Mr. Thomas A Petrie

Vice Chairman
Merrill Lynch

Thomas A. Petrie was a co-founder of Petrie Parkman & Co., a Denver and Houston based energy investment banking firm that merged with Merrill Lynch in December 2006. With this transaction, he became a Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch and a member of its Executive Client Coverage Group. He was a former Managing Director and Senior Oil Analyst of The First Boston Corporation. During his career, Mr. Petrie has been an active advisor on more than $140 billion of energy related mergers and acquisitions, including many of thelargest. Among its other assignments, Petrie Parkman has advised the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on its natural gas initiative, the State of Alaska on gas pipeline options, and the U.S. Department of Energy on the sale of the Elk Hills oilfield. Mr. Petrie has a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and received his Master of Science in Business Administration from Boston University. In December 2005, Mr. Petrie received an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering degree from the Colorado School of Mines. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst. An active member of several industry associations, Mr. Petrie is a past President and member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Petroleum Investment Analysts. He has also served on the Securities and Exchange Commission Advisory Board on Oil and Gas Accounting and has delivered a number of technical papers to the Society of Petroleum Engineers on the subjects of petroleum valuation, merger and acquisition trends, and energy policy. He has been interviewed on numerous occasions by Barron’s and has also appeared on “Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser,” “The News Hour with Jim Lehrer,” CNBC and Fox News. He is also a past Chairman and Director of the District No. 3 Business Conduct Committee of the National Association of Securities Dealers. Mr. Petrie served for six years as a Trustee of the Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Currently, he is a Trustee of the Denver Art Museum, The Colorado Conservation Trust, and serves on the National Advisory Board of the C.M. Russell Museum as well as the Board of Directors of The Gettysburg Foundation.

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