John H. Homier is our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Compliance Officer. He has over 28 years of corporate finance, engineering, credit analysis, business development and management experience in the energy sector. Mr. Homier’s experience includes engineering, evaluating, structuring and negotiating energy finance transactions and managing energy investment businesses. Prior to joining us, Mr. Homier was a partner in M1 Energy Capital Securities, a broker-dealer specializing in engineering and financial analysis, planning, structuring, and fund raising for oil and natural gas exploration and production businesses. Mr. Homier founded and led a successful structured/mezzanine oil and natural gas investment program for Deutsche Bank from 1999 to 2002. During a 13-year period prior to that, Mr. Homier held various management positions with Bank of America and its predecessors. His responsibilities included the initiation and building of a successful structured capital program for investment in oil and natural gas projects within the bank. Mr. Homier graduated with a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Oklahoma State University in 1973, an M.S. in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977 and an M.B.A. in Finance and Management from the University of Southern California in 1981. Mr. Homier is a Registered Professional Engineer and a CFA Charterholder.