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Frank Weisser has twenty-seven years investment banking experience with a focus on the natural gas industry since late 1983. After eight years as a generalist investment banker at Merrill Lynch, he joined the Energy Group at Morgan Stanley. In 1984, he sponsored and co-founded the Natural Gas Clearinghouse (now Dynegy), which became the largest independent marketer of natural gas in North America.
He moved to the Morgan Stanley Utility Group in 1985 as the senior investment banker for the natural gas industry. He joined Bear Stearns as head of the Energy Group in 1988.
Over his career he has been responsible for initiating, successfully structuring and negotiating numerous merger, acquisition and divestiture assignments for oil and gas companies, natural gas pipeline and distribution companies and electric utilities.
He has arranged numerous offerings of debt, preferred, common stock and convertible securities for the full range of energy clients. He has also been responsible for successfully launching several new products in the U.S. capital markets including Credit Sensitive Notes (Enron), Spread Protected Debt Securities (Transco) and LIBOR based Floating Rate Medium Term Notes (Ford Motor Credit). He was the financial advisor to Enron's natural gas production payment securitization program.
Frank co-founded Weisser, Johnson & Co. in 1991.
Previous Employment
1988 - 1991
Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc.
Managing Director and Head of the Energy Group
1982 - 1988
Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.
Principal (1984 - 1988)
Public Utility Group (1985 - 1988)
Energy Group (1982 - 1985)
1974 - 1982
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Vice President, Great Lakes Region (1979 - 1982)
Assistant to the President (1977 - 1979)
Southwest Region (1974 - 1977)
1971 - 1972
Shell Oil Company
Calumet Gas Plant Engineer in New Orleans
1970 - 1971
US Navy Civil Engineer Corps
Management Officer at Public Works Center, Yokosuka Japan
1968 - 1969
Shell Chemical Company
Engineer at Deer Park, Texas Petrochemical Complex
Education
1972 - 1974
University of Michigan
MBA and MS Chemical Engineering
1964 - 1968
University of Texas
BS Chemical Engineering
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