Rusty Braziel Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Privately Held: 10-50 employees; Energy ConsultingRBN Energy Network provides energy market advisory services specializing in strategy, acquisitions and divestures. We work with companies engaged in trading, marketing or purchasing of energy commodities, purchase and sale of energy related assets and E&P for oil and gas.Consulting services include:* Strategic Planning and Evaluations* Market Assessments* Mergers and Acquisitions* Coaching and Corporate Training* Keynote Speaker at Corporate Functions & Associations* Divestitures* Market Presentations

Acquired by McGraw-Hill/Platts January 2010Energy market data and reportsRusty Braziel served on the senior executive team at BENTEK Energy from 2005 through 2012. For years BENTEK has been recognized as the industry leader in natural gas market fundamental analysis. Today, the company’s expertise goes much further – into power, natural gas liquids and other energy products.Braziel built BENTEK’s Sales and Marketing organization, establishing BENTEK as a key provider of information to the energy industry. He also was responsible for building BENTEK’s highly respected and recognized Information Technology department from 2005 until 2010, which collects and organizes industry data, then produces data and reports used by BENTEK’s clients. During his tenure at BENTEK, Braziel was a key contributor to many of the company’s most significant industry reports, and spoke frequently on the company’s behalf at industry and company events.

Managed two organizational units within Link Energy: (a) the Business Development Group, responsible for asset acquisitions/dispositions and crude oil supply/transportation strategies, and (b) Link Energy’s Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) and Petrochemicals business unit.• Full operating and P&L responsibility for Link’s 16,000 barrel per day Gulf Coast petrochemical complex, 10 million barrel Mont Belvieu NGL storage facility, 120 mile Houston Ship Channel transportation grid system, and the company’s natural gas and NGL gathering, processing, fractionation, storage and trucking operation based in Southern California. • Managed Link’s marketing and trading activities for natural gas liquids and petrochemical feedstocks.• With the sale of Link’s operations, assumed the role of Link’s Chief Operations Officer to wind-down the company’s remaining activities

Founded Altra Energy Technologies in 1996 creating what ultimately became Houston’s second largest independent software company and the first successful online trading system in the energy industry. Managed the development, marketing and sales of internet-based energy transaction systems.

Same as Altra

• Led Williams’ marketing and trading strategy integration team • Developed and implemented Williams’ retail marketing strategies • Led Williams’ trading systems business unit which provided the foundation for Altra’s business model.

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Senior executive responsible for Texaco’s ($2.0 billion annual revenue) natural gas marketing organization, which included marketing, sales, administration, business development, risk management, and operations

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Responsible for Texaco’s natural gas plant production, processing agreements, trading, transportation, and product marketing.

Crude selection for three refineries

Computer Programming, Fortran and Assembler Language – projects included financial modeling, reservoir risk management, refinery linear programming

Mba, Finance

Bba, Finance