New Era Helium, a next-gen exploration and production platform in the Permian Basin, is pleased to announce the appointment of three new board members whose expertise spans digital infrastructure, energy markets, and capital formation. These additions reflect NEH’s commitment to building a leadership team equipped to guide the Company through its next phase of growth in the Permian Basin.

The new board members include:

• Trent Yang is a recognized leader in the renewable energy space, having been an investor, entrepreneur and executive in the sustainability industry since 2006. From January 2020 to April 2025 he was the Co-Founder and President of Galway Sustainable Capital a specialty finance company focused on sustainability projects, where he co-managed the business and oversaw the investment team. In 4+ years, Galway raised nearly $700M of institutional capital including Macquarie Asset Management, OakTree and Aware Super. Prior to that, from January 2013 to December 2019, he was a Vice President at AMG National Trust where he oversaw sustainability and international private equity investments.Trent has been investing into and starting sustainability companies since 2006. During that period, he has led investments and/or grown several billion $+ companies including investment firms and renewable companies. He has unique experience investing and growing variety of sustainability platforms including renewable energy & storage, green buildings and data centers, mobility, sustainable agriculture and next generation manufacturing & recycling solutions. He also sits on a number of non-profit boards at the nexus of public policy, education and sustainability.

  Mr. Yang holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and multiple M.S. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he focused on climate & economics, machine learning control systems, and entrepreneurship.

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• Peter (“P.J.”) Lee is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of EverStream Energy Capital Management LLC, a global investment firm that invests in sustainable energy and digital infrastructure companies and assets worldwide. He has held that role since January 2012. Among other things, his duties include raising funds, sourcing and managing investments. Mr Lee has cofounded several energy company platforms including Terraform Power, TerraForm Global, Pacific Solar (Japan) and Enfinity Global. Mr Lee also cofounded a digital infrastructure company that developed approximately 700 megawatts of data center capacity customized for Bitcoin mining in west Texas, Nebraska and South Dakota. Mr Lee serves as an advisor and Board Director to Engineered Products and PDU Cables which specialize in quick turn, custom assembly electrical products for the data center industry.Mr. Lee previously held leadership positions with investment firm Black River, a division of Cargill, Inc; as well as investment banking firms CE Unterberg Towbin, Robertson Stephens, and Chase Manhattan. Most of Mr Lee’s finance career has focused on sectors within the energy, technology, infrastructure, commodity, and digital industries.

  Mr. Lee holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Union College.

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• Ondrej Sestak is a Co-Founder and Head of Engineering at ZeroSix LLC, a carbon credit solution provider, since January 2022. He is also a Reservoir Engineer with Aurivos Permian LLC, an oil and gas operator, a position he has held since January 2022. Since January 2022, he has also been a Reservoir Engineer with ARB Energy Utah LLC. He is also Chief Operations Officer for GLT Trading LLC, an international commodities trader, a position he has held since April 2020. As of March 2025, he has also been Project Manager for Five Star Clean Fuels, a strategic developer, owner and operator of distributed gasoline production facilities.Mr. Sestak has over a decade of technical experience across the resource industry. In his role at ZeroSix he is leading the development and implementation of novel methodologies for economic adoption of environmental optimization across the oil and gas industry, including the remediation of marginal operations, responsibly sourced gas, and repurposing of existing wellbores.

  As Chief Operations Officer for GLT Trading, he sources Helium, LPG, and petcoke on behalf of Asian clients, securing take away agreements from established suppliers, sourcing spot loads on the open market, and pursuing several direct Helium development opportunities.

  As a reservoir engineer, he is able to evaluate the geologic resource potential as well as the financial viability of producing and development operations. Before moving into his current roles, he worked with INEXS, a petroleum engineering geoscience consulting firm, cultivating unique investment opportunities and performing evaluations of resource projects, including Helium development, blue hydrogen generation, enhanced oil recovery, and carbon capture and utilization. Prior to venturing into the independent investment and operator space of the resource industry, Mr. Sestak was a reservoir engineer at Shell where he worked the Haynesville shale and Vaca Muerta basin.

  Mr. Sestak holds a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MS in Energy Resource Engineering from Stanford University.

E. Will Gray II, CEO of New Era Helium, Inc. commented: “These appointments are being made to fill vacancies on the board of directors, created by the recent resignations, and reflect NEH’s commitment to building a leadership team equipped to guide the Company through its next phase of growth in the Permian Basin.”

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