 Michael
Beck is a Member of PA Consulting's Management Group and
a leader in the firm's Global Energy Group. Mike has a broad range
of experience in the energy industry, particularly in areas related
to electric utility industry restructuring. He has been involved in
energy consulting for over 20 years and has consulted for a variety
of organizations on a broad range of topics including generation and
transmission operations, strategic planning, asset valuation, risk
management, environmental strategy, and competitive analysis. Mr.
Beck joined PA through its acquisition of Hagler Bailly in October
2000. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of
Pennsylvania,a Masters in Business Administration from Drexel University,
and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the state of New Jersey.
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 Roger
D. Feldman is a Partner at Bingham McCutchen. Throughout
his 30-year career, Mr. Feldman has been actively involved in all
aspects of contracting for and financing energy, environmental and
infrastructure projects. He served as cochair of the Projects and
Structured Finance Group, which closed more than 200 transactions
worldwide with an aggregate value of more than $40 billion.He has
served as lead counsel in numerous, successfully-financed IPP and
merchant power project financings, acquisitions and portfolio divestitures
in the U.S. and overseas, and advised lenders, project developers
and rating agencies with respect to many others. Mr. Feldman has also
provided counsel for a wide range of energy and environmental regulatory
issues impacting proposed transactions. He has represented electric
utility and independent energy trade associations in diverse rulemakings,
a rating agency on its analysis of independent power projects, and
the Department of Energy in its largest proposed project financing.
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 Donald
E. Felsinger is group president of Sempra Energy Global Enterprises,
the umbrella for Sempra Energy's growth businesses, including Sempra
Energy Trading, Sempra Energy International, Sempra Energy Resources
and Sempra Energy Solutions. Sempra Energy is a San Diego-based Fortune
500 energy services holding company whose subsidiaries provide electricity,
natural gas and value-added products and services. The Sempra Energy
companies' 12,000 employees serve more than 9 million customers in
the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, South America. and Asia.
In his current position, Felsinger is charged with developing and
expanding Sempra Energy's delivery of the integrated products and
services demanded by a global, evolving energy marketplace. These
activities include retail marketing of energy products and services,
energy trading, international energy-infrastructure projects and the
construction of merchant power plants. Felsinger holds the additional
title of chairman of Sempra Energy
International.
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 Robert
C. Hart is President and CEO of CDC Globeleq.
Mo
Meghji is a principal and co-founder of Loughlin Meghji +
Company, a firm that specializes in advising management, investors
and creditors in the restructuring of financially challenged companies.
Mo has more than 15 years of business experience in the U.K., Canada
and the U.S., including 10 years in the Restructuring Group of a major
international consulting firm, most recently as a partner in the New
York office. Mo's industry experience includes companies in a variety
of industries including most recently a number of cases in the energy
industry, including Covanta Energy Corp. and US Gen New England Inc,
a subsidiary of National Energy Group. Mo graduated from York University
in Canada and has also completed the Advanced Corporate Finance Program
at the INSEAD Business School in France. He is a U.S. Certified Turnaround
Professional (CTP), as well as a U.K. and Canadian Chartered Accountant.
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 Dr.
Salim J. Jabbour is Senior Vice President of Nexant, Inc.
He was the founder and former CEO of BMC, a software and consulting
firm acquired by Nexant, where he currently leads the enterprise risk
management division. Previously, he was the managing director of the
energy practice at DFI.Dr. Jabbour has influenced numerous mission-critical
decisions, published a book, and several papers.He is a regular speaker
at conferences and executive management meetings.Dr. Jabbour holds
an MBA and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Stanford University).
Fred Baird is Senior Advisor of Charles
River Associates.
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 Jim
Letzelter, Managing Director, Platts, is a power generation
expert with over 14 years of experience. He specializes in power market
assessment, risk analysis, emissions strategy, asset valuation and
strategic planning. Before joining Platts, Jim served as president
of GenerSys Consulting, as a principal with Hagler Bailly, and as
a senior consultant at Metzler & Associates. Throughout his career,
Jim has successfully integrated state-ofthe- art analytics with strategic
thinking. Jim's work has been used for asset acquisitions, regulatory
proceedings, and litigation. Most of his project engagements have
dealt with major power-related investment decisions or strategic positions.
His writing on a wide variety of issues has been published nationally
and internationally, and he is a frequent presenter at high-profile
industry forums. He holds an MBA from the State University of New
York at Albany and a BS in electrical engineering from
Clarkson University. |
 Paul
O'Rourke, Vice President of Charles River Associates, has
more than 25 years of experience in management consulting and general
management.His experience with energy clients includes strategy development,
technology and market assessment, marketing management, and organization
assessment. Mr. O'Rourke has worked extensively in all segments of
the energy industry, including electricity, oil, natural gas, coal,
and renewable resources. During the past three years, Mr. O'Rourke
has worked extensively in the Asia Pacific region for merchant generators
and investor-owned utilities.He has also worked extensively with utility
trade associations in North America, including the Electric Power
Research Institute, Edison Electric Institute, and the Gas Research
Institute.
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