David Sidoo is president, CEO and a director of East West Petroleum Corp. Mr. Sidoo is a successful businessman based in Vancouver, where he oversees a successful private investment banking and financial management firm. Upon graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1982, where he held a four-year football scholarship with the UBC Thunderbirds, he was drafted to play professional football with the Canadian Football League. Mr. Sidoo retired from football in 1988 and was introduced to the brokerage business. From there he became a broker with Yorkton Securities, where he quickly became one of the company's top revenue generators. He went on to become partner and advisory board member at Yorkton Securities, consistently generating commissions that ranked in the top five nationally. In 1999, he left Yorkton to pursue private investment banking. He was founding shareholder of American Oil & Gas Inc. (AEZ:NYSE), which was sold to Hess Corporation in 2010 for over US$630M in an all-stock transaction. In 2008, The Vancouver Sun voted Mr. Sidoo one of the top 100 South Asians making a difference in British Columbia. In 2014, Mr. Sidoo was appointed by the British Columbia government to the board of governors for the University of British Columbia.