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H&H
Energy has assembled an
outstanding Team of highly
experienced professionals that are well versed and seasoned in energy industry
issues and activities. The
following key Team members are dedicated to providing quality client-valued
service to the energy industry. Donald
L. Sytsma
Mr. Sytsma
has over twenty years experience. His extensive energy industry experience has
been broad encompassing all sectors of the gas industry including gas marketing,
transmission, distribution, storage, exploration and production. His direct
industry experience includes serving as department head with responsibility for
all aspects of the financial management, operational and financial accounting
and audit functions within an organization. He served on the Steering Committee
and Co-Chaired a Sub-Committee in connection with the development of industry
standards for the U.S. gas industry (now referred to as GISB). His diverse
upstream and downstream direct industry experiences provide a complete understanding
of the business effects, information requirements, systems and process needs to
effect market restructuring.
Mr.
Sytsma has been providing consulting since 1995.
He focuses on the areas of asset evaluations, financial valuations,
energy trading, expert services and testimony, and information systems business
requirements. He has been actively involved in the restructuring, reformation
and introduction of customer choice in many energy markets. He has performed
on-site consulting services to clients in Europe, Australia, Russia and the
United States. Organizationally, he serves as President of H&H Energy. Ronald
J. Hrehor
Mr. Hrehor has thirty years of diversified
experience in the energy industry. Mr.
Hrehor left Price Waterhouse Energy Utility Consulting practice in 1994 and
co-founded Harrington & Hrehor Energy Consulting, an independent energy
consulting practice. His
extensive industry experience includes the management and strategic direction of
the marketing, transportation, energy supply operation, gathering and construction
functions of energy entities, in addition to skills and discipline associated
with budgeting, long-range planning and restructuring activities arising from
mergers and consolidation. Ron’s broad professional strengths include
successful negotiation, conceptual, analytical, and strategic planning skills
backed by a comprehensive technical knowledge of the energy industry.
Mr. Hrehor has conducted consulting engagements throughout the world
focusing on initiatives to implement retail customer choice including the
associated market reformation, operations, infrastructure and energy trading
issues that must be addressed. He
provides expert testimony on operational, gas transportation, rates and asset
valuation matters. Joe
A. Cantu, CPA Mr.
Cantu has twenty-four years of financial, information systems, litigation and
operational experience in the natural gas industry. His diverse industry
experience has included due diligence, mergers and acquisitions, marketing and
trading of gas storage and pipeline capacity, operational and financial
accounting, regulatory strategy and interventions, and selection, development
and implementation of commercial business software. In his role as vice president with a major FERC regulated
interstate pipeline company, he was responsible for strategic planning,
staffing, policy making, litigation support, operating/capital budgeting and
due diligence processes. Mr.
Cantu entered consulting in late 1996, and since then has performed consulting
engagements primarily involving the convergence of the U.S. and international
energy markets, litigation services in connection with regulatory interventions
and rate cases, property condemnation, and gas pipeline company financial
valuations. Most
recently he has done extensive work relating to financial valuations of electric
generation facilities located overseas. Organizationally, he serves as Treasurer
of H&H Energy. Haydn
C. Harris Mr.
Harris has twenty-five years of experience in the natural gas industry. His
direct industry experience encompasses the acquisition, marketing, storage,
strategic planning and management of natural gas primarily in the south and
south-east portions of the United States. During his corporate career, Mr.
Harris served in positions of increasing responsibility ranging from regional
marketing management to corporate marketing strategic planning and marketing
operations. In addition, he served on various corporate reengineering
committees, corporate reorganization task forces, and special projects relating
to significant new facility construction. His experience provides an overall
understanding of the diverse factors of the energy market that allows for a
value added perspective to business opportunities and commercial transactions.
He has been a consultant since 1994 and concentrates on marketing
transactions to end-users, strategic planning studies and contract negotiation
within competitive markets. He has been engaged to provide consulting services
in Europe, Australia and the United States to clients regarding the
privatization of government monopolies, structuring of marketing and storage
operations, gas transportation optimization and operations, rate and regulatory
review and litigation support, and contract negotiation. Tom
Melsen
Mr. Melsen has twenty-six years experience in the management and strategic
planning both domestically and internationally with a major oil and gas
exploration and production company. Mr. Melsen has extensive experience in the
planning and development of oil and gas prospects, reducing operating costs,
increasing production, and directing overseas market entry in several countries.
During his career, Mr. Melsen has served in positions of increasing
responsibility covering geophysical analysis and prospect generation to
geophysical information system development to corporate executive planning and
management positions. C.
Paul Page
Mr.
Page has thirty-five years of natural gas industry experience.
He has held officer level positions with a major U.S. natural gas
pipeline transmission company responsible for financial planning, accounting,
information systems, audit and gas measurement.
Early during the unbundling process of the interstate natural gas
pipelines, he identified the need for industry standards, formed an industry
task force comprised of INGAA,
COPAS, API, AGA and co-chaired the development of standards issued in
COPAS Bulletin No. 28 (now referred to as GISB) that includes procedures for
nominations, allocations, imbalances and billings for third party open access to
natural gas pipelines.
Additionally, he was responsible for the conceptual design and
sponsorship of the gas pipeline’s fully integrated system application for
nominations through final customer billings and was also responsible for
assessing the adequacy of Columbia Energy’s pipeline segment internal control
framework in response to a sister company’s bankruptcy proceedings. Since commencement of his consulting activities in 1996, he has served as a consulting expert in a bankruptcy proceeding and for the FBI. He recently completed serving as project director leading the final closing valuation and disposition, accounts receivable and gas imbalance liquidations and the shut down of the client’s natural gas wholesale operation. W
Sue Phillips
Ms.
Phillips has seventeen years of industry experience in utility rate making,
operations efficiency and best practice studies, and accounting. Ms. Phillips
left Price Waterhouse Consulting in 1994 to join Harrington and Hrehor Energy
Consulting. Her experience includes
directing and performing process and statistical benchmarking studies,
designing cost-of-service models, developing revenue requirements for proposed
incentive based rate designs, and readiness studies related to operating under
new, more competitive regulations such as FERC Order No. 636 and UK's Network
Code. During her nine years with a
major distribution company, she
coordinated the preparation of rate studies, and PGA filings. She has directed
projects involving consumption, cost of service studies, and depreciation
reviews. Greg
A. Thompson Mr. Thompson has over twenty years of energy industry experience primarily concentrating in natural gas marketing and trading, pipeline transportation and most recently has expanded his expertise to power trading. His direct industry experience has included selling energy supplies to all types of consumers from local distribution companies, to power plants, to national commercial accounts and to individual mid to small industrial consumers. He has also held responsibility for purchasing supplies to serve the consumers, securing pipeline capacity rights, managing producer's supply portfolios, securing pipeline capacity rights and managing the delivery of supplies from the supply source through to the final point of consumption. He has direct regulatory experience in the areas of tariff impact analysis on major FERC orders and individual pipeline operational issues as well as developing regulatory language for pipeline companies and expert testimony in rate case litigation.
Mr. Veale has twenty-six years experience in the marketing of natural gas
liquids and crude oil with a major oil and gas exploration and production
company. Mr. Veale has extensive experience in risk management strategies for
crude oil and natural gas liquids, negotiation of crude oil purchase contracts,
strategic planning, economic evaluation of marketed product profitability, and
the distribution of crude and refined products on a retail level.
Additionally, Mr. Veale has extensive experience in the area of gasoline
retailing and related marketing issues. Mr. Veale has spent the last several
years designing and marketing electronic brokering systems for a major energy
systems developer and provider. In this position, Mr. Veale was responsible for
all crude oil trading system development, customizations and implementation at
client locations. Sharon
L. Bevers Ms. Bevers has more than ten years natural gas industry experience in buying, selling and transportation of natural gas on many of the major interstate and intrastate natural gas pipelines in the U.S. Her expertise is supplying spot, baseload and term gas supplies primarily to industrial consumers and local distribution companies in the north and south-east U.S., Texas and gulf coast areas. She has a comprehensive understanding of the pipeline grid, trading hubs, pooling points, storage and their associated points of connection, constraints and rates. William
Savallisch
Mr.
Savallisch has seventeen years of financial, strategic planning, and operational
oil and natural gas experience. Mr.
Savallisch has extensive experience in financial modeling, due diligence
activities associated with mergers and acquisitions, exploration and production
cost accounting and ceiling test analysis, capital budgeting, margin analysis,
cost of service analysis, operational budgets and purchase/lease analysis.
In his roles as a director and manager with two major energy companies,
he was responsible for activities related to regulated gas pipelines,
exploration and development, gas processing plants, and financial modeling for
asset acquisitions. Edward L. Hume
Mr. Hume
has over twenty years of experience as an economist and instructor.
Mr. Hume has worked with gas pipelines, distribution companies and
independent power producers concentrating on econometric models, including price
forecasts, and related testimony-covering cost of service, rate design and
contracts. Mr. Hume has provided
oral and written testimony. Other
Associates
H&H Energy has established relationships with associates throughout the world. These individuals are available to provide specialized services together with local knowledge in any major energy market in North America, Eastern and Western Europe, and Australia.
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