National Fuel Gas Company and New Mountain Vantage Settle Proxy Contest

Business Wire, Jan 24, 2008

December 2005. Riordan served as President and CEO of MidCon Corporation, a company engaged in interstate and intrastate natural gas transportation as well as wholesale marketing of natural gas, from October 1988 to January 1998. In 1998, he directed Occidental Petroleum Corporation's divestiture and sale of MidCon to KN Energy, Inc and served as Vice Chairman of KN Energy from February 1998 to February 1999. Riordan has been a director of Nicor Inc. since 2001, twice served as Chairman of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA), is the former President of the commodity chemical business at Occidental Petroleum and former President of the natural gas liquids business at Cities Service Company. He has also served as a director of Occidental Petroleum, Chicago Bridge & Iron Company and as a Trustee of Niagara University.

Frederic V. Salerno has, since 2006, served as a Senior Advisor to New Mountain Capital, L.L.C. Salerno retired as Vice Chairman and CFO of Verizon, Inc. in September 2002 after more than 37 years in the telecommunications industry. Prior to the Bell Atlantic/GTE merger, which created Verizon, he was Senior Vice Chairman and CFO of Bell Atlantic and President and CEO of New York Telephone. Salerno serves as Trustee of the Inner City Scholarship Fund and in 1990 was appointed Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York, a position he held until 1996. Salerno has previously served as a Director of Con Edison, Keyspan and Orion Power. He is currently a director of Akamai Technologies, Inc., Bear Stearns & Company, Inc., Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., Popular, Inc., Viacom, Inc. and CBS Corp.