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WHAT MAKES PETROCOIN DIFFERENT – A NEW ERA OF ENERGY INVESTMENT IS BORN
By Kurt Neubauer  / May 10, 2026
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WHAT MAKES PETROCOIN DIFFERENT – A NEW ERA OF ENERGY INVESTMENT IS BORN

What Makes PetroCoin® Different – A New Era of Energy Investment is Born Energy Industry Asset Tokenization is Here! Based...
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DON’T CONFUSE PETROCOIN® WITH VENEZUELA’S LATE PETRO TOKEN
By Kurt Neubauer  / May 8, 2026
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DON’T CONFUSE PETROCOIN® WITH VENEZUELA’S LATE PETRO TOKEN

Don't Confuse PetroCoin with Venezuela's Late Petro Token PetroCoin® will emerge and bring attention to itself through the acquisition of both...
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PETROCOIN – THE FUTURE OF TOKENIZED ENERGY LAUNCHES INFORMATIONAL VIDEO
By Kurt Neubauer  / November 19, 2025
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PETROCOIN – THE FUTURE OF TOKENIZED ENERGY LAUNCHES INFORMATIONAL VIDEO

ASSET BACKED TOKENIZED ENERGY INVESTMENTS Explore The World of Tokenized Energy Assets.https://petrocoin.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PTCN2024.mp4About PetroCoin Limited Liability CompanyASSET BACKED TOKENIZED ENERGY INVESTMENTSHOUSTON,...
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PETROCOIN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY LAUNCHES THE PETROCOIN ASSET BACKED ENERGY TOKEN (PTCN) – REAL WORLD ASSET
By Kurt Neubauer  / September 19, 2024
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PETROCOIN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY LAUNCHES THE PETROCOIN ASSET BACKED ENERGY TOKEN (PTCN) – REAL WORLD ASSET

PetroCoin Limited Liability Company Launches the PetroCoin® Asset Backed Energy Token (PTCN)-Unveiling the Future Tokenization of the Energy Industry-HOUSTON, TEXAS, December...
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Enzo Villani
ADVISOR - CRYPTOCURRENCY * FINTECH * CORP GOVERNANCE

Enzo Villani, MBA, is a serial entrepreneur with twenty-year expertise as a chief strategist to Fortune 500 companies, private equity firms, and venture capital. Mr. Villani is a veteran fintech entrepreneur, investor, and corporate strategist serving as Executive Chairman and Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of AlphaTON Capital Corp. (Nasdaq: ATON).  Enzo was co-founder of Nasdaq Corporate Solutions, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of two strategic M&A consolidations in the areas of investor relations, proxy solicitation, corporate governance and financial technology. Transform Group represented the launch of over 37% of the alt-coin market capitalization by 2019. He is the co-founder of Blockchain Wire and was the head of international strategy and innovation at OKEx.

Mr. Villani is also the founder and Managing Partner of Alpha Sigma Capital and founder/CEO of Alpha Transform Holdings. Villani is recognized for creating over $1B in value through blockchain investments, M&A, and launching Nasdaq Corporate Solutions, with a focus on Web3, AI, and digital asset management.

Enzo was key in consolidating over ten service companies across 4 continents representing over 5,000 public companies and raising in excess of $500 million. In the blockchain industry, Enzo was Chief Strategy Officer of Transform Group.

Enzo holds an MBA from Cornell University Johnson School and is a frequent speaker on blockchain adoption and digital asset strategies, including those for public market investors.

Donald Gerard Ritter - MBA
ADVISOR - PETROLEUM ENGINEERING

Mr Donald Ritter is currently the CEO of power company developing new sites for data centers, Bitcoin, and AI training. He has been an advisor to Marietta College on Energy Transition, and an angel level investor in several startups.

Mr Ritter was Founder and CEO of an independent oil and gas company, Endurance Resources LLC, which enjoyed multiple 9 figure exits. He was hired as a a Board Member /CEO of a public E and P company to take the company through Chapter 11(successfully).

Mr Ritter was VP of Engineering for a leading technology company in the oil and gas sector which led to an 8 figure exit. He is a recognized technical authority on Deep Water Drilling and Geomechanics.

During his work with Mobil Oil, Mr Ritter held leadership roles in international joint venture operations management, engineering, design, and project management of large scale capital projects ($20 million-$6 billion) in the international oil industry. He is an experienced negotiator of oil and gas contracts and acquisitions.

Early in his career he was senior engineer responsible for reserve analysis, property valuations, and horizontal well construction. He managed on site operations management of projects with costs of $50-$85,000 per day of operations. He also has Board of Director’s experience with several non-profit and educational institutions.

Mr. Ritter holds a Bachelor of Science Petroleum Engineering from Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio – May 1981 and an Honorary Doctorate 2018

He also holds a MBA from Southern Methodist University, Dallas Tex 1999-2001 and is still active with the Business School.

Wesley Williams
ADVISOR - INFORMATION & COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY

Mr. Williams has been a technology consultant for over 25 years with hands-on experience designing, deploying, and securing IT environments from small to medium size business to global enterprises. Mr. Williams has bridged the gap between business needs and technical solutions, helping organizations optimize performance, maintain compliance, and prepare scalability for tomorrow’s challenges.

His personal and value-driven thought are a belief that technology should empower, not overwhelm. He has specialized in the simplification of complex environments so teams can focus on what they do best.

With a toolkit spanning cloud, network, and compliance, Mr. Williams delivers solutions that don’t just work—they are scalable.

Mr. Williams specialties include networking and infrastructure, SMB to Enterprise network architecture and optimization solutions combined with wi-fi design, deployment and management including remote monitoring and management (RMM) platforms and automated workflows.

Security and Compliance are another area where Mr. Williams excels using devices such as SonicWall firewalls and other security appliances, VPNs along with SSL security, HIPAA and PCI regulatory compliance and continuous monitoring and network segmentation and threat hardening.

Mr. Williams also specializes in cloud and server environments including Azure, AWS and hybrid cloud architectures including on-premises to hosted Microsoft Exchange migration and Office 365 migrations, administration and support.

Mr. Williams is also competent in data protection and recovery including backup strategies, replication, ransomware protection, disaster recovery planning, data recovery, incident response, root cause analysis and forensic recovery along with component-level hardware diagnostics and repair.

Charles "Rick" Chapman III
ADVISOR - BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT - FINANCIAL

Rick Chapman is a distinguished financial executive and entrepreneur with a prolific career spanning over three decades. His extensive expertise encompasses financial services, technology, oil and gas, media, and philanthropy. Recognized for his strategic vision, innovative capacity, and ability to cultivate enduring relationships, Mr. Chapman has established a significant footprint across diverse industries.

Financial Services: Cantor Fitzgerald Securities LLC

Mr. Chapman commenced his career at Cantor Fitzgerald Securities LLC, a leading U.S. Government Securities Trading and Brokerage firm. Over more than two decades, he ascended to the role of a full partner, specializing in U.S. Treasury bonds. In this capacity, he managed U.S. Treasury trading and client relations, overseeing daily fixed income transactions exceeding $350 billion. His strategic leadership was instrumental in expanding the firm’s international trading desk market share from 35% to over 70%.

A recognized visionary within the firm, Mr. Chapman identified a critical need for technological advancement and spearheaded the conception and development of ESpeed, an electronic trading platform. This innovation revolutionized trading practices by offering superior speed, flexibility, and control compared to traditional methods, securing Cantor Fitzgerald’s competitive advantage. Mr. Chapman retired as a full partner in 2000.

Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation

Following his tenure on Wall Street, Mr. Chapman leveraged his extensive network to co-found and lead several pioneering technology and media companies. These ventures include:

  • Sky social media: A technological agency providing actionable, technology-driven results for prominent clients such as McDonald’s, Unilever, Symantec, and Dell. The agency is renowned for its expertise in developing Facebook applications and integrated websites, utilizing proprietary systems like the SkyFB backend for community management.
  • Railroad Media Group: A firm dedicated to connecting brands with a diverse portfolio of entertainment and marketing assets across multiple industries and platforms.
  • The Spree Network: An innovative collective-purchasing enterprise administering niche group purchasing sites such as Private Spree, Savvy Spree, and Giving Spree.

His collaborative endeavors also include a partnership with Donald Trump in the development of GoTrump.com, a luxury online travel portal.

Current Ventures and Strategic Partnerships

Mr. Chapman is actively involved in groundbreaking ventures across the energy, artificial intelligence, and health technology sectors:

  • Big Hill Industries / Big Hill Energy: In partnership with Goldman Sachs and British Petroleum (BP), Big Hill Energy is developing a 1.14 GW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) power plant in Matagorda County, Texas. BP will provide natural gas and commercialize the generated power, with Doosan supplying H-class gas turbines and key partners GHD and McDermott overseeing engineering and delivery assurance.
  • Beyond Imagination (Beomni AI): Partnering with Goldman Sachs, Mr. Chapman is involved with Beomni AI, a powerful AI brain designed to power humanoid robots. This technology enables robots to learn tasks and eventually entire professions, transforming physical labor.
  • XSOC: A cybersecurity firm providing a sovereign containment layer for the AI economy, designed to eliminate machine learning of enterprise behavior and convert exposure into insurable capital.
  • OODLE Marketplace Inc. (OMP) and GODL: Since 2022, OMP has operated a live execution platform for moving artisanal production through verification, sale, and settlement with established global buyers. The system is designed to be commodity-agnostic, with initial applications focused on gold and copper.

Leadership and Industry Influence

Mr. Chapman’s principal strength resides in his exceptional ability to cultivate and maintain robust relationships across diverse sectors. He is widely recognized for his pivotal role in launching new projects and reviving stalled ventures. His extensive network and reputation as a leading facilitator have earned him the distinction of being the professional who consistently “knows someone who can help you,” underscoring his vital influence within the industry.

Arly D. Richau
ADVISOR - LEGAL AND SECURITIES MATTERS

With over forty years of legal practice and business development activities, Mr. Arly Richau has been involved in many business activities including the precious metals mining industry; the iron ore mining industry; the med spa industry, and the movie production industry. 

Mr. Richau has previously conducted general legal practice consisting mainly of business-related legal problems with an emphasis on securities and franchise law, insurance law, lobbying activities, and personal injury litigation and was a primary organizer, developer, and principal in the off-track pari-mutuel betting system in North Dakota and the first Indian gaming casino in North Dakota.

Mr. Richau has drafted numerous offering documents for small securities offerings as well as franchise offerings and has lobbied before the legislature and has dealt with administrative proceedings before governmental agencies.  He has litigated various types of issues and has been responsible for developing general business plans for clients.

Mr. Richau served as Commissioner of Securities for the State of North Dakota being appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate as the youngest Securities Commissioner in the United States and served as the sole administrator of the office.  Mr. Richau was responsible for the administration of four North Dakota acts:  The Securities Act; the Franchise Investment Law; the Oil and Gas Brokers Law; and the Pre-Need Funeral Contract Sales Act, restructured the Office of the Securities Commissioner and dealt with a 50% greater registration workload while increasing enforcement activities almost seven times more than any prior admission.

Mr. Richau was also an active member of the North Dakota Securities Administrators Association, appointed Chairman of the Franchise Regulation Committee and member of the Indemnification Study Committee, the Continuing Education Committee, the Nominations Committee, and the Oil and Gas Committee.  Chaired and directed a committee of state regulatory officials, federal regulatory officials, and persons from the private sector and bar, which provided suggestions for uniform federal and state regulation of franchises.

Mr. Richau served as Treasurer and was appointed Chairman of the Membership Committee and the Franchise Regulation Committee of the Midwest Securities Commissioners Association.

Mr. Richau also served as Special Assistant Attorney General for the North Dakota Tax Department and advised the department concerning its legal rights, obligations, and privilege.  He studied and researched constitutions, statutes, case law, ordinances, and administrative decisions and instituted proceedings and argued the department’s position in administrative hearings and in court.  Mr. Richau also instituted and structured the first criminal prosecution program for the department.

Mr. Richau graduated in top third of class and was awarded a Juris Doctorate Degree from University of North Dakota School of Law. He served in the Legal Aid Program for the School of Law, which provided free legal service to those who could not afford it and clerked for the Vogel, Bair & Brown Law Firm in Mandan, North Dakota and served as a legal intern for the North Dakota Tax Department. Majored in English with concentration in writing.   Mr. Richau was selected to Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity made the Dean’s List for various terms and participated in Bison football program and was a member of the 1969 National Championship football team.

Tom Nelson
ADVISOR - MEDIA RELATIONS

With over 20 years of experience servicing US capital markets, Mr. Nelson is the founder, president and managing partner for TEN Associates LLC. Mr. Nelson is also a key-note speaker with industry organizations and several investment banking associations.

​Prior to founding TEN Associates LLC, Mr. Nelson held key investor relation and merchant bank positions with the Wells Group, RCG Capital Markets Group and Windstone Capital Partners. Mr. Nelson specializes in equity/ debt capital raises, strategic business development, M&A advisory, JV partnering and extensive investor relations and public relations services. Mr. Nelson has raised over $100 million in RegA offerings. Prior to working with these firms, Tom held various brokerage positions at such firms as Merrill Lynch, Dean Witter, and American Express Financial Advisors.

Tom attended Nassau Community College and the University of Arizona in Tucson. He graduated with a degree in marketing and public relations.

William A. Sawyer, M.B.A.
ADVISOR - BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT - ENERGY

Mr. Sawyer has over 40 years of diverse experience in the energy industry with such firms as Lucas Energy, Inc., ARCO, Houston Oil & Minerals, and The Superior Oil Company. He is the former President, CEO, and co-founder of Lucas Energy Inc. Mr. Sawyer has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Louisiana State University in 1970 and a Masters of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University in 1976.

Mr. Sawyer’s career has spanned more than four decades in the oil and gas business. He has served as a production engineer, a reservoir engineer, a production manager, a consultant, an investment banker, and an officer of a public oil and gas company. As a consultant, Mr. Sawyer advised and performed engineering for the United States Department of Justice (and the US Corps of Engineers), E.I. Dupont de Nemours, the State of Texas, and private clients. Mr. Sawyer has served as an engineer for several companies with experience in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico, Alaska, California, and offshore.

Along with two other individuals, Mr. Sawyer co-founded Lucas Energy, Inc (symbol LEI on the NYSEMKT, formerly the AMEX) in 2005. In 2006, the LEI went public and in 2007 Lucas Energy, Inc. raised $12.5 million in a private placement. Mr. Sawyer was a director, Vice President, and Chief Operating Officer of LEI. In 2008, LEI was admitted to the AMEX (American Stock Exchange) which later became the NYSEMKT. In 2009, Mr. Sawyer was appointed President and CEO of Lucas Energy, Inc. which was trading at $0.39 per share and 19,000 shares per day. By March 2011, the LEI stock was trading at a high of $5.25 per share and in one day traded over 25 million shares. Mr. Sawyer left LEI at the end of 2012.

Currently, Mr. Sawyer is Managing Partner of The Sawyer Group, LLC. A Wyoming incorporated limited liability company, The Sawyer Group. LLC seeks out oil and gas opportunities for acquisition with upside potential.

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Kürt E Neübauer
CO-FOUNDER - PRESIDENT

Kürt E Neübauer, age 73 founded the Company in 2023 along with Cody Kemp. has an extensive entrepreneurial and executive management background. Since embarking on his professional career in 1971, Mr. Neubauer has founded numerous companies and directed their growth as CEO or President. These companies have included sales organizations, multiple construction companies, a mortgage company, an Investor Relations firm, oil and gas technology companies and a music, television and film entertainment company. As a result of his professional experience over the last 50 plus years, Mr. Neubauer has acquired significant knowledge and expertise in business development, marketing, corporate structure, financial structure and the public markets. He is a versatile, action-oriented, executive producer with over fifty years of increasingly responsible management positions. Mr. Neübauer has been involved in all phases of high corporate business including research and development, acquisitions, packaging, financing, budgeting forecasting and taking companies public.

Working primarily behind the scenes, he has developed and implemented financing facilities, designed and implemented domestic and international sales and marketing campaigns. Over a career that spans 50 plus years, Mr. Neübauer has identified and developed many unique ideas and products and converted them to successful businesses, on both a domestic and an international scale. These enterprises include successful efforts in the oil and gas industries.

Mr. Neübauer has significant knowledge and expertise in all aspects of business development, marketing, and corporate structure, include decades of successful leadership in taking companies public. Since 1998, his responsibilities have included all areas of operations, working and reporting to the SEC, managing shareholder expectations, securing financing, populating, communicating and cooperating with boards and affiliated governances. This broad experience in the multi-disciplinary sectors of taking companies public will be key to the current market opportunities being sought for PetroCoin Limited Liability Company. Mr. Neübauer overall brings discipline and structure to an industry which often times is somewhat anemic in these areas.

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Cody Kemp
CO-FOUNDER - CHIEF DEVELOMENT OFFICER

Cody Kemp, Founder, Co-Founded PetroCoin Limited Liability Company in 2023 along with Kürt Neübauer. He is a versatile, action-oriented executive with over twenty five years of increasingly responsible management in developing markets, restructuring, reorganizing, acquisitions and mergers of companies. Mr. Kemp has been involved in all phases of corporate business including program management, research and development, finance structuring, budgeting, forecasting and managing regulatory compliance.

Provides leadership and manages predominantly in a discreet manor, he has developed and implemented mezzanine financing and facilities, designed and implemented domestic and international sales and marketing campaigns. Over a career that spans over 25 years, Mr. Kemp has identified and developed many unique ideas, products, technologies, process applications and converted them to successful businesses, on both a domestic and an international scale, in energy generation, up-stream, mid-stream and downstream oil and gas industries. The relationships created over the past 25 years have proven themselves instrumental in developing and establishing the initial asset base for the Petrocoin® token.

Mr. Kemp’s significant knowledge and expertise in all aspects of business development, marketing, and corporate structure, include decades of successful leadership in restructuring, increasing market share and maintaining growth. Since 1995, his responsibilities have included all areas of business operations, managing stakeholder expectations, securing financing, communicating and cooperating with boards and affiliated governances. This broad experience in the multi-disciplinary sectors will be key to the current market opportunities being sought for PetroCoin Limited Liability Company. Mr. Kemps energy, oil and gas experience combined with corporate and financial structuring brings a sound foundational approach to energy asset backed security token.

Tim Williams
ADVISOR - BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT - STRATEGY

Mr. Williams brings a wealth of experience and know-how to PetroCoin®. His entrepreneurial spirit, sales & marketing background and knowledge of the public markets have been demonstrated throughout his career.

Mr. Williams was an original founder of 24HR Fitness with Leonard Schlemm and Mark Mastrov. As the company’s first President, he pioneered and oversaw the original implementation of Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) to the fitness industry. This process brought predictability to the health club industry and set the stage for Private Equity investment and National growth.

He was an equity partner in Nautilus Group Japan that purchased the rights to manufacture, distribute, and franchise Nautilus equipment in Japan. After establishing a showroom in Tokyo, a triventure was formed with Sumitomo and Mitsubishi to distribute Nautilus equipment. The group later sold the franchise rights to Sumitomo separately.

Mr. Williams founded Results Sports and Fitness, a chain of full-service Fitness clubs, which he sold to USA Health Technologies, a NASDAQ Public company, and became its President. He expanded the company rapidly by structuring deals using stock for acquisitions.

Mr. Williams was Chairman and CEO of National Developers, a Real Estate Development firm in Phoenix AZ. The Company was involved in Land Development and Entitlement. It had an in-house Architectural and Engineering firm as well as a Design Center. The company built housing communities and platted over 2000 residential lots. It owned, designed and permitted a 21 story condo loft project known as Cosmopolitan Towers.

Mr. Williams was Chairman of Espion International, an Artificial Intelligence venture-based internet gateway security company, acquired by Tyco International Ltd. Espion’s Technology applies Probabilistic Reasoning, which allows it to learn and adapt to a company’s email flow without slowing or growing over time. The platform also assists organizations with Regulatory Compliance in areas such as HIPPA, GLBA, and Sarbanes Oxley. Clients include Major Universities, Hospitals, Governmental Agencies and Fortune 500 companies.

Mr. Williams advised Oaklins’ MASI Ltd. Chicago’s office as a Managing Director. Oaklins International is a worldwide network of mergers and acquisitions specialists with combined deals totaling over $1 Billion dollars annually with offices in 40 countries and a vast network of partner specialists. Williams has access to far reaching M & A opportunities through this association.

Mr. Williams has also acted as Senior Executive Vice President and Director of Momentous Entertainment Group. Mr. Williams gained a wealth of experience in the online digital gaming industry through this relationship.