PROGRAM DIRECTOR

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.

Marshall E. Frank retired in September 2000 from Chem Systems where he was President and Managing Director, responsible for its international 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 petrochemical industry, 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.

Maher Habbal is Manager, Business Simulators Development/ Applications for IHRDC. He is responsible for developing and implementing the business simulation models used in IHRDC management programs and workshops. To date he has built five such simulators: one for the oil industry, two for the gas, and two for power. His other responsibilities include internal financial reporting, analysis and forecasting. Before joining IHRDC, Mr. Habbal worked three years with Arthur D. Little, Inc. as a Senior Financial Analyst on financial reporting and modeling. Also, as a member of the teaching staff at the Arthur D. Little School of Management Master of Science in Management Program, he taught Finance, Economics and Accounting. Mr. Habbal holds a Master of Science Degree in Management from Arthur D. Little School of Management and a B.S. in Business Economics from the Lebanese American University.

Samy H. Ibrahim is Vice President of Operations of NSTAR Gas, a gas distribution company serving 240,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in Massachusetts. Mr. Ibrahim has over 30 years of experience in the gas utility, consulting, engineering, and manufacturing fields. He completed the Graduate Program of Special Studies in Administration and Management at Harvard University and holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, and Northeastern University, respectively.

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.

Robert Taylor Director of International Business Development for IHRDC. He joined the company in 1999 to coordinate worldwide sales and oversee business development in Asia Pacific and West Africa. He has spent his full professional career in operations management, international sales and business development for petroleum related service companies, beginning with Otis Engineering in the United States and then progressing through positions of increasing responsibility in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Indonesia, Norway, Oman and United Arab Emirates. With the merger of Dresser Industries and Halliburton Company, he completed his tenure with Halliburton as their Manager of Business Development, Eastern Hemisphere. Mr. Taylor holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kentucky and is a long term member of The Society of Petroleum Engineers. He has published numerous articles in energy industry periodicals.