As The Energy Authority's President and CEO, Ms. Teofilo is responsible for leading the organization, interfacing with board members, and serving as the spokesperson for TEA. The Energy Authority has helped some of the nation's largest public power systems operate more efficiently, manage energy risk diligently, and expand their market reach. TEA's owner utilities collectively represent approximately 25,000 MW of generating assets and TEA's trading partners now span much of the nation.

Ms. Teofilo most recently served as Vice President of Risk Control and Chief Risk Officer for The Energy Authority. In that role, she was responsible for monitoring commercial business risk and for the management of compliance, risk control, and analytics for TEA. Previously, serving as the Director of Financial Trading and Risk Management, Ms. Teofilo led the team responsible for providing risk management services and execution of financial positions for natural gas, power, and crude oil. Customized risk management programs, including hedging recommendations and risk metrics for TEA’s members, were developed under her leadership.

In addition, Ms. Teofilo’s industry experience and value-focused leadership reaches beyond The Energy Authority. As an industry subject matter expert, she has often been invited to provide educational seminars on energy risk management and other relevant industry topics. Her speaking engagements have included the Committee of Chief Risk Officers’ joint roundtable between the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Federal Energy and Regulatory Commission, Electric Utility Consultants, Inc., and American Public Power Association events.

While she has a broad base of industry expertise, it was Ms. Teofilo’s entrepreneurial spirit that inspired her participation on the original launch team for TEA. Ms. Teofilo played a vital role in the initial structure and set up of deal capture trade systems and deal pricing and valuation in the newly-forming deregulated market. This pioneering team was charting new territory, and TEA was leading the industry for Public Power.

Prior to joining TEA, Ms. Teofilo worked as a project engineer in construction management at Santee Cooper, one of TEA’s original equity owners, where she participated in combustion turbine studies, emissions studies, and the planning and implementation of equipment upgrades at generating stations. Ms. Teofilo began her professional career as a mechanical engineer at the American Samoa Power Authority, where she assisted with the development of a unit maintenance program, analysis of diesel generator performance, and capital improvement projects.

Ms. Teofilo obtained both a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and International Relations from the University of Notre Dame. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina. She is also a registered Professional Engineer.

As The Energy Authority’s Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, Thomas Harvey is responsible for establishing the strategic direction of the information technology department as it relates to TEA’s business objectives.

Mr. Harvey has more than 14 years of experience in the industry, primarily in the design and development of computer systems, software applications, engineering and feasibility studies, project management, and cost/benefit analysis.

Prior to joining TEA, Mr. Harvey served six years as a Civil Engineer at a Municipal Utility District and several years as a consultant in both Washington and California with Navigant Consulting and Scope International. In 2000, Mr. Harvey orchestrated the development of the power scheduling and resource management system used by Power Resource Managers (PRM) for managing complex power contracts for PUDs in the Northwest. During his tenure at PRM, he served as Director of Systems while concurrently managing the Back Office for several years. When PRM and The Energy Authority merged in July 2006, Mr. Harvey continued as the lead for west coast systems, and was instrumental in the integration of west coast operations into TEA’s corporate systems.

Mr. Harvey holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil-Environmental Engineering from Purdue University.

As The Energy Authority’s Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Lucas is responsible for accounting and financial reporting activities, member and customer settlements, as well as all treasury functions.

Prior to serving as Vice President of Finance, Mr. Lucas served as Controller for The Energy Authority for over ten years.

Prior to joining The Energy Authority in 1997, Mr. Lucas spent seven years with Deloitte & Touche, progressing to the position of audit manager. In that role, he worked with publicly and privately held companies in manufacturing, real estate, mortgage servicing, software development, and other professional services. Mr. Lucas holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Florida and a master's of accountancy from the University of North Florida. He is a certified public accountant in Florida and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Florida Institute of CPAs and the Florida Government Finance Officer Association.

As The Energy Authority's Vice President of Energy Trading, Mark Kinevan is responsible for all short- and long-term energy marketing and trading. Included in these responsibilities are the development of long-term risk management strategies and the execution of over-the-counter and exchange-traded forwards, futures and options to manage wholesale power and fuel price risk. Also included is the responsibility for hourly, daily and intra-month physical power transactions necessary to optimize member power supply assets and all natural gas procurement for member generation.

Previously, Mr. Kinevan served TEA for more than four years as the Vice President of Risk Control and Strategic Planning for The Energy Authority.

Mr. Kinevan has more than twenty-five years of diverse experience in the energy industry, and prior to joining TEA he served as the Vice President and Chief Trading Officer for the Montana Power Trading & Marketing Company. At Montana Power, Mr. Kinevan oversaw risk management strategies, policies, practices, and systems, as well as the company's electric power, natural gas, crude oil, and natural gas liquids trading activities.

Prior to his work at Montana Power, Mr. Kinevan held various positions in the energy industry, including Vice President of Marketing and Manager of Planning and Economics at an independent oil and natural gas producer. He began his career in the energy industry as a geophysicist at a large integrated oil company.

Mr. Kinevan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Physics from the Colorado School of Mines and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.

As The Energy Authority's Vice President of Risk Control and Chief Risk Officer, Malinda Prudencio is responsible for monitoring The Energy Authority's commercial business risk and for the management of risk control, compliance, credit monitoring, and analytics. The Risk Control area oversees transaction integrity, produces risk reports, and monitors risk limits and metrics. Risk Control has explicit responsibility for TEA's Risk Management Policy.

Ms. Prudencio originally joined The Energy Authority in 1998 as a student intern. Following her internship she served as a financial analyst for The Vestcor Companies. After returning to The Energy Authority in 2001, she has excelled in a variety of progressively responsible positions in the risk control department.

Ms. Prudencio is a graduate of the University of Florida, with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Finance. She earned her Master of Business Administration at the University of North Florida. Ms. Prudencio is an active participant on the Committee of Chief Risk Officers and has been featured as an industry presenter on risk control best practices and risk control and credit training.

As The Energy Authority’s Vice President of Business Development, Jeff Fuller is responsible for overseeing the delivery of all of TEA’s services to its Members and Partners, and for ensuring effective communication between Members, Partners and TEA from top to bottom.

Mr. Fuller has 14 years of experience in the electric utility industry covering a broad range of trading, risk management, operational, economic, and financial planning activities. He sits on the risk management committee of several Partner systems as a non-voting member.

Prior to joining TEA, Mr. Fuller was Vice President and Risk Manager with Power Resource Managers, LLP. In that capacity, he helped Benton, Franklin and Grays Harbor Public Utilities Districts (PUDs) implement a comprehensive risk management program that was necessitated by the PUDs change from Partial Requirements to Slice customers of the Bonneville Power Administration.

Before his work at Power Resource Managers, LLP, Mr. Fuller was extensively involved in helping the Merced Irrigation District establish a new electric distribution utility. He also developed a 10- year financial planning model that continues to be used to develop financial proformas for use in bond issue official statements.

Mr. Fuller has assisted a number of utilities in developing long-term resource strategies and performed numerous analytical studies for electric utility customers. Examples include developing wholesale power budgets, preparing short-term operating strategies, performing economic analysis of transmission alternatives and forecasting future loads and market prices.

Mr. Fuller holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Washington State University.