Steve Reese brings more than 28 years of experience in the natural gas industry to his positions as president of Reese Energy Consulting and as a partner with Reese-Colston Energy Training. Before starting his businesses, he held numerous positions at Getty and Texaco where he was responsible for midstream business development, gas supply and marketing, and gas contract administration.

Reese's areas of expertise include gas marketing consulting, midstream gas asset business development and management, gas processing contract negotiations, asset evaluation, and pipeline and midstream acquisition and divestment. He is a frequent expert witness in energy-related legal matters in state and federal courts, and has taught Natural Gas 101 and Gas Processing Agreements to more than 4,000 industry professionals and every major energy firm in the U.S.

Reese earned his bachelor's degree in business from the University of Central Oklahoma. He and his family make their home in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Seminars: Natural Gas Basics, Gas Processing Contracts & Negotiations

Kudos: We cannot say enough about Steve and his programs. In my opinion, he is an essential investment to the developing of your employees. At least he is here at Enbridge, his classes sell out and we seem to not be able to offer enough of these for our employees. - Katy Flood, Enbridge Energy, Human Resources

Fred Colston brings more than 30 years of diversified experience in the areas of fire safety and protection, firefighting techniques, hazardous materials, cause investigation, first responder and rescue training, and numerous other basic, intermediate and advanced subjects to his positions with the Colston companies. He is a nationally recognized trainer and educator across every aspect of fire safety, protection and compliance for those who work in the hydrocarbon processing and chemical processing industries and energy-related fields.

Colston is a retired lieutenant with The Woodlands Fire Department in The Woodlands, Texas, where he also served as team leader, instructor, and a part of the department's special teams, as well as holding other positions. He worked as a safety officer for the Victoria Fire Department in Victoria, Texas; as a former firefighter and EMT with the Houston Fire Department; and as a former captain and paramedic with the Miamisburg Fire Department in Ohio. Colston holds numerous certifications in OSHA training and fire instruction, and authors his training curricula for Colston Safety & Training, Colston Training Technologies, and Reese-Colston Energy Training.

Fred Colston is a graduate of the Houston Fire Academy and a certified paramedic. He and his family make their home in The Woodlands, Texas.

Seminars: Manager's 10-Hour OSHA Card (Managing on the Right Side of the Law)

With more than 20 years of experience in the natural gas and energy industry, Wes Haun is a highly sought-after speaker and trainer on the subject of Natural Gas Basics. His real-world experience combined with his unique teaching style has earned him rave reviews from industry professionals, administrators and new hires.

Haun currently serves as an independent consultant for a major energy user and other businesses where he provides professional advice on the purchase and risk management of both natural gas and electricity. He also works as an expert witness in legal matters pertaining to contractual disputes. Haun's previous positions include 11 years with various Enron subsidiaries where he was eventually named vice president of offshore gas supply at Enron Gas Marketing; and 10 years with KN Energy where he oversaw all aspects of gas purchasing, pricing, negotiations, accounting, and contract administration. Haun was also responsible for the company's deregulation process and transition to an open access/common carrier status. He left KN as senior vice president of KN Marketing and KN Interstate Transmission, and as a member of the board of directors of KN Subsidiaries.

Haun holds a degree in management from the Georgia Institute of Technology; an MBA from the University of Nebraska, and has performed graduate work at the University of Michigan and Harvard University. He and his family make their home in The Woodlands, Texas.

Kudos: Wes was an excellent instructor who made the class very interesting. His knowledge and experience on the materials and industry was very interesting.

Seminars: Natural Gas Basics

Ashmead Pringle is the President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of GreenHaven Commodity Services LLC, the Managing Owner of GreenHaven Continuous Commodity Index Fund. Mr. Pringle founded the Managing Owner and has served as the President since October of 2006. Since 1984, Mr. Pringle founded and has acted as the President of Grain Service Corporation (GSC), a commodity research and trading company.

Mr. Pringle became a registered Associated Person and listed Principal of the Managing Owner on November 15, 2006. He became a listed Principal of GreenHaven, LLC on November 15, 2006 and a registered Associated Person of GreenHaven, LLC on September 18, 2006. GreenHaven LLC is a Georgia LLC, which focuses on the development of private and public commodity investments. He became a listed Principal of Grain Service Corporation, Inc. on June 12, 1985 and a registered Associated Person of Grain Service Corporation, Inc. on October 31, 1985.

Ashmead has conducted hundreds of seminars on hedging, risk management, and basis trading in energy and agriculture, and is a recognized expert in commodity risk management.

Mr. Pringle holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Kudos: Expectations were greatly exceeded! This class was helpful in filling my "fundamentals gap".

Seminars: FAS 133, Mastering Natural Gas Hedging

Mr. Hum has over 20 years of experience in Natural Gas where he has been engaged in virtually every aspect from "wellhead to burner-tip". Bud has held positions in operations, finance, marketing/sales, trading and asset management at renowned organizations like Amoco Canada, Direct Energy, Natural Gas Clearinghouse, QuickTrade and Budco.

His last 10 years were spent bringing transparency and efficiencies to the marketplace through his tenure at IntercontinentalExchange Inc. (NYSE:ICE). As Vice President of Natural Gas Products & Trading, Bud was responsible for growing the physical gas markets and creating financial swaps products, which helped the upstart platform become the industry leader in a few short years.

Bud, a pioneer of electronic trading and exchange clearing, has a broad and vast client list. These affiliations have provided him a unique and omniscient view inside the world of Hedge Funds, Proprietary Trading firms, Investment Banks and Commercial entities. He is well equipped to offer innovative perspectives on current issues in the commodities trading sector by drawing on his wealth of experiences and prolific industry relationships.

Mr. Hum holds Bachelor of Commerce Degree, from the University of Alberta.

Seminars: Mastering OTC Products for Successful Trading

George Salama is Founder, President & CEO of "Power Energy International". PEI is a solar, renewable, conventional power consulting company.

Formerly, Mr. Salama was President and CEO of Western Solargenics Inc., a subsidiary of Western Wind Energy (Publicly traded company on Toronto Stock Exchange), where he Launched Western Solargenics as a start-up solar company and provided direct accountability for P&L. Identify, negotiate, and establish strategic objectives, markets, and alliances/partners.

Despite late entry into Canadian and U.S. solar markets and general consensus that new business potential was nonexistent, persevered in forming alliances and teams within three years that assisted in stacking up ongoing book of solar projects business valued at $420M.

Mr. Salama built framework for launch momentum and sustainable growth by identifying strategic objectives and markets. He developed key partnerships and strategic alliances within first 6 months after identifying those entities offering opportune potential and then negotiated mutually beneficial arrangements with those entities.

George has over 20 years of power and energy business development and leadership. His business spanned USA, Canada, Latin America, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. He had key responsibilities in Southern California Edison, Kansas City Power and Light, Marathon Power and Westinghouse Power Generation, where he led teams in development of over $ 1 billion of various power projects.

George holds a certificate of Advanced Power Systems School from Penn State University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Cairo Institute of Technology.

Seminars: Electric Power Basics

Claire Gotham brings more than 17 years of experience in the energy markets to Reese-Colston Energy Training. Her expertise includes providing futures execution services, and training and consulting in the area of energy risk management. As president of GSC Energy, an introducing broker and commodity trading advisor, Gotham advises her commercial energy hedger clients on how to manage their energy price risk and handling FAS 113 requirements among other specialty needs.

Gotham's experience in the energy industry includes high-level consultation positions for Deloitte & Touche's Audit and Enterprise Risk Services Practice. She began her career at Pacific Gas & Electric where she marketed the utility's numerous transportation, storage and hub services. She also served as a natural gas portfolio manager at Sempra Energy Services, which allowed her to combine her knowledge of the financial energy markets with in-depth knowledge of the physical markets.

Gotham earned her degree from Tulane University in New Orleans. She and her family make their home in Atlanta.

Seminars: FAS 133, Mastering Natural Gas Hedging

William Leffler is a nationally recognized expert, industrial consultant and writer in the areas of oil and gas, pipelines, deepwater exploration and production, refining, petrochemicals and more. With more than forty years of experience in the energy industry, including numerous positions with the Shell Companies, Leffler is one of the most sought after academics and lecturers in the nation, penning numerous books that have sold in excess of 150,000 copies.

Leffler earned his bachelor's of degree in industrial management from M.I.T.; his MBA in marketing from New York University; and his Ph.D. in business administration from New York University. He is the author of Oil & Gas Pipelines in Nontechnical Language; Oil & Gas Production in Nontecnical Language; Deepwater Exploration & Production; Petroleum Refining for the Nontechnical Person; Petrochemicals in Nontechnical Language; Technology & Economics of the U.S. LPG Industry, and Romancing the Scone - Finding Our Way in a Land Full of Brits. Leffler makes his home in Houston.

Seminars: Refining in Nontechnical Language

As an authorized OSHA trainer, William VandeSande teaches courses on leadership in industry as it applies to OSHA and DOT compliance in a behavior-based safety environment. His positions with the Colston companies and Reese Colston-Training include overseeing the instructional design, development and delivery of educational and training programs; and serving as a trainer/coach to ensure the quality of the three companies' instructor teams.

VandeSande brings a range of talent and diverse experience to his role at Reese-Colston, including leadership positions in the areas of multimedia production, Web-based and computer-based training, and safety education. He holds numerous certifications in the areas of HPI/CPI safety training, first aid, life support, and healthcare. VandeSande received his master's degree in adult education and distance learning from the University of Phoenix and his bachelor's degree in liberal arts from State University of New York. He and his family make their home in The Woodlands, Texas.

Seminars: Manager's 10-Hour OSHA Card (Managing on the Right Side of the Law)