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Michael Daehne, Transformation Practice Director, Sense Corp

Michael Daehne leads the Transformation Practice for Sense Corp. He has extensive experience leading operational and digital transformation programs across a number of industries including energy, manufacturing, telecom, and financial services. Michael is passionate about partnering with finance and operational executives to move the needle and improve bottom line.

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Tom Durkin, Managing Director for GTS Product Management, Bank of America

Tom Durkin is a managing director for GTS Product Management at Bank of America. Durkin leads his team in developing client centric strategies and technology initiatives for all digital channels offered through the CashPro Suite of solutions. CashPro provides digital transaction banking covering the full scope of payments, liquidity and self-managed capabilities, including Mobile, Online, API and Connectivity channels. 

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Cary Goss, Principal, Clarus Benefits Group

As a principal of Clarus, Cary brings nearly 20 years of leadership evaluating and developing strategic employee benefits plans and ensuring compliance for national and international firms. In recent years, Cary’s focus has revolved around cracking the code of how to deliver world class healthcare to employees at half the cost. Prior to founding Clarus, Cary was a partner with BridgeStreet Consulting Group (acquired by Wells Fargo NYSE: WFS)—a national consulting firm focused on the Fortune 1000 market. 

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Praveen Kumar, Professor, Bauer College of Business, University of Houston

Praveen Kumar is the Cullen Distinguished Chaired Professor of Finance, the Faculty Director of the Gutierrez Energy Management Institute, and Senior Associate Dean in the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and his undergraduate and Master’s degrees from Princeton University. His research interests include financial and energy markets, capital investment and risk management, corporate finance and governance, and innovation and entrepreneurship. His research has been very widely published in the top international journals in finance, economics, management, and accounting.

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Kathleen McAllister, Black Hills Energy, Maersk Drilling and Hoegh LNG Partners

Kathleen McAllister is engaged with an active board portfolio, serving on the Boards of Black Hills Corp., Maersk Drilling and Hoegh LNG Partners and chairing the Maersk Drilling Audit and Risk Committee.  Before serving as a corporate board director, she led a NYSE IPO and held CEO, CFO and diverse leadership roles in global, capital-intensive companies in the energy value chain, spanning 30 years and with over eight years as an active contributor in the board room.  

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Mark McDaniel, Senior Executive, McDaniel + Cullen

Mark is a Senior Executive in Supply Chain Management. He has 39 years of experience in the oil/gas industry. Mark’s industry experience comes from Texaco, Chevron, Halliburton, ConocoPhillips and Talisman.  Mark formed McDaniel & Cullen in 2013.  For 13 years prior to this, Mark led global supply chain transformations focused on strategic sourcing, category management, major projects, low cost country sourcing, SAP implementation, contracts management, technology and supplier relationship management. 

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Roxanne Meyer, Associate Director, The Siegfried Group

Roxanne passionately creates compelling relationships with financial executives in the Miami area to help them become more successful leaders in their organizations and in their lives. She earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accountancy from the University of Miami. Prior to joining the Firm, Roxanne spent four years in public accounting in the Audit and Enterprise Risk Services Practice at Deloitte and Touche.

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Greg Milano, Founder and Chief Executive, Fortuna Advisors LLC

Gregory V. Milano, is the founder and chief executive officer of Fortuna Advisors LLC. A leading expert in capital allocation, behavioral finance, and incentive compensation design, he has nearly 30 years’ experience in management consulting. Before founding Fortuna Advisors, he was a partner at Stern Stewart and a managing director at Credit Suisse. He began his career as flight control systems design engineer with the Grumman Corporation and has appeared on Bloomberg TV, CNBC and Sky Business News.  His research has been featured in Fortune, the Wall Street JournalFinancial Times, and the Journal of Applied Corporate FinanceFEI Daily, among other publications.

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Andrew B. Nobbay, Commercial Director, Occidental Low Carbon Ventures

Andrew Nobbay currently serves as Commercial Director with Occidental’s Low Carbon Ventures group, where he is responsible for planning, customer engagement, commercial agreements and transaction support.
Andrew joined Occidental (Oxy) in 1995 and progressed through multiple roles in Finance, Accounting, Reporting and Control. He served in Oxy’s Oil & Gas and Corporate teams in Qatar, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Bahrain and Houston. Prior to joining Oxy, Andrew was a senior consultant and auditor with Arthur Andersen.

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Kristie Ondracek, CPA, CGMA, Chief Financial Officer/Chief Operating Officer, TXCPA Houston

Kristie Ondracek, CPA, CGMA serves as Chief Financial Officer/Chief Operating Officer at TXCPA Houston, a membership association for Houston and surrounding area CPAs.  Kristie has over 20 years of financial reporting experience including the past two and half years at TXCPA Houston as controller. Prior to TXCPA Houston, Kristie served in various financial accounting roles for local energy companies.  She enjoys sharing her knowledge including how building relationships should be a priority to all.  She is originally from Nebraska and has been a resident of Houston for the past 10 years.

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Dan Pickering, Chief Investment Officer, Pickering Energy Partners (PEP)

Dan Pickering is the Chief Investment Officer of Pickering Energy Partners (PEP). PEP manages client assets via energy strategies focused primarily on public markets and private equity.
Prior to PEP, Mr. Pickering served as the President of Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. and Chief Investment Officer of TPH Investment Management.
Dan has spent 26 years as an energy portfolio manager, researcher and analyst, first at Fidelity Investments (where he managed ~$1 billion of energy sector funds), then as Head of Research at Simmons & Company and as the founding partner of Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Dan currently serves as the portfolio manager of the PEP Energy Equity Opportunities Fund and on the Investment Committee of PEP’s Energy Co-Investment and private equity strategies.

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Paul A. Pavlou, Dean, C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston

Paul A. Pavlou is the Dean of the C. T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston. He is also a Cullen Distinguished Chair Professor of Information Sciences. His research has been cited over 52,000 times by Google Scholar, and he was recognized among the “World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” by Thomson Reuters based on an analysis of “Highly Cited” authors in Economics & Business for 2002-2012. He was ranked #1 in the world in publications in the top two Information Systems journals (MISQ & ISR) during 2010-2016. He received over $2,000,000 in grants from funding agencies, such as the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Clark Sackschewsky, Tax Market Leader, BDO

Clark has more than 20 years of corporate tax experience in both public accounting and industry. Clark has extensive experience with Upstream and Downstream oil and gas, oilfield service, technology, and financial services industry and has served as a regional expert for tax in SOX 404. He has worked on hundreds of oil and gas transactions and served as lead on over 50 different oil and gas clients. His significant experience includes ASC 740, tax planning implementation for US federal, state and cross border transactions, transfer pricing, and internal reorganizations.

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