James Trimble - Talos Energy Independent Director

Mr. James M. Trimble is Independent Director of the Company. Mr. Trimble has served as a member of the Companys board of directors since May 2018. Prior to that, he served as the Interim Chief Executive Officer and President of Stone Energy from April 2017 until May 2018 and as a member of Stone Energys board of directors from February 2017. Mr. Trimble previously served as Chief Executive Officer and President of PDC Energy, Inc., a publicly traded independent natural gas and oil company, from 2011 until 2015. From 2005 until 2010, Mr. Trimble was Managing Director of Grand Gulf Energy, Limited, a public company traded on the Australian Securities Exchange, and President and Chief Executive Officer of Grand Gulfs U.S. subsidiary Grand Gulf Energy Company LLC, an exploration and development company focused primarily on drilling in mature basins in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. From 2000 through 2004, Mr. Trimble served as Chief Executive Officer of Elysium Energy and then TexCal Energy LLC, both of which were privately held oil and gas companies that he managed through workouts. Prior to this, he was Senior Vice President of Exploration and Production for Cabot Oil and Gas, a publicly traded independent energy company. Mr. Trimble was hired in July 2002 as Chief Executive Officer of TexCal to manage a distressed oil and gas company through bankruptcy. Mr. Trimble previously served on the boards of directors of Blue Dolphin Energy, an independent oil and gas company with operations in the Gulf of Mexico, from November 2002 until May 2006, Seisgen Exploration LLC, a small private exploration and production company operating in southern Texas, from 2008 to 2015, Grand Gulf Energy LTD from 2009 to 2012, PDC Energy from 2009 until June 2016 and CJ Energy Services LTD from March 2016 to January 2017. Mr. Trimble has served on the boards of directors of Callon Petroleum Company since 2014 and Crestone Peak Resources LLC. since 2018.