. Moshenek has been involved in the fertilizer industry since 1976. Mr. Moshenek formerly served on the Board of Directors of The Fertilizer Institute and was a member of the Board's Executive Committee and served as chairman of the distributors council. He also formerly served on the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Retailers Association the Foundation of Agronomic Research and the Fertilizer Roundtable.

WAYNE N. DRIGGERS is our President, Chief Operating Officer, and a member of our Board of Directors. Mr. Driggers previously served as President of ED&F Man's Westway bulk liquid storage business from 1992 until May 2009. Prior to that, Mr. Driggers served as Vice President of ED&F Man's Westway bulk liquid storage business. Mr. Driggers was with ED&F Man's Westway business for 17 years. Prior to his service with ED&F Man, Mr. Driggers served as President of Liquid Transfer Terminals, Inc. in 1991 and as Vice President with McKenzie Tank Lines, Inc. from 1981 to 1989. From 1989 to 1991 he served as a General Manager with Powell Duffyn Terminals, a British public corporation. Mr. Driggers has also been previous employed in management positions with Florida Rock & Tank Lines from 1977 to 1979 and with Seminole Refining Inc. from 1979 to 1981. Mr. Driggers serves on the Board of Directors of the International Liquid Terminals Association, and served as Chairman of the Board in 2008.

 PHILIP A. HOWELL is a member of our board of directors. Mr. Howell also currently serves as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of the ED&F Man group. He has served in these capacities since March 2000 and July 2007, respectively. Mr. Howell has also served on ED&F Man's audit committee since 2001. Mr. Howell joined ED&F Man in 1990 as finance director of ED&F Man's futures brokerage business. Mr. Howell qualified as a chartered accountant with Coopers & Lybrand before working for two years with Security Pacific Hoare Govett in its financial control function.

 JAMES B. JENKINS is a member of our board of directors. Mr. Jenkins also currently serves as Managing Director of ED&F Man's Commodity Services Division, an integrated research, brokerage and risk management operation, and as a member of ED&F Man's Executive Committee. Prior to his role at ED&F Man Commodity Services, Mr. Jenkins was President of ED&F Man Cocoa, Inc., a merchant of cocoa beans and released products. Mr. Jenkins has 26 years of service in the soft commodities industry. Mr. Jenkins has served as a member of the New York Board of Trade's Cocoa and Control Committees, and as chairman of the board of directors of the Cocoa Merchants' Association of America, as well as on a number of the Association's committees. Mr. Jenkins is not related to Francis P. Jenkins, Jr., our Chairman.

 JOHN E. TOFFOLON, JR. has served as a member of our board of directors since our inception. He served as our Chief Financial Officer from August 3, 2006 until May 2009. Mr. Toffolon has been an active independent investor and consultant since his resignation from Nomura Holdings, a holding company, in 2001. He started his career in 1973 as a member in the Management Training Program of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as the Bank Supervisor function rotating through various analyst positions. In 1978, Mr. Toffolon joined the investment banking firm of Blyth Eastman Dillon as a Vice President in its Capital Markets subsidiary, Blyth Capital Markets Inc. Shortly after the company's acquisition by Paine-Webber. In 1979, Mr. Toffolon accepted an offer to join The First Boston Corporation to manage its Fixed-Income Credit Department. Mr. Toffolon served as Managing Director of The First Boston Corporation since 1986 and subsequently served as its Chief Financial Officer until 1990. In November 1992, Mr. Toffolon joined Nomura Holding America Inc. (holding company), and Nomura Securities International (broker-dealer) as Executive Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of both companies. Mr. Toffolon has served as the Lead Independent Director of The Cowen Group Inc., which together with its subsidiaries operates as investment bank, since September 14, 2006, and in that capacity serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board and a member of its Compensation Committee. Mr. Toffolon has served as Chairman of the Board of Cowen Group Inc. since July 15, 2008.

GREGORY F. HOLT is a member of our board of directors. Mr. Holt has served as the founding Principal, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since inception in 1990 of Daybrook Holdings Inc. and Daybrook Fisheries Inc., a North American/Dutch owned Menhaden fishmeal and fish oil production company headquartered in Louisiana. Prior to that, from 1969 to 1985 he served as a senior officer of International Proteins Corporation, an American Stock Exchange listed company engaged in the production of fishmeal, fish oil and frozen shrimps in Peru, Chile, Panama and Canada and the trading of various agri-products, protein meals and feedstuffs. In 1985 he founded his own trading, shipping and financing firm, ultimately raising the capital necessary to commence the operations of the Daybrook companies. He has served on numerous industry boards and trade associations, including National Fisheries Institute and The International Fishmeal and Fish Oil Association, and is a past Co-Chairman of the Rutgers University Marine Aquaculture Funding Task Force. Mr. Holt has served as an advisor/investor in various capital asset commodity transactions designed to acquire strategic manufacturing capacity in these core businesses in Latin America and import/export commodity terminal distribution operations in the United States. Mr. Holt, a United States citizen, was born in the United Kingdom and moved to the United States in 1969.