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.

Richard A. Norman is Founder and Partner of Essex Hydro Associates, a developer and operator of nine smallscale 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 Roemer has 26 years of experience in the management of engineering organizations, business development, and the execution of major power and engineering projects. Most of his career was spent with Stone & Webster where his most recent role was President and CEO of Stone & Webster India Ltd. In this position he developed and implemented a corporate business plan and established Stone & Webster’s Indian subsidiary. After a number of positions in project and office management he served as the US-India Business Council’s Power Sector Co-Chairman. He currently serves as Senior Consultant-International Energy Services for ENSR International in Westford, Massachusetts. Mr. Roemer holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Western New England College and has taken engineering undergraduate courses at Rennsselaer Polytechnic Institute and graduate courses in mathematics and applied mechanics at Northeastern University.

Rick Squires runs PiEnergy which provides consulting services to the energy industry. He has extensive experience in the international energy business at the senior management level across a wide range of activities and fuels. For four years, until the end of 2002, Rick was based in Boston, USA as Senior Vice President, Planning, Strategy and Investor Relations for InterGen, an international power company with over 1000 employees and 16 GW of plants in ten countries. Prior to joining InterGen, Rick headed the Power Unit within Shell Gas and Power, London and was the leader of the team that acquired 50% of InterGen from Bechtel in 1997. His career in Shell spanned over 25 years and included senior management positions in International Oil Trading, Coal Business Development and Marketing. While principally based in London, he also had assignments with Shell companies in South Africa and Japan. Before joining Shell, he worked for the South Western Electricity Board in the UK. Rick holds an Honours Degree in Electrical Engineering from Lanchester University and a Masters Degree in Business Studies from Durham University, UK.

Dr. Y. Serdar Dogulu is a Petroleum Engineer at IHRDC. He is currently involved in the content development of interactive learning and training products within IHRDC. Dr. Dogulu has developed and taught several company-sponsored technical courses. After earning his Ph.D. degree in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, he held a post-doctoral researcher position with the Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering Department at Penn State. His areas of interest include numerical simulation and reservoir characterization. His research on perforated completions led to the development of several fluid flow models that are used to predict the production performance of damaged well completions. During his graduate studies he spent a summer as a Research Technologist at the Chevron Petroleum Technology Company developing reservoir simulation and management tools including stream-tube techniques for modeling large oil reservoirs.

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.