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Dr. David A. T. Donohue is the Founder and President of both IHRDC and Arlington Storage Corporation. Dr. Donohue is a technical specialist, businessman, attorney and lecturer who has worked in the development of energy projects where he has a senior equity position. He is a former Associate Professor of Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, and held various positions in engineering and research for Exxon before becoming a developer of energy projects. He is an active developer of underground gas storage fields in New York State, an explorer for oil and gas in the US and Ireland, and a developer of innovative learning systems for the energy industry. He lectures broadly in the industry management programs. Dr. Donohue holds a Ph.D. degree in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. degree from Boston College Law School.


Frederick R. Adamchak joined Poten and Partners in 1995 as Manager of their LNG consulting group. He serves as Senior Consultant on all aspects of LNG consulting advisory services and special reports. Prior to joining Poten, Mr. Adamchak worked for Marathon Oil Company in Houston in technical and commercial positions related to exports of Alaska LNG to Japan: Senior Petroleum Engineer, 1981-85; Manager of LNG Operations, 1985-87; and Manager of International Natural Gas, 1987-95. Previously with the U.S. Coast Guard, he served as Shipboard Engineer and Marine Inspector of Commercial Vessels in 1968-79 and Chief of the Chemical Engineering branch of the Coast Guard headquarters in Washington in 1979-81. Mr. Adamchak holds a B.S. in Engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland.

Dr. R.L. (Lyn) Arscott recently retired from Chevron, where he served as General Manager of Health, Environment and Safety. He has also served as Senior Executive Consultant for Exploration and Production for Chevron, reporting to the Chairman of the Board, and has held numerous Exploration and Production management positions for Gulf Oil Co. and Chevron in Pennsylvania, Texas, Louisiana and California. He is a past President of the International Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and Honorary Member of the SPE and the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME). He has served as Chairman of the American Petroleum Institute's General Committee on Health and Environment and as Executive Director of the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (OGP). Dr. Arscott holds a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Nottingham, England. He is currently a Distinguished Lecturer for the SPE on the subject of Sustainable Development.

Ronald A. Bain is former Exploration Manager for Anadarko International New Ventures, Inc., in Houston, Texas. Since joining Anadarko Petroleum in 1983 as Exploration Manager for the offshore Gulf of Mexico, he has been heavily involved n bringing advanced technologies into many of Anadarko's successful exploration programs, and has served as Chief Geophysicist and Manager for Anadarko China Company (Beijing). Prior to joining Anadarko, Dr. Bain held research and exploration positions with Gulf Oil and Sohio Petroleum (now BP). Dr. Bain received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin and his MS in Physics from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a member of the SEG, PESGB, EAGE, and AAPG.

Janet Gail Besser is Vice President of Lexicon, where she is primarily responsible for working with energy, natural resource, and communications companies as they face the challenges of moving from a traditionally regulated to an increasingly competitive environment. Ms. Besser has served as Chair of the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy, where her major focus was electricity industry restructuring. As the state's principal regulator, she oversaw efforts to promote competition in telecommunications and the natural gas industry. She has served on of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. She is also a past President (1997-98) of the New England Conference of Public Utilities Commissioners, and has held directorships and other leadership positions in industry, academia, and government. Ms. Besser has an M.S., Public Policy, from Harvard University and a B.S., Magna cum Laude, Political Science, from Williams College.

Bruce F. Burke is the leader of Chem Systems, Inc.'s Energy and Refining Practice, where he directs energy-related consulting assignments in North and South America, as well as in Asia. He specializes in petroleum refinery planning and strategic analy-sis, refining/petrochemical interface optimization, project feasibility and financing, and market and profitability forecasting. Mr. Burke received a B.S.Ch.E. Degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ajey Chandra, P.E. is currently a Principal in the Houston office of Purvin & Gertz, Inc., an international consulting firm focused on the energy industry. He is primarily responsible for gas processing projects and international liquids market analysis. Since joining Purvin & Gertz, he has been involved in a wide range of projects, including project feasibility, market analysis, price forecasting, strategic business analysis, insurance risk analysis, project finance, technology assessment, acquisition and divestment analysis, and new market development. He has made presentations on a variety of topics involving the gas processing and liquids industries worldwide, and has had several papers published in leading energy publications. Prior to joining Purvin & Gertz, Mr. Chandra was employed by Amoco for 12 years, where he gained a broad background in natural gas processing plant engineering and management. Mr. Chandra was manager of Amoco's onshore gas processing facility at Bacton, England, and involved with a gas pipeline in Trinidad immediately prior to leaving Amoco. Mr. Chandra is active in the Gas Processors Association and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA from the University of Houston.

Dr. Marie N. Fagan is Director, International Gas Programs for IHRDC. Prior to joining IHRDC in 2001, she was with Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), providing expertise in upstream technology, economics, and financial performance; and assisting clients in developing corporate strategy and upstream business plans. Previously, she served as an economist with the US Department of Energy, responsible for coverage of petroleum company profitability, industry structure, and analysis of market incentives; and with Decision Analysis Corporation of Virginia, where she performed econometric modeling of energy markets. Dr. Fagan's path-breaking research into the effect of technology on the cost of oil and gas exploration and development has been published in both academic and technical journals. She received an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from The American University and a B.S. in Business Administration (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Connecticut.

Marshall E. Frank retired in September, 2000, from Chem Systems, where he was President and Managing Director, responsible for its consulting activities in North and South America and Asia Pacific. During his more than thirty years with the company, he had technical and administrative responsibility for a large number of multidisciplinary projects, both single client and multi-client sponsored. Mr. Frank's areas of expertise include natural gas utilization and conversion, the refining/ petrochemical interface and alternative fuels. He also directed Chem Systems' Financial Practice, which provided assistance to lenders on assessing the various risks associated with the financing of major international energy, petrochemical and polymer projects. Prior to Chem Systems, he was involved in process evaluation, process engineering and startup of many of Halcon/SD's proprietary processes at Scientific Design Company. Mr. Frank received a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University.

David A. Garvin is the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and serves as faculty chairman of Baker Library and the School's Manufacturing in Corporate Strategy program. He has taught in executive education programs and consulted for over forty companies. Professor Garvin's research interests lie in the areas of general management and strategic change, special focus on organizational learning and business and management processes. He is the author or co-author of nine books, twenty-five articles and four videotape series, a three-time winner of the McKinsey Award, given annually for the best article in Harvard Business Review, and a winner of the Beckhard Prize, given annually for the best article on planned change and organizational development in Sloan Management Review. Professor Garvin received an A.B. Summa cum Laude from Harvard College in 1974, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. in 1979, where he held a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship and a Sloan Foundation Fellowship. Prior to coming to the Harvard Business School, he worked as an economist for both the Federal Trade Commission and the Sloan Commission on Government and Higher Education.

Jeffrey Goetz is leader of the Marine Research and Consulting group for Poten and Partners, providing brokerage, consulting and project development services related to trading and transportation of crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG), liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and other commodities. Previously Mr. Goetz worked with ExxonMobil in Florham Park, New Jersey and Fairfax, Virginia as senior analyst in a variety of assignments including marine planning, equity crude sales and strategic planning. In addition to working as a tanker broker at SeaBrokers in Stamford, Connecticut, Mr. Goetz sailed as a deck officer on oil tankers for five years. Mr. Goetz is a graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy and has an MBA from Columbia University.

Richard N. Hildahl is president of Energy Resources Group. He has over 30 years of experience in strategic and economic matters related to oil and natural gas transportation, including analysis of economic feasibility of projects, environmental matters, rate design, cost of service, valuation, and transit issues. He advises international energy companies including Shell, ChevronTexaco, BP, AIOC, and others; and governmental agencies. From 1973 to 1993 he served as Partner in charge of the Energy Transportation Group for Ernst and Young. Major projects in which he has been directly involved in regulatory and financing issues include the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, LOOP, the Express Pipeline, the Express Pipeline, Inter-provincial, and the Caspian Pipeline Consortium. He served as a member of the World Bank mission identifying prospective energy transportation projects in the CIS; he also directed seminars on the Russian energy industry for senior representatives of the administration, Congress, and agencies of the United States government. Mr. Hildahl has served as chairman of the European Energy Charter Forum on Transit Issues.

Laura Langer is Vice President, Risk Management for PG&E Corporation. Ms. Langer manages the Corporation’s financial exposure associated with market, credit and operational risks, oversees mitigation strategies and hedging policies, and works closely with the Company’s business units to coordinate risk management and counterparty credit policies and procedures. She joined PG&E Corporation from Deloitte & Touche LLP’s New York Capital Markets Group. Prior to that, she was Director of Corporate Risk Management for Equitable Resources. Ms. Langer holds M.S. degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University, Mathematics from the University of Colorado and Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon. She has just finished a three-year term as a Director of the International Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Michael C. Lynch is Vice President, Global Oil, at WEFA Energy, and a research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies. He has combined S.B.-S.M. degrees in Political Science from M.I.T., and has performed a variety of studies related to international energy matters, including forecasting of the world oil market, energy and security and corporate strategy in the energy industries, as well as analysis of oil and gas supply. His most recent major report, published in 1996 by the Gas Research Institute, is International Petroleum Price, Supply and Demand: Projections Through 2020. He is the past-President of the United States Association for Energy Economics, and was the Program Chairman of their 1996 North American Conference, as well as being an appointed council member of the International Association for Energy Economics. His publications have appeared in Spanish, Arabic and Japanese, as well as English.

G.T. Maureau is an independent oil and gas management consultant specializing in S.E. Asia, the Mediterranean, and N.W. and Central Europe. Since 1988, when he founded MaurOil International Inc, he has reviewed Hydrocarbon Laws and contract terms of over 30 oil and gas producing countries; advised on strategic planning and organization to numerous international oil and gas companies; advised on the privatization of national oil companies, and planned and conducted exploration promotion campaigns for governments. He has lectured extensively to both private and national oil company executives and as a contract Sessional Instructor at the University of Alberta. He provided resource management advice to Erdgas Erdol GmbH as Head, Exploration and Production, covering NW Europe and Kazakhstan. Before this, he provided acquisition and divestiture advice to Wintershall AG, where he acted as Vice President, New Ventures. At Wintershall his areas of responsibility included NW Europe, North Africa and Russia. Prior to forming MaurOil, he was Vice President-International with Aberford Resources/ Encor Energy Corporation, Inc., where he developed successful Canadian frontier and foreign exploration programs. He also served for three years as Senior Regional Exploration Manager-Atlantic Region with Petro-Canada. His career began with Shell International Petroleum Mij in late 1966. He holds a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Physics and Geology and an M.Sc. in Geophysics, both from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Richard A. Norman is Founder and Partner of Essex Hydro Associates, a developer and operator of nine small-scale hydroelectric projects regulated by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. He also serves as Vice President and Treasurer of Honeoye Storage Corporation where he actively directs the construction, financing, and operations of this underground gas storage company in New York State. Mr. Norman has held energy project management positions at the Cabot Corporation, J. Makowski Associates, Inc., and Oxford Energy, Inc. He has served as Special Assistant to the United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs, advising on a program to construct LNG tankers, and has been active in the development of gas-fired cogeneration projects, LNG facilities, and underground gas storage projects. Mr. Norman graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, after which he served as an officer in the nuclear submarine fleet for seven years. He then received a M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School.