Jeffrey Brant

Active MBE consulting firm currently assisting clients with strategy, marketing, gas supply and mid-stream activities. Clients include Cogentrix Energy Power Management, Apex Energy ll, LLC and currently working with Berikshire Hathaway Energy / Pivotal LNG, LLC.

• Broadly experienced commercial leader proficient at negotiating customer oriented, complex, structured long-term transactions with a focus on getting access to assets. • Was instrumental in securing deals in 2015 that successfully reversed a P&L position from minus $350 million to $45 million, a $395 million increase. • Provides value through innovation and expert understanding of the Northeast physical natural gas grid combined with longstanding professional customer relationships. • Developed an extended customer base having negotiated new contracts and credit terms with many new Northeast customers. • Major focus on further development of sustainable relationships with middle and upper management to target ultimate decision makers. • Developed, structured, and closed complex total portfolio management contracts with many Northeast gas companies giving ConocoPhillips the foundation for growth in the Northeastern U.S. region. • Identify, analyze, and recommend commercial transactions in line with company strategies and market facing opportunities. • Developed short- and long-term marketing opportunities from existing and future company assets targeting co-ops, industrials, municipals, utilities, and other end-users in the Eastern US markets. • Perform all deal-related functions including conceptual design, contract negotiations, due diligence, delivery arrangements and regulatory impacts. • Continually evaluate points of receipt, ownership of pipeline capacity, aggregation of demand and alignment of such strategies with the company’s commodity risk management programs. • Analyze and evaluate transaction structuring options. Prepare solicited and unsolicited proposals for presentation to external and internal customers. • Proficient at internally coordinating product offerings that span multiple regions and commodities. Team player continually contributing to the long- and short-term needs of the company.

• Responsible for marketing structured energy products to Utility, Power Generation and Large Industrial customers in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic U.S. • Closed numerous complex deals including: Total Portfolio management, capacity/storage management, weather deals, swaps and options. • Developed, structured and closed an unsolicited total portfolio management contract with Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation worth in excess of $300 million. • Currently have productive working relationships with utilities in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. • Worked with trading group to develop strategy to optimize storage and transportation assets to find arbitrage opportunities.

• Developed business plan and sales strategy to introduce newcomerFPL to the Northeast industrial marketplace. • Grew business from zero to approximately 80 customers in 4 target market areas in one year. • Directed sales to large industrial, commercial and power generation customers. • Successfully identified and executed cross-commodity and up-selling opportunities. • Managed and trained lower level sales managers to penetrate commercial / industrial markets.

Previous company name: Eastex/El Paso Energy Marketing Co. • Implemented optimization strategies through the management of short and long-term transportation and storage arbitrage for the Northeast transmission grid. • Developed Northeast delivered gas strategies implementing least- cost routing from Appalachia, Canadian, Gulf Coast and Mid Continent supply basins. • Directed thirteen sales and operations employees, set up policy & procedures to interface with accounting and risk management. • Developed business plans and strategy and grew industrial market in the Northeast U.S. from start-up to over 100 customers within 6 months. • Long term marketing to utility, power generators & large industrial customers in the Northeast U.S. • Identified and analyzed joint venture/acquisition and capital project opportunities.

• Marketing of Sonat Exploration’s equity natural gas production in the Gulf Coast and Mid Continent regions to utility & large industrial customers. • Formulated storage and transportation arbitrage strategies. • Contracted for and managed short and long term capacity release. • Structured optimization strategies for the Northeast transmission grid.

• Responsible for providing least-cost, reliable gas supply for daily system supply and electric generation requirements. • Administered approximately ninety supply, transportation, and gas storage contracts. • Responsible for sales on major east coast pipelines to marketing companies, large industrials and other utilities. • Developed monthly purchasing and marketing strategies. • Reconciled a massive historical pipeline/supplier imbalance, recovering over $6 million. • Processed nominations and actual flows for approximately 750 industrial and large commercial customers. • Assisted customers, suppliers and regional personnel through complex regulatory issues in the interpretation of the Niagara Mohawk tariff.