Northern Star Generation Services Company LLC Management Team:
 
President & CEO
Chief Financial Officer and Vice President
General Counsel and Vice President
Chief Environmental Officer
Vice President - Human Resources & Development
 
Jack F. Browder
Vincent J. Schager
David R. Roth
David A. Kellermeyer
Joe M. Stevens, Jr.

Jack F. Browder
President & CEO

Mr. Browder has 30 years of experience developing, building and operating hydrocarbon plants and power plants. Prior to joining NSGS in 2004, he was Chief Operating Officer of eCORP, a privately held Houston based company that develops, owns, and operates underground natural gas storage facilities. Prior to joining eCORP in 2001, Mr. Browder was president of KBR Development Corporation, a joint venture between Kellogg Brown & Root and Mitsubishi, established to develop hydrocarbon related plants on a limited recourse, project financed basis. Prior to joining Kellogg, he was with Brown & Root where he started his career in the mid 1970’s. At Brown & Root, Mr. Browder served in numerous executive, sales, and project management positions. He was the president of Brown & Root’s Power Business Unit in the early 1990’s. Prior to that time he was head of worldwide sales for Brown & Root’s Petroleum & Chemical Business Unit. He spent over ten years managing several multi-hundred million dollar projects. Mr. Browder has an MBA and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas.

 

Vincent J. Schager
Chief Financial Officer and Vice President

Mr. Schager’s experience includes over 25 years of progressive management responsibility for businesses engaged in materials processing, manufacturing, contract operation and management of utility infrastructure. Specific areas of application include municipal and industrial outsourcing; manufacturing, transportation and environmental services. Mr. Schager has also been engaged in and led M&A and business development activities relating to these fields, as well as gas storage and power production. Mr. Schager earned undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and Geology from Cleveland State University and an MBA from Kennesaw State University.
 

 

David R. Roth
General Counsel and Vice President

Since 1991, Mr. Roth has practiced corporate and energy law, including mergers, acquisitions and dispositions; commercial law; corporate, project and structured financings; private placements; development, leasing, construction and management of energy related projects; equity relationships, mezzanine loans and other hybrid debt-equity transactions; and debt workouts. Prior to joining NSG, Mr. Roth served as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of a Fortune 100 merchant energy company, where he headed the Finance and Corporate Transactions legal group, and as Senior Counsel to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in its Houston office.  Mr. Roth received his Bachelor of Business Administration in finance from the University of Michigan in 1988 and his J.D. in 1991 from the University of Texas School of Law. He is a member of the State Bars of Texas and California.

David A. Kellermeyer
Chief Environmental Officer

Mr. Kellermeyer has over 30 years of professional experience in the environmental sciences, including more than 20 years devoted to environmental permitting and compliance support to electric power plants. He has worked on environmental and land use permitting for power plants and waste-to-energy facilities throughout the United States and overseas. He has held management positions with environmental consulting firms as well as with independent power producers. Prior to joining Northern Star in 2004, he participated in the permitting and development of electric power plants as an Environmental Director at Enron North America and Dynegy. Mr. Kellermeyer is a co-author of the “Standard Handbook of Power Plant Engineering”, published by McGraw Hill (Second Edition, 1998). He holds a BS in Meteorology from Purdue University and an MS in Meteorology from The Pennsylvania State University.

 

Joe M. Stevens, Jr.
Vice President - Human Resources & Development

 

Mr. Stevens has over 40 years experience in successful executive roles. Prior to joining Northern Star Generation he spent six years as a Employee Relations Attorney and as a Independent Management Consultant. From 1961 to 1996 he was with Brown & Root, Inc., a multi-billion dollar international engineering and construction company where he served as Vice President of Employee Relations and Corporate Affairs, and as an Attorney. Mr. Stevens established an outstanding record for success in managing complex and demanding challenges in various areas of the corporate structure. He directed and coordinated the corporate administrative and human resources efforts on a worldwide basis. He demonstrated the ability to develop and implement strategic business initiatives, which had a significant positive contribution to overall operational results and corporate profits. Mr. Stevens has a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Houston and a J.D. from South Texas College of Law.

 

 


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