NEW YORK, Feb. 18, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Warren Resources, Inc. (Nasdaq:WRES) is pleased to announce that Saema Somalya has joined the management team at Warren Resources as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary.
Ms. Somalya is an experienced corporate and securities attorney with a focus on public company management. She is joining Warren Resources from PepsiCo, Inc., where she was Senior Legal Director and Corporate Counsel with responsibility for a wide variety of corporate, securities and public disclosure matters. Prior to joining PepsiCo in 2009, Ms. Somalya was an associate in the corporate and securities practices of several top tier law firms, including Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.
Mr. Epstein said: "We are very pleased to welcome Ms. Somalya to Warren Resources' senior management team. Her experience in corporate development and securities law, which includes management of sophisticated merger transactions and capital raising activities, is particularly well-suited to Warren's strategy to optimize our current asset base and seek out new areas of expansion."
Ms. Somalya received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2002 and her B.A. in Political Science, magna cum laude, from Yale University in 1999. She is a member of the State Bar of New York.
About Warren Resources
Warren Resources, Inc. is an independent energy exploration, development and production company that uses advanced technologies to explore, develop and produce domestic on-shore oil and natural gas reserves. Warren's activities are primarily focused on oil in the Wilmington field in California and natural gas in the Washakie Basin in Wyoming.
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