Bill
Clarey, partner and co-founder, Clarey/Napier International
Mr. Bill Clarey is a Partner and Co-Founder of Clarey/Napier
International, a Houston-based, international executive
search firm specializing in the energy industry.
He previously served as a Principal and Partner
with two major international executive search firms
and has assisted clients on a variety of staffing
projects in his 15 years of recruiting. Prior experience
includes seven years as a Consultant with McKinsey
& Company and Hay Associates, where he assisted
large energy, manufacturing, and diversified service
companies address major corporate strategy, organization
and human resource issues.
Mr. Clarey has an undergraduate degree from St.
Mary's University and an MBA from The University
of Southern California.
Sandy
Cofer, King and Spalding Sandy Cofer is an associate in King
& Spalding's Global Transactions group. Sandy's
practice focuses on construction law, including
the drafting and negotiating of construction,
construction management, operations and maintenance
and development agreements. Sandy has negotiated
and drafted EPC contracts for LNG regasification
terminals, including the first two new LNG terminals
to be constructed in the U.S. in almost 30 years
and the expansion to an existing LNG terminal.
Sandy obtained her J.D. and M.B.A. from the University
of Houston and her Bachelor of Arts from the University
of Texas. Prior to joining King & Spalding,
Sandy worked in the energy industry, including
positions in natural gas trading and merchant
plant development with Duke Energy North America.
Scott
Greer, attorney, King and Spalding Scott Greer is a partner in
King & Spalding's Global Transactions Group.
Mr. Greer, who focuses exclusively on the practice
of construction law, represents some of the world's
largest organizations in all aspects of their
global construction projects, including drafting
and negotiating EPC, EPCM, construction, construction
management, engineering, architectural, program
management and development agreements, and mediating,
arbitrating and litigating construction-related
disputes.
Mr. Greer has represented national and multi-national
owners and developers, contractors, construction
managers, program managers, subcontractors, engineers,
architects and suppliers, but now primarily represents
owners and developers.
Mr. Greer is a licensed Professional Engineer
in the field of structural engineering. Prior
to becoming a lawyer, he designed numerous multi-story
buildings located throughout the United States,
and investigated, as a consulting expert, several
building failures, including a ten-story building
damaged by an earthquake and a 32-story condominium
tower that experienced severe water infiltration
problems.
Mr. Greer is listed as one of the top lawyers
in the construction law field by Chambers USA
Guide to America's Leading Business lawyers. He
obtained his J.D. from Emory University, his Master's
degree in Civil Engineering from the University
of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and his Bachelor
of Science degree in Architectural Engineering
from Oklahoma State University where he was named
the Dean's Outstanding Graduate in Engineering,
Architectural and Technology.
Dr.
Prabhudev Konana, distinguised teaching professor,
University of Texas at Austin Dr. Konana is a Distinguished Teaching
Professor and Associate Professor of Management
at the MCombs School of Business. The University
of Texas at Auistin. Prabhudev is also a faculty
member of the South Asia Institute and Assistant
Director for Centre for Research in Commerce.
He received his MBA and Ph.D from the University
of Arizona. He is currently studying issues related
to outsourcing and offshoring decision variables.
He has written and given talks on the myth and
reality of India as a knowledge economy. He has
published over 40 articles in major journals including
Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Sloan Management
Review. Most recently, with two associates, he
published an article on India’s and Chinese
Economies in India’s National Magazine, Frontline,”
March 2005.
Asok
Kumar, project director, Sabine Pass LNG Project,
Bechtel Corporation Asok
Kumar is the Project Director for the Sabine Pass
LNG Project. Asok has over 36 years of experience,
some of it overseas, in the Gas, Oil and Chemicals
Business. He has been working for Bechtel Corporation
for the past 25 years in various capacities.
Asok holds a Master of Science Degree in Mechanical
Engineering from the University of Houston.
Asok and his wife Mary Agnes live in Houston and
have two grown children, David and Sara.
Frank
McWilliams, sales manager, Corus International
Americas Frank McWilliams is responsible for
the sales and marketing of Corus Tubes products
in North America and support of their South American
operations. Having almost 30 years of tubular
sales experience, he started with downhole casing.
Since 1990 Frank has been involved with large
diameter pipe manufacturers. Corus targets subsea
pipelines, and are currently pursuing various
oil & gas projects in the Gulf of Mexico as
well as other opportunities globally.
Bob
Nimocks, president, Zeus Development Corporation Zeus Development Corporation is an
energy research firm that focuses on world gas
development. The company commonly serves manufacturing
and oilfield service clients evaluating markets
for their products and services in the LNG, GTL,
methanol, DME, IGCC and gas-export-related markets.
Zeus publishes a number of market-related periodicals,
including the www.LNGExpress.com,
www.SyngasRefiner.com
and www.GasMonetizer.com
and organizes workshops, conferences and training
programs.
Prior to founding Zeus in 1991, Nimocks was vice
president of corporate development for Elders
Resources North America, the North American division
of an international energy and natural resources
company with substantial natural gas production.
He earned an MBA from Harvard University (1987),
served in the management consulting division of
Accenture (1981-84) and obtained BS and BBA degrees
from Mississippi State University (1981).
Robert
Nussmeier, director of business development, Baker
Concrete Bob
is a graduate in Building Construction from Purdue
University. He has served or chaired several technical
committees for the American Concrete Institute.
Bob has spent over 22 years in different management
capacities for leading Concrete Construction Product
companies. After employment with the Scofield and
Master Builders Company, and working with Baker
since 1981, Bob joined Baker concrete construction
company, the largest full scope concrete service
subcontractor in the US.
Baker has been focused on the concrete constructability
issues for LNG terminals in the USA and supplied
many budgets and cost estimates for the different
build schemes being proposed for on shore and
off shore LNG storage tanks. Bob serves on the
Board for the National Ready-Mix Concrete Association
and is active in the Construction Industry Institute
and the American Society of Concrete Construction.
Thomas
E. Phalen, Jr., vice president and project director,
Fluor Corporation Tom
Phalen is Vice President, Project Director for Fluor.
Mr. Phalen has 29 years experience in the engineering
and construction industry. His career with Fluor
has included assignments in process engineering,
pipeline engineering, engineering management and
project management and has General Manager of the
Houston office. He has worked in the refining, gas
processing, LNG, chemical, offshore and onshore
production and pipeline industries.
He is currently responsible for directing Fluor's
Project Operations for LNG Regasification Terminals
on a global basis. Mr. Phalen earned a B.S. and
a Master of Chemical Engineering degree from Rice
University and is a licensed Professional Engineer.
Richard
Rankin, vice president, midstream, AMEC Richard L. Rankin joined AMEC
Paragon (AP) in 2002 as Vice President of Midstream
Projects and is charged with bolstering AP's presence
in the areas of liquefied natural gas (LNG), liquefied
petroleum gas (LPG), gas-to-liquids (GTL), gas-to-methanol
(GTM), and compressed natural gas (CNG) technology.
Rankin brings more than 30 years of experience
in engineering, project management and senior
executive assignments for onshore and offshore
oil and gas projects downstream, midstream and
upstream. He was Vice President of the Upstream
Division of Foster Wheeler USA Corporation, Senior
Vice President of Hydrocarbons for Kvaerner, and
VP of Projects for John Brown. He has extensive
project experience in the Middle East, West Africa,
Asia, the Gulf of Mexico and the United States.
A registered professional engineer in the State
of Texas, Rankin earned a Bachelor of Science
degree in mechanical engineering from Oklahoma
State University.
John
Wolff, director, LNG, Zeus Development Corporation John Wolff joined Zeus Development in
2004. He has over 30 years of experience in the
energy business.
Prior to joining Zeus Development, he was a partner
in Brett & Wolff LLC. He prepared various
studies on CNG, LNG and biogas. He prepared an
economic assessment and design evaluation for
transporting natural gas as either CNG or LNG
on the Amazon River for American Commercial Barge
Lines and Petrobras. He contributed to Zeus' CNG
Ocean Transport Study 2004.
Mr. Wolff had also been the Manager of Business
Development for Panhandle Eastern's and then Duke
Energy's LNG marketing and sales business that
imported LNG at the Trunkline LNG terminal. He
prepared models to improve business decisions
in the business units that included the affiliated
LNG shipping business, the LNG importing/marketing
business and the Trunkline LNG terminal. He prepared
joint venture agreements and technology assessments
to increase the profitability of the Trunkline
LNG terminal, including gas processing and cold
recovery projects. He helped structure short-term
LNG purchase contracts and assessed aspects of
the long-term LNG contract between Duke Energy
and Sonatrach.
Dr.
Prabhudev Konana, distinguised teaching professor,
University of Texas at Austin
Asok
Kumar is the Project Director for the Sabine Pass
LNG Project. Asok has over 36 years of experience,
some of it overseas, in the Gas, Oil and Chemicals
Business. He has been working for Bechtel Corporation
for the past 25 years in various capacities.
Bob
is a graduate in Building Construction from Purdue
University. He has served or chaired several technical
committees for the American Concrete Institute.
Bob has spent over 22 years in different management
capacities for leading Concrete Construction Product
companies. After employment with the Scofield and
Master Builders Company, and working with Baker
since 1981, Bob joined Baker concrete construction
company, the largest full scope concrete service
subcontractor in the US.
Tom
Phalen is Vice President, Project Director for Fluor.
Mr. Phalen has 29 years experience in the engineering
and construction industry. His career with Fluor
has included assignments in process engineering,
pipeline engineering, engineering management and
project management and has General Manager of the
Houston office. He has worked in the refining, gas
processing, LNG, chemical, offshore and onshore
production and pipeline industries.
