David E. Garcia

Principal Proprietor

 

As an energy consultant, Mr. Garcia has provided his services to a number of clients including independent oil and gas companies, coal industry participants, gas pipeline companies and power project generators. He has advised clients on contractual, financial and technical issues ranging from Risk Management implementation to process improvement, commodity hedging, and product marketing with value added logistic service support. He has provided expert witness testimony and litigation support on energy-related cases, and has worked with law firms to assist in settlement negotiations and asset transfers.

Prior to founding EnergyMAS in 2003, Mr. Garcia was hired in 1997 as Group President of OGE Energy Resources and served as a member of the OGE Energy Corp Sr. Management team in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was responsible for leading OGE into the non-regulated trading and marketing business with the successful start up of OGE Energy Resources. Under his leadership, OGE was successful in leveraging its asset base and providing value added services to its customers. He was also successful at implementing various risk management policies and procedures as well as initiating a formal Enterprise Wide Risk Management Program. He moved to OGE Energy Resources from Oxbow Carbon and Minerals, Inc. in West Palm Beach, Florida, a subsidiary of Oxbow Corporation, Inc., where he served as Vice - President Power Marketing.

David has been directly involved with the startup and growth of two successful energy trading companies. The first being Vesta Energy Company  (Tulsa Oklahoma) in 1987, where he started his career as a supply representative and rising up through the ranks to Vice President Gulf Coast Marketing in 1993 (Houston, Texas). Vesta Energy Company was consolidated into PG&E trading and marketing operations. The next start up opportunity was with Associated Natural Gas (Houston Texas) in 1993. There he served in various senior management roles involving trading, risk management, business development, and a new power marketing start up.  Associated Natural Gas was consolidated into Duke Energy Trading and Marketing operations in Houston Texas.

He served in various accounting, management, and sr. financial analyst roles with Texas Oil and Gas Corp. and Santa Fe Minerals directly out of school in Dallas, Texas from 1981-1987.

David E. Garcia is a native of Kingsville, Texas and resides in Austin, Texas. He received his BBA with emphasis in Accounting from The University of Texas at Austin in 1981.