Faculty

James Anderson

Anderson is an audit senior manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Francisco. He has 11 years of public accounting experience serving primarily energy clients. He is a graduate of the University of Durham in the United Kingdom. He has worked for PwC in London, Venezuela and San Francisco and worked with a variety of oil and gas entities, including Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Shell, Conoco and various oilfield services companies. He is a qualified UK Chartered Accountant.

John Antos

Antos is president of the Value Creation Group, Inc., an internationally recognized consulting group which deals with Activity Based Management/Costing/Budgeting (ABM/ABC/ABB) Balanced Scorecard, outsourcing, performance management, reengineering, quality and value management. He received an MBA in accounting/marketing at the University of Chicago. He is a Certified Management Accountant and a CFP. He consults in the U.S., Europe, Canada, South and Central America, Caribbean, Middle and Far East. He teaches the American Management Association's Activity Based Management/Costing/Budgeting (ABM/ABC/ABB) Balanced Scorecard, Economic Value Added, Performance Management, and Value Management seminars. He co-authored the ABM and Balanced Scorecard seminars. He co-authored Activity Based Management for Services and Driving Value Using Activity Based Budgeting, both published by John Wiley. He taught the first course on activity based costing at The University of Texas at Dallas. He has worked with ARCO, Phillips, Kuwait National Petroleum and Saudi Aramco.

Ronald J. Blair

Blair is a senior lecturer in the graduate federal tax program and former director of budget and financial Affairs for the School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas. He consults in federal tax dispute resolution. He is a member of the tax section of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, where he formerly was a member of the tax Practice and Procedures Committee. He is a member of the Texas Society of CPAs. Blair holds an MBA from Oklahoma University and has written numerous articles for Tax Adviser and Journal of Accountancy Magazines. Before joining UT Dallas, he was assistant regional director of appeals of the midstates and former southwest Regions of IRS.

Heather B. Crowder

Crowder is a senior manager in the international corporate services practice at KPMG's Houston office. Her experience includes consulting with U.S.-based multinationals on taxation, foreign tax credit planning, transfer pricing issues, cross-border financing transactions and international mergers and acquisitions. Crowder serves numerous oil and gas clients in her practice with a special focus on foreign tax credit issues that are specific to the industry. She earned her law degree from the University of Texas School of Law.

Scott D. Deatherage

Deatherage is a partner in the environmental law practice group at Thompson & Knight, in Dallas and head of the firm's climate change and renewable energy practice group. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Deatherage practices in the areas of permitting, compliance, administrative and judicial litigation in air, water, hazardous waste, and toxic substance matters before local, state and federal environmental agencies. A significant part of his practice covers environmental due diligence, contract development, and negotiations of concepts and contracts in corporate, real estate, oil and gas, and lending transactions. He counsels clients in environmental management issues and strategic environmental planning. He serves as the vice chair for the American Bar Association Special Committee on Environmental Disclosure newsletter and has made numerous presentations and published numerous articles on environmental legal issues.

Andrew B. Derman

Derman is a senior partner with the international law firm of Thompson & Knight. Derman, the international practice group leader, represents public and private companies and host governments in their strategic design, identification, capture and documentation of oil and gas transactions. He was formerly an executive with Oryx Energy in Dallas, where he managed several business functions, including planning and strategic design, business development, purchasing, corporate environmental, reserve administration, technology and international exploration. He has been an officer or a director of the Association of Petroleum Negotiators, the International Energy Committee of the American Corporate Counsel Association and numerous legal associations and has been involved in preparing model forms of international oil and gas agreements. He has participated, in conjunction with the University of Houston project, in preparing oil and gas legislation for the Russian Republic and, with the American Bar Association, oil and gas legislation for the Republic of Kazakhstan. Derman has published five books and over two dozen articles addressing oil and gas law. He is a frequent speaker on oil and gas issues and has provided expert testimony in oil and gas litigation.

Eric Dulany

Dulany is an audit manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Houston. He has spent most of his public accounting career serving clients in the exploration and production and gas gathering and processing segments of the energy industry. Some of his clients have included Plains Exploration and Production Company, Burlington Resources, and Targa Resources. Dulany is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Joe Dunleavy

Dunleavy is an assurance senior manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Houston. Dunleavy recently completed a two-year tour in the national office of PricewaterhouseCoopers. While in the national office, Dunleavy was responsible for reviewing the periodic SEC filings of numerous energy related registrants and assisting clients with their capital market transactions. Dunleavy has worked in Russia, where he assisted clients' transition to U.S. and international accounting standards. He holds a master's degree in professional accounting from Canisius College.

Adolf J. H. Enthoven

Enthoven is the director of the Center for International Accounting Development and professor of accounting at The University of Texas at Dallas. For the past 29 years he has directed the Advanced International Program in Oil and Gas Financial Management. He is actively involved in a variety of international accounting matters and developments and works with The World Bank, The Ford Foundation, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He serves on various international and governmental committees, and is the author of several books and numerous articles on accounting, financial management and economic policy. His focus has been on developing transitional economies.

Craig Friou

Friou is an audit senior manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dallas. He received an MPA in accounting from The University of Texas and has worked for PwC in Houston, Dallas, London and Aberdeen, serving a variety of oil and gas entities, including Exxon Mobil, Chevron and various oilfield services companies.

Peter D. Gaffney

Gaffney co-founded Gaffney, Cline and Associates, an international petroleum management and technical advisory firm. A key sector of the firm's activities, in addition to providing significant multidiscipline technical services to a cross-section of industry clients, has been in assisting governments and national oil companies in meeting their objectives for refocusing their industry or attracting inward investment. Gaffney is a graduate of the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, University of London; he is both a chartered engineer and a chartered geologist. A previous president of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Gaffney has worked in most of the world's petroleum provinces both as an advisor and in senior management positions on behalf of the firm's clients.

Kevin Green

Green is a partner with Ernst & Young and is responsible for international accounting and auditing issues in the Dallas office.

Thomas J. Kalinosky

Kalinosky is a director in the PricewaterhouseCoopers sustainable business solutions environmental advisory practice. He holds a master's in environmental management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. With over 20 years of environmental, health and safety management experience, Kalinosky has a skills set combining environmental accounting and disclosure support for financial audits, environmental risk and control assessments for internal audits and transaction support, and EHS management system review expertise. He is a professional engineer and is ISO 14001 lead-auditor trained.

Lara Kroll

Kroll is a senior associate with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Houston. During her many years in public accounting, she has served many clients, primarily those in the oil and gas industry, including Burlington Resources, Rosetta Resources, Plains Resources, Plains Exploration, AROC Inc. and Amromco Energy.

James P. Langley

Langley is president of Langley Associates, an independent consulting firm focused on the business of refining. He has 34 years of experience in the petroleum industry, focused on the business and competitor analysis issues of refining, crude and product supply and transportation, marketing and petrochemicals. He holds an MBA in marketing and finance from the University of Houston. Langley has held operating and corporate staff positions with Gulf, Chevron and British Petroleum, and was director of energy consulting and energy industry subject matter expert for PricewaterhouseCoopers. Prior to forming Langley Associates, he was a vice president with the engineering firm of Stone and Webster.

Chad Libertus

Libertus is a tax partner with KPMG and concentrates on energy and oil field service company taxation, including consulting with clients regarding corporate and partnership tax issues in the areas of federal, state and international tax consultation and compliance. During his many years with KPMG, he has worked with auditors on FAS 109 for major international companies and gained a deep knowledge of multiple sectors of the energy industry, from working with clients involved in oil and gas production, refining, natural gas processing, chemicals, and transmission. In addition, he has experience with foreign registrants adoption of SEC regulations, U.S. GAAP, and Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404. Libertus spent a year in Paris providing tax services to several of KPMG's multinational clients. He has an MPA in accounting from The University of Texas at Austin. Libertus is a member of the AICPA and the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Kyle Long

Long is an advisory manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Cincinnati. He specializes in energy risk management and FAS 133 accounting. His clients include utilities, merchant energy companies and investment companies that procure, market and trade various energy commodities and products. Long is a CPA in Ohio and received a master's degree in accounting from the University of Southern California.

Brad McPhail

McPhail is a principal member of KPMG in Dallas in the international corporate services practice. He assists clients with their U.S. and foreign tax issues arising in the context of cross-border transactions and international restructurings. He has experience with the specific issues involved in the international taxation of oil and gas interests. He previously served in the firm's Paris office advising on U.S. tax matters. McPhail is a member of the State Bar of Texas and received a law degree from Southern Methodist University.

Cameron Moates

Moates is an audit senior manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dallas. He received his MPA from The University of Texas at Austin. His experiences range from small privately held companies to large multinationals. Moates has served a variety of oil and gas entities including Denbury Resources, Pecos Energy, ExxonMobil, ExxonMobil Pipelines, Elm Ridge Exploration, Headington Resources and United Oil and Minerals. He is a member of the AICPA and the Texas Society of CPAs.

Jonathan H. Mullins

Mullins, based in Dallas, is the PricewaterhouseCoopers engagement partner for ExxonMobil and a member of the firm's global audit policy board. He has served a range of multinational and domestic clients in eight different offices and five different countries. Mullins began his career in the U.K. and has since worked in the U.S., Italy, Canada and Saudi Arabia. In addition to his current role, he has served as engagement partner for Chevron, Amoco (now BP) and SAMAREC (now Saudi Aramco). His experience spans upstream, downstream, midstream, mergers and acquisitions and shared service centers. He is a CPA.

Mark E. Nicholls

Nicholls is the managing director of Imagine Consulting. This consulting firm provides support to clients in the areas of strategy development and business practice improvement. Nicholls has an extensive energy background having spent 27 years with Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO). During his tenure with ARCO, he held a wide variety of senior finance, planning and control positions including chief financial officer for a number of ARCO business units. His career included assignments in several ARCO locations around the world including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, London and Jakarta. He has been involved with the development and presentation of programs on western financial practices worldwide and has been a key contributor to the UT Dallas Advanced Program in Oil and Gas Financial Management since its inception. Nicholls is also a senior lecturer in finance at UT Dallas. He holds an MBA from the University of Southern California.

Dan A. Odom

Odom is an audit partner in the Dallas office of Deloitte and Touche. He serves as engagement partner on exploration and production, gas transmission and gas distribution companies and has extensive experience in SEC related issues. Odom is a member of the American Institute of Public Accountants, The Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, and Council of Petroleum Accountants Societies, Dallas.

Olivia Ow

Ow is an audit manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Houston and is currently here from PwC Malaysia. She has more than seven years of public accounting experience serving primarily energy and telecommunications clients. Her clients have included ExxonMobil, Murphy, Maxis, Atwood Oceanics and Fortis Energy. She is a CA with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

Paul Parette

Parette is a partner with more than 16 years of experience at Deloitte and Touche. Parette has served clients in a variety of industries including petroleum refining and marketing, oil and gas exploration and production, oil and gas transportation, energy service, power generation, hospitality, publishing, internet service providers, telematics, professional services, transportation, and manufacturing. Parette is a member of the American Institute of Public Accountants, The Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants and as a CPA is licensed to practice in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas.

Ganesh Ramaswamy

Ramaswamy is a manager in the security services practice of Deloitte and Touche and focuses on delivering security and privacy related services and review of general computer controls for Dallas based clients. He holds CISA, CISSP and CIA certifications and is the co-chair of the research committee of Institute of Internal Auditor's Dallas chapter.

James H. Rice

Rice is a senior manager, assurance and advisory with Deloitte and Touche. He focuses on the energy industry, where he has primarily dealt with oil and natural gas exploration and production companies. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and The Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Todd Roemer

Roemer is a senior manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Houston. His experience ranges from small privately held companies to large independents. He has served a variety of oil and gas clients, including Burlington Resources, Plains Exploration and Production, Cabot Oil and Gas, Newfield Exploration, Rosetta Resources, Michael Petroleum and ARCO He is a member of the AICPA and The Texas Society of CPAs.

Angela Walton

Walton is a manager at Deloitte and Touche, a certified public accountant and has primarily served clients in the oil and gas industry with an emphasis in exploration and production companies.

Jason E. Wardell

Wardell is a senior manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Houston. He has extensive experience serving large multinational integrated energy companies and independent international oil and natural gas producers including Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), Chevron, Harvest Natural Resources, Royal Dutch Shell and Tyumen Oil, now part of TNK-BP, a Russian joint venture with BP. He is a certified public accountant in California and Texas and a member of the AICPA and The Texas Society of CPAs.

Robert J. Welsh

Welsh is a senior manager in the assurance practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Houston where he has served a variety of oil and gas and mining entities to include ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Conoco, BHP Billiton Limited and various midstream and oilfield services companies. He is a certified public accountant licensed in Texas and Oklahoma and a member of the AICPA and Texas Society of CPAs.

Steven J. Ziegler

Ziegler is an audit senior manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Houston where his specialties include companies in exploration and production, marketing and refining. His clients include Conoco and Burlington Resources. Ziegler is a CPA licensed in Texas and Oklahoma.