BenchMark Energy Corp. announces the appointment of Mr. Gerardo Elizondo to its corporate advisory board. Mr. Gerardo Elizondo is the founder and CEO of CAY ARCOS GROUP, headquartered in Mexico City, which manages various business and research centers.

He founded CAY ARCOS in 2000, creating a biofuel plant in Mexico. Mr. Elizondo holds a chemical engineering degree, and has been involved over the last 15 years in research and development of new products, and innovative technologies. Under his leadership, CAY ARCOS has diversified in many different business areas such as animal feed ingredients, synthetic lubricants, mineral oil lubricants, glycols, biofuels, aluminum, and automotive chemical products.

Mr. Elizondo also founded the research lab center, THE CAY ARCOS LAB. The most recent developments under Mr. Gerardo's direction are the viscosity improvers for mineral oils and the high performance glycols for the antifreeze industry, which are going to be marketed through IBERLUBE as part of the CAY ARCOS GROUP.