Symbol: HUSA
Price: 12.00
Open: 12.52
Today's High: 12.66
Today's Low: 11.96
Volume: 170681
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Management & Directors
John F. Terwilliger - President
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| John F. Terwilliger |
John F. Terwilliger is the Company's Chairman & Chief Executive Officer. In addition, Mr. Terwilliger has served as the Company's President, Secretary and Chief Operating officer since its inception in April 2001. From 1988 to 2001, Mr. Terwilliger served as Chairman of the Board and President of Moose Oil and Gas Company, a Houston based exploration and production company focused on operations in the Texas Gulf Coast region. Prior to 1988, Mr. Terwilliger was Chairman of the Board and President of Cambridge Oil Company, a Texas based exploration and production company. John is a member of the Houston Geological Society, Houston Producers Forum, Independent Petroleum Association of America and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
James J. Jacobs - Chief Financial Officer
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| James J. Jacobs |
Mr. Jacobs served from April 2003 until joining the Company as an Associate and as Vice President in the Energy Investment Banking division at Sanders Morris Harris, Inc., an investment banking firm headquartered in Houston Texas. There he specialized in energy sector financings and transactions for a wide variety of energy companies. Prior to joining Sanders Morris Harris Mr. Jacobs worked as a financial analyst for Duke Capital Partners. At Duke Capital Partners Jay worked on the execution of senior secured, mezzanine, volumetric production payment, and equity transactions for exploration and production companies. Prior to joining Duke Capital Partners, Mr. Jacobs worked in the Corporate Tax Group of Deloitte and Touché LLP. Mr. Jacobs graduated from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas in Austin, where he received his B.B.A. Mr. Jacobs also received his Masters in Professional Accounting from the University of Texas.
Board of Directors
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| Lee Tawes |
Mr. Tawes is Executive Vice President and Head of Investment Banking, Director at Northeast Securities, Inc. and board member of GSE Systems, Inc. and 100 Wall Energy Partners, LLC. From 2000-2001 he was Managing Director of Research for C.E. Unterberg, Towbin, an investment and merchant banking firm specializing in high growth technology companies. Prior to joining C.E. Unterberg, Mr. Tawes spent 20 years at Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. and CIBC World Markets where he was Director of Equity Research from 1991 to 1999. While at CIBC, Mr. Tawes also acted as Chairman of the Stock Selection Committee, and member of the firm's Executive and Commitment Committees. As a food analyst, he was named to the Institutional Investor All America Research Team five times from 1979 through 1989. In addition to serving on the board of Houston American Energy, Mr. Tawes serves as Director for Baywood International, Inc., GSE Systems, Inc. and 100 Wall Energy Partners, LLC. Mr. Tawes is a graduate of Princeton University and received his MBA from Darden School at the University of Virginia.
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| Stephen Hartzell |
Mr. Hartzell has over 28 years of experience as a petroleum geologist. Since 2003, Mr. Hartzell has been an owner / operator of Southern Star Exploration, LLC, an independent oil and gas company head quartered in Houston Texas. From 1986 to 2003, Mr. Hartzell served as an independent consulting geologist. From 1978 to 1986, Mr. Hartzell served as a petroleum geologist, division geologist and senior geologist with Amoco Production Company, Tesoro Petroleum Corporation, Moore McCormack Energy and American Hunter Exploration. Mr. Hartzell received his B.S. in Geology from Western Illinois University and an M.S. in Geology from Northern Illinois University.
Richard J. Howe, Ph.D
Dr. Howe brings to Houston American Energy 50 + years of oil and gas industry experience. Dr. Howe began his energy career at Shell Oil Company where he designed and built offshore mobile drilling units and production platforms. During Dr. Howe's time with Shell, he was one of the founding Directors of the Offshore Technology Conference ("OTC"), which is now the world's foremost event for the development of offshore oil and gas resources.
After leaving Shell Oil Company, Dr. Howe spent 20 years with Exxon where he was responsible for Exxon's oil production in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. Upon leaving Venezuela, Dr. Howe became General Manager of oil and gas drilling and production research for Exxon worldwide. His final assignment with Exxon was as Public Relations Manager. Upon leaving Exxon, Dr. Howe joined Pennzoil where he served as President and Chief Operating Officer until his retirement.
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| John Boylan |
John Boylan has served as a director of our company since 2006. Mr. Boylan has served as a financial consultant to the oil and gas industry since January 2008. From 2003 through 2007, Mr. Boylan served as a manager of Atasca Resources, an independent oil and gas exploration and production company. Previously, Mr. Boylan served in various executive capacities in the energy industry, including both the exploration and production and oil services sectors. Mr. Boylan's experience also includes work as a senior auditor for KPMG Peat Marwick and a senior associate project management consultant for Coopers & Lybrand Consulting. Mr. Boylan holds a BBA with a major in Accounting from the University of Texas and an MBA with majors in Finance, Economics and International Business from New York University.
In December 2007, Mr. Boylan filed a bankruptcy petition under Chapter 7 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in Cause No. 07-38742-H3-7 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division. He received a discharge from Chapter 7 in June 2009. The bankruptcy petition was filed in response to efforts by a creditor to collect obligations of a company of which Mr. Boylan was a prior part owner, which obligations were personally guaranteed by Mr. Boylan.
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