Mr. Catto has negotiated several billion dollars of power purchase agreements and has participated in a number of asset sales and acquisitions as well as significant mergers and energy restructurings. Particularly noteworthy is Alex’s participation in Constellation Energy Group’s recent sale of one-half of its nuclear generation business to Electricite de France SA, France’s state-controlled utility company, for $4.5 billion.
Alex represented Constellation Energy Group in its recent $365 million purchase of two 550 MW Texas power plants from Navasota Holdings, and represented Lake Capital in its $304 million sale of power and natural gas retailer Hudson Energy Corp. to Just Energy Income Fund of Canada.
Alex represented one of America’s largest privately held companies, Flying J, Inc., during its recent restructuring. Alex also represented Calpine Corporation during its successful $18 billion restructuring. In addition to assisting Calpine and its affiliates in restructuring their trading and marketing activities and negotiation or litigation of its energy-related claims, Alex represented Calpine in negotiating numerous long and short-term power sales agreements, revising its risk management policies, origination, asset optimization, establishing its revised hedging program, negotiating trading agreements, and a wide variety of commercial transactions and other matters. Alex also represented NRG Energy, Inc. during its successful $12 billion reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code.
Alex represented the California Department of Water Resources during California’s energy crisis. As a member of the California Governor’s negotiating team he represented the Department of Water Resources in connection with the renegotiation of several of the State’s long-term energy contracts. The representation included extensive complex negotiations both within and without the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s settlement proceedings. In addition, Mr. Catto was counsel to the California Department of Water Resources’ Fuels Team. As such, he assisted in the creation and implementation of the Department’s natural gas program, including the negotiation of nearly all of the Department’s natural gas transmission, storage and purchase enabling agreements, and all related fuel cost hedging instruments.
Alex participated in Madison Dearborn Partners’ $975 million acquisition of Reliant Energy’s New York City Power Plants. In March 2006, Mr. Catto was listed in the article “Big Deals: Constellation Energy Group” from The American Lawyer for his representation of Constellation in its proposed $28 billion merger with Florida Power & Light Company.
• Education
Seton Hall University School of Law, J.D., 2000
Harvard University, A.L.B., 1997 cum laude
• Memberships & Affiliations
American Bar Association
Energy Bar Association
• Admissions & Qualifications
2000, New Jersey
2001, New York
2003, District of Columbia
• Courts
United States Supreme Court
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

Before agreeing to lead the CCRO, Bob was a Corporate Vice President and the Chief Risk Officer for El Paso Corporation in Houston. From 1999 through early 2003, Anderson’s group introduced a new risk-capital based framework to controls, capital allocation, and performance measurement. During this time, Bob was a major contributor to the CCRO white paper on assessing capital adequacy.
Prior to El Paso, Bob was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, at their Houston office. There he focused on helping energy industry clients to address their organizational, risk management, and asset valuation issues. Prior to McKinsey, Bob founded his own software development firm, providing data management tools for diesel price analytics. Just after graduate school at Duke, Bob joined BP Oil Company where his experience included strategic planning, trading, and serving as head of energy derivatives marketing.
Bob has received much public acknowledgement for his involvement in advancing energy risk management, including the “Famous Fifty” hall of fame award from Energy Risk Magazine, for contribution to energy markets over the last ten years.
Bob’s educational background includes an MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.

Prior to joining Constellation Energy, Ms. Boultwood most recently served as global head of strategy, Alternative Investment Services for J.P. Morgan Chase & Company, where she was responsible for developing strategy for the company’s Hedge Fund Services, Private Equity Fund Services, Leveraged Loan Services and Global Derivative Services business lines. During her tenure at J.P. Morgan Chase, she also served as global head, strategic risk management for its Treasury Services group and as global business head, Global Derivative Services of its Alternative Investment Services group. Boultwood joined J.P. Morgan Chase when it acquired Bank One Corporation in 2003. Prior to the merger, Ms. Boultwood held risk management positions with Bank One Corporation, having served as head, corporate market risk management and head, corporate operational risk management, and then advancing to head, global risk management for its Global Treasury Services group. Ms. Boultwood also worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers as a senior manager in its Financial Risk Management Consulting Practice and was employed with Chemical Bank Corporation as a financial engineering associate. In addition, Ms. Boultwood spent six years teaching in the University of Maryland’s Master of Business Administration program.

Ms. Boultwood graduated with honors from the University of South Carolina with a bachelor’s degree in international relations. Ms. Boultwood also earned a Ph.D. in economics from the City University of New York.

Mr. Prokop represents Amerex on the Committee of Chief Risk Officers (“CCRO”) as well as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee (“EEMAC”). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Global Energy Management Institute at the University of Houston’s C.T. Bauer School of Business and is a member of the City of Houston’s Greater Houston Partnership which is currently tasked to make Houston the center for global carbon trading.

In addition, Mr. Prokop has played a leading role in the development of industry initiatives such as the Confirm Hub and the multi-broker Energy Curves data product. Mr. Prokop is a recognized industry leader for issues involving market clearing, energy data and market transparency.

Mr. Germeroth bringsto Calpine more than 26 years of experience in energy strategy and risk management, having directed a variety of commercial strategy, enterpriserisk management and corporate restructuring projects for multiple companies. He has led efforts related to corporate governance, portfolio risk evaluation, operational risk management, strategic options analysis, management of portfolio capital requirements, organizational and business process design, transaction settlement and financial accounting. He has mostrecently worked for PA Consulting Group and its predecessor firm, HaglerBailly Risk Advisors, since 1999. Prior to joining PA in 1999, Mr. Germeroth held a variety of controllership, risk control and treasury positions at various entities in his energy career. He holds a Bachelor of Sciencedegree in finance from the University of Denver.

Mr. Davies served as chair of the Credit Working Group for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) for three years and is presently the Chair of the ERCOT Market Credit Working Group. Mr. Davies co-chaired the Committee of Chief Risk Officers (CCRO’s) Market Clearing Working Group which published the white paper, “Market Clearing in the Energy Industry,”. Mr. Davies earned his bachelor’s degree in Management Economics from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, where he also is a Chartered Accountant. He is a Certified Public Accountant.

Mr. Blaney was employed by Berisford international Group from 1973 to 1990 as a senior trader and commodity risk analyst. His responsibilities included the purchase, hedging, arbitrage and transportation of metal, energy and agricultural commodities, between origin and point of sale. Mr. Blaney has held corporate seats and traded commodities on COMEX, NYMEX and the London Metal Exchange. From 1990 to 1997 Mr. Blaney worked with Berisford Capital Markets and Prudential Securities in N.Y. to establish trading and brokerage divisions for Over the Counter derivative markets in currency and energy. Education: BA degree City University of New York (CUNY) Professional certifications obtained: Commodities Series 3 and Securities Series 7 and Series 63.

Cassandra joined Repsol in January 2008 to establish the middle office and back office functions of Repsol’s North American gas marketing and trading operations in preparation for trading activities which commenced later that year and accelerated in 2009 with the opening of Repsol’s majority owned Canaport LNG regasification facility. Prior to Repsol, Cassandra was Vice President & Chief Risk Officer of KeySpan Corp., where she established and managed the corporate risk management department and subsidiaries’ middle offices. Over the last decade she has been actively involved in various Committee of Chief Risk Officer initiatives. Previously, she held a variety of positions at Enron and El Paso Energy in market risk management, international M&A, finance and accounting, and was an audit manager at Ernst & Young.

Jody’s previous roles included Vice President (Business Development) with the Industrial Bank of Japan (Canada), Senior Manager in the derivatives credit group of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and Assistant Vice President with National Westminster Bank (Canada).

OPG is a provincially-owned utility that operates nuclear, hydroelectric, and thermal generating stations and supplies approximately 70% of the electricity to the Province of Ontario. The ERM function is responsible for quarterly risk reporting to the Board of Directors as well as facilitating ongoing risk self assessments with all of the organizational business units. Corporate Portfolio Risk Management is responsible for the measurement and oversight of credit and commodity exposures, including those related to OPG’s energy trading operation.

She is responsible for developing consistent processes for risk identification, evaluation, and mitigation activities and coordinating the integration of risk consideration with business planning and resource allocation. In addition to leading the ERM function, Jana manages the Midwest ISO’s insurance program and serves as the Corporate Compliance Program Manager. She is presently leading a corporate initiative to apply a consistent approach for compliance activities and deploying systems to support compliance processes.

Jana was actively involved with the Committee of Chief Risk Officers (CCRO) and co-authored and contributed to several published white papers on risk management topics. She also served on the CCRO board. Presently she is a member of the Strategic Risk Management Council of The Conference Board.
Prior to the Midwest ISO, Jana was with Great Plains Energy Inc. in Kansas City, Missouri, where she led initiatives including building a retail gas marketing business, and creating, developing and leading an enterprise risk management function. Jana spent a number of years as a natural gas trader in Houston.
She holds degrees in accounting and finance from Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas and is a graduate of the Executive MBA program at University of Missouri – Kansas City.

NASDAQ OMX Commodities recently purchased North American Energy Credit and Clearing Corp, co-founded by Mr. Flory with George Sladoje. Prior to that, Mr. Flory was Vice President of Strategic Planning for the California Power Exchange, and was key to the formation of spot markets as well as first of their kind physical exchange-based forward markets for electricity. Prior to joining the Power Exchange, Mr. Flory was a principal at Tabors, Caramanis & Associates (“TCA”) where he assisted in helping US businesses and utilities plan for spot pricing and industry restructuring, based on TCA’s experience in the early restructuring and privatization of electricity markets in other countries. Subsequently he was recruited by the California Restructuring Trustee to help establish the institutions to facilitate the start-up of both the California Power Exchange and the California ISO. Prior to his role in establishing competitive markets in California, Mr. Flory spent 23 years in the energy industry managing a 20 person consulting business, selling energy management systems and working as a senior analyst at the California Energy Commission, giving him over 35 total years in the energy industry. Mr. Flory’s education includes a BS in Mathematics from Manchester College in Indiana and an MS in Ecology with emphasis on resilience in energy systems from the University of California at Davis.

In addition, Lloyd was also the Chief Audit Executive (“CAE”) directly responsible for leading the corporation’s internal audit function that provided assurance to the Board of Directors that management’s activities were consistent with the spirit and intent of all key internal controls and governance. Prior to his last role, Lloyd spent the preceding 11 years as a consultant creating customized strategies and processes that addressed unique risk management and governance challenges for numerous global organizations. Lloyd spent the first 14 years of his career in institutional investment management, interbank derivative trading and lending functions where he developed hands-on experience and expertise in asset management, financial engineering and corporate finance. Lloyd is an active member of several industry associations that specialize in risk management, pension fund governance/advocacy and corporate governance. He is a past member of the advisory board of the Strategic Risk Council of the Conference Board of Canada and the Committee of Chief Risk Officers. In addition to being a Chartered Director, Lloyd is Audit Committee Certified and has been a faculty member of the Director’s College since the inception of the program. He is active in the fund-raising initiatives of the Epilepsy Foundation and Canadian Junior Golf and is a certified golf instructor who aspires to be a professional caddy in the future. He currently sits on the Board of Directors (and the Audit Committee) of the Toronto Local Health Integration Network, Ontario’s largest network responsible for the prudent allocation of over $4 billion worth of annual health care funding across core of Toronto.

His experience encompasses power and gas, regulated and unregulated, wholesale and retail, and policy and regulatory issues. He has served in a variety of senior positions including Partner at PA Consulting, Senior Vice President at Hagler Bailly, and Managing Director at Theodore Barry & Associates (the latter two firms being predecessors to PA Consulting.) Mike founded MJ Beck Consulting, LLC in 2006 to provide advice and analysis on key energy and environmental issues, particularly those related to renewable power. Mike holds a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from Drexel University, and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the state of New Jersey.

He counsels clients on policy issues related to financial services reform, specifically regulation of the OTC derivatives market and energy trading regulation, as well as trade policy and matters involving agricultural biotechnology.

Prior to joining Crowell, Mike served in a number of leadership roles in Washington-based trade associations. Mike’s experience included management of several political advocacy coalitions as well as coordinating trans-Atlantic policy seminars in Europe with a number of European governments. Mike has a broad legislative background having served as a staff assistant to Senator John C. Danforth (R-MO), as a legislative aide and communications director for Representative Paul Gillmor (R-5th District, Ohio) and as a legislative aide for Representative Jim Greenwood (R-8th District, Pennsylvania).

Mike has earned a M.A. in Government from The Johns Hopkins University, a B.A. in Economics from the University of Dayton, and is currently a student at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America.

Since 2005, Mike has been a guest lecturer for the LIMAK Johannes Kepler University Business School, Linz, Austria – Washington Executive MBA program.

He held several positions with the ITT Commercial Finance Group. His last position was Regional Manager for the Houston region. Phil left the ITT Commercial Finance Group “in the mid eighties” to become the Managing Director of Strategic Operational Services and a Partner in Alliance Capital, a Houston venture capital firm specializing in funding work outs and turnarounds. After a brief attempt at early retirement, Phil realized he missed the challenges of a professional career. He became the original Credit Manager for the New York ISO and then the Director of Credit and Risk Management for Midwest ISO. Mr. Gootee worked closely with the respective Credit Practices Working Groups of each RTO in developing and implementing their credit policies and procedures. Phil became the president of Global Credit Services (GCS) in October of 2008. The Company is headquartered in New York and is a leading provider of fully integrated credit risk management systems. He has a B.S. in Industrial Economics from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin.

Most recently, Bob was Senior Managing Director and Chief Risk Officer of Bear Energy LP and, following the merger of the Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. into JP Morgan Chase, Managing Director in the JP Morgan Global Commodities Market Risk organization. Earlier in his career, Bob was Senior Vice President of Strategy, Portfolio & Risk Management for Suez Energy North America, Inc., a Partner with Strategic Decisions Group, Vice President of Risk Strategy for Sonat Energy Services, Manager of Decision Analysis for Atlantic Richfield Company, and a Project Manager with Natomas Company. Bob has been invited to testify on various energy issues by both the U.S. Congress and the FERC, has published several articles on the topics of real options and risk management, and also was among the founders of the Committee of Chief Risk Officers (CCRO) as SUEZ Energy’s representative.

Bob holds a B.S.E. Degree from Princeton University in Aerospace & Mechanical Sciences/Engineering-Physics and an M.S. Degree from Stanford University in Management Science & Engineering.

He also served as an officer of PPL Services Corp., a subsidiary that provides support services to operating companies.
Before coming to PPL in December 2002, Singh was vice president and risk control officer at ConAgra Foods in Omaha, Neb., where he was responsible for monitoring commodity, interest rate and currency risk. Previously he was director of pricing and quantitative analysis, and a senior financial economist at Cinergy Power Markets and Trading in Florence, Ky.
Prior to that, he was an assistant professor of finance at the University of Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech and George Mason University. He also was a senior financial analyst at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong and a consultant for Phil- Fuji Xerox Corp. in the Philippines. He also held various positions with the State Bank of India in Delhi, India.
Singh holds a doctorate degree in finance from Ohio State University; a master’s degree in finance and international business from the Asian Institute of Management in Manila, the Philippines; and a bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics from the University of Delhi in New Delhi, India.
He serves on the board of The Community Action Committee of Lehigh Valley in Bethlehem. Pa.