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

Mr. Dyer first entered the power industry in 1971 and has since gained executive experience at a variety of energy organizations—including a generation and transmission cooperative, non-utility generation company, municipal power authority, and a large investor-owned utility.

Prior to joining The Energy Authority, Mr. Dyer served as Manager of Bulk Power Marketing at Cinergy Services, Inc. where he managed marketing activities in the eastern United States. Before his work at Cinergy, Mr. Dyer was the Vice President of Bulk Power Sales and Industrial Development for Midland Cogeneration Venture. He also worked for Plains Electric Generation and Transmission Cooperative where he was the Vice President responsible for finance, planning, rates and power contracts. Mr. Dyer began his career directing system planning activities for JEA, formerly known as the Jacksonville Electric Authority.

Mr. Dyer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of North Florida. Mr. Dyer is also a registered Professional Engineer.

As The Energy Authority’s Vice President of Business Integration, Shel Ferdman is responsible for integration of alliances and partnerships, preparation and negotiation of new members, company—wide analytics, preparation and pricing of proposals for services, development within RTO markets, power supply management, and new products and services.

Mr. Ferdman has more than 35 years of experience in public power and he was an integral member of the startup team for TEA. He has been a part of the company since its birth in 1997, previously serving as its Vice President of Physical Trading and Vice President of Marketing.

Prior to joining The Energy Authority, Mr. Ferdman spent 27 years at one of the nation’s largest municipally—owned electric utilities, JEA. He held a variety of senior management positions during that time and served as JEA’s Director of System Engineering, Director of Corporate Contracts, and Director of Bulk Power Marketing. Mr. Ferdman also served as JEA’s liaison for regulatory and legislative matters, and testified at FERC and the Florida Public Service Commission on utility and public power matters.

Mr. Ferdman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida and a Master of Business Administration from the University of North Florida. He is also a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Florida.

As The Energy Authority’s Vice President of Finance, 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 Vice President of Risk Control and Chief Risk Officer at The Energy Authority®, Rene Dumstorf is responsible for managing The Energy Authority’s commercial business risk and for the overall management of the Mid-Office (the independent oversight, compliance, control and monitoring office). This includes developing, implementing, communicating and monitoring policies, procedures and strategies to manage market risk, credit risk, price risk, and performance risk. The Risk Control area oversees transaction integrity, produces risk reports and monitors risk limits and metrics including VAR, CFaR, current credit exposure, potential credit exposure and CVaR.. Ms. Dumstorf’s area has explicit responsibility for TEA’s Risk Management Policy. In the credit arena, Ms. Dumstorf and her team have developed credit scoring models and qualitative benchmarks for The Energy Authority’s use in evaluating counterparties and has developed and implemented various credit risk management tools, including a real-time credit exposure report, a potential credit exposure calculation, a credit pricing model, a default probability model, and a CVaR calculation. Ms. Dumstorf is also responsible for the development, negotiation, and implementation of trading agreements which support TEA’s trading operations while safeguarding the company from trading breaches with protective, enforceable contract terms.

Ms. Dumstorf has more than 20 years of experience in the energy industry, including positions in accounting and finance at Shell Oil Company and Entergy Corporation. Ms. Dumstorf has been employed with The Energy Authority since its inception in August, 1997. Ms. Dumstorf developed and implemented, and is the current chairperson, of TEA's Regulatory and Legislative Risk Management Committee.

Ms. Dumstorf holds a B.S. in Accounting from Florida State University and an MBA from Loyola University.