NXT Energy Solutions Inc. announced the appointment of Mr. Bruce G. Wilcox as Interim Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Wilcox has been a member of the Company’s board of directors since 2015, and brings extensive capital markets and energy investment experience to NXT’S executive team. Mr. Wilcox holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honors), in Modern Chinese from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Master of International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management in Phoenix.

Mr. Wilcox has had a long career as an investment company CEO, analyst and portfolio manager. He spent most of his career with Cumberland Associates, LLC, a New York equity fund, from 1986 through retirement in 2010, progressing from analyst /portfolio manager to partner (1989), and Chairman of the Management Committee (1997). Mr. Wilcox specialized in Cumberland's investments in the energy industry (exploration and production and service companies), with an emphasis on value and long-term holdings.

During his tenure, the fund's assets under management ranged from USD 0.7 billion to $1.5 billion. From 1984 to 1986, Mr. Wilcox was with Central National-Gottesman Inc. as an analyst and portfolio manager on a team responsible for a $500 million listed equity portfolio. Mr. Wilcox was CEO of E Street Management, LLC from 2016 through 2020 which managed a long/short equity fund of funds.

From January 2011 to present he has also been one of three managing members of Xiling Fund III, LLC, part of a series of private equity funds (USD 100+ million) which specialize in investing in museum-quality Imperial Chinese porcelains, archaic bronzes and ink paintings. Mr. Wilcox is a member of several boards, including the Teachers College of Colombia University, acting as the Chair of the Investment Committee since 2003; the University of California Santa Barbara Foundation, including as former Chair of the Board of Trustees, Investment and Finance Committees; and was a Trustee (2001 to May, 2023) of the Manhattan Institute For Policy Research, a leading urban, state, and national policy institution, which works on matters such as energy policy. Mr. Wilcox will continue to serve on the NXT’s board of directors.