Zefiro Methane Corp. Appoints Mohit Gupta as Chief Financial Officer

With over thirty years of experience in banking & energy trading, Gupta was one of the key founding members of J.P. Morgan’s Energy Trading business and has held numerous senior leadership roles with Ernst & Young and Wells Fargo

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., July 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ZEFIRO METHANE CORP. (Cboe Canada: ZEFI) (Frankfurt: Y6B) (the “Company”, “Zefiro”, or “ZEFI”) today announced the appointment of Mohit Gupta as Chief Financial Officer. In this role, Mr. Gupta will help ensure Zefiro is best positioned to continue accelerating the growth of the Company’s innovative methane reduction projects and carbon credit portfolios.

Mr. Gupta has over three decades of banking and energy trading sector experience, most notably as one of the key founding members of J.P. Morgan’s Energy Trading business. Mr. Gupta has also held senior executive roles with Ernst & Young and Wells Fargo.

Pictured above, Mohit Gupta has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of Zefiro Methane Corp.

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Zefiro Founder and Chief Executive Officer Talal Debs commented, “From helping build an energy markets division at one of the world’s most venerable financial institutions to skillfully navigating numerous periods of unprecedented market tumult, Mohit Gupta’s track record of success is unmatched in our sector. His unique market expertise and decades of executive experience will be vital to helping establish Zefiro at the vanguard of the environmental services industry, and we cannot be more excited to welcome him to the team.”

Mohit Gupta commented, “While countless impressive new ventures have come and gone throughout my thirty years in energy trading, having the chance to help bolster Zefiro’s comprehensive service model was a unique opportunity that I could not pass up. This forward-thinking senior leadership team has identified and capitalized upon a critical sector demand while addressing one of the most urgent global challenges, and I cannot wait to work with my new colleagues to expand Zefiro’s service offerings to a growing, diverse customer base.”

In addition to helping form J.P. Morgan’s Energy Trading business, Mr. Gupta helped build the firm’s venture capital (Lab Morgan) division, aided the investment bank’s repositioning following the ‘dot-com crash’ in the early 2000s, and served as the company’s Payments Business North American Head and Chief Financial and Chief Operating Officer of the Global Payments Business. Following his nearly twenty-five-year tenure at J.P. Morgan, Mr. Gupta served as Managing Director of Ernst & Young’s Financial Services Advisory, helping lead the development of the treasury services, cash management, and payments operations of the practice. Most recently, Mr. Gupta served as Chief Financial Officer of Global Operations for Wells Fargo, where he helped transform and optimize the bank’s operations via strategic applications of technology and digital transformation. Mr. Gupta also serves as Chief Operating Officer of X Machina Capital Strategies, which is a lead sponsor of Zefiro Methane Corp.

About Zefiro Methane Corp.

Zefiro is an environmental services company, specializing in methane abatement. Zefiro strives to be a key commercial force towards Active Sustainability. Leveraging decades of operational expertise, Zefiro is building a new toolkit to clean up air, land, and water sources directly impacted by methane leaks. The Company has built a fully integrated ground operation driven by an innovative monetization solution for the emerging methane abatement marketplace. As an originator of high-quality U.S.-based methane offsets, Zefiro aims to generate long-term economic, environmental, and social returns.

On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Company,

ZEFIRO METHANE CORP.

“Talal Debs”

Talal Debs, Founder & CEO

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Zefiro Investor Relations
1 (800) 274-ZEFI (274-9334)
investor@zefiromethane.com

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