Mr. Nini is the former President of PLS, Inc, a company active in oil & gas property divestments as well as publications, conferences and trade shows. Mr. Nini took over as president of PLS in early 2001, and led the company until its sale in December 2002.

Mr. Nini graduated in 1989 from Texas Tech University with a BA in Public Relations and Marketing. His career following college involved prospect development, title research, land and mineral owner negotiations, oil & gas leasing, title opinions and curative for several majors.

In 1993, he entered the natural gas commodity trading business at Coastal Gas Marketing until 1995, when he moved to Calgary as part of the group headed by J.P. Bryan that took over Gulf Canada Resources. There he led U.S. gas trading on behalf of Gulf Canada, building a third party U.S. business to 1.5 BCF/month.

Mr. Nini conceptualized and opened a Houston-based office for Gulf Canada to handle all U.S. gas marketing efforts, both physical and financial, Gulf Trading had first year sales over $200 million.

Late in 2000, Mr. Nini joined J.P. Bryan's A&D group at Torch Energy Advisors, Inc. There he was responsible for origination of acquisition targets, due diligence and purchase & sale negotiations.

Prior to founding Lantana Oil and Gas Partners, Mr. Taurins worked with Waterous & Co. leading over $270 million in asset and corporate sales for a variety of companies from small privately-owned companies to large publicly traded companies with a geographical focus in the Gulf Coast, Permian Basin, San Juan Basin and the Mid-Continent area.

Mr. Taurins received a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. He started his career at Coffman Exploration and was responsible for acquisition evaluations. After moving to Houston in 1993, Mr. Taurins spent several years performing reserves evaluation work for Tenneco Energy. He then joined Agip Petroleum where he gained expertise in reservoir engineering through the management of Agip’s Gulf of Mexico assets and complete preparation of annual reserve reports.

Mr. Taurins rounded out his career by joining Waterous & Company in 2000. There he focused his efforts on all facets of the divestment process, from business development, asset evaluation through the completion of transactions.

Gregory Whitmire joined the firm of Lantana Oil and Gas Partners in August 2005 and is Director of Multimedia. Mr. Whitmire holds an Associates of Applied Science Degree from the Art Institute of Houston and 16 years of Design Experience. He will focus on Innovative marketing Strategies that will take complex ideas and develop simple solutions.

In 2002 Mr. Whitmire accepted a position as a Geoscience Technologist with Rock Solid Images and did extensive work in the Gulf of Mexico region and International areas. His Primary duties included developing Interactive Compact Discs that Highlighted the firms Services, Products and Company Technology as well as Market branding for Rock Solid Images Most Popular Product “MOSS”. He worked closely with clients such as Burlington Resources, Dominion Exploration & Production, Inc., and Marathon Oil Corporation on Content Development and Data Management Projects.

Prior to joining Rock Solid Images, Mr. Whitmire worked for Waterous & Co., as a Multimedia Developer and Graphic Artist responsible for Authoring Multimedia Gas and Oil Divestiture Presentation data books to CD-R and DVD-R. He worked with Petroleum Engineers, Geologists and Production Crews on short movies highlighting Waterous & Co.’s current Gas and Oil offerings.