New Stratus Energy Inc. announced the appointment of Mr. Wade Felesky as President of the Corporation and a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Felesky was most recently Head of Investment Banking at Laurentian Bank Securities Inc. and previously Co-Head of Energy Investment Banking at GMP Securities L.P. He has over 25 years of investment banking experience and has been involved as an agent and advisor to the New Stratus team since 2004. New Stratus also announced that Mr. Humberto Calderon Berti has also agreed to join the Corporation's Board of Directors. Mr. Calderon Berti is both a geologist and petroleum engineer. He is the former President of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (Venezuela's state-owned petroleum company) as well as the former President of OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries). He also has served as the Minister of Energy and Mines and the Minister of Foreign Affairs in his native Venezuela. The Corporation also announced that Mr. Lucas Tomei has been appointed as Corporate Secretary. Mr. Tomei is a partner at Dentons Canada LLP and has experience in a broad range of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and securities regulatory matters. In addition, Mr. Krishna Vathyam has resigned from the Board of Directors.