Effective July 28, 2014, GulfSlope Energy Inc. appointed John H. Malanga its new Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer. Mr. John Seitz relinquished his title as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer on such date, but will continue to serve as the company's Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors. The company appointed John H. Malanga to the position of Vice President.

Mr. Malanga, 46, is an industry veteran with approximately 20 years of energy finance experience having worked as an investment banker with various boutique firms including Weisser, Johnson & Co. (from 2009 through 2014), Sanders Morris Harris Inc. (from 1996 through 2009), and Jefferies & Co. (1995).

Over his career, he has led and executed various capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and financial advisory transactions with particular emphasis on providing strategic and financial advice to emerging growth publicly-traded companies.