Barry Kostiner has been our chief executive officer, secretary and a member of our board of directors since inception. Mr. Kostiner has been involved in energy trading and structuring since 1992. Mr. Kostiner has negotiated structured transactions and built trading desks in electricity, natural gas options and physical gas. Since March 2003, he has been a principal of Ellipse Energy LLC, a consulting and private equity firm. From March 2001 to January 2003, he was a managing director at Allegheny Energy, a energy trading and generation asset management company. At Allegheny, as a managing director, he was responsible for the physical gas trading desk that controlled fuel supply and risk management for 2,800 MW of natural gas fired generation, with an acquisition value of over $2 billion. He also was involved in initiating the coal trading group, the E&P asset acquisition and European trading businesses. From January 1999 until March 2001, he was a vice president at Merrill Lynch in its energy trading group which was subsequently sold to Allegheny Energy. From October 1995 until January 1999, he was an associate at Goldman Sachs in its energy origination group. Mr. Kostiner was a founding employee involved in business development, strategy and management for the joint venture between Goldman Sachs and Constellation Energy. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering and MS in applied mathematics from MIT. His master’s thesis jointly supervised by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government was on mathematics applied to deregulated electricity markets.

   William C. Glass has been President and a member of our board of directors since inception. Mr. Glass has worked in the energy industry and energy financial derivatives markets since 1996. Mr. Glass has been an independent energy trader and consultant since December 2003. From July 2000 to December 2003, Mr. Glass was Vice president of Marubeni Energy Incorporated’s North American Natural gas division. He was responsible for all natural gas transactions, transportation, marketing, trading, and operations. From February 1997 to July 2000, Mr. Glass was a senior trader at Southern Company Energy marketing. His responsibilities included managing the financial gas daily desk as well as trading gulf coast, northeast, and mid west financial products. From October 1995 to February 1997, Mr. Glass worked at Enron as part of the risk management team. Mr. Glass holds a bachelor’s in Finance and Accounting from Texas A&M University. 

   Mr. Bernard Lang Joined our board on July 15 2008. Mr Lang has over 40 years of industry experience within the energy sector. He spent the majority of his career working for Suncor Energy Inc., one of Canada's largest petroleum recovery and refining operations. While working for Suncor Energy, Mr. Lang was responsible for the planning and direction of Project Millennium, a $3.2B expansion project designed to substantially increase the output of the marketable product at Suncor's oil sands plant in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Currently, Mr. Lang serves as the Executive Vice President, Project Execution for Syneco Energy, Inc. and also sits on the board of Exall Energy.

  Mr. Norman Rosenberg Joined our board on July 15 2008. Mr. Rosenberg is currently the Chief Financial Officer of the Americas division of Marsh, Inc., a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies. Prior to his current role, Mr. Rosenberg spent eight years with IDT Corporation, a leading telecommunications service provider, holding the office of Chief Financial Officer of IDT Telecom, IDT's telecommunications subsidiary. Prior to that, Mr. Rosenberg served as an energy industry analyst for Standard & Poor's.