Richard D. Lewis

Management consulting, business development and marketing experience employing a broad range of skills in the following areas:

AMERICAN ENERPOWER: President, 9/99-Present, Houston, Texas • Founded company in 1999 and incorporated in 2001 to provided energy management consulting. Expanded into energy marketing to leverage on previous energy marketing experience and to assist clients in the changing energy marketing environment, particularly the deregulation of the Texas electric market and the electric and gas markets in Chicago. American Enerpower has been certified (Certificate # 80131) by the Texas PUC as an Aggregator.
SHELL OIL COMPANY / CORPUS CHRISTI NATURAL GAS COMPANY: Director / Vice President, Business Development, 9/94-9/99, Houston, Texas • Responsible for business development for midstream energy assets, including acquisition and divestment of on and offshore pipelines, gas-processing plant, gas supplies and subsidiary marketing company totaling $22 million in value. Identified acquisition opportunities, performed economic and strategic analysis, conducted due diligence and negotiated transactions. (Shell Oil acquired Corpus Christi Natural Gas Company.)
TRANSTEXAS GAS CORPORATION: Vice President, Gas Marketing, 5/93 - 8/94, Houston, Texas • Responsible for all natural gas and liquids sales, transmission and processing for major independent U.S. natural gas exploration and production company. Negotiated short and long term supply contracts for over 550 million cfd ($375 million annually) with LDC's, industrials, end users and marketers.
MG NATURAL GAS CORPORATION: EVP & COO, 9/90 - 1/92, Houston, Texas • General management with P&L resonsibility for turn-around of natural gas marketing company. Redirected business strategy and company to achieve 100% sales increase in 14 months from 170 to 350 million cfd. Increased revenues from $105 million to $217 million, and reversed declining profit trend by increasing net income from $1.3 million in 1990 to $3.5 million in one year.
ENRON CORPORATION: Director, Natural Gas Marketing, 12/88 - 5/90, Houston, Texas • Directed district offices in buying and selling natural gas in Midwest Region served by ten interstate pipelines. Increased daily sales volume by 61% to an average of 450 million cfd without increase in staff. Conceived and implemented the gas industry's first natural gas commodity trading room. This substantially contributed to Enron's growth from 730 million cfd in sales in 1988 to 1,800 cfd in 1990.; Director, Corporate Development, 8/86- 12/88, Houston, Texas • Directed sales of corporate assets totaling $26 million resulting from merger of Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth. This involved locating, negotiating, and finalizing sale with buyers for the Tran-Texas Natural Gas Pipeline and the Cortez Pipeline.; Special Assistant to Senior Vice President, 2/85 - 8/86, Houston, Texas • Prepared with McKinsey & Co., strategic and economic studies and recommendations for Board of Directors on centralization/decentralization of the corporation. Responsible for development of all corporate policies.
GULF OIL CORPORATION: Director, Marine Fleet Operations, 2/82 - 2/85, Houston, Texas • Scheduled all Gulf Oil's foreign and domestic crude oil and refined product tanker fleet. Responsible for conversion and stationing two tankers in West Africa for long term offshore crude oil production and storage, including negotiating financial and time charter terms. The Afran Ocean was the largest offshore oil storage tanker ever put into service.; Director, Commercial Development, 1/81 - 2/82, Houston, Texas • Negotiated sale and purchase of tankers valued at over $200 million.; Director, Strategic Planning, 10/79 - 12/80, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Conducted strategic planning for Gulf Oil's crude and product tanker requirements versus industry tanker supply and demand. Published study on worldwide coal requirements and exporting coal owned by Gulf by Gulf tankers.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE: Graduate Student, 7/78 - 9/79, Boston, Massachusetts • First time that U.S. Department of Commerce ever sponsored an employee to attend graduate school at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.; Senior Economist - GS 13, 9/71 - 6/78, Washington, D.C. • Assisted in administration of construction and operating subsidy programs, foreign trade statistics expert testifying in administrative law proceedings and conducted studies promoting U.S. flag shipping.
U.S. AIR FORCE: 2nd Lieutenant to Captain, 9/66 - 6/71, Oklahoma and Japan • Transportation officer for personnel and logistical equipment. Selected for team to reactivate base in Japan as a result of Pueblo Crisis.

EDUCATION

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, Massachusetts: Sloan Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management
Degree: Master of Science in Management (MSM - 1979)
Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Degree: Bachelor of Arts, Economics (BA - 1966)