ERNESTO CORDERO ARROYO

Ernesto Cordero Arroyo holds a B.A in Actuary from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico (ITAM, for its initials in Spanish), along with a Masters degree and studies of PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

In the Ministry of Energy he is current Undersecretary of Energy Planning and Technological Development. Previously, he was Chief of Staff at the Unit of Counseling and Institutional Relations, where he coordinated the technical analysis for the office of the Secretary, as well as the dealings of the Ministry with other national institutions. Years before, at the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Public Industry, he participated in the prospective analysis of the national energy sector and in the design of the Energy Regulatory Commission.

He was also Director of Integral Risk Management at the Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Públicos, a national development bank, where he participated in the financing process of the national productive infrastructure. In the Mexican Congress he served as General Director of the Miguel Estrada Iturbide Foundation, a think tank of the Parliamentary Group of the National Action Party in the Chamber of Deputies, where he coordinated the technical analysis of legislative bills.

In the academic field, he has taught several courses in economics and statistics at ITAM and at the University of Pennsylvania.

John Carruthers
Vice President - Northern Development, Enbridge Corp.

Enbridge Pipelines: 2004 Vice President Business Development whose responsibilities include Enbridge's participation in the development of arctic gas & liquids pipelines from both Alaska's North Slope & the Mackenzie Delta.

BP: 2000 - 2003 As Vice President of Alaska Canada Gas Pipeline, a member of the management team responsible for the identification and delivery of the commercialization of 36 Tcf of Alaska North Slope gas through competitive links into the Canadian and Lower 48 markets. The project involves the design, construction and operation of a large diameter, high-pressure gas transmission line and processing facilities costing approximately US $20 billion. Managed the Canadian office & lead the completion of U.S. and Canadian environmental, regulatory and land studies of $39 million in 2002 though a separate team of ExxonMobil, Phillips and BP personnel.

TransCanada PipeLines: 1995 - 2000 President of the publicly traded TC PipeLines LP and Vice president of Energy Transmission. Initially coordinated TransCanada's participation (finance, legal, engineering and commercial) in a proposed US $4.5 billion subsea gas pipeline from Qatar to Pakistan. Progressed to lead a department employing capital of $1.4 billion, generating annual income of $150 million. Chairman of Express Pipeline, Co-Chairman of TQM, and on the Management Committee of various pipeline investments including Northern Border, Foothills and Iroquois.

Ralph Cavanagh
Director, Energy Program
Natural Resources Defense Council

Ralph Cavanagh directs the Energy Program of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environment-advocacy organization that he joined in 1979. He has held appointments as a Visiting Professor at the Stanford and Boalt Hall Law Schools, and as a lecturer at the Harvard Law School. He is a past member of the U.S. Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board, the Energy Engineering Board of the National Academy of Sciences and the Advisory Council of the Electric Power Research Institute. Cavanagh currently is a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy, an initiative of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and serves as Vice Chair of the Portland-based Bonneville Environmental Foundation and the Sacramento-based Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies. He also serves on the board of the Electricity Innovation Institute, which manages long-term research and development projects in the energy sector. He has worked extensively with the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America, most recently as a member of its Electricity and Environment Advisory Board.

Dr. Thomas B. Cochran
Director of the Nuclear Program 
Natural Resources Defense Council

Dr. Thomas B. Cochran is Director of the Nuclear Program and holds the Wade Greene Chair for Nuclear Policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). He initiated NRDC's Nuclear Weapons Databook Project. He also initiated a series of joint nuclear weapons verification projects with the Soviet Academy of Sciences. These include the Nuclear Test Ban Verification Project, which demonstrated the feasibility of utilizing seismic monitoring to verify a low-threshold test ban, and the Black Sea Experiment, which examined the utility of passive radiation detectors for verifying limits on sea-launched cruise missiles. He has served as a consultant to numerous government and non-government agencies on energy, nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear reactor matters. He is a member of the Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee. Previously he served as a member of DOE's Environmental Management Advisory Board, Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Board and Energy Research Advisory Board, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee on the Clean Up of Three Mile Island and the TMI Public Health Advisory Board.

Dr. Cochran received his Ph.D. in Physics from Vanderbilt University in 1967. He was assistant Professor of Physics at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, from 1967 to 1969, Modeling and Simulation Group Supervisor of the Litton Mellonics Division, Scientific Support Laboratory, Fort Ord, California, from 1969 to 1971, and from 1971 to 1973, he was a Senior Research Associate at Resources for the Future. Dr. Cochran has been with NRDC since 1973. He is the recipient of the American Physical Society's Szilard Award and the Federation of American Scientists' Public Service Award, both in 1987. As a consequence of his work, NRDC received the 1989 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Cochran is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the AAAS.

John Corra 
Director 
Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality

John Corra was appointed as the Director of The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality by Governor Dave Freudenthal and confirmed by the State Senate in March, 2003. John's educational background is in mining engineering, with additional education in manufacturing management and organizational development. His formal education includes undergraduate and graduate school at Montana Tech. He is also a 2001 graduate of the Leadership Wyoming program.

He has spent all of his professional life in the mineral and chemical industries, serving in various executive capacities. Among his many managerial assignments is a 5+ year stint running a surface coal mining operation. Mr. Corra has also served on numerous governing boards of public and community service organizations as well as official state committees and organizations.

Dr Mark Davies 
Manager Environmental Technology
Kennecott Energy Company

At Kennecott Energy Mark is responsible for managing the technical issues related to the sustainable utilization of coal . This role involves managing Kennecott's response to emerging environmental issues and includes managing its involvement in the FutureGen project and its North American R&D collaboration. He has over 10 years experience in industrial technology development, including two US patents in the field of coal upgrading. Previous experience has included roles as the Manager of Simulation and Process Control and Senior Research Engineer for Rio Tinto Technical Services. He has an honors degree in mechanical engineering and a PhD in engineering, both from the University of Adelaide in Australia.

Vincent DeVito, Esq. 
Acting Assistant Secretary 
Office of Policy and International Affairs 
United States Department of Energy

Vincent DeVito was appointed to the Department of Energy in January of 2001. Vincent was appointed (Acting) Assistant Secretary for the Office of Policy and International Affairs in March 2004 while also serving as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary. Vincent is a charter member of the North American Energy Working Group (NAEWG). Among the accomplishments of NAEWG is 2002's publication of the North American Energy Picture, a comprehensive economic and energy overview of the three countries. Since mid-August, Mr. DeVito has been involved with the U.S.-Canada joint task force that was established as a result of the electricity blackout which affected much of eastern Canada and the eastern United States. Immediately prior to joining the Administration of President Bush, Vincent served as an energy lawyer in the Administration of Governor Cellucci of Massachusetts, now the US Ambassador to Canada. Vincent also spent his tenure, in Massachusetts, assisting with the development and implementation of the state's electric utility deregulation plan at legislative, regulatory and policy levels. Vincent was also active in the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign. Mr. DeVito is a native of upstate New York and resides, with his wife Karyn, in Alexandria, VA.

Peter A. Dea 
Chief Executive Officer and President
Western Gas Resources, Inc

Peter A. Dea, has served as a director and Chief Executive Officer and President of Western Gas Resources, Inc., since November 2001. From April 2000 to August 2001, Mr. Dea served as Chief Executive Officer and was a director and Chairman of the Board for Barrett Resources Corporation. Prior to this position, from November 1999 to April 2000, Mr. Dea was the Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of Barrett Resources Corporation. From February 1994 through March 2000, he held various positions at Barrett Resources including Executive Vice President-Exploration. Mr. Dea also serves on the board of directors of EchoStar Communications. Mr. Dea received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Geology from Western State College and his Masters Degree in Geology from the University of Montana.

Chris Devers
Member
Pauma Band of Mission Indians

Chris Devers is a member of the Pauma Band of Mission Indians located in San Diego County, Southern California. Chris has held the position of Tribal Chairman since 2001. As Tribal Chairman Chris is the Tribe's representative to the Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT) and in 2003 assumed the position of Board Chairman for the Council of Energy Resource Tribes.

The Pauma Band of Mission Indians has approximately 60 acres of avocados, lemons and oranges in agriculture and Casino Pauma as economic ventures. In 1992 Pauma became a member of the Council of Energy Resources Tribes (CERT). As a member of CERT, Pauma continues to investigate avenues to become an energy producer or to join with local tribal groups to develop a means to provide long term energy resource to Tribal communities

Chester A. (Chet) Farris

Chet Farris is President of Shell Solar Industries, located in Camarillo, California and is Senior Vice President Shell Solar Worldwide. Mr. Farris is responsible for the day-to-day operations of Shell Solar, including the Manufacturing, Engineering, R&D, Health, Quality, Safety & Environment, and Supply Chain Management worldwide.

He is a Board Member and President of the Solar Energy Industries Association and a founding Board Member of the National Center for Photovoltaics.

Shell Solar is one of the world's largest solar manufacturers with facilities in California, Washington, Germany, Holland, India and Portugal.

Manuel Garcia Lepe 

Education: 
* Civil Engineer, graduated from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México´s School of Engineering
* MBA at the Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas (I.P.A.D.E.).
* "Advanced Administration Program" from the University of California at Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.) through the COPARMEX Executive´s Program UCLA-IACE´80

Experience: 1996- Director of "Strategic Alliances" from 1996 to 2001 and Energy and Infrastructure Projects Director from 2001 up to date, for The State of Baja California Department of Economic Development. Also responsible for the support, facilitation and linkage of the Power Plants and Liquified Natural Gas receiving Terminal Projects and pipe networks to the Local, State and Federal Governments as well as to the Public Communities.

1993-1996 Construction Manager and Technical Director in "Alta Forma, S.A." in - the development and execution of major hangars and Aircargo Terminal Projects in Mexico City, Toluca City Regional and Los Cabos Int´nl. Airports.

1980-1993 INDU-CON/ACROMEX/CIPSA National Group´s Technical Director, responsible for the development of U.S. suppliers and Joint-Venture with manufacturers of pre-fab metal Industrial and Multi-story buildings, as well as light metal gage building systems, equipment and technology for the group projects all over Mexico.

1970-1980 Technical Director for "Robertson Mexicana,S.A." (a Joint-Venture among Mexico´s Industrias Monterrey,S.A. and U.S.A´s H.H. Robertson Co. from Pittsburgh, PA.) to develop the H.H.R. technology, manufacturing and marketing operations in Mexico, of their light metal gage building Systems for the Construction Industry.

David Garman
Assistant Secretary Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy 
U.S. Department of Energy

David Garman was nominated by President George W. Bush to serve as Assistant Secretary on April 30, 2001 and was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate on May 25, 2001.

Assistant Secretary Garman leads the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) comprised of over 500 federal employees in Washington, DC and six regional offices, supported by thousands of federal contractors both in and outside the National Laboratories. EERE's $1.2 billion technology portfolio is the largest energy research, development, demonstration and deployment portfolio at the Department of Energy.

Assistant Secretary Garman was instrumental in the development of the FreedomCAR cooperative automotive research partnership and the President's Hydrogen Fuel Initiative. Concurrent with his duties as Assistant Secretary, Garman also serves as Chairman of the FreedomCAR Executive Steering Committee and as Chairman of the Steering Committee for the 15-nation International Partnership for a Hydrogen Economy.

Prior to joining the Department of Energy, Mr. Garman served in a variety of positions on the staff of two U.S. Senators and two Senate Committees during a career spanning nearly 21 years, including service on the Professional Staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Immediately prior to his current position, Mr. Garman was Chief of Staff to Frank Murkowski, then Chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, now Governor of Alaska. In addition to his normal Senate duties, Mr. Garman represented the Senate leadership at virtually all of the major negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 1995-2000.

Assistant Secretary Garman has testified before Congress as an Administration witness on more than twenty-five occasions; and been featured as a key Administration spokesman on future energy technologies in print, television and radio. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy from Duke University, and a Master of Science in Environmental Sciences from the Johns Hopkins University.

Bill Jewell
Business Vice President of Energy at
Dow Chemical Company

R. William "Bill" Jewell is business vice president of energy at Dow Chemical Company. He serves as director of the Texas Institute for Advancement of Chemical Technology at Texas A&M and past director of the Industrial Energy Consumers of America. While at Dow, he led the company's fuel cell program with General Motors and represented industrial consumers on the National Petroleum Council's "Balancing Natural Gas Policy" study. Jewell is director of several intrastate natural gas pipeline companies, and is past director of the Association of Texas Intrastate natural Gas Pipelines. A graduate of the University of Kentucky with a degree in civil engineering, he received a master's degree in business administration from the University of Chicago.

Alan A. Johnson
Managing Director & CEO 
ZECA Corporation

Mr. Johnson, former Chair of the Canadian House of Commons Committee on Energy Mines and Resources, past president of the Coal Association of Canada and now Managing Director & CEO of ZECA Corporation, is a Canadian executive with a wide range of professional and public service. Mr. Johnson has over 35 years experience in the Canadian Mining industry, primarily in the coal sector where he was instrumental in initiating the largest coal mine development in recent times.

Mr Johnson's particular interest in coal and carbon research led to the founding of ZECA Corporation in New Mexico in 2001. ZECA is a North American 'carbon management' company targeting the development of integrated systems for 'Emission-Free' coal and carbon energy production. Last December, Scientific American selected ZECA Corporation and Los Alamos National Laboratory as "Business Leader in Environmental Science" for 2003.

William D. Magwood, IV 
Director 
DOE Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology

William D. Magwood, IV is the Director of the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology in the U.S. Department of Energy. He was appointed to this position on November 8, 1998.

As the Director of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology, Mr. Magwood is the senior nuclear technology official in the United States Government and the senior manager for all of the Office's programs. Under Mr. Magwood's leadership, the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology has led the Nation in a new consideration of nuclear technology as a means to address difficult problems facing the Nation in the 21st Century.

Mr. Magwood is leading the Department's Nuclear Power 2010 initiative, aimed at building new nuclear plants in the U.S. by 2010 as a key to long term energy security. He is also leading the Generation IV initiative, working closely with the Generation IV International Forum-an international collective of 10 leading nations and the European Union's Euratom-dedicated to development of next generation advanced nuclear energy technologies.

Under the direction of Mr. Magwood, the office has reasserted a leading role for the United States in the international discussion regarding the future use of nuclear power technology to generate secure supplies of energy without emitting air pollutants that can damage the environment, both regionally and globally. His contributions to the advancement of nuclear technology have been recognized internationally; in 2003, he was elected Chairman of both the Generation IV International Forum and the Paris-based OECD Steering Committee on Nuclear Energy.

Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Magwood served as the Associate Director for Technology and Program Planning in the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology for four years. He also served as the Executive Secretary of the interagency Highly Enriched Uranium Oversight Committee.

From 1984-1994, Mr. Magwood held technology management positions with two energy-related organizations. He managed electric utility research and nuclear policy programs at the Edison Electric Institute, Washington, DC; and he was a scientist at Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he analyzed radiological and hazardous waste disposal, treatment, and handling systems, and provided technical support to nuclear fuel marketing efforts.

Mr. Magwood holds a B.S. degree in Physics, and a B.A. degree in English from Carnegie-Mellon University. He also holds an M.F.A. degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

K. O. MEYERS
President
ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc.

K.O. (Kevin) Meyers is president and chief executive officer (CEO) of ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc. He was named to this position in 2002 after serving as executive vice president of Alaska production and operations for Phillips Petroleum Company and president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Phillips Alaska, Inc.

Dr. Meyers joined ARCO Exploration and Production (E&P) Technology in Plano, Texas in 1980. He has held a number of positions in ARCO's E&P operations in both Texas and Alaska, including senior vice president of the Prudhoe Bay business unit in 1996 and president and CEO of ARCO Alaska, Inc., and senior vice president of Atlantic Richfield Company, in 1998. He accepted the Phillips Alaska president's position in the spring of 2000 when ARCO Alaska, Inc. was acquired by Phillips Petroleum Company and remains in this position post-merger ConocoPhillips.

Dr. Meyers, 50, earned undergraduate degrees in chemistry and mathematics from Capital University in 1975 and holds a doctorate in chemical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Meyers serves on the Board of Regents of the University of Alaska and on the boards of directors of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association, the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, the Nature Conservancy of Alaska, the Anchorage Museum Foundation, the Kenai River Sportfishing Association, and the U.S. Airforce (Alaska Command) Civilian Advisory Board.

Lewis Milford
President
Clean Energy Group

Lewis Milford is a lawyer and President of Clean Energy Group, a non-profit organization he founded in 1998. CEG's mission is to increase the use of cleaner energy technologies in the U.S. and abroad through creative financing, business partnerships, public policy and advocacy.

CEG works with public officials from around the U.S. that are responsible for over $3.5 billion in new clean energy funds. This CEG project, originally called the Clean Energy Funds Network, developed to help fund officials create and coordinate efforts to expand clean energy markets. CEG now manages the Clean Energy States Alliance (www.cleanenergystates.org), a new nonprofit organization assisting these funds in multi-state strategies and also manages the Public Fuel Cell Alliance (PFCA), a new consortium of fuel cell funders seeking to collaborate to accelerate the widespread adoption of fuel cell and hydrogen technologies. CEG works with a variety of financial, policy and other public and private institutions interested in building sustainable energy markets. CEG also works with public officials in Europe interested in trans-Atlantic efforts to build clean energy markets.

Prior to founding CEG, Mr. Milford was Vice President of Conservation Law Foundation, New England's leading environmental organization. At CLF, Mr. Milford directed the Energy Project where he was responsible for industry and governmental negotiations that led to new electric restructuring laws throughout the region.

His articles on the environment have appeared in publications including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Renewable Energy World and the Electricity Journal.

He has a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Rutgers College. He is married with two children. His family lives in Middlesex, Vermont.

Mario J. Molina
Professor

Professor Molina was born in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1943. He holds a Chemical Engineer degree (1965) from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, a postgraduate degree (1967) from the University of Freiburg, West Germany, and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (1972) from the University of California, Berkeley. He came to MIT in 1989 with a joint appointment in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and the Department of Chemistry and was named MIT Institute Professor in 1997. Prior to joining MIT, he held teaching and research positions at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; the University of California, Irvine and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology.

Professor Molina has been involved in developing our scientific understanding of the chemistry of the stratospheric ozone layer and its susceptibility to human-made perturbations. He was a co-author, with F. S. Rowland, of the 1974 publication in the British magazine Nature, of their research on the threat to the ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases that were being used as propellants in spray cans, as refrigerants, as solvents, etc. More recently, Professor Molina has also been involved with the chemistry of air pollution of the lower atmosphere. He is also pursuing interdisciplinary work on tropospheric pollution issues, working with colleagues from many other disciplines on the problem of rapidly growing cities with severe air pollution problems.

Professor Molina has served on the President's Committee of Advisors in Science and Technology (1994-2000), and on many other advisory boards and panels. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, and of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He has received numerous awards for his scientific work including the Tyler Ecology and Energy Prize in 1983, the UNEP-Sasakawa Award in 1999, and the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Ernest J. Moniz
Professor of Physics and Director of Energy Studies, Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ernest J. Moniz is Professor of Physics and Director of Energy Studies, Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has served on the faculty since 1973. Dr. Moniz served as Under Secretary of the Department of Energy from October 1997 until January 2001. In that role, he had programmatic oversight responsibility for the offices of Science; Fossil Energy; Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology; Environmental Management; and Civilian Radioactive Waste Management. He served as DOE chair of the Laboratory Operations Board and of the Research and Development Council, through which he initiated a portfolio approach to managing and advancing the Department's R&D programs. He also led a comprehensive review of the nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship program and served as the Secretary's special negotiator for Russia initiatives, with a particular focus on the disposition of Russian nuclear weapons materials. Dr. Moniz also served from 1995 to 1997 as Associate Director for Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President, where his responsibilities spanned the physical, life, and social and behavioral sciences, science education, and university-government partnerships. At MIT, Dr. Moniz served as Head of the Department of Physics and as Director of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center. His principal research contributions have been in theoretical nuclear physics, particularly in advancing nuclear reaction theory at high energy.

Dr. Moniz received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Boston College, a doctorate in theoretical physics from Stanford University, and honorary doctorates from the University of Athens and the University of Erlangen-Nurenburg. Dr. Moniz is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Humboldt Foundation, and the American Physical Society and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received the 1998 Seymour Cray HPCC Industry Recognition Award for vision and leadership in advancing scientific simulation. He is a Senior Associate of the Washington Advisory Group. He serves on the Boards of the Gas Technology Institute, Nexant, and American Science & Engineering, on the Keystone Energy Board, and on the strategic advisory councils of USEC, EPRI, and Cummins.

Vickie Patton
Senior Attorney
Environmental Defense

Vickie Patton is a senior attorney at Environmental Defense where she manages the organization's national and regional clean air programs, working out of the group's Rocky Mountain Office in Boulder, Colorado. Environmental Defense is a national nonpartisan, nonprofit environmental advocacy organization representing more than 400,000 members nationwide. Prior to joining Environmental Defense, Ms. Patton worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of General Counsel in Washington, D.C. where she provided legal counsel on a variety of national and western air quality initiatives. During her tenure at EPA, Ms. Patton received the Gold Medal for Exceptional Service, the Agency's highest honor award. Ms. Patton is a member of EPA's national Clean Air Act Advisory Committee and the Western Regional Air Partnership's Initiatives Oversight Committee and Stationary Sources Forum. Ms. Patton has published numerous articles on the Clean Air Act.

Ken Stroh
Program Manager
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Ken Stroh is a Mechanical Engineer (B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Colorado State University), with more than 25 years experience at the Los Alamos National Laboratory designing, analyzing and testing energy systems, with a decade-long focus on fuel cells. Ken received the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles Medal from the Department of Commerce and the Society of Automotive Engineers in 1998 for Government/Industry Teamwork on fuel cell power systems.

Ken currently serves as Program Manager for the Laboratory's research and development programs in hydrogen, fuel cell, and transportation technologies. Ken also serves as the Hydrogen Portfolio Champion for the Laboratory's Energy & Environment Council. He works closely with the Department of Energy's Office of Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Infrastructure Technologies, and contributes to development of long-range R&D plans for the Department.

Bob Zahradnik
Director
Southern Ute Growth Fund

Bob Zahradnik is a Director of the Southern Ute Growth Fund and Member of the Growth Fund Management Committee. He has been employed by the Southern Ute Indian Tribe since 1988. He wrote the business plan for and was the first employee of Red Willow Production Company, and was President of Red Willow from 1992 until 2000. Red Willow is the Tribe's Exploration and Production Company. During Mr. Zahradnik's tenure Red Willow reserves increased from 0 to 500 billion cubic feet of gas. Red Willow Currently produces approximately 180 million cubic feet of gas per day.

From 1989 through 2000 Mr. Zahradnik was also the Tribe's Manager of Exploration and Production for the Tribe's Department of Energy. In that capacity he was heavily involved in all of the Tribe's major energy transactions (totaling more than $1 Billion U. S.). These transactions included major energy acquisitions, major capital expansion projects, large financial transactions, establishment of joint ventures, and large scale field operations. These successful transactions resulted in the Tribe's current $1.4 billion (U. S.) investment portfolio, which led to the Tribes AAA credit rating from Fitch and Standard and Poor's.

Since 1994 Mr. Zahradnik has served as a member of the Management Committee of Red Cedar Gathering Company. Red Cedar is a joint venture that gathers, treats and compresses over 700 million cubic feet of coalbed methane per day. The Tribe owns 51% of the joint venture. Red Cedar's volumes have increased 500% since the joint venture was formed in 1994.

In 2001 and 2002 Mr. Zahradnik served on the board of directors of Contango Oil and Gas Co., a successful public Houston Based, Gulf Coast startup E & P Company.

The presidents of all the Tribe's operating businesses report to Mr. Zahradnik in his capacity as Director of Operations for the Tribe's Growth Fund. These include the Tribe's various energy businesses, as well as the Tribe's real estate, construction, and utilities businesses.

From 1982 Through 1988, Mr. Zahradnik was employed by Exxon. His last position with Exxon was Senior Reservoir Engineer. He worked on major reservoir engineering and production projects in West Texas and the Gulf of Mexico. He was the artificial lift engineer for Exxon's largest artificial lift project.

Mr. Zahradnik earned a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State in 1977.