LONDON, Ky. — Kentucky USA Energy Inc., a natural gas exploration and production company, has announced its new executive management team. Kentucky USA Energy is led by Chief Executive Officer Steven D. Eversole and a team of energy industry veterans with success in resource production and company growth.

Eversole received a Bachelor of Science degree from Eastern Kentucky University in Industrial Technology. He began his career with American Electric Power (AEP) and progressed over 13 years into mid-level management before leaving AEP in 2002 to start up a private company, Saddlebrook Holdings LLC. Eversole is an experienced business owner, entrepreneur and investor and is currently the managing partner of Saddlebrook Holdings. In 2007, Eversole founded KY USA Energy Inc., the private company that recently merged with Kentucky USA Energy Inc. At Kentucky USA Energy, his focus is on day-to-day operations of the company’s oil and gas development interests.

Other members of Kentucky USA Energy’s Executive Management Team are:

Chief of Exploration and Production, Petroleum Engineer C. G. Collins has extensive education and experience in the energy industry. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Campbellsville University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas. Since 1969, Collins has run his own company, Collins Petroleum.  As an independent petroleum engineer, he has drilled and/or developed more than 800 wells in Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois and Indiana.

Collins’ experience ranges from equipment operator to manager-in-charge at Dowell, a division of Dow Chemical. Collins has served as president of both the Tennessee Oil and Gas Association and the Kentucky Oil and Gas Association; he has been named “Oil man of the Year” by the Tennessee Oil and Gas Association; and he is affiliated with the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineering, the American Petroleum Institute and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Chief Financial Officer Samuel L. Winer is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University and is president of Evergreen Management Corp. He has experience in corporate and securities transaction, having formed, served as CEO and been a principal in energy companies and securities firms. He has held various executive positions in capacities of CEO, chairman of the board, president, director, and COO for public companies in the oil and gas industry. Winer formed and was the president of INVESCO Oil Co. and Lion Drilling Associates. These two entities participated in the drilling of 40 oil or gas wells in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania for private investors.

In addition, Winer was also a consultant to Bear Stearns, the underwriter for Inexco Oil Co., and a consultant to Damson Oil Corp. Both of these companies were leaders in the drilling industry and had extensive holdings throughout the world. Winer also helped form a registered broker/dealer with 2,000 brokers and served for a time as that firm’s compliance officer.

Headquartered in London, Ky., Kentucky USA Energy, Inc. engages in the acquisition, exploration and development of oil and natural gas resource properties, with a primary focus on shale gas in the Illinois Basin in Western Kentucky.