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Advisory Board
With an eye toward better understanding evolving power markets and how they will affect consumers, Automated Energy has assembled the following Advisory Board of world-class energy industry professionals.
This highly focused advisory group was established to help Automated Energy explore and understand the direction and needs of the ever-changing energy industry and emerging competitive power markets.
"We are very fortunate indeed to have assembled some of the finest minds in the energy industry," said Cody Graves, Chief Executive Officer of Automated Energy. "The quality, knowledge and diversity of this group provide our company with an unparalleled perspective on the electricity industry and power markets as they continue to evolve over time."
Henri-Claude A. Bailly
Partner, Resource Capital Group
Henri-Claude Bailly is an independent management consultant and a partner in Resource Capital Group, a firm that develops, owns and manages residential and commercial real estate primarily in the Boston metropolitan area.
Mr. Bailly is the former chairman of the board of directors of Hagler Bailly, an international management and economic consulting firm to the energy and utility industries (NASDAQ: HBIX) which merged on October 27, 2000 with PA Consulting Group. He served as Hagler Bailly's chief executive officer, from the firm's founding in 1980 until April 1999. Prior to founding Hagler Bailly, Mr. Bailly was employed in successive positions from associate to managing director of Resource Planning Associates, an international energy, utilities and environmental management consulting firm.
Mr. Bailly currently serves on the board of directors of Nextep SA, a French energy management services company, and the Alliance to Save Energy. He is the chairman of the United States Energy Association~Rs Trade and Development Committee, and also serves on the advisory board of Matrix Group International. In 1999, he received the USEA/Johnson Control Energy Efficiency Award in special recognition for outstanding leadership in energy efficiency.
Mr. Bailly holds bachelor (1969) and masters (1970) degrees in architecture from the University of Washington (Seattle) and a masters in business administration (MBA) from Harvard University (1972). From 1964 to 1968, he studied architecture at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in France.
Robert W. Gee
Principal, The Gee Strategies Group
Twice nominated by President Bill Clinton and twice confirmed by the United States Senate, Robert W. Gee served from 1997 to 2000 as Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy and as Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs of the U.S. Department of Energy in Washington, D.C.
As the Fossil Energy Assistant Secretary, Mr. Gee oversaw the national research program to develop and demonstrate advanced natural gas, petroleum, and coal technologies. Mr. Gee also was responsible for overseeing the operation of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the Nation's emergency crude oil stockpile, and the Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves.
As the Policy and International Affairs Assistant Secretary, he played a leading role in the Administration's encouragement of oil and gas production and pipeline construction in Central Asia. He also was responsible for overseeing the timely completion of the Department's 1998 Comprehensive National Energy Strategy, representing the Administration's framework for our country's energy policy. Upon Mr. Gees resignation from the Clinton Administration, the U.S. Department of Energy designated its Student Internship Program after him in his honor.
Prior to joining the Clinton Administration, Mr. Gee served from 1991 until 1997 as a member of the Public Utility Commission of Texas as an appointee of Texas Governor Ann Richards. He served as Chairman of the Commission from 1991 through 1995. Upon his departure from the Commission, his colleagues designated a hearing room at the Commission in his honor.
As a state utility commissioner, Mr. Gee chaired the Committee on Electricity and Ad Hoc Committee on Electric Industry Restructuring for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.
He has testified numerous times before the United States Congress, and has been interviewed and quoted by various news media, including The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, National Journal, Energy News Live and CNBC television. His editorials have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Dallas Morning News, and the Houston Chronicle.
Mr. Gee is a member of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group, a Senior Fellow with the American Leadership Forum, a Fellow with the Texas Bar Foundation, and a member of the National Selection Committee of the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation. His past affiliations have included serving as a trustee for St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, and as a member of the Dallas Regional Panel of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships.
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Mr. Gee practiced energy and public utility regulatory law for 15 years. He has served as an Attorney Advisor at the Interstate Commerce Commission and as a Supervisory Trial Attorney at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. He held the position of General Attorney at Tenneco Oil Company, and was Of Counsel to the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. Mr. Gee received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in government with honors from the University of Texas and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the University of Texas School of Law.
Mr. Gee currently heads an energy and utility consulting practice in Washington, D.C. A native Houstonian, he was the first Asian Pacific American to become an Assistant Secretary at the Department of Energy and was the highest-ranking Texan of Asian ancestry ever to serve in Texas State government. He is married to Dr. Pauline Wong Gee.
Eric Hirst
Eric Hirst is an independent consultant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, focusing on electric-industry restructuring. For 30 years (1970!2000) Eric worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; in 1985 he was appointed a Corporate Fellow, a distinction shared by only 1% of the ORNL technical staff. His consulting practice deals with the characteristics, requirements, costs, market rules and prices for ancillary services; bulk-power reliability (adequacy and security); market structures for RTOs; transmission planning; stranded costs; and the possible effects of changes in bulk-power markets on environmental quality.
During the past 25 years, Hirst was on assignment for a year or more with the Land and Water Fund of the Rockies (1992-93), Puget Sound Power & Light (1986-87), the Minnesota Energy Agency (1979), and the Federal Energy Administration (1974-75).
Hirst has recently conducted projects for BC Hydro, Puget Sound Energy, AES, El Paso Power Services, the California ISO, The U.S. Department of Energy, the Electricity Consumers Resource Council, New Century Energies, American Electric Power, the Bonneville Power Administration, the Edison Electric Institute, the North Carolina Study Commission, and the Ohio Public Utilities Commission. He served as staff to the Department of Energys Task Force on Electric-System Reliability and is a member of NERCs Interconnected Operations Services Implementation Task Force. The diversity of Hirsts clients attests to his deserved reputation for professional integrity and even-handedness.
Hirst holds a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He has published more than 400 reports, journal articles, and book chapters, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and workshops.
John Hoecker
Partner, Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman LLP
Partner, Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman LLP
James John "Jim" Hoecker is a partner in Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman LLP, a 350-attorney corporate, energy, and telecommunications law firm with offices in Washington, D.C. and New York City. Mr. Hoecker practices in the firms Energy Group. Prior to returning to private law practice, he served as Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. He was a Member of the Commission from May 1993 until he was designated by President Clinton to chair the Commission on June 19, 1997. Mr. Hoecker departed federal service on January 18, 2001.
In private law practice from 1988 to 1993, Mr. Hoecker focused on gas production, transmission, and distribution issues as well as on electric utility contract matters. Mr. Hoeckers new practice at Swidler Berlin is focused on emerging natural gas and electric markets and involves regulatory, legislative, and transactional work for companies adapting to and competing in the new competitive business environment. Mr. Hoecker and his colleagues specialize in matters affecting public utilities, pipeline certificate cases, hydroelectric relicensing, development of regional transmissions organizations, and corporate mergers and utility asset dispositions.
Mr. Hoecker once served on the Commission staff (1979-1988), where he was Assistant General Counsel for Gas and Oil Litigation, Assistant General Counsel for Rulemaking and Legislative Analysis, and a legal advisor to two former Commissioners. As a staff member and later as Commissioner, Mr. Hoecker participated in initiating or implementing the Commission's most significant pro-competitive policies of the past 16 years, beginning with Order Nos. 436 and 436-A (natural gas pipeline open access) in 1985.
FERC CHAIRMANSHIP
During his Chairmanship (1997 - 2001), Mr. Hoecker worked to prepare the Commission for its role in the digital economy and the competitive energy market environment of the 21st Century. He emphasized the benefits of competition for consumers and the importance of sustainable energy project development. At Chairman Hoecker~Rs urging, the Commission asserted leadership over wholesale power market restructuring, natural gas market reform, electric reliability issues, and environmental review and compliance in the hydropower project and gas pipeline areas. At his direction, the Commission's structure was revamped, its processes streamlined, its information technology commitment enhanced, and its regulatory technique made more open and collaborative. His speeches on these various subjects can be found at www.ferc.fed.us.
Mr. Hoecker was a professional historian and teacher before turning full-time to the practice of law. A native of Wisconsin, he has lived in Virginia for 22 years. He was born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, on July 12, 1945. He received his B.A. from Northland College, Ashland, Wisconsin, in 1967; a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky, in 1970 and 1975 respectively; and his Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1978. He is married to Rebecca Evans Hoecker. They have two grown children and a new puppy.
Mr. Hoecker's leadership as chairman resulted directly in the following:
The Commission's initiative to advance Regional Transmission Organization formation, Order No. 2000.
The Commission's major initiative to improve interstate natural gas transportation to maximize market efficiency and fairness, Order No. 638.
Commission action on electric reliability matters, including the 1998 Midwest price spike report and orders on electronic tagging, transmission line loading relief, and WSCC's reliability management system.
Adoption of a sustainable Pipeline Certificate Policy Statement that accounts for and balances market need and the environmental and landowner impacts arising from proposed new construction.
Resolution of highly disputed cases, such as the relicensing of the Cushman Dam project, decommissioning of Edwards Dam in Maine, the Kansas ad valorem tax refund case, the Independence Pipeline certificate case, and over 20 major electric utility mergers.
Reform and streamlining of the administrative litigation process, ex parte rules, complaint processing rules, and pipeline landowner notification rules.
Initiation of the FERC First program, which reengineered the entire agency into a more efficient and market-responsive organization.
The First Commission Strategic Plan.
The First Commission "State of the Markets" Report.
Creation of a Federal Interagency Task Force and Advisory Committee on Hydropower Licensing Reform and Environmental Review.
Support for the natural gas industry Y2K readiness, by chairing the Oil & Gas Working Group of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion.
Greater emphasis on alternative dispute resolution and collaborative processes.
Information technology initiatives, including electronic filing, workflow tracking, the e-commerce policy project, and appointment of the agency's first Chief Information Officer.
New budget disciplines, such as the "manage-to-budget" program, slimming down middle management, and a reduction of overall workforce by 15 percent.
The Distinguished Speakers Series: presentations notables from the corporate world, journalism, government, politics, academe, and the courts.
AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Distinguished Service Award, National Energy Resources Organization, April 2000.
Silver Good Citizenship Award, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, May 21, 2000.
Member, Board of Directors, Allegheny Energy, 2001.
Council member, Section on Environment, Energy and Resources, American Bar Association, 2001.
Board member, National Council on Competition and the Electric Industry, 1995-2001.
Member, State Bar of Wisconsin, District of Columbia Bar, U.S. Court of Appeals (D.C. and Sixth Circuits), U.S. Supreme Court Bar, American Bar Association, and Energy Bar Association.
Chair, Natural Gas Act Rate and Accounting Regulations Committee, Federal Energy Bar Association, 1992-1993.
Assistant Editor, Natural Resources and Environment magazine (ABA), 1989-1993.
Co-Chair, Energy Team, Clinton/Gore Campaign, 1992.
Presidential Transition Team, Natural Resources Cluster, 1992.
Delegate, Clinton Administration Delegation to South Africa on Sustainable Energy and Empowerment, August 1995.
Trustee, Northland College (Wisconsin), 1989.
Member, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
Practitioner-in-Residence, University of Tulsa, College of Law, Fall 2001.
PUBLICATIONS
Foreword to "Electric Utility Restructuring: A Guide to the Competitive Era" (1997). The NEPA Mandate and Federal Regulation of the Natural Gas Industry, 13 Energy Law Journal 265 (1992). FERC Changes the Rules of the Game [Order No. 636 Restructuring], Petroleum Economist, July 1992. New State Restrictions on Gas and Oil Production: A Domestic OPEC?, Natural Resources & Environment Magazine (ABA), Summer 1992. Used and Useful: Autopsy of a Ratemaking Policy, 8 Energy Law Journal 303 (1987). Exemptions from Part 1 of the Federal Power Act for Small Hydroelectric Power Projects, (Proceedings of) Water Power 81: An International Conference on Hydropower, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1981. Section INS 3.39, Wisconsin Administrative Code: The Origins and Development of a Medicare Supplement Insurance Regulation, The Insurance Law Journal, February 1979. Joseph Priestley and the Idea of Progress, New York: Garland Press, 1987. Joseph Priestley and Utilitarianism in the Age of Reason, Enlightenment and Dissent, 1984. Other titles.
Charles A. Trabandt
Vice President, Charles River Associates
Mr. Trabandt is a senior financial, regulatory and strategic planning professional with experience in financial transactions and strategic advisory engagements. He has advised major corporations and government clients in the global energy and power sector, including CEOs, Boards of Directors, and Cabinet officials. Mr. Trabandt is experienced in leading multidisciplinary teams in analyzing complex financial and strategic issues, successfully executing resulting transactions, and achieving related regulatory and legislative objectives.
EXPERIENCE
2002
Vice President, Charles River Associates Incorporated, Washington, DC
1993 - 2001
Managing Director, Global Energy and Power Group, Investment Banking, Merrill Lynch & Co., New York, NY
Instrumental in building leading domestic advisory business with numerous U.S. M&A and restructuring transactions as Chairman, Strategic Advisory Services.
Launched business development initiative for newly emerging U.S. transmission companies, resulting in mandates in Midwest, Pacific Northwest, and Southeast.
Advised the 10 Alliance utility companies on start-up of Alliance Transco RTO and negotiation of Letter of Intent with National Grid USA as Managing Member.
Managed successful relationship with TVA, including development of strategic plan and lead-managed $1 billion bond issues in October 1999 and January 2001.
Managed successful relationship with USEC Inc., including co-lead-managed $1.5 billion privatization IPO and lead-managed $500 million initial bond issue.
Established leading advisory position in the Canadian electric power sector, with M&A and restructuring engagements in British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec, including a report that served as basis for a Quebec restructuring law in 2000.
Led the $26 billion demerger of Ontario Hydro into Ontario Power Generation Inc. and Hydro One Inc., with new commercial capital structures, credit ratings, and financing arrangements, auction of 100 NUG contracts and market power mitigation agreement.
Served as financial advisor for Hydro One privatization and strategic planning, successful acquisitions of municipal utilities and $1 billion initial bond offering.
Managed structured auction for Ontario Power Generation of 4000 MWe of fossil and hydroelectric generation to satisfy market power mitigation requirements.
Contributed significantly to developing the international advisory business with early engagements in Italy, Philippines, Russia and United Kingdom and initial coverage of Europe, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Middle East and South Africa.
Coordinated efforts resulting in leading role for privatization of Italian national electric utility in $15 billion IPO and later spin off of 15,000 MWe of generation.
Participated in U.S. Cabinet Trade Missions to China, India and Pakistan.
1985 - 1993
Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
Appointed by President Reagan for two four-year terms.
Actively involved in all aspects of electric power, natural gas and oil pipeline regulation, hydroelectric licensing, and litigation activities.
Significant role in formulation of natural gas deregulation in Order Nos. 436, 451, 500, 528, and 636.
Participated in development of Electric Consumers Protection Act of 1986, Natural Gas Wellhead Decontrol Act of 1989 and Energy Policy Act of 1992.
Testified before House and Senate Committees and active in NARUC.
1977 - 1984
Chief Counsel (1981-1984), Minority Staff Counsel (1977-1981) Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Washington, DC
Supervisory responsibility as Chief Counsel for legal, legislative, oversight, and Presidential appointment activities and management of professional staff.
Legislative responsibility for all energy and natural resource bills and related budget and appropriations matters.
Significant legislation included DOE Organization Act, Energy Security Act, National Energy Act, Northwest Power Planning and Conservation Act, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act, and Nuclear Waste Policy Act.
Member, Advisory Committee on U.S. Law of the Sea Delegation
Member of President Reagan's Transition Team in Office of the President-Elect, and contributor to Mandate for Leadership.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
1984 - 1985 Executive Assistant to the Secretary, Department of the Interior
1975 - 1977 Minority Staff Counsel, House Committee on Science and Technology
1972 - 1975 Program Manager, Energy and Intelligence Projects, Tetra Tech, Inc.
1968 - 1972 Intelligence and Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
1963 - 1968 Nuclear Submarine Officer, U.S. Navy
Additional Training and Honors
National Association of Security Dealers, NASD Licenses
Naval Nuclear Power Training Program
Editor, International Law Journal, Georgetown University Law Center
AFFILIATIONS
Advisory Council, Institute of Nuclear Power Operations
United States Energy Association
Reagan and Bush Administrations Alumni Associations
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