East West Petroleum Corp. announced that the company has appointed David R. Taylor to the Board effective immediately. Mr. Taylor has 38 years of diverse international oil company experience on four continents with extensive experience in all facets of the petroleum industry. Mr. Taylor holds a master's degree in applied geophysics and has extensive technical and business experience gained with BP Exploration (1979 to 1991) in the UK, Netherlands, Egypt, Singapore and Indonesia and Clyde Petroleum (1991 to 1997) in the Netherlands and Indonesia. Following his emigration to Canada in 1997, Mr. Taylor held senior positions in international business development for Pinnacle Resources and Vermilion Resources before becoming one of the two founding executives for Aventura Energy (1999 to 2002). In 2002 Mr. Taylor founded and was a director and CEO of Cirrus Energy Corporation ("Cirrus") until Cirrus was acquired in April 2011. Cirrus was a TSX Venture listed company with operations in the Netherlands and UK sectors of the North Sea and in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Most recently Mr. Taylor was President & CEO of CYGAM Energy Inc. from 2012 to 2015. The Company also reports that the Hon. Herb Dhaliwal has resigned from the Board effective immediately.