John Breen Email & Phone Number

Houston, TX, US

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

• Developed and led de-levering strategy to optimize company’s capital structure, including refinancing $1.0B of Senior Notes and paying down $3.5B of debt; analyzed company’s debt maturity profile to select optimal.
• Led $450MM amend and extend of Term Loan and Revolving Credit Facility for Excel Paralubes joint venture. Leveraged relationships across partner banks to add 4 new banks into syndication. Balanced lead banks’ feedback.
• Created and led go-forward strategy to right-size synthetic railcar leases. Refinanced $170MM, 2000 railcar synthetic lease, while incorporating 4 new banks into syndication, and bought out second synthetic lease of.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Built financial model to evaluate $300MM renewables investment across refining, midstream, and retail
• Analyzed renewables landscape by researching competitors’ strategies, government regulations, and optimal locations for investment; presented findings and made recommendations to senior management team

Houston, Texas Area

• Led project to implement new software application to streamline data operations for major energy company through coordinating with software engineering team and liaising with client
• Reduced new software application rollout issues by 84% by devising plan for multi-phased rollout of code changes, developing testing plan, setting timeline, and executing against plan
• Mentored two of three new team members and improved onboarding process for new team members by designing curriculum and training to increase rate of onboard and improve team retention
• Led effort to migrate 200+ documents to new knowledge base and increase number of training documents by 20%. Collaborated with peers to prioritize new document creation alongside ongoing project deliverables

Houston, Texas Area

• Onboarded Field Operations group’s largest client to newly developed water management module; collaborated with senior client personnel to gather requirements and create design plan, communicated objectives to software.
• Supported four of five highest revenue clients for Field Operations group by providing technical support, functional expertise, and remote and on-site training
• Initiated effort to write, compile, and manage group’s internal and external training documentation where none previously existed
• Diagnosed production issues by interpreting available field data and presented clients with possible solutions to best capture their oil and gas data

Houston, Texas Area

• Studied and analyzed worldwide currency devaluations and their parallels to the Hong Kong Dollar peg and presented findings to Chief Risk Officer and Chief Investment Strategist
• Built model that predicts effects of current and future private equity investments on total private equity allocation of $10 billion fund.
• Constructed cash flow model to predict liquidity schedule of 10 billion-dollar hedge funds

Houston, Texas Area

• Trained students and professors with foreign language computer programs
• Catalogued equipment in the language lab and kept record of materials

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Activities and Societies: Energy Association Co-President, Board Fellow for Families EmpoweredLeadership Coaching • Worked 1-on-1 with.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English, Business, Cum Laude, Distinction In Research And Creative Works

Activities and Societies: College Government: External Vice President, Hall Representative, Elections Committee Head, Senior Committees.

Education record

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, Symphonic Band, Retreat Leader