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Contributor		Expertise	Industry
Rusty Braziel		Rusty Braziel is one of the most respected authorities in the field of energy information and markets, with an extensive background in energy marketing, trading and data services. Over the past 20 years he has worked in an executive level capacity with a major producer (Texaco), a major pipeline (Williams), a leading software company (Altra Energy), and a leading energy analytics and information company (BENTEK Energy). A consultant, author and speaker, Rusty has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Times, The Houston Chronicle, Thompson Reuters, Oil and Gas Journal, The Denver Post, Platts Gas Daily, Natural Gas Intelligence, and numerous other industry publications. Rusty is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and company events and is known for his market insights and dynamic style. He provides audiences compelling, customized and dynamic content that makes sense out of the onslaught of information about energy markets.	Rusty focuses on hydrocarbon markets, primarily natural gas, natural gas liquids and crude oil. His expertise is primarily in the production, transportation, storage and demand for physical energy commodities, and the impact of physical market developments on price.
Al Troner		Al Troner is President of Asia Pacific Energy Consulting (APEC). Since 1984, Al has worked in Asia’s energy sector, establishing Dow Jones/ Telerate's regional energy services that year. He returned to Singapore in 1989 to found and then direct Petroleum Intelligence Weekly’s Asia-Pacific bureau. He won the International Association of Energy Economics award for Energy Journalism in 1994, retiring from journalism the following year to co-found APEC. From 1987-1989, he was as a research assistant for the energy group of the East West Center. Al has published studies on China, Vietnam, Singapore, Asia-Pacific Product Quality, Asia-Pacific and Global LNG, Pipeline Gas Development, East of Suez Condensate, World Crude Survey and on Global Acidic Crude Trade and Markets. He has worked in the energy industry in the U.S., Europe, North Africa and Mideast, as well as in Asia Pacific. Asia Pacific Energy Consulting (APEC) specializes in tactical consulting, focusing on research and analysis that help oil and gas companies assess and profit from emerging commercial situations. APEC projects center on problem-solving for companies targeting short- and medium-term business concerns, generally in a timeframe of one to five years. As a small independent shop, the company aims to provide tailored, company-specific services, either for regular core clients or on limited projects, targeting emerging business opportunities. APEC was established in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1995, moved offices to the US in 2000 and is now headquartered in Houston, Texas
Amol A Wayangankar		Mr. Wayangankar has 11 years of experience in the energy industry advising clients on market, commercial and regulatory aspects of natural gas, LNG, NGLs, and petroleum products markets. Mr. Wayangankar has directed numerous energy infrastructure transactions; both domestic and international including asset valuations, commercial due diligence, and fundamental market assessments to support project developers, energy companies, utilities, financial/strategic investors, and lenders in their project development, financing, acquisition/divestiture and planning efforts. Mr. Wayangankar’s primary focus has been on development support of midstream assets- natural gas storage, gathering system, gas processing, natural gas pipelines, and LNG receiving/liquefaction terminals as well as serving investor-owned utilities, IPPs, and Coops.	Amol Wayangankar is an independent energy consultant advising clients on rapidly growing energy markets, such as liquefied natural gas (LNG), distributed LNG applications, gas midstream, natural gas monetization, gas/coal/petcoke conversion to syngas-derived fuels and power.
Ann Davis Vaughan		Ann Davis Vaughan is the founder and president of Reservoir Research Partners, an independent research firm in Houston that provides highly customized, in-depth intelligence to institutional investors on public and private companies and markets. Reservoir Research Partners is not an investment adviser, nor is it affiliated with any investment adviser. Prior to founding Reservoir in 2010, she spent two decades as an award-winning investigative and financial journalist, including nearly 14 years at The Wall Street Journal under the longtime byline "Ann Davis." She covered commodity markets and the energy industry from 2006 to 2010.	Customized Research and Intelligence
Bob Bookstaber		Bob Bookstaber is President of Bookstaber & Associates, and provides consulting services in the natural gas and pipeline sectors of the energy business. Bob has a diverse background having worked with Exxon, Exxon Chemical, Hill Petroleum and El Paso Corporation in a variety of Business Development, Strategy, Supply, and Marketing roles. At El Paso, he oversaw cross-functional project teams responsible for development and implementation of pipeline projects. He personally negotiated long-term transportation contracts in the northeast market for Tennessee Gas Pipeline with LDCs, power generators, and marketing companies that generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues to support the projects. Bob also has experience in M&A activities and has sold natural gas. He holds a BS in Chemical Engineering and an MBA in Marketing Management.	Natural Gas Pipelines
Brandon Bello		Brandon Bello is currently Vice President of Commercial Development at Texon L.P. in Houston Texas. Over the last fifteen years through various roles in Engineering, Asset Optimization, Business Development and Liquids Marketing, Brandon’s career has covered the ground of petrochemicals, butadiene, vcm, petrochemical feedstocks, fuels blending, logistics, NGL Marketing, and midstream business development. Brandon’s past experience for Bridgestone, Dow, Enterprise, and Crosstex has led to a depth of knowledge both in the upstream and downstream values of production and new market development. At Enterprise Brandon developed a next generation fractionation technology and authored a patent for the Hobbs fractionation process, which has since been duplicated in all Enterprise new fractionation build-outs at Mont Belvieu since 2007. His presentation to GPA on fractionation efficiency was named the most outstanding paper at the 2008 annual meeting. Brandon has served on the board of directors of the Petrochemical Feedstocks Association of the Americas, and as President of the organization 2010-2012. Brandon holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Louisiana State University.	Natural Gas Liquids, Midstream, Fuels Blending
Callie Mitchell		Callie’s 30 year career in the energy industry focused primarily on marketing, trading, distribution, business development, acquisitions and divestitures, and corporate restructuring of business around natural gas and natural gas liquids. She also managed supply chain management, branding, product development, customer service, e-business and lead the development and operations of the internet based live energy network, Energy News Live. Callie retired from Williams as Vice President of Enterprise Services and Real Estate and President of The Williams Foundation in 2008.	Natural Gas Liquids, LPG’s, Natural Gas, Petrochemicals, Transportation, Telecommunications, NonProfit/Foundation
Charles Nevle		Charles Nevle is a natural gas fundamentals analyst with several years of experience analyzing and communicating the data and drivers behind the supply and demand for natural gas in the United States with an emphasis on transportation and storage.	Natural Gas, NGL’s, Storage, Transportation
Jeff Richter		Energy GPS LLC was formed in 2009 by Tim Belden and me with the goal of providing analysis and advice to clients in the energy industry. We bring a unique combination of analytical skills coupled with sound judgment that comes from over 15 years of hands-on industry experience. There are two parts of our business; they are the Power and Gas Market Fundamentals Subscription Product and Energy Consulting. The former focuses on the Western US markets with an emphasis on the PNW,DSW and California. The latter focuses on the renewable energy space and other technologies associated with integrating intermittent power on the grid. Please contact us at info@energygps.com or go to our website at www.energygps.com if you would like to know more about our products and/or services.	Power and Natural Gas Commodity Markets, Renewable Energy Markets, Environmental Policy
Jesus Davis		Jesus Davis is vice president of research for the Oil & Gas industry at IIR Energy, a global supply-side market intelligence firm for the energy industry. An 11-year veteran of IIR Energy, Mr. Davis manages a team of researchers who cover the North American upstream and midstream oil and gas markets. Members of his team also conduct research in Perth, Australia; Cordoba, Argentina; New Delhi, India; Manila Philippines; and Kofu, Japan. His team's expertise includes onshore extraction of oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids as well as the processing, transportation and storage of those products. A unit of Industrial Info Resources, IIR Energy provides time-sensitive, critical market information that enables energy asset owners, developers, regulators, as well as financial & physical participants to enhance their trading strategies and minimize market risk. IIR Energy and Industrial Info Resources are based in Sugar Land, Texas.	Oil & Gas Industry Market Intelligence
Jim Jordan		Jim Jordan is president and founder of Jim Jordan & Associates, LP. Jim is an internationally recognized authority in the methanol and transportation fuels industries, and has performed a wide range of consulting assignments over the years, including strategic planning, competitive analysis, and market and commercial analyses for a diverse global client base.	Mr. Jordan has over 35 years of experience within the petrochemical industry - working in various roles of responsibility within Celanese Corporation and serving as Sr. Vice President, Energy & Fuels for DeWitt & Company, before founding JJ&A.
Kelly Van Hull		Prior to joining RBN Energy, Kelly worked for BENTEK Energy where she built supply/demand models covering all U.S. NGLs. Kelly was also the developer, lead analyst, and writer for BENTEK’s North American NGLs Market Call report specializing in supply and demand fundamentals for natural gas liquids markets, and the lead analyst and writer for BENTEK's NGL Supply Report. Prior to joining BENTEK, Kelly was an analyst for a midstream company developing greenfield projects in the Williston Basin. Kelly is a fundamentals analyst and presenter at industry conferences. She holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan.	Natural Gas Liquids
Ken Snyder		Ken Snyder is an energy professional focused in the oil and gas midstream space, matching producers and capital to overcome business barriers. He delivers solutions by first determining what is missing or in the way of success, then adds creativity, experience and relationships.	Ken has developed major pipelines for investors in oil and gas shale plays, founded private companies, led M&A teams, presided over large corporate entities, and consulted for midstream companies for the past 40 years.
Kurt Wilson		Kurt Wilson is a petroleum engineering student pursuing a master’s degree at Stanford University.
Kyle Cooper		Mr. Cooper currently serves as Managing Director of Research for Cypress Energy, LP, an energy trading commodity fund in Houston, TX. Beginning in March 2006 and continuing through today, Mr. Cooper also performs duties as Director of Research at IAF Advisors, an energy consulting services firm where he conducts fundamental supply/demand analysis of the natural gas and petroleum markets.	Mr. Cooper previously served as a Managing Partner at BTU Capital Management from April 2010 until August 2011. Mr. Cooper was Managing Director of Research for Velite Capital Management, LLC, an energy commodity trading firm, from March 2006 to January 2010. His primary role was fundamental supply/demand analysis of the natural gas and petroleum markets purposed to developing price and market points of view. Previously he was VP of Energy Futures Research at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup Global Markets, worked at El Paso Energy, Enserch Energy/TXU Energy Trading, and Koch Pipeline Company.
Mike Patterson		Mike Patterson is an analyst on the gas desk at RenRe Energy Advisors, Ltd, a provider of weather-related risk management solutions. Mike performs fundamental supply/demand analyses, and develops algorithms for the acquisition, display and analysis of weather data. And he manages the desk's trade systems. Over the years he has worked for Williams, Citadel Investment Group, and Louis Dreyfus. He lives in Tulsa with his wife and two children. His father Jim used to trade gas liquids with several members of the original RBN crowd.	Natural gas trading, weather risk management
Russell Hencke		Russell Hencke is an energy fundamentals analyst associated with RBN Energy, LLC. He has extensive experience in physical and financial trading of energy commodities, marketing strategy, and deal execution in the natural gas industry.	Most recently Mr. Hencke was Account Manager Producer Services with National Fuel Marketing Co., Centennial, Colorado. From 2008 until 2011 he was a natural gas trader with the same firm. He is a member of the Colorado Oil & Gas Association and has a B.S. Management and Economics from Regis University in Denver, Colorado.
Sandy Fielden		Energy market pricing and fundamental data, Data Integration with ETRM, writer on Energy Markets, Consultant, Conference Speaker	Oil, Gas, Power, Commodities
Taylor Robinson		Taylor is a veteran, global supply chain executive with over 25 years’ experience in the industrial, automotive, aerospace, CPG and renewables markets. Prior to joining PLG, Taylor led broad, end-to-end supply chain teams at Northern Power Systems, Watts Water Technologies, HJ Heinz and Honeywell Aerospace. Earlier in his career, Taylor was a key leader on Honda of America’s world-class, strategic sourcing team for over 10 years. Taylor’s core supply chain technical capabilities include strategic sourcing, integrated business planning (S&OP) deployment, six sigma/lean processes, logistics network improvements and supply chain simplification. As President of PLG, he is responsible for the day-to-day leadership and growth of the business and ensuring that PLG delivers the highest quality services for its clients.	Supply Chain Management
Tim Belden		Tim was drawn to the energy industry because it presented interesting environmental policy challenges. In the early 1990’s he worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where he authored numerous papers analyzing state and federal electricity policies. His energy education continued at UC Berkeley where he earned a Master’s degree in Public Policy while studying Microeconomics, Statistics, Futures and Options Markets, and Analytic Methods for Energy and Resources. An early pioneer in electricity trading, he held positions at The Williams Companies, Portland General Electric, Enron, and UBS. Tim served in several capacities – trading his own profitable book, building and managing successful trading teams, designing and implementing risk management systems, and innovating in renewable and retail electricity markets. Tim also has experience as an energy developer -- as a member of a small, alternative fuels development team he wore many hats. These included transaction structuring, interfacing with private equity and investment banks, negotiating supply and off-take agreements, and other aspects of the development process. Originally from Upstate New York, Tim and his family have enjoyed sunny Portland, Oregon since 1996.	Power

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