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E. Perot Bissell, Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Bissell is the CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of Maxum. Prior to joining Maxum in 2006, Mr. Bissell was Managing Partner of Northwest Capital Appreciation, Inc ("NCAI"). NCAI manages Northwest Capital Partners II, L. P. ("NCPII"), a fund that invests in middle market companies in the United States. NCPII was one of the founding investors of Maxum. Mr. Bissell has had numerous executive, advisory and board roles in consolidating industries including the security alarm monitoring, radio broadcasting and fuel and lubricant distribution industries. Mr. Bissell has been a principal in over fifty acquisitions and divestitures including nine acquisitions in the fuel and lubricant distribution business.
In 1984 after graduating from Columbia College, Mr. Bissell commenced his career at Paine Webber in the corporate finance department focusing on energy, transportation and communications finance. From 1989 to 1990 he worked in the lease and project finance group of Drexel Burnham Lambert focusing on energy and transportion. From 1990 to 1996, Mr. Bissell was a managing director at Bankers Trust's corporate finance department in the Asset and Structured Finance Group form 1990 to 1994 and as co-head of the Transportation and Aerospace Group from 1995 to 1996. In 1996 Mr. Bissell joined NCAI as a partner. NCAI provided merchant banking services to middle market companies from 1996 to 2001. In 2001, NCAI raised a fund focused on investing in middle market companies in fragmented industries. In addition to managing a merchant banking and private equity firm, Mr. Bissell has served in several executive functions including CFO of SLP Capital from 1996 to 1998 and interim, CEO of ASG Security in 2003.
Roger Simons, Vice Chairman and Senior Executive Vice President
Currently, Mr. Simons is an active participant in the Maxum executive team and also manages Simons Petroleum and its subsidiaries. Mr. Simons built Simons Petroleum, Maxum's first platform acquisition, into one of the nation's top ten independent fuel and lubricant distribution businesses. As one of the leading petroleum product marketing companies in the United States, Simons Petroleum pioneered numerous value-added services for its customers including risk management programs for diesel fuel and environmental services among others. Mr. Simons started his career while still in college as an employee of Union 76 and Mid-Continent Systems, Inc. During his employment, and while in the process of receiving his Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from Texas Christian and Sam Houston Universities, he developed truck stop marketing strategies and along with Mid-Continent established a nationwide truck stop chain. Early on, Mr. Simons recognized major opportunities and developed unique lubricant products and services for drilling, exploration and production operators in the oil and gas industry resulting in Simons Petroleum becoming the leading supplier of diesel fuel, lubricants and innovative customer services to that industry. Mr. Simons was named Vice President of Simons Petroleum in 1974, President in 1978 and, in 1984, was elected Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. In 1990, Mr. Simons began serving as a member of the Products Committee of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). Mr. Simons also is active in many industry organizations, and charities.
Michel Salbaing, Senior Vice President of Finance and CFO of Maxum Petroleum, and Treasurer and Secretary of subsidiary companies
Mr. Salbaing joined Maxum in 2006, having previously served as a partner with Tatum LLC. Mr. Salbaing brings management skills that are very complimentary to Maxum's goal of becoming the leading independent marketer of petroleum products, including integration of acquisitions and interaction with lenders and public investors. Mr. Salbaing most recent positions were the CFO of two multi-billon dollar NYSE traded companies (Cenveo Inc. and Quebecor World, Inc.) that consolidated the fragmented printing industry. During his thirty-plus year career, he also held CFO positions with medium and large international public companies in the manufacturing, defense electronics and project financing segments. He also served on the Boards of publicly traded pulp & paper company and a closely held aluminum smelter. Mr. Salbaing holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accounts.
Bill Huffman, Chief Accounting Officer
Mr. Huffman was an independent financial consltant from March 2007 until joing Maxum in Mary 2007. From September 2006 to March 2007, Mr. Huffman was the Vice President and Controller of Bio Fuel Energy, LLC, a development stage company constructing two ethanol plants. From 200 to 2006, he was Vice President and Corporate Controller of Cenveo, Inc, a NYSE-listed company, and from 1999 to 2000, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Cenvero's commerical printing segment. Prior to 1999, Mr. Huffman held financial leadership positions in two private equity funded companies and was the Director of Internal Audit at James River Corporation. Mr. Huffman began his career at Coopers and Lybrand where he wa an audit manager. Mr. Huffman holds a B.A. in Ecomonics from the Virginia Military Institute and an M.B.A. from the University of Richmond. Mr. Huffman is a Certified Public Accountant.
Mike McDonald, Senior Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions
After receiving his Bachelor's Degree in Accounting at Oklahoma State University in 1980, Mr. McDonald spent 11 years in public accounting with Arthur Andersen, in the accounting & audit practice and obtained his CPA certificate. In 1992 he left his position as senior audit & accounting manager with Andersen's Oklahoma City office, and spent seven years with a growing healthcare company, initially as controller and progressing to Chief Financial Officer. In 1999, he joined Simons Petroleum, serving as CFO until late 2004, when he moved into his current role with Maxum.
John Zar, Senior Vice President, International
Mr. Zar began his career in the petroleum business with Mobil Oil Corporation in 1969 after receiving his Masters of Business Administration from California University at Long Beach. Mr. Zar left Mobil Oil in the mid 70's at which time he entered into an array of positions providing consultation to smaller businesses and eventually entering the real estate brokerage industry. In 1984, Mr. Zar returned to the petroleum industry by purchasing his family's interest in a predecessor to Pecos, Inc. which was founded by his father in 1946 as a Chevron con signee and started the company's growth into commercial and industrial marketing. In 1985, Mr. Zar became the President and directed the operations of Pecos, Inc. In 2007, Mr. Zar was appointed Executive Vice President of Maxum. Mr. Zar have been involved in numerous distributor boards and the CPMA (California Petroleum Marketing Association).
Ryan Secrist, Vice President, Corporate Development
Mr. Secrist joined Maxum Petroleum in September 2006, having previously served as a Vice President at NCAI. While at NCAI, Mr. Secrist was actively involved in Maxum Petroleum's acquisitions and financing. Prior to joining NCAI in 2005, Mr. Secrist had over ten years of transactional and finance experience, including investment banking with Ca[ota; Run LLC from 2003 to 2005 and with Piper Jaffray, Inc. from 1997 to 2001, private equity investing with Intracorp Capital LLC from 2002 to 2003 and public accounting as CPA with KPMG Peat Marwick LLP from 1994 to 1996. Mr. Secrist holds a BA degree in Economics from Wesleyan University and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from New York University. Doug Sterk, Corporate Controller of Maxum, Assistant Treasurer and Assistant Secretary of subsidiary companies
Mr. Sterk received his Bachelor's and Master's of Accountancy degrees from the University of Oklahoma in December of 1995 and earned his CPA approximately two years later. He began his career with Arthur Andersen LLP in Oklahoma City and while there performed attestation and other services for major exploration and production entities. In 2001, Mr. Sterk accepted the Controller and Human Resources Director position at Medley Material Handling Company in Oklahoma City and remained with Medley until joining Maxum in January of 2006. |