Robert
Scott Potosky, Esq.
Mr. Potosky has diverse and
extensive commercial and legal experience in the deregulated
energy markets, from serving as lead legal counsel to
several electric providers and a power generation-development
company, to co-founding a successful retail electricity
provider. As one of the three co-founders of Dynowatt,
LP, Mr. Potosky successfully formed and managed this REP
from start-up through successful attainment of its exit-strategy,
and Mr. Potosky was lead attorney and one of two lead
persons who negotiated its successful sale to a leading national energy company
in early 2007.
Mr. Potosky has testified
before the Texas Legislature regarding PURA (the statute
deregulating the Texas electric markets) and fair competition
and antitrust laws, and he has worked with the House Regulated
Industries Committee to draft prospective amendments to
PURA and antitrust laws at the Chairman’s request.
Mr. Potosky was also invited to (and did) participate
in oral arguments in front of a three Judge panel of the
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals as Amicus Curiae (“friend
of the Court”) with regard to several key provisions
of PURA being interpreted in the Courts for the first
time since their enactment.
Mr. Potosky has served as
lead counsel to multiple electricity companies regarding
legal, legislative, and regulatory matters, drafting energy
supply agreements for both electric providers and governmental
and industrial customers, and negotiating thousands of
commercial transactions concerning retail and wholesale
electricity supply with respect to federal and state agencies,
cities, ISDs, various other political subdivisions, industrial
factories, and other large commercial customers.
On behalf of various electric
companies, Mr. Potosky has prosecuted and defended matters
before the Texas Public Utility Commission and also pursued
complex litigation as “Attorney in Charge”
in large lawsuits in the federal courts prosecuting violations
of antitrust laws, antifraud laws, PURA and various other
claims concerning energy markets.
Mr. Potosky earned his Doctor
of Law from Cornell Law School, New York, and started
his career at Locke Liddell and Sapp (n/k/a Locke, Lord,
Bissell & Liddell), where he focused on various corporate
transactions, mergers and acquisitions, electric deregulation,
securities, and venture capital financings. Before that,
Mr. Potosky earned a BBA in Finance from The University
of Texas at Austin, (McCombs) School of Business. Mr.
Potosky is admitted to the Texas State Bar and several
federal Courts.
Charles
(“Chad”) Chadwick Price
Mr. Price has a vast amount
of experience in commodities, derivatives, financial,
and securities markets. Mr. Price has held a full badge
on the Chicago Board of Trade and worked as a Market Maker
on the trading floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange,
while at CBC Options. He also created and employed various
hedging strategies and risk-management instruments, including,
among others, Conversions, Reversals, Call and Put Spreads,
Boxes, Butterflies, and Calendar Spreads, in addition
to mastering the use of theoretical value sheets to determine
Gamma, Delta, Vega, Rho, and Theta. Before that, Mr. Price
began his career in the Equities and Securities Division
of Merrill Lynch, where he generated securities performance
reports including fundamental and technical analysis,
client portfolio analysis, and risk management.
Mr. Price also co-founded
Caprock Uptown, a commercial and consumer finance company.
While at Caprock Uptown, he formed and managed financial
services relationships with business partners including
Citibank, GMAC, Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and
many other national banks, and managed the Business Development
and Marketing divisions leading the company in sales revenue
each year. Mr. Price graduated with a Bachelor’s
degree in Economics from the University of Texas in Austin.
Simon Melhem
Mr. Melhem has over 20 years of experience originating, structuring, and negotiating domestic and international power generation projects and M&A transactions, coupled with extensive experience running operations within deregulated retail electricity markets since 2003.
As CEO of Dynowatt, LP, Mr. Melhem oversaw and successfully managed this Retail Electric Provider from its consummation through its successful sale to a leading national energy company in early 2007.
Before entering Texas’s retail electricity markets, Mr. Melhem served in senior roles at El Paso Corporation in Houston, London and Southeast Asia (Senior Vice President – Global LNG, and Vice President – Asia). During his tenure at El Paso, Mr. Melhem originated and closed several transactions for the development of electric power generation plants and LNG around the world, including power generation plants in Indonesia, Pakistan, and Philippines in addition to joint ventures for LNG development and purchases in Egypt and Turkey.
Prior to El Paso, Mr. Melhem served as a senior associate at Trinity International Partners, and before that Mr. Melhem worked as a senior financial analyst at Texaco, Inc.’s Cogeneration and Power Division and a senior planning analyst at Texaco’s Refining and Marketing Division, working with a variety of power projects, including projects in the Philippines, Panama and Thailand.
Mr. Melhem earned his MBA from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and his MSc in Engineering Management and BSc in Industrial Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston.
A.
Parks Cobb, Jr.
Mr. Cobb has over 43 years
of professional experience with over 34 years in the energy
industry, in engineering, project management, project
development, subsidiary operations, and retail and wholesale
power purchase and sale in the U.S and the Asia-Pacific
region.
Mr. Cobb completed a 25 year
career with Duke Energy, where he held key positions in
both regulated and unregulated operations including Group,
Section, and Division manager posts on the regulated side
(10 yrs.) and founder and president or executive vice
president of three unregulated subsidiaries involved in
engineering, construction, and development of power plants
in deregulated markets (15 yrs.). As the senior Duke executive
in the subsidiaries, he was a member of Duke’s 40-person
officer team during the period when Duke was consistently
voted the best utility company in the U.S. by Fortune
and other publications. His last position was a five-year
assignment as Managing Director of Duke Energy Asia based
in Hong Kong, where he was responsible for establishing
and managing Duke Energy International's project development
and acquisition activities in Asia and Australia. He has
extensive experience in deregulated electricity markets
in the U.S., China, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia,
where Duke acquired or developed over $300 million in
power projects. Mr. Cobb elected to take early retirement
from Duke in 1998.
After his career at Duke,
Mr. Cobb was Senior Vice President of HEI Power Corporation,
the international energy project investment affiliate
of Hawaiian Electric Industries, where he was responsible
for development and management of power generation projects
in Guam and the Philippines.
Mr. Cobb has been involved
with competitive retail electricity in Texas on behalf
of retail electric providers since 2001, negotiating wholesale
power purchase agreements, buying wholesale electricity
on behalf of retail electricity providers, developing
pricing scenarios for retail customers of all sizes, and
closing sales with large commercial and industrial customers
including facilities owned or operated by the end users
of electricity such as U.S. Department of Homeland Security,
agencies of the State of Texas, Duke Energy, and Nucor
Steel.
Mr. Cobb received a B.S.
in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University,
completed Masters Degree coursework requirements in engineering
mechanics at the University of Alabama, and completed
the Executive Management Program at Duke University’s
Fuqua School of Business. Mr. Cobb started his career
as Senior Project Engineer for the Boeing Company’s
Space Division during a nine year term in the U.S. Space
Program in Huntsville, Alabama.
Lisa Anderson
Lisa Anderson specializes in conflict management and dispute resolution, facilitating multi-party mediation, collaboration, and negotiations, with experience dating back to the early 1990’s. Prior to joining AEG, Ms. Anderson was Senior VP of Regulatory and Admin Affairs with Texpo Power, L.P., d/b/a Southwest Power & Light. She has assisted REPs with the resolution of millions of dollars in wholesale and retail energy customer litigation and disputes, and has acted as a liaison between REPs and the Texas PUC, the Texas Legislature, the BBB, and the media. Ms. Anderson’s experience also includes two years working for the Japan Ministry of Education and the Nagahama Board of Education training Japanese teachers to implement Japan’s national English as a Foreign Language curriculum and preparing students to sit for Japan’s national college entrance exams.
James
(“Jim”) O. Young
Mr. Young brings years of
extensive and unrivaled financial experience to AEG. As
a former Registered Principal with the New York Stock
Exchange, Mr. Young was responsible for bringing multiple
companies public including Pizza Inn, where he raised
a considerable amount of business capital.
Another of Mr. Young’s
previous positions was Regional Vice President overseeing
the operations of 33 AG Edwards Offices. Mr. Young has
raised large amounts of Venture Capital Funding and remains
active in the business world as a Rancher and Restaurant
Owner. He joined AEG in 2007.
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