Key Personnel

Jeffrey Eppink

President & Founder

Mr. Eppink has over 30 years of consulting, technical, and analytical experience in a wide variety of energy projects worldwide ranging across the energy spectrum. He has given numerous presentations to senior industry executives and government officials and has provided testimony and presentations to the U.S. Congress, the National Academy of Sciences, and the White House on energy issues.

Mr. Eppink has worked for Chevron Overseas Petroleum, Inc., ICF Kaiser International, Inc., and Advanced Resources International, Inc. and has been an American Association for the Advancement of Science Diplomacy Fellow. He has a BS in geology from California State Polytechnic University, an MS in applied geophysics from the University of Southern California and an MBA from Virginia Tech.

Mr. Eppink specializes in project design and management, economic analyses, scenario modeling, energy policy, and resource planning. A large part of his experience has been in the international sector where he has worked on projects in over 30 countries.

John W. Bebout, Ph. D.

Senior Project Manager

Dr. Bebout has more than 30 years experience in renewable and conventional energy resources in both consulting and the government sector. He has played a major role in regulatory reform for oil and gas and geothermal operations on Federal land and has provided expert testimony to the public, federal agencies, professional organizations and congress.

Dr. Bebout has worked for the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management where he served as a Senior Technical Specialist for Oil and Gas, Deputy Director of the National Energy Office and National Geothermal Program Manager. He holds a BS in geology from the University of Florida, an MA in geology from the State University of New York and a PhD in paleobotany and geology from the Pennsylvania State University where he was a Graduate Fellow.

Dr. Bebout specializes in project development and management as well as resource modeling. A large part of his experience has been gained through leading large interdisciplinary teams for purposes of developing and/or implementing energy policy.

Ramon Alvarado

Senior Project Manager

Mr. Ramon Alvarado is a senior project manager with over 27 years of diversified experience in the oil and gas industry, including integrated field studies, field revitalization and development plans. He has been an effective team participant and supervisor for EOR feasibility and assessment projects. His career has been largely international with multiple language skills (Spanish, English, and Indonesian). Mr. Alvarado has an M.S. degree in petroleum engineering, University of Southern California, and a B.S. degree in petroleum engineering, University of Southern California.

Mr. Alvarado worked for PDVSA in a series on positions ranging form drilling, well completions, production operations and reservoir engineering. As chief petroleum engineer for Shell International Mr. Alvarado conducted reservoir studies and field development plans.

Mr. Alvarado has provided technical support to major, national and independent companies working as a consultant with Exgeo & CGG Veritas, Advanced Resources International, Inc., ICF Kaiser International, Inc.

Michael Marquis

Project Manager

Mr. Marquis designs and implements analytical and GIS models and solutions. He has been instrumental in the development of numerous economic and geospatial models used in Federal lands analyses including GREM (Geothermal Royalty Evaluation Model) for geothermal royalty rate determination, EPCA (Energy Policy and Conservation Act) Phases I, II, and III Inventories, EPCA Phase I Integration, Inventoried Roadless Area analysis, as well as numerous other projects for both government and industry. In addition, he recently performed modeling for the Energy Policy Act (EPAct) 437 Coal Inventory.

Mr. Marquis' expertise lies in constructing analytical models for statistical analysis with economic and scenario modeling. Mr. Marquis has fifteen years experience with GIS including nine years with Advanced Resources and Enegis. He has a BS in geology from The College of William and Mary.

Gabriel Ladd

Consultant

Mr. Ladd earned a Bachelor's of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from Boston University in 2004. As part of his undergraduate study he worked at NASA Goddard where he worked in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles/Unmanned Aircraft System (UAV/UAS) development for earth science applications. He followed this interest to the University of Maryland where he helped to establish and lead both the Environmentally Conscious Precision Agriculture (ECPA) Program and the Aerial Imaging and Remote Sensing for Precision Agriculture and Environmental Stewardship (AIRSPACES). While working on his Master's degree Mr. Ladd also worked as a mechanical engineer at NASA wallops flight facility. Mr. Ladd graduated from the Marine Estuarine and Environmental Sciences Program at the University of Maryland in 2008 with his masters in Environmental Science.

Mr. Ladd's expertise is in design of software and hardware, data collection, data visualization and analysis. Mr. Ladd has seven years experience designing, developing and integrating UAV/UAS for earth science applications. He has worked on UAS systems from hybrid airships to UAV based Eddie Covariance systems. He has over ten years experience in MATLAB software development. Six years experience developing custom GIS and analysis software to work independently and in conjunction with convention GIS and remotes sensing software. Mr. Ladd specializes in taking abstract data concepts developing data visualization tools that allow it to be easily understood.

Within Enegis Mr. Ladd works as a technical lead on projects and is the director of information technology. He hasaddressed benefits to the US government from funding of ultra deep water oil and gas technology research. He has developed models, preformed analyses and presented the findings to private industry, US government agencies and governments of other countries. At Enegis Mr. Ladd has worked on programs ranging from sensor design and analysis to national policy.