Robert L. Hodgkinson

Robert L. Hodgkinson has been a Director, Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dejour Energy Inc. since 2004. Additionally, he is the president of Hodgkinson Equities Corporation, a private company he established in 1988, which provides consulting services to emerging businesses primarily in the petroleum resource industry. Mr. Hodgkinson was also the Founder and Chairman of Optima Petroleum Corporation, which drilled wells in Alberta, Canada, and the Gulf of Mexico before merging to form PetroQuest Energy, a NYSE-listed company. Subsequently, he founded and was CEO of Australian Oil Fields, which later would merge to become Resolute Energy Inc./Cardero Energy Inc. Early in his career, Mr. Hodgkinson was a Vice President and Partner of Canaccord Capital Corporation, and in 2001, an early-stage investor and original lease financier in Synenco Energy Inc.’s Northern Lights project in the Alberta oil sands.