The Board’s primary responsibility is to maximize long-term shareholder value for the Company’s stockholders. The Board selects the senior management of the Company, monitors senior management and the Company’s performance, and provides advice and counsel to senior management. Please find an introduction to Kodiak’s Board of Directors.

Rodney D. Knutson has served as a director of the Company since March 2001. Currently, he is a self-employed attorney in Aspen, Colorado. Prior to this, he had over ten years of private law practice in Denver, Colorado and over 30 years experience working with oil, gas and mining companies. Mr. Knutson has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (1965) from the University of Minnesota and a Juris Doctor (1972) from the University of Denver. Mr. Knutson is a former president of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation.

Herrick K. Lidstone, Jr. has served as a director of the Company since March 2006. Mr. Lidstone is an attorney at law in Greenwood Village, Colorado, and is currently with Burns, Figa & Will, P.C., where he practices in corporate and securities law, dealing frequently with mergers and acquisitions, finance transactions, and private and public securities offerings. Mr. Lidstone serves on the Securities Board for the Department of Regulatory Agencies in Colorado. He has been Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Denver and has taught continuing education courses for the National Business Institute and other CLE providers. He has numerous legal publications and presentations to his credit. Mr. Lidstone received a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in 1971 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Colorado School of Law in 1978.

Don McDonald has served as a director of the Company since June 2006. He is a certified public accountant who serves as an associate with Houston-based Albrecht & Associates, a leading oil and natural gas divestiture firm. Prior to joining Albrecht in 2006, he helped establish the energy lending division for Bank of the West in Denver. Mr. McDonald holds a Master of Science in Accounting from the University of Colorado and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Iowa. During a 20-year career as a senior financial officer in several regional and super regional financial institutions, Mr. McDonald specialized in energy lending, with expertise in financial areas of accounting systems, controller-side stewardship, and debt structuring. Mr. McDonald is active in the Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States and the Energy Finance Roundtable.

Lynn A. Peterson

James E. Catlin