Sonoro Energy Ltd. announced that Dr. David A. Winter has been appointed to the company's Board of Directors, and Mr. Dean Callaway has joined Sonoro as its Chief Financial Officer. Both appointments are subject to TSXV approval. Dr. Winter is currently the CEO of Horizon Petroleum Ltd. He has over 33 years of international oil and gas industry experience in Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, North Africa, and North America.

He is also a Co-Founder and Director of Canacol Energy Ltd., a publicly traded oil and gas company listed on both the Toronto and Colombia stock exchanges and a Director of private Miramar Hydrocarbons Ltd. Previously, Dr. Winter was a founder and CEO of Excelsior Energy Ltd. a junior oil sands development company which was sold in 2010. Mr. Callaway has been involved in the international energy industry for more than 23 years. Over the past 10 years he has been involved with several private and public international oil and gas companies in the role as Chief Financial Officer, including Bukit Energy (Indonesia), Sun God Resources (Mexico), PanAfrican Oil (Namibia, Congo), Gallic Energy (France, Australia), TG World (Philippines, Alaska, Niger) and TIC (Thailand).

Prior to changing career paths into the junior international oil and gas sector, Mr. Callaway held senior roles in M&As and corporate planning at Terasen Pipelines; corporate and international finance at Enbridge and TransAlta; and investment banking at Merrill Lynch.