Donald R. Abaunza is the senior leader of the firm's Maritime, Energy, and Insurance Coverage Section, and is the former president and managing partner of Liskow & Lewis. He has extensive experience in casualty related matters, including catastrophic accidents, construction agreements and litigation relating to construction contracts and insurance coverage disputes. He is a frequent lecturer on insurance, energy subjects, and maritime and construction matters, and he acts as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association in connection with commercial and maritime disputes. He earned his undergraduate degree at Vanderbilt University and his J.D. from Tulane University School of Law in 1969. From 1978 to 1988 he was adjunct associate professor of law at Tulane University School of Law where he taught a trial practice course. He is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America.

Roxanne Armstrong has her own law practice in Houston, Texas, handling oil and gas producer related matters and litigation.  She retired from Apache Corporation in 2007, after 15 years as Assistant General Counsel, heading up Apache's litigation group.  Prior to Apache, she was a partner in Baker, Brown, Sharman & Parker, a Houston law firm (now the Houston office of Thompson & Knight). Before that, she was a Senior Attorney handing in-house litigation for The Superior Oil Company in Houston.  She graduated from Rutgers School of Law, Camden, New Jersey, with honors, and from Westhampton College of the University of Richmond, Virginia, cum laude and with honors.  She is licensed in Virginia (1976) and in Texas (1979), and has practiced in state courts, federal courts, bankruptcy courts, and regulatory agencies in Texas and Louisiana, handled arbitrations,and been involved in litigation in several other states, as well as in international matters.  She has spoken at many seminars over the years on oil and gas issues, including the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation.

Michael L. Beatty is Chairman of Beatty & Wozniak, a 28-attorney law firm headquartered in Denver, Colorado, dedicated exclusively to the natural resources industry.  Mike graduated from the University of California, Berkley and Harvard Law School.  He is licensed to practice in Texas (1972), Idaho (1974) and Colorado (1980).  During his career, Mike has been an associate attorney at Vinson & Elkins, a Professor of Law at the University of Idaho, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Director of The Coastal Corporation and Chief of Staff to Colorado Governor Roy Romer.

Cassie Boggs is Vice President-Corporate Development for Barrick Gold Corporation.  Prior to joining Barrick, she advised mining and oil and gas clients for twenty three years with respect to international and domestic transactions and operations as an international partner with the firm of Baker & McKenzie, working in the Chicago, San Francisco, and Jakarta, Indonesia offices of the firm.   Prior to joining Baker & McKenzie, she was Of Counsel at Stoel Rives in Portland, Oregon, and a partner in the Denver firm of Sherman & Howard.  She has served as Secretary, a member of the Executive Committee and as a Trustee of the Foundation.   She has authored several articles and been a speaker on a wide variety of natural resource topics for the Foundation, the American Bar Association, the International Bar Association, and the Indonesian Mining Association.  

Howard L. Boigon is a partner in the Denver office of Hogan & Hartson LLP, an international law firm based in Washington, D.C.  He is co-leader of the firm’s Western Energy Practice Group, which advises energy companies and other resources developers on project development throughout the Rocky Mountain West.  Howard’s practice focuses on transactional, legislative, and regulatory matters in the various fields of natural resources law and on business counseling of natural resources companies. Howard was a principal author of the 1989 revision to the AAPL form 610 operating agreement and has lectured and written widely on joint operations in the extractive industries and other aspects of oil and gas law and practice. Prior to joining Hogan & Hartson, Howard served as vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary at Westport Resources Corporation, a Denver-based NYSE exploration and production company.  Before his position at Westport, he served as director, vice president, general counsel and secretary at Basin Exploration, Inc., another public E&P company.  Before that, he was a partner in the Denver firm of Davis, Graham & Stubbs, where he specialized in oil and gas law. Howard co-chaired the Natural Resources Committee for the Transition Team for Governor-elect Bill Ritter.  He has served as president, and is a current member of the board of directors, of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association.  He has served on the board of trustees of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and has chaired and spoken at several past programs of the Foundation.  He is a past chair of the Mineral Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association and served as Natural Resources Practitioner in Residence at the University of Denver School of Law.  Prior to entering private practice, Howard served as law clerk to the Honorable Wade H. McCree, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.  He graduated from the University of Michigan for both college and law school. 

Millie L. Calhoun is the Senior Antitrust and Trade Regulation lawyer at BP America Inc., the US affiliate of BP plc, one of the world’s largest integrated oil companies.  Her practice includes counseling on antitrust issues (including Robinson Patman) in all of BP’s businesses, including exploration and production of oil and gas, refining and retail gasoline sales, chemicals and commodities trading.  She is responsible for BP’s US antitrust compliance programs and conducts many hours of training programs worldwide every year.  She supports BP’s Mergers & Acquisition Group in providing market analysis and merger counseling.  This includes responsibility for Hart Scott Rodino filings and advice.  Prior to joining BP in 1999, Ms. Calhoun was employed by the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice for seventeen years.  Ms. Calhoun has written and lectured on topics relating to antitrust.  She has been a member of the faculty of the Practicing Law Institute’s Annual Antitrust Law Institute since 2002 and a member of the faculty of the Indiana University School of Law at Indianapolis.  She is incoming Chair of the Antitrust & Unfair Competition Law Section Council of the Illinois State Bar Association.  She is also a member of the American Bar Association.  Ms. Calhoun earned her J.D., in 1978 from Indiana University School of Law and her B.A. in 1975 from Northwestern University.  She is admitted to the bars in Indiana, Illinois and Washington, D.C.

Wayne M. Chancellor is Assistant General Counsel for AngloGold Ashanti North America Inc., a subsidiary of AngloGold Ashanti Limited.  Prior to joining AngloGold Ashanti in 2006, Wayne was in private practice in Boulder, CO and San Diego, CA.  He began his legal career as corporate counsel for an engineering and manufacturing company in southern California.  Wayne holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point, a Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Diego. Prior to entering the practice of law, Wayne served as an officer in the U.S. Army, and as an engineering program manager for such companies as McDonnell Douglas and Cubic Defense Systems. 

Phillip R. Clark, a partner in the Denver office of Holme Roberts & Owen, LLP, joined the firm in 1976 and practices with the energy and natural resources and commercial law and securities practice groups.  He represents a wide range of energy companies in a variety of issues involving the U.S. energy business, including:  acquisitions and sales of oil and natural gas properties, gathering systems, processing plants and pipelines in the Rockies and other producing oil basins; mergers and combinations involving both privately held and publicly traded companies, including all aspects of data rooms, due diligence, merger agreement negotiations, seismic license issues and financing; exploration agreements, joint ventures, gathering agreements, forward sales of production, volumetric production payments and other sale arrangements; Federal royalty compliance, the appeal and settlement of additional royalty assessments by the Minerals Management Service, and compliance with tribal and public lands regulations; entity formation and governance issues for entities owning upstream and midstream oil and gas assets; financing transactions secured by oil and gas properties for both lenders and borrowers, including properties located on Indian lands; environmental due diligence on energy and natural resources properties and negotiation of environmental indemnity and consulting agreements.  Phil earned his J.D. from Harvard University, cum laude, in 1976; A.B. from Wabash College, magna cum laude, in 1970; and was Phi Beta Kappa in 1976.  Memberships and Associations:  Colorado Oil & Gas Association, Board of Directors; Secretary and Board Counsel; Legal, Legislative and Regulatory Committee, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, former Trustee; Independent Petroleum Association Mountain States; listed in Best Lawyers in America.  Phil has been admitted in Colorado since 1976.

S. David Colton has served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Phelps Dodge Corporation since 1999.  Mr. Colton joined Phelps Dodge Mining Company in 1988 as Exploration Counsel where he was responsible for providing legal and administrative support to Phelps Dodge’s foreign mining operations and worldwide exploration activities.  In 1993, he was appointed Senior Counsel for the exploration and development group and in 1995, Mr. Colton was appointed Vice President and Counsel of Phelps Dodge Exploration Corporation.  Mr. Colton was appointed Vice President and General Counsel of Phelps Dodge Corporation in 1998.  Mr. Colton was appointed Secretary of the Corporation in June of 2001 and served until May 2002.  Before joining Phelps Dodge, Mr. Colton was a partner with VanCott, Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy of Salt Lake City.  Mr. Colton graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor of arts degree in economics, and from Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark College of Law with a juris doctor degree.  Mr. Colton is a member of the Utah State Bar and the American Bar Association.  Mr. Colton serves as a trustee of Arizona Science Center, Grand Canyon Council of the Boy Scouts of America, Valley of the Sun United Way Foundation, J. Reuben Clark Law Society Council and a founding director of the Arizona Chapter of the American Corporate Counsel Association.  Mr. Colton was born in Mittlestadt, Germany and has been a resident of Arizona since 1988.  Mr. Colton and his wife, Julie, reside in Mesa.

George Curtis is the SEC Regional Director for a seven western state region.  In that position, he supervises enforcement, trial and examination activities by the Commission’s staff and is responsible for the implementation of Commission policies.  His duties include the well-being and development of an office of approximately one-hundred staff members.  Prior to joining the SEC staff, he was a trial attorney and partner for over thirty years with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.  He assisted in the opening of the firm’s Denver office in 1981 and served as Partner in Charge of that office and as a member of the Executive Committee, the firm’s governing body.  His trial experience ranges from “mini-trials” presented as part of settlement negotiations to the defense of clients in large complex litigation. He has tried cases before judges, juries, and administrative agencies.  George is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School where he held a Russell Sage Foundation Fellowship in law and social science.  He has a Ph.D. in legal history from the University of Virginia, and has taught at that university and at both the University of Southern California and the University of Denver.

Carolyn Duffy is the Director of Quality Assurance for Hein & Associates, LLP, a regional CPA firm located in Denver, Colorado, with offices in Houston and Dallas, Texas and Irvine, California.  Carolyn has worked as a consultant for both mining and oil & gas companies in completing management’s internal control assessment under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.   In this capacity, she has worked with management, Board of Directors and Audit Committees in performing a companywide risk assessment as well as designing a risk mitigation and monitoring system of controls.   She has also worked on external audits of accelerated filers under Sarbanes-Oxley in completing the external auditor’s assessment.  She is a licensed CPA in Colorado and holds inactive licenses in California and Arizona.  Prior to joining Hein & Associates, Carolyn worked in both IT consulting and private industry as a Controller/CFO.  She has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and a graduate degree in Accounting.

Daniel Edwards is a manager for the Business Advisory Services team at Hein & Associates LLP, a regional CPA firm located in Denver, Colorado, with offices in Houston and Dallas, Texas and Irvine, California.  His duties include managing the GAAP / SEC consulting and SAS 70 audit service lines for his firm.  Dan has over 14 years of combined experience in financial statement audits, pre-audit reviews, technical GAAP consulting, and SOX 404 services and he devotes a substantial amount of his time to assisting companies with the proper application of GAAP for complex accounting transactions.  For the past four years, Dan has focused almost exclusively on the extraction industry.  His technical accomplishments include assisting extractive companies apply EITF 04-6, FIN 46(R), and FAS 123(R).  Dan has also been published in the Colorado Real Estate Journal for an article he authored on Enterprise Risk Management.  Prior to joining Hein & Associates LLP in 2004, Dan was a self-employed consultant providing accounting and business advisory services.

Bill Evert is the National Director for the Business Advisory Services team at Hein & Associates LLP, a regional CPA firm located in Denver, Colorado, with offices in Houston and Dallas, Texas and Irvine, California.  His responsibilities include client service, as well as firm-wide quality control with an emphasis on SOX 404. This group provides a wide variety of services to non-attest public company clients in the areas of Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance and Consulting, Internal Audit, Mergers and Acquisitions, Tax Consulting and Compliance, and Litigation/Valuation Services.  With more than 15 years of public accounting and internal audit experience, Bill also specializes in financial reporting and auditing for both public and private companies in a variety of industries including mining and oil and gas.  Prior to joining Hein & Associates LLP, Bill was with KPMG for five years.  His earlier experience included internal audit at a large insurance company.  As well as he was the founder and CEO of a multi-state manufacturer and leasing company.  Serving on the 2006 AICPA’s task force, Bill assisted in providing the AICPA’s response to the SEC on Section 404 Deferral Proposal and on the Concept Release Concerning Management’s Reports on Internal Control.  He also assisted the AICPA with their comments to the SEC’s Proposed Rule on Section 404 Relief for Non-Accelerated Filers and Newly Public Companies.  Bill is a frequent speaker on topics such as SOX 404, and FASB, and GAAP. His speaking engagements include the North American Petroleum Accounting Conference, the Denver Colorado Executive Leadership Forum, Securities Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association, and the Denver Chapter of Financial Executives International.  Bill has authored articles on FIN 44 and SOX 404, and is actively involved in preparing and presenting Continuing Professional Education seminars provided by Hein & Associates LLP.  Bill is a member of the AICPA, the Colorado Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Colorado Software Association, and the Denver Business Forum.  He initiated and serves as chair of the Partnership’s Denver SOX 404 Roundtable.

Daniel R. Frost has been handling complex construction transactions and claims for almost 30 years.  He has represented numerous owners, contractors, construction managers, subcontractors, engineers, developers and construction lenders on all types and sizes of public and private construction projects and on all types of issues and claims, from inception to close-out.  He has significant experience in local, state, and federal contracting issues, including MBE and DBE matters.  He frequently counsels a wide variety of clients on claims management, scheduling and critical path issues, delay and disruption claims, claims avoidance, and bid mistakes and protests.  Mr. Frost provides construction services in the areas of construction contracts and documentation, project development, project administration, and public contracting matters.  He has represented clients in trials, arbitrations and mediations across the inter-mountain west. 

John C. Gammie is a senior counsel at The Williams Companies, Inc. in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Williams is a publicly-traded energy company engaged through its subsidiaries in natural gas production, gathering, processing and transportation as well as in the marketing of natural gas and , natural gas liquids.  John began his career at Williams in the telecommunications legal group in 1992, where he worked on transactional and regulatory matters.  Since 1995 he has supported Williams’ non-pipeline energy groups where he has focused on complex commercial transactions and has developed and provided antitrust, “smart communication,” and other compliance training for the company. John received a Bachelor of Arts, with distinction, from Swarthmore College in 1984.  He received his Juris Doctorate, with honors, from the University of Tulsa in 1992.

Ralph W. Godell has 30 years of experience practicing mining law.  He has been in-house counsel with Rio Tinto, Placer Dome and Cyprus Minerals Company and has worked as outside counsel as well.  He spent five years in Santiago, Chile and is a fluent Spanish speaker.  He is a graduate of Michigan State University and Wayne State University Law School.

James L. Gunderson is on the board of directors of Aibel Group Limited, a leading upstream oil and gas construction and engineering company headquartered in London with more than 7,000 employees working in 16 countries (www.aibel.com). He is chairman of the Aibel board’s audit, nominating and compliance committees.   Mr. Gunderson is also owner and chief executive of Governance and Transactions LLC, an advisory firm assisting boards, management and owners with governance and compliance issues, particularly in connection with strategic transactions and changes in industry.  His clients tend to be leading companies in the oil and gas or high technology equipment industries, and have included companies listed on the NYSE, Nasdaq and Euronext exchanges, as well as private equity owned businesses.  Mr. Gunderson spent 18 years with Schlumberger Limited (www.slb.com, including nine years based in Paris and three years as Secretary and General Counsel.  He subsequently served as General Counsel of Vetco International (www.vetco.com) before its sale to GE in early 2007.  Before joining Schlumberger, Mr. Gunderson was an associate at Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon in New York and a stagier at Nauta Van Haersolte in Amsterdam.  While in those positions Mr. Gunderson managed several strategic transactions that involved major changes in the industry focus of the companies involved actively participating in the strategic planning, management integration and changes in governance associated with many of those transactions.  Mr. Gunderson is a co-founder and President of the National Association of Corporate Directors’ New York Chapter (www.nacdny.org) and co-developed one of the NACD’s national governance courses.  He is an honorary lecturer on corporate governance and strategic transactions at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee, Scotland (www.dundee.ac.uk/cepmlp), and has been a Senior Advisor at Nestor Advisors, Ltd., a leading European corporate governance advisory firm (www.nestoradvisors.com).  He has been a frequent speaker at national and international governance, law and business conferences, and a guest speaker at law and business schools in various parts of the world.  Mr. Gunderson writes on corporate governance for Oil, Gas and Energy Law Intelligence (www.gasandoil.com/ogel), and other publications.  He received a BA degree in philosophy from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He has participated in executive education courses in finance and strategic planning at Insead, NYU and Wharton.

Taggart Hansen is an associate in the Denver office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.  A 1999 graduate of the Yale Law School, he currently practices in the Firm's litigation department, with an emphasis toward antitrust, class action, and labor & employment litigation.  Mr. Hansen principally practices in the antitrust field on matters including litigation arising under the Sherman Act and Clayton Act. As an antitrust and class action attorney representing clients in high-risk complex business litigation in both state and federal courts, he has represented a cross section of industries, including oil and gas producers, fuel retailers, shippers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and health care insurers, among others.

Lynn P. Hendrix is a partner in the Denver law firm of Holme Roberts & Owen LLP.  His practice emphasizes energy and natural resource law and intellectual property law.  Lynn graduated from the University of Nebraska  in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering, and graduated with distinction from the University of Nebraska College of Law in 1978.  During law school he served first as Executive Editor and later as Editor-In-Chief of the Nebraska Law Review.  Lynn has presented and authored or co-authored over nine papers at Annual and Special Institutes sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (RMMLF).  He has also presented two papers at institutes sponsored by the Center for American and International Law (f/k/a Southwest Legal Foundation).  Lynn is a past President, on the Executive Committee and a Trustee of the RMMLF.  Lynn served as Co-Chair of the RMMLF’s committee that redrafted the form Rocky Mountain Unit Operating Agreement — Form 2 (Divided Interest) (1994), and Chair of the RMMLF’s committee that drafted the form Confidentiality and Nondisclosure Agreement — Form 7 (1996).  He also served as Co-Chair of the RMMLF’s 1995 Special Institute Oil and Natural Gas Pipelines:  Wellhead to End User.  Lynn served as Program Chair of the 45^th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute, and Landmen’s Chair of the 43^rd Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute.  Lynn is past Chair of the Natural Resources and Energy Law Section (f/k/a the Mineral Law Section) of the Colorado Bar Association, and served as Chair of the Oil and Natural Gas Exploration and Production Committee of the American Bar Association.  Lynn is licensed in the States of Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, New York and Wyoming and is a registered patent attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.  He is a member of the American, Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, New York and Wyoming Bar Associations.  He is also a member of the American Association of Professional Landmen and the Denver Association of Petroleum Landmen.

Carla Herron, before joining Shell in 2000, was a trial lawyer for twenty-two years and an equity partner in a major international law firm.  She specialized in complex commercial and product liability cases, representing such clients as Philip Morris, Inc. (tobacco litigation), Koch Industries (royalty and shareholder litigation), Bristol-Myers Squibb (pharmaceutical and medical device litigation) and the City of Houston Municipal Employees’ Pension System (securities litigation).  In addition to maintaining a full-time practice, Carla was adjunct professor of law at the University of Houston Law Center for fourteen years, teaching trial advocacy, mass tort litigation and pre-trial procedure.  She is currently responsible for Shell’s US litigation and, as Group Counsel - Litigation, oversees the Group’s most significant litigation and maintains systems for litigation/dispute resolution identification, logging, reporting and risk assessment.

Bruce Kirchhoff has over twenty years experience in a broad range of business, commercial and corporate matters affecting natural resource companies and is General Counsel of Royal Gold, Inc.  Mr. Kirchhoff most recently served as a partner with Carver Kirchhoff Schwarz McNab & Bailey, LLC (“CKSMB”) where he represented hardrock and industrial minerals clients as well as mineral exploration and development companies.  Prior to CKSMB, Mr. Kirchhoff was a senior attorney with Cyprus Amax Minerals Company.  Mr. Kirchhoff holds a J.D. from the University of Denver, a Masters in Mineral Economics from Colorado School of Mines, and a B.A. from Colorado College.  He was an Adjunct Lecturer in Law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law where he taught international mining law and policy.

Dan P. Kravets is Director, Business Development and Growth for Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. and is based in Freeport’s headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona.  Mr. Kravets has a leadership role in Freeport’s development and growth projects worldwide.  He has substantial experience in corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, and has a strong regulatory background.  Mr. Kravets sits on the board of directors of Freeport’s mine development project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Before joining Freeport, Mr. Kravets was a member of the Strategic Corporate Development department with Phelps Dodge Corporation and was an attorney with vonOppenfield, Hiser & Freeze, focusing on natural resource regulatory matters.  Mr. Kravets has a Bachelor of Science in environmental policy and behavior from the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources in Ann Arbor, Juris Doctor and Masters in Studies of Environment Law degrees from Vermont Law School in South Royalton, and is currently pursuing a MBA from the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona. 

Peter V. O’Connor is Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel for AngloGold Ashanti North America Inc. (AGANA), based in Greenwood Village, CO.  AGANA conducts gold mining and exploration activities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.  Among his duties, Mr. O’Connor oversees the legal department and provides counseling to AGANA and its subsidiaries and joint ventures in all areas of law as well as provides legal and other assistance to the ultimate parent company, AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. based in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Mr. O’Connor has worked with AGANA and its predecessor for over 11 years.  Prior to joining AGANA, Mr. O’Connor was associated with Davis, Graham & Stubbs in Denver, CO and Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly in St. Paul, MN.  Mr. O’Connor has nearly 30 years of mining, environmental, and natural resource experience.  Mr. O’Connor is on various boards of directors including Colorado Association of Industry and Commerce and Colorado Mining Association.  He previously was chair of Gold Institute’s Environmental, Health and Safety Committee; co-chair of Colorado Mining Association’s Hardrock Committee; vice-chair of American Bar Association’s Mining Committee; chair of Western Regional Council’s Public Lands Committee; and member of Mountain States Legal Foundation Board of Litigation.  Mr. O’Connor graduated from Colorado State University (B.S., 1980) and William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota (J.D., summa cum laude 1990).  He has authored or co-authored various articles on environmental and natural resource topics, including co-authoring The Changing Role of Local Influence In Mineral Development, Permitting, and Operations (RMMLF, 2001), and has testified before Congress.

Richard Price heads the Capital Markets Group in our London office.  Prior to his relocation to London in August 2003, Mr. Price was based in Singapore where he led our capital markets practice in Southeast Asia and India and, prior to that, was based in our Toronto office.  He has extensive experience in representing both issuers and underwriters in a wide range of international corporate finance transactions.  He has overseen investment grade debt, high yield debt and equity offerings by issuers in a wide range of industries.  Mr. Price’s practice includes providing advice to corporate clients regarding U.S. federal securities laws, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and other corporate matters.  Mr. Price is a frequent speaker on U.S. securities law issues, international corporate finance transactions and corporate governance matters.  He sat on the Competitiveness Working Group Committee of the Stock Exchange of Singapore and the Corporate Governance Committee of the Government of Singapore.  He is cited as a leading corporate finance lawyer in the most recent editions of Chambers Global, Chambers UK and the Legal 500.

Carol Raulston is the senior vice president for communications at the National Mining Association in Washington, D. C.  The association represents approximately 400 U. S. producers of coal and minerals and the equipment manufacturers that supply the industry. Carol joined NMA in January 2002, following more than 25 years of public affairs and communications experience in the forest products industry and with the international consulting firm, Winner/Wagner & Associates.  Over the course of her career, Carol has worked with a wide range of American and international companies and associations—including many in the mining, oil and gas industries, among others.  She has assisted clients and NMA members with the development and implementation of crisis communications programs, including spokespersons training.  Since joining NMA, she has been responsible for association’s media relations, crisis communications, survey research and advertising efforts.  Carol grew up in southwest Missouri and has an MA degree from the University of Missouri in political science.  She lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

M. Sean Royall, a Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner specializing in antitrust and commercial litigation, co-chairs the Firm's Antitrust and Trade Regulation Practice Group, and maintains offices both in Washington, D.C. and in Dallas, Texas.  Mr. Royall is also an active member of the firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law and Intellectual Property Practice Groups.  From 2001 through 2003, Mr. Royall served as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, DC.  Mr. Royall has spent most of his legal career – both in and outside government -- litigating complex antitrust matters involving a diverse range of industries, including oil and gas, petrochemicals, mining, computer software, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, financial services, industrial equipment, avionics, and airlines.  In addition to his trial and appellate litigation practice, Mr. Royall has substantial experience representing firms before the federal antitrust enforcement agencies; advising companies on the antitrust implications of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, distribution arrangements, and intellectual property licenses; consulting on advertising and consumer protection issues; and assisting large corporations with legal compliance and records management issues.  Mr. Royall has been active in the leadership of the ABA's Antitrust Section for many years and is a frequent author and speaker on antitrust topics.  

Christopher M. Ryan is a senior associate in the Litigation and International Arbitration Groups at Shearman & Sterling’s Washington, D.C. office.  Mr. Ryan has represented private and government clients in proceedings before U.S. federal courts, ICC, AAA, and ad hoc arbitral tribunals, NAFTA Chapter 19 dispute resolution panels, and the WTO Dispute Settlement Body.  Mr. Ryan is a Lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law and The George Washington University School of Law, teaching courses on International Investment Law and International Commercial Arbitration. 

Janet A. Savage is a Partner in Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP’s labor and employment group.  She has been practicing since 1981 in the employment and labor law areas.  She has significant litigation experience, defending claims by employees of wrongful termination including all types of discrimination, contract and defamation claims.  She regularly counsels companies in general employment matters as well as discrimination claims.  She also represents companies in various labor issues including arbitrations and National Labor Relations Board proceedings.  She is a frequent speaker and author on employment related topics.  She has spoken before the Colorado Association of Certified Public Accountants, the Colorado Women's Corporate Counsel Group, the American Corporate Counsel Group, the National Resellers Convention, and at a number of continuing legal education seminars sponsored by the Council on Education in Management.  She has been the moderator and program organizer for a series of employment seminars for CLE of Colorado and for numerous client seminars.  She was selected by the Denver Business Journal in 2004 as one of the top three labor and employment attorneys in Denver, Colorado.  She was selected as a League of Justice Honoree by the Rocky Mountain Children’s Law Center for her work organizing the guardian ad litem program at Davis Graham & Stubbs.  Prior to joining Davis Graham & Stubbs, she was managing partner and shareholder in the Denver office of a large Minneapolis-based law firm.  She received her B.A. in 1976 with honors from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and her J.D., cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School in 1981, where she was a member and research editor of the Suffolk University Law Review.  Following law school, she was a clerk for one year in the Colorado Court of Appeals. She is admitted to the Supreme Court of the State of Colorado, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division.  She has also been admitted to numerous courts for the defense of particular cases.  She is an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, and has been a lecturer at the University of Denver College of Law.  She is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates.  She is a member of the Labor and Litigation Sections of the American Bar Association, the Labor Law Committee of the Colorado Bar Association, the Alliance of Professional Women, the Colorado Women's Chamber of Commerce, and the Women's Corporate Counsel Group.  She was the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Colorado Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society for four years.

Sarah A. Strunk is a director at the law firm of Fennemore Craig, P.C., handling mergers and acquisitions and securities transactions.  Ms. Strunk is a member of the 3 person management committee of the firm.  Prior to joining Fennemore Craig in 2000, she was the former Assistant General Counsel of Cyprus Amax Minerals Company, in charge of the copper and molybdenum business units.  She graduated from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1985, where she is now a member of the Board of Trustees.  She received a Masters in Law from New York University following her graduation from the University of Kansas.  She is licensed in Kansas (1985), New York (1988), Connecticut (1988), Arizona (1990) and California (1996).   She is listed in Chambers USA, Leading Lawyers for Business and  Best Lawyers in AmericaÒ, Corporate Law.

Peter L. Webster is a Principal Advisor & Compliance Counsel with Rio Tinto, an international mining company with global operations.  He manages Rio Tinto’s global compliance program for its operations in North and South America.  Peter joined Rio Tinto in 1993 as an attorney for Kennecott Corporation, one of Rio Tinto’s US subsidiaries.  He subsequently became General Counsel for Kennecott Minerals Company and Kennecott Exploration Company in 1998.  In 2006 he joined the Rio Tinto Compliance Department.  Peter obtained his law degree at the University of Utah and holds a Masters Degree in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.  He completed his undergraduate education at Pitzer College in the Claremont Colleges.

Henry Weisburg is a partner in the Litigation and International Arbitration Groups at Shearman & Sterling’s New York office.  Mr. Weisburg has  been counsel in numerous cross-border investment and political risk insurance disputes, for both investors and governments, which have been heard in U.S. federal and state courts and in arbitrations administered by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, the International Chamber of Commerce, the American Arbitration Association, and other arbitral bodies.