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A That meeting -- I was there. I was there at the conference. I was not -- I 1
was not involved in the conversation that they had. But out of that -- that meeting, it 2
was decided that he was going to move into a board role. 3
Q Did Hunter Biden ever tell you about that conversation? 4
A No, he did not. He did not tell me. Well, I mean the outcome was that he 5
was going to join the board. So yes, in a sense, he told me that, but it wasn't like a 6
detailed -- I mean, I know exactly where I had the conversation and I remember it vividly 7
though I wasn't part of it. They were in a different part of the conference than me. 8
Q When you and Hunter Biden first joined the board of Burisma, were there 9
service agreements that you signed as far as your -- what your roles would be at Burisma? 10
A My role was -- my role at Burisma when I joined was to go out and find 11
external financing for expansion, for global expansion. First, it was find expansion into 12
the United States, and then things got a little dicey. But then it was -- it was to basically 13
find outside financing for global expansion, which we were very successful in. 14
We opened Burisma Geothermal, bought wells in Italy, because obviously drilling 15
was like a, you know, a core competency, which was kind of a renewables tilt which we 16
thought would be, you know, looked favorably upon. 17
And we -- we opened up Burisma Eurasia, which we, you know, had a successful 18
servicing contract in Kazakhstan with Kazmu -- what was it? KazMunayGas, yeah. 19
KazMunayGas. We had 50 employees, employed a lot of other folks. We 20
bought drills in Texas and, you know, brand-new equipment, and went kind of deeper and 21
more efficiently and cleaner than they'd ever done, you know, in that part of the world. 22
And so it was -- it was, you know, I hate to say a great success, that would be 23
too -- but it was a great success. And -- 24
Q Just to stop you. Do you remember the name of that company in Texas 25