His experience includes:

• Having over 14 years of direct commercial and trading experience regarding refined products, natural gas, petrochemicals, feedstocks, and electric power. Separate from his Refined Products trading experience, he has originated, structured, negotiated, and closed multi-year financial derivative and commodity (natural gas, oil, and power) transactions totaling over $300 MM in revenue and resulting in over $15 MM in pre-tax income.
  
  
• He has originated, structured, negotiated, and/or closed over $125 MM of equity and debt financing in new and existing enterprises. He has also sourced debt and equity funding totaling over $50 MM for energy-intensive (chemical, refining, pulp and paper, steel) or energy-related projects and businesses. As a senior originator at a pre-eminent energy trading company, he led a cross-functional team that included credit, trading, legal, tax, accounting, and syndication functions, resulting in four deal closures. He also structured innovative financial support and guarantees, including insurance products.
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• Steve has the led market analysis and due diligence efforts as well as crafting the macro-economic and business case narrative efforts that resulted in raising over $440 MM in debt and equity (including $39 MM in initial venture equity funding). In addition, he did the same for Investor Information Memoranda (144A) and S-1 drafts. Over the two-year period and prior to the above capital raise, he was directly engaged in regularly preparing Information Memoranda to the single private equity investor that funded the initial venture capital. Over a 5-year period, Steve directed marketing and origination strategy by actively and regularly identifying and analyzing prospective customers and competitor strategic focus. He regularly drafted and delivered presentations to the company's Board of Directors and Operating Committee as well to prospective customers.
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• Steve has been engaged as litigation support consultant and/or expert witness in over 40 separate cases of federal and state court litigation regarding commodity and energy trading, risk management, oil & gas asset and production valuation, and structured finance with potential judgments totaling over $2 Billion. He has also testified in regards to filings before the Texas Rail Road Commission (TRRC) as well as prepared critical market analysis for deposition. In addition, as part of a job function, he has found and sourced other experts with regard to analysis and testimony in litigation matters.