Michael Holmes is a professional engineer and CFA Institute Charterholder with over a decade of varied experience including corporate development, strategic planning, process and reservoir engineering, and R&D. Michael has been with Eavor since 2020 and is currently Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, leading the company’s capital markets activities. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Engineering and Technology Implementation, accountable for engineering and geoscience design, integration of Eavor’s proprietary technologies into its commercial projects, and technical training of all staff globally. Michael led the development of Eavor’s in-house thermodynamic modeling tools, is a named inventor on many of Eavor’s patents, lead or co-author on many of Eavor’s technical papers, and led Eavor’s $137MM strategic equity raise in 2025 and $239MM Series B equity raise in 2023. Prior to Eavor, Michael worked at Cenovus Energy, tackling projects ranging from rethinking thermal wellbore design to portfolio-level strategic analysis and advisement. Michael graduated with First Class Honours from Queen’s University, where he was awarded the E.T. Sterne prize for the student with the highest aggregate standing in Chemical Engineering.