Rooster Energy Ltd. announced the appointment of J. Munro M. Sutherland as an alternate Director and Gary L. Nuschler, Jr. as its new Chief Financial Officer. The appointments are effective September 1, 2015. In conjunction with the new appointments, the company also announced the resignation of Paul A. Crilly as a member of its board of directors and Steven M. Holder as its Chief Financial Officer.

The resignations are effective August 31, 2015. Mr. Crilly served as an independent director and was a member of the Audit Committee and Corporate Governance Committee. Both Mr. Crilly and Mr. Holder resigned for personal reasons and their mutually agreed departures are unrelated.

Also, there was no disagreement by either Mr. Crilly or Mr. Holder with the policies or practices of the Company. Mr. Sutherland has over 40 years of experience in accounting and finance, primarily with oil and gas exploration and production companies, and he has been a Chartered Accountant since 1978. For many years he was at various times an executive and non-executive director of Cairn Energy plc and Cairn Energy USA.

He was also the finance director of Melrose Resources plc. Mr. Nuschler has worked with Rooster Petroleum, LLC, since 2013. Prior to joining Rooster, he worked as a research analyst for several investment banks, including Jefferies Group, LLC, Sterne Agee Group, and Sanders Morris Harris.