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Eric J. Melvin — Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Melvin brings more than 20 years of finance, energy risk management and trading experience to Mobius Risk Group (MRG). His extensive trading and marketing experience includes natural gas (physical and financial), power, crude, products, coal, weather, fixed income and foreign exchange. Mr. Melvin has a proven record of accomplishment in developing and managing profitable energy trading, marketing and origination groups. He has extensive knowledge in corporate governance, hedging strategies, trading processes, physical and financial trading systems and energy accounting matters. Mr. Melvin received his BGS from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a JD from the University of Detroit School of Law.

Casey Ragsdale – President. Mr. Ragsdale brings more than 17 years of risk management, technology development, regulatory compliance, and retail energy structuring experience to Mobius Risk Group. His areas of expertise include power, natural gas, crude oil, crude products and metals. Mr. Ragsdale’s experience prior to Mobius Risk Group involved the development of processes to value and structure commodity transactions in both the power and natural gas markets throughout the U.S. as well as the development and implementation of risk management systems and risk management policies and procedures for various commodities in a large energy merchant environment. Mr. Ragsdale holds a BBA in economics from Baylor University.

Paul Smith – Chief Risk Officer. Mr. Smith has over 17 years of financial markets trading and structuring experience. Most recently, Mr. Smith was with one of the world’s top 5 producers of oil and natural gas, where he ran the North American financial derivatives trading desk. Mr. Smith’s previous experience includes structured product sales for a large Houston energy marketer. Prior to sales he traded physical and financial gas for a large utility marketing company. He has marketing and trading experience in natural gas, electricity, crude and crude products, natural gas liquids and LNG. Mr. Smith moved to Houston in 1997 from Chicago where he traded equities, options and financial futures for a city center hedge fund. Mr. Smith holds a BA from Syracuse University and an MS from Illinois Institute of Technology.

Christine Anderson – Chief Operating Officer. Ms. Anderson has over 18 years experience in the physical commodities market. Prior to Mobius, Ms. Anderson spent twelve years in the deregulated energy arena primarily responsible for originating, analyzing, and executing structured transactions with pipelines, utilities, industrials, and municipalities. Most recently, Ms. Anderson leads the physical energy operations and client management group at Mobius. The physical operations group is responsible for managing all energy production and consumption, inclusive of natural gas, crude, crude products and propane for producers and commercial/industrial consumers. Ms. Anderson holds a BBA in Marketing from Henderson State University.