2021 Speakers

Nathan Younge

Regional Director, Latin America & Caribbean

U.S. Trade & Development Agency

Secretary Thomas Harris

Department of Natural Resources

State of Louisiana

Nic Hunter

Mayor

City of Lake Charles

Octávio Simões

President & CEO

Tellurian Inc.

Lisa Glatch

President & Chief Operating Officer

Sempra LNG

Mike Sabel

CEO, Executive Co-Chairman and Founder

Venture Global LNG

Michael Sabel is the CEO, Executive Co-Chairman and founder of Venture Global LNG. He has served as one of the Managing Partners of Venture Global Partners, LLC since 2010. Prior to the founding the company, Mike spent decades working in the energy, technology and financial services sectors in senior leadership, new company formation, technology licensing and corporate business development and capital markets transactions.

Anatol Feygin

Executive VP

Cheniere Energy

Mike VanderMate

VP of Engineering & Construction

Sempra LNG

Paul Varello

President & CEO

Commonwealth LNG

Juan Oliva Vasquez

Head of Gas & Fuels LatAm

Enel

Industrial Civil Engineer and Master in Business Administration, both titles from Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. With complementary studies in areas of Applied Economics, Project Evaluation, Energy Power Market and Oil & Gas Industry.

Professional with 20 years of working experience in business areas of power generation, transmission and trading companies, in Chile and Argentina. Wide expertise in the energy and natural gas markets in Latin America.

Since 2009, he has worked as Head of Gas & Fuels Latam of Enel Chile, responsible for the gas operations of the Enel group in Latin America. As a representative of Enel, he has participated in the origination, development and commercial operation of the LNG business in Chile, as manager of the all company´s business related to the Quintero LNG Terminal and also as a member of the board of the companies GNL Chile and GNL Quintero.

Alfredo Chamat

General Manager

Calamari LNG

Business Administrator, 22 years of experience in the Colombian private sector. 17 years in the commercial and financial areas of a Gas Distributor Company with 700 K end users, 2 years in a port operations Company and 3 years in TENARIS pipeline manufacturing for the oil industry.

Active participation in natural gas expansion projects in the Dominican Republic and Peru.

For the past year I have been General Manager of Calamari LNG, Company in charge of import and trading of LNG in Colombia; with the commitment to ensure the supply of LNG for Thermo generation on the Caribbean coast.

Oğuzhan Oğuz

Deputy Head of Natural Gas Purchase & Export Department

BOTAŞ

David Lang

Partner, Corporate Finance & Investment

King & Spalding

Wade Coriell

Partner, Trial and Global Disputes / International Arbitration & Litigation

King & Spalding

Najla Jamoussi

Director, Market Fundamentals - Global LNG

Cheniere Energy Inc.

Najla Jamoussi is currently Director of Global Fundamentals at Cheniere Energy.  Najla began her career with the company over 13 years ago in Strategic Planning and since then assumed various analytical and managerial positions dealing with energy markets. Her contributions included roles in Financial and Fundamental Analysis, Corporate Research and Corporate Strategy. Najla earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Houston.

Jason Feer

Head of Business Intelligence

Poten & Partners

Jason Feer is the Global Head of Business Intelligence at Poten & Partners

Prior to joining Poten in 2014, served as COO Americas for Argus Media based in Houston starting 2011, and from 2003 through 2011 as the head of Argus’ Asia Pacific business, where he was responsible for managing Argus’ business East of the Suez Canal. In this role, he oversaw the development of new products focused on petroleum, LNG, LPG, coal, base oils, biofuels and other products.

With more than 25 years’ experience in global energy markets, Jason has worked in Asia, Latin America, Europe and the US. His specialties include markets, project development and the politics of oil.

He is a frequent commentator on oil affairs and has appeared on CNBC, the BBC and other television and radio outlets.

Kamran Javed

General Manager, LNG Business

JERA Energy America

Kamran is the General Manager, LNG Business with JERA Energy America LLC having joined full time in July 2017 whose main remit is to help manage the offtake from Freeport LNG Train 1 and any other LNG business in the USA.  His career spans the oil and gas value chain with prior experience at ConocoPhillips, Chevron and RasGas starting from 2000.  Kamran’s experience in LNG is gained from prior roles at ConocoPhillips in the Atlantic & Pacific Basin LNG Marketing Business Unit and as a Short-Term Marketer at RasGas.

Carlos Wheelock

Head of LNG, Americas

Vitol

John Akridge

Co-Founder

Height Securities

John Akridge is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Height Securities. Mr. Akridge co-founded Height in 2008, a regulatory-focused investment bank for institutional investors and companies. Today, the firm provides investment analysis in key regulated sectors by integrating fundamental and policy research to better understand the financial impact across the capital structure. After five years of building its reputation through its research, Height launched an Investment Banking and Advisory (IBA) group, which has since raised hundreds of millions of dollars as growth equity for investment banking clients.  Prior to Height, Mr. Akridge served as Senior Vice President and Head of Arlington Sales Trading at FBR until 2008. He has more than 20 years of sales and trading experience. Mr. Akridge received his B.S. from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Clair Marceaux

Port Director

Cameron Parish Port, Harbor & Terminal District

A Cameron Parish native, Clair serves as the Director of Cameron Parish Port, Harbor & Terminal District.  Her role allows her to enter act with people from all over the world to promote Cameron Parish.  Before becoming Port Director, she served as Director of Economic Development for the Cameron Parish Police Jury. Prior to that role, Clair was the Southwest Region Economic Development Project Manager for Entergy Louisiana.  Previous to her work at Entergy, she served the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury as Senior Grants Administrator, overseeing the grant funds used to construct the Southwest Louisiana Entrepreneurial and Economic Development or SEED Center and administered more than $35 million in Disaster Recovery grant funds.  She also spent three years as Regional Lead with the Federal Emergency Management Agency overseeing more than 11,000 temporary housing units for FEMA.  Clair began her career as an English IV teacher in Lafayette teaching at both the Episcopal School of Acadiana and St. Thomas More Catholic High School.  She is a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.  Clair is a nationally Certified Community and Economic Developer with service to the boards of Fusion Five, the Arts and Humanities Council of Southwest Louisiana, the Women’s Business Network, the Acadiana Economic Development Council, the Southwest Louisiana Economic Development Alliance, The Regional Planning Commission of Southwest Louisiana, the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, United Way SWLA, the SWLA Area Maritime Security Committee, and the Community Foundation of SWLA.  She is active in several professional organizations such as the Louisiana Industrial Development Executives Association, the Southern Economic Development Council, the Louisiana Energy Export Association, and the Louisiana Travel Association.  Clair and her family make their home in Cameron Parish.

Richert Self

Executive Director

Lake Charles Harbor & Terminal District

Charlie Riedl

Executive Director

Center for liquefied Natural Gas (CLNG)

Charlie Riedl is the Executive Director for the Center for Liquefied Natural Gas (CLNG), focused on effectively advocating on behalf of the LNG industry. As Executive Director, Riedl works with CLNG member companies, regulators, legislators and other key stakeholders to provide credible and educational information about the economic and environmental benefits of LNG.

Prior to joining CLNG, Charlie worked at America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) and at a exploration and production company focused on natural gas market development and government relations. Charlie’s experience in the natural gas industry includes regulatory, upstream production, downstream and pipeline development projects, as well as natural gas as a transportation fuel.

Charlie earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from The Ohio State University and lives with his wife and two daughters in Washington D.C.

Eric Cormier

VP of Policy and Strategic Development

Southwest Louisiana Economic Development Alliance

Fred H. Hutchison

President & CEO

LNG Allies, The US LNG Association

Fred H. Hutchison is Executive Director of LNG Allies a nonprofit organization working to expedite and maximize LNG exports to create U.S. jobs and economic growth, enhance the energy security of America’s allies, and improve human and environmental conditions worldwide. An advocate, communicator, and entrepreneur, Fred has been a government and public relations generalist for more than four decades and is a trusted adviser to private and public sector leaders worldwide. He was formerly a legislative assistant for energy and natural resources for U.S. Sen. Frank Church and earned a B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Pat Roberts

Managing Director

LNG-Worldwide Ltd

Pat Roberts is an Associate Director of CWC's gas portfolio and is actively involved with the Steering Committee in the design and running of the LNG series of conferences. Pat is also active with CWC School for Energy and its training courses. Pat has seven years' experience as an independent consultant as Director of LNG Worldwide Ltd. She works with several key industry players as well as new entrants in the global gas and LNG markets. This covers the full commercial gas supply chain from strategy and market fundamental analysis to assisting with negotiating commercial agreements. Prior to independent consulting, Pat worked for the Shell group of companies for 24 years in their global oil and gas commercial divisions, culminating with a role as General Manager of Shell's international LNG business in the Atlantic Basin.