Guerrant joined Mobil Corp. and held various executive positions, including manager of Business and Competitive Strategy in the Exploration and Production division. There, he was responsible for developing Mobil's upstream growth strategy and the investment programs and profit plans to support it. He was also president of Mobil LNG and Power Inc., located in Singapore, and responsible for developing markets in Asia for Mobil's Qatar and Australia LNG supplies. With the merger of Exxon and Mobil, he continued to be located in Singapore with responsibility for Exxon Mobil's Asia Pacific LNG marketing and LNG infrastructure development which, in addition to the above Asia Pacific markets, also included Indonesia LNG supply responsibilities.

Early in his career he held various positions in both the exploration and production departments. With U.S. gas deregulation progressing in the mid-1980s, he participated in the team developing Mobil's natural gas strategy. Thereafter, Guerrant served as vice president of Mobil Natural Gas Inc., with responsibilities for all of Mobil's natural gas sales, purchasing, transportation, risk management and volume management in the United States and Canada. He also held the position of vice president of Marketing for Mobil Oil Canada in Calgary, responsible for crude, natural gas liquids, sulphur and natural gas marketing.

Guerrant is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.

William M. Cromer President, The Cromer Group/em>

In 1978, Cromer devised and formulated the geographic “T” strategy, well-known in Pennsylvania politics, which is still utilized in statewide campaigns today. His reputation for accuracy and precision has been cited in publications such as the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Anchorage Daily News, Pittsburgh Post Gazette and Adweek.

He has designed strategies and worked with corporate and association clients including Mellon Bank, Hershey Foods, USX, IBM, Bell Atlantic, Pennsylvania State University, the Pennsylvania Cable Television Association, AFSCME-Council 13, the National Education Association, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, The Nature Conservancy, the Washington State United Food & Commercial Workers, The American Farmland Trust, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, Northern Colorado Medical Center, Providence Hospitals in Hawaii, Washington state, and California, and The Newspaper Association of America.

During the 2006 election cycle he conduced the focus group and survey research, and created the strategy to defeat Alaska's proposed gas reserves tax. Messages based on the research findings persuaded voters from 58 percent to 21 percent for the initiative in the initial survey to the 66 percent to 34 percent against result on election day. The Cromer Group also conducted independent tracking polls in Florida's gubernatorial race that accurately produced the exact results of Charlie Crist's victory.

The Cromer Group began working in Alaska during the 1982 governor's race. Since then, it has conducted research for a variety of candidates, campaigns and business groups including AT&T, the Alaska Oil and Gas Association, the Board of Trustees of the Alaska Permanent Fund, Northwest Cruiseship Association, Providence Alaska Medical Center, and the University of Alaska as well as NANA, Koniag and the Alaska Federation of Natives. It has also conducted major public policy initiative research for the Sheffield, Cowper, Knowles and Murkowski administrations in the state of Alaska. In addition, The Cromer Group conducted the research and devised the winning strategies against the 1994 ballot initiative to move the capital and against the 2002 initiative to move the Legislature out of Juneau.

Political clients have included former Ohio Sen. John Glenn, former Pennsylvania Sen. John Heinz, former Congressional chairmen Peter Rodino (N.J.) and Walter Jones Sr. (N.C.); Congressman Jim Florio (N.J.); Marcy Kaptur (Ohio); Bart Stupak (Mich.); Alaska Govs. Bill Sheffield, Steve Cowper, Tony Knowles and Frank Murkowski; the National Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, the National Democratic Governor's Association, the Pennsylvania and Colorado House Democratic Campaign Committees, and the Michigan Senate Democratic Campaign Committee as well as the Nevada Minority House Caucus. Cromer has also conducted polling in British Columbia during its parliamentary election campaigns and served as a consultant to Mexico's Sindicato Nacional Trabajadores Educacion.

The Cromer Group also has extensive experience working on public policy issues, such as health care reform, state and local tax reform, economic development and a variety of consumer issues.

Cromer is a native of Pennsylvania and has served as an adjunct professor at Pennsylvania State University, his alma mater. In the fall of 1999, Cromer was a guest lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He currently lives in Washington, D.C.

Steven P. Guidry Regional Vice President - United States Production Operations, Marathon Oil Co.

Prior to his current position, Guidry spent five years leading Marathon's Central Africa Business Unit, overseeing operations in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Guidry led his organization through a $1.3 billion expansion project in Equatorial Guinea, which at that time represented the single largest investment in Marathon's worldwide production portfolio. The project increased liquids production fivefold to over 90,000 barrels per day.

Guidry is a recognized advocate for responsible corporate engagement and has led a number of important initiatives, including a five-year program to eradicate malaria on Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea. He is a strong proponent for good governance, anti-corruption and government-to-government engagement to promote positive change in the oil producing sub-Saharan Africa. In that capacity, Guidry testified before the U.S. Senate, and participated in numerous conferences and media events promoting more comprehensive engagement with Africa.

Throughout his career, Guidry has held beneficial and challenging technical and managerial positions in the company's domestic and international production organizations. His assignments have included Marathon's operations in the Gulf Coast Region, Mid-Continent Region and the Rocky Mountains.

Guidry graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and serves on the board of directors for the Corporate Council on Africa.

Randy L. Limbacher Executive Vice President of Exploration and Production - Americas, Conoco Phillips

Prior to his current position, Limbacher was executive vice president and chief operating officer of Burlington Resources, and served as a member of the board of directors and the office of the chairman.

Limbacher serves on the board of directors of Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc. His professional affiliations include the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the Independent Petroleum Associates of America, the American Petroleum Institute and the Louisiana State University Engineering Industry Advisory Board.

Limbacher received a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from Louisiana State University in 1980.

Scott Streiner
Vice President of Program Delivery, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Scott Streiner began as vice president of Program Delivery with the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency in June 2005. In this role, he is responsible for the agency's work in the areas of comprehensive studies, review panels, class screenings, training, guidance and participant funding. He also oversees the agency's six regional offices. A key priority for Streiner since joining the agency has been to strengthen its leadership role within the federal public service, in order to achieve more integrated, timely and effective environmental assessments.

Streiner previously worked in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans as director general of Human Resources Strategies and Programs; in the Privy Council Office as director of operations for the Reference Group of Ministers on Aboriginal Policy, and as an advisor in the Machinery of Government Secretariat. He also held various managerial and policy advisor positions with the Canadian Human Rights Commission and Human Resources Development Canada.

Streiner has a doctorate in political science from Carleton University and an master's degree in international relations from the Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton. He has published, presented academic papers and taught undergraduate courses on human rights, the effects of globalization and politics in the Middle East.

At a personal level, Streiner has recently taken up squash and scuba diving; he has yet to attempt to do them simultaneously.

Scott Davis Vice President, MidContinent Business Unit, Chevron

MCBU is among the top three business units at Chevron in terms of production, earnings and proved reserves. Headquartered in Houston, the business unit has major offices in Midland, Texas, and Anchorage.

Prior to being named to his current role, Davis served as general manager of major capital projects for Chevron's Deepwater Business Unit. Prior to that, he lived in Calgary, where he served as vice president of the Eastern Canada Business Unit for Chevron Canada Resources.

Davis joined Gulf Oil in 1977, which became part of Chevron in 1984. During his career with Chevron, he has held a series of increasingly responsible technical and managerial positions within the company's upstream organization. Those positions included drilling, reservoir management, economics, planning, operations and capital projects. He has lived and worked in Angola, Canada, China, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, the Seychelles and the United States.

Davis is a member of the Chevron Management Committee and holds a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering.

Tim England
Senior Manager of Exploration, Talisman Energy After graduating with a bachelor's degree in geology from the University of British Columbia in 1980, Tim England entered the Canadian oil patch to explore for oil and gas in Alberta and British Columbia, first with Union Oil Co. of Canada Ltd. and then Imperial Oil. In 1985 he joined BP Canada to explore the high Arctic, drilling wells in the Beaufort Sea and Queen Elizabeth Islands. As oil hit $10 a barrel in 1986, he headed back to school, graduating with a doctorate in geological sciences from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1990.

In 1990 England joined BP America in Houston to explore the Gulf of Mexico deepwater province. Meanwhile, BP Canada was sold to the market, and renamed Talisman Energy Inc. No longer the subsidiary of BP in Canada, Talisman could explore beyond the Canadian borders, and began an international exploration and development effort. England joined Talisman in 1993 and has been part of the enormous growth of the company since then. His work has taken him through much of the Americas and Europe, supporting activities in the North Sea, and developing new ventures in Peru, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, the Northwest Territories and Alaska.

Bob Malone Chairman and President, BP America Inc.

In the United States, BP owns more than $40 billion in fixed assets and employs some 37,000 people. The company is the nation's largest producer of oil and natural gas, and the second largest gasoline retailer. Malone is also an executive vice president of BP PLC, the world's second largest oil and natural gas company, and a member of BP's global executive management team.

Prior to his current role, Malone was chief executive of BP Shipping Limited, responsible for the operation of the energy industry's largest oil and natural gas fleet. During his tenure, BP Shipping accepted delivery of 48 new double-hull tankers.

During his 32-year career, Malone has developed a reputation for building teams and driving change, whether through stronger health, safety and environmental performance or as a champion of diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

As well as increasingly senior positions within Kennecott Copper Corp., the Standard Oil Co. of Ohio (Sohio) and BP, Malone had a four-year assignment as president, chief executive officer and chief operating officer of Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., operator of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline.

Malone was raised in the northeast Texas town of Daingerfield. He holds a bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso, and was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received a master's degree of science in management.

Malone has served on the California Climate Action Registry board of directors, the board of the National Petroleum Council, and was a member of the Board of Regents for the University of Alaska system. He has been selected for the board for the Alliance to Save Energy and the Foreign Policy Association. In 2003, he was selected as the Alumnus of the Year by the University of Texas at El Paso.

Malone and Diane Trujillo Malone have been married 32 years. They have two adult sons. Ryan is a mechanical engineer in Houston, and Michael is a college student in San Antonio, Texas. While work has allowed the Malone family to live in many places, home is the Lost Lake Ranch in Sonora, Texas.

Doug J. Settles President, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.

In 1988 he joined BP in Alaska, where he held a variety of engineering and management positions. Subsequent assignments included management and executive staff positions in the North Sea and BP's London headquarters. In 1999 he was appointed business unit leader for BP's Trinidad oil business. This was followed by appointment as vice president of Global Supply Chain Management. In late 2001 Suttles served as business unit leader for the Northern Business Unit with responsibility for BP's exploration and production activities: East and West of Shetland, Sullom Voe Terminal, the Clair project and UK exploration activities. In mid-2003 he assumed the role of technology vice president for the operations and HSSE functions in EPT. In April 2005 Suttles was named as SPU leader for Sakhalin in Russia's Far East. In late 2006, Suttles was named president of BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.