Effective July 24, 2014, the Board of Directors of Vertex Energy, Inc. appointed James P. Gregory as member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Gregory is currently a Manager/Partner at Gregory & Plotkin, LLC, a position he has held since November 2002. Prior to forming Gregory & Plotkin, LLC, Mr. Gregory had served as a partner and associate with various law firms in Denver, Colorado and Detroit, Michigan since 1974.

Mr. Gregory's forty years of legal experience in the private practice of law has been focused on tax, transactional work, structuring, and finance.