Robert Foss Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

Top Leader responsible for the development and growth of a midstream startup company focused on asset management and acquistion opportunities in N.A.

Houston, Texas Area

Canada

Board Member and Corporate Secretary

Newport Beach CA

Active member of the Board of Advisers for a privately held trading and marketing company. Member of the risk and audit committees.

Houston, Texas Area

Managed P&L for approximately $65M EBITDAX upstream company, responsible for marketing oil and natural gas, midstream development, finance, accounting, land and land administration, and general corporate management.

Houston, Texas Area

• Responsible for the operation and strategic direction of a natural gas midstream company with $35-70MM in annual revenue
• Top down reorganization and optimization of field and office resources resulted in exceeding EBITDA targets by roughly 14% for two consecutive years; delivering a 10% cash yield to the company’s investors in the face.
• During my tenor we executed o a financing package with highly favorable terms to ownerso professionalized field operations, including implementing a formalized maintenance, safety and compliance programo cleaned up.
• Established and executed risk management programs mitigating commodity exposure in oil, natural gas liquids and storage
• Doubled oil production focusing on pressure management, debottlenecking, targeted work overs and education
• Grew the NGL business from $500K to $3MM

• Responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive corporate wide compliance program
• Required significant indirect influence within unit level senior leadership and IRI board
• Responsible for overseeing gas risk management, analyzing and evaluating new deal proposals and all gas regulatory issues

• Drove earnings from $5MM to $145MM in three years
• Optimized financial performance of existing assets through contract reviews, mid and back office execution improvements and enhanced education in the field and main office
• Responsible for integrating front, mid and back office ensuring compliance with policies and regulatory obligations
• Responsible for cash management at the trade floor level
• In coordination with Iberdrola created physical optionality by entering into re-gas agreements in the US and UK
• Negotiated $555MM in term structured transactions

• Responsible for day to day operations of wholesale gas business of 100 employees including o real time gas control over the high pressure distribution and transmission system o optimizing the operational and commercial.
• Responsible for Federal Energy Regulatory Commission compliance and rate case settlement negotiations
• Interdepartmental cooperation on Public Service Commission cases ensuring cost recovery of the wholesale business

• Vice President of Supply
• Responsible for the development, negotiation and execution of supply strategies used in retail business serving 750,000 residential customers
• Responsible for budgeting and cash management of the business and development of a staff of 30
• Responsible for monitoring federal and state regulatory rules to ensure their implementation and compliance
• Development and implementation of a Risk Management policy which governed the trading and optimization activities of the retail business unit
• Was a member of the Board of Directors of Shell Energy Services Company Director of Market Development

• Full P&L responsibility for three partnerships and a closely held corporationo combined EBITDA of roughly $35MM o responsible for annual budgeting, bank covenants, contractual obligations and O&M contracts with third.
• Charged with optimization of all fuel-related contracts, covering 10 domestic and 2 international plants, totaling 300MMMBTu/d in gas demand
• Renegotiated $1B in gas contracts during the Niagara Mohawk Restructuring achieving 12% project returns
• Led the successful completion and commercialization of a 304 MW generation facility including

• Manager Gas Transportation Services
• Responsible for the following functions within 1/2 billion cubic foot per day interstate natural gas pipeline operationo gas control, scheduling, nominations, volume accounting regulatory compliance, marketing lost and.
• Developed and received approval for the first park and loan tariff on a pipeline
• Responsible for implementation of FERC order 636
• Responsible for rate case negotiations with customers and FERC staff
• Developed, negotiated, financed and implemented a $42MM new business in LNGCorporate Internal Auditor

• Worked with a 250 head cow calf operation as well as the planting of over 1000 acres of grain in the Bottineau county area of ND

Bba, Banking And Finance

High School