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Anthony
W. Buxton is an
attorney with Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau, Pachios and Haley and serves
as Chair of the firm's Energy and Utilities Practice Group. Mr. Buxton
was born and raised in Readfield and graduated from Bowdoin College in
1968. He served as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army after college.
He directed U.S. Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell's 1974
gubernatorial campaign. He earned his law degree at Franklin Pierce Law
Center in New Hampshire in 1978. Mr. Buxton has been listed in
Woodward/White's The Best Lawyers in America since 1982. Mr. Buxton has
represented large industrial and commercial users of electricity for
about 20 years. During this time, he has negotiated dozens of special
electricity supply contracts on behalf of his clients. In addition, he
has been actively involved in the establishment of programs to promote
energy conservation and was a primary drafter of the law that
restructured Maine's electricity industry. Mr. Buxton has most recently
been active at the regional level to ensure that the rules and
operating procedures governing the wholesale market for electricity in
New England provide real economic benefits to consumers. As a result of
his efforts, consumers are now represented for the first time on the
governing body of NEPOOL. |
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Mark
Isaacson was born
and raised in Auburn, Maine. He left Auburn to attend college and
graduated from Yale University in 1976, and earned his MBA from the
University of Chicago in 1978. Mr. Isaacson began his activities in the
electric industry by becoming a partner in two hydroelectric facilities
in Maine – the Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River and the
Worumbo Dam on the Androscoggin River. Mr. Isaacson directed the
complete redevelopment of the Worumbo Dam, increasing its size from
less than 1 MW to 19 MW in 1989, and since then has supplied CMP with
enough renewable hydroelectric power each year to supply 15,000 homes
in Maine. Mr. Isaacson is a founding member of the Independent Energy
Producers of Maine and has been actively involved in the all aspects of
the restructuring of Maine's electric utility industry. |
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Dr.
Richard Silkman has served on the faculties of the State University of New York at
Stony Brook and the University of Southern Maine. He is a graduate of
Purdue University and holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.
In 1987, Dr. Silkman was appointed by Governor John R. McKernan, Jr. to
direct the Maine State Planning Office. In this capacity, Dr. Silkman
served as the chief policy advisor to the Governor on a wide range of
issues including economic policy, energy, and electricity and
telecommunications regulation. Dr. Silkman is a nationally recognized
expert in the regulation of public utilities and energy policy. He has
appeared as an expert witness before public utility commissions and a
legislative bodies across the country, has provided energy consulting
services to a variety of large energy users on matters related to
electric utility deregulation and has negotiated special tariffs and
contracts at the wholesale and retail levels for electricity and
natural gas for a wide range of industrial and commercial clients
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Jon
F. Sorenson joined
Competitive Energy Services in April 2003, in an effort to expand the
firm's reach to Canada and the Natural Gas markets- where he has
secured and managed numerous gas supply clients. In a short period of
time, CES has become the primary natural gas consultant in the province
of New Brunswick, and is expanding its services into the Province of
Nova Scotia. Previously, Mr. Sorenson provided retail
marketing/business development, regulatory, and strategic services for
WPS Energy Services, Inc. In this role, he was responsible for
developing and managing natural gas operations in New Brunswick,
Canada- making WPS the first licensed marketer, and currently the
largest retail and wholesale marketer, providing natural gas in the
Province. In addition, Mr. Sorenson assisted WPS in marketing power and
natural gas in the State of Maine- focusing on strategic issues both at
the regional and corporate levels.
Mr. Sorenson was an original
executive officer (CMO) for SmartEnergy, Inc., a mass-market energy
services company providing electricity and natural gas service to
clients in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. He is currently on
the Board of Directors for the New Brunswick Natural Gas Association,
is a working member of the Maritimes and Northeast Tolls and Tariff
Work Group, and has been on the Board of Directors for for E-Energy, an
emerging technology and transactional-based company in the natural gas
industry.
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Phyllis
Anzalone is
the Texas-based managing partner for CETX Energy Agency, the Texas
affiliate of Competitive Energy Services. Ms. Anzalone has played a
significant role in setting the strategic direction of the firm as it
has evolved into an energy agency with full service offerings. With a
keen focus on establishing and nurturing client relationships, Ms.
Anzalone is the public face of the company in Texas . Ms. Anzalone is a
speaker for several industry forums, and is the contributing energy
author for several quarterly business publications.
Having spent the early part of
her professional career in real estate sales in the Houston market, Ms.
Anzalone began her energy career in 1996, when she joined Enron and
relocated to the first state to deregulate, California . Her success in
the California market resulted from focusing on large commercial
companies in the healthcare and hi-tech industries. As EES's top
salesperson, in mid-1999 Ms. Anzalone was tasked with opening the
retail power markets in New England, including the states of
Massachusetts, Maine, and Rhode Island. In late 1999, Ms. Anzalone sold
the first successful aggregation program for Enron Energy Services.
Large in scale, complex in structure, and requiring over 100 separate
credit approvals, this program became recognized as the industry
standard for other aggregation programs. As a result, Enron tapped Ms.
Anzalone to develop and lead a new business unit to focus on
aggregation programs across deregulated markets in the United States.
Creative, successful aggregation programs included city-wide commercial
opt-in programs, Chamber of Commerce sponsored programs, and the first
matrix pricing program for small commercial customers.
Prior to 1996, Ms. Anzalone's
career was in professional sales, spending 17 years focusing on
commercial real estate and facilities management. Ms. Anzalone's
entrepreneurial spirit was first evident during her college years, when
she owned and operated a successful business.
Ms. Anzalone graduated summa cum
laude from Southeastern Louisiana University in 1979 with a Bachelor of
Science degree in Government. She was the recipient of the Louisiana
academic scholarship as well as the Tangipahoa Police Jury academic
scholarships.
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