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Mr. Works brings over 23 years of experience in the global oil & gas industry as a corporate executive, investment banker, and lawyer focusing on originating, structuring, financing, and implementing domestic and international oil & gas projects.
Before joining Rancher Energy, Mr. Works was the founder and Managing Director of Emerging Markets Finance International, LLC (EMFI) of Denver, Colorado where the firm is positioned as a leading emerging markets international financial advisor and arranger, with oil & gas projects as its core area of expertise. In 2005 Mr. Works served as President & COO of American International Depository & Trust, a specialized financial institution providing foreign clients with traditional depository banking and trust services as well as privacy and protection features typically provided by offshore financial institutions and private banks. In 2001 Mr. Works served as Senior Vice President & Head of International Producer Finance at Shell Capital, The Shell Group's venture capital affiliate, in Houston, Texas. Prior to Shell Capital, from 1999-01 Mr. Works was President & CEO of The Rompetrol Group in Bucharest, Romania, Romania's largest privately-owned oil & gas company. From 1997-99 Mr. Works was Senior Vice President & Deputy Head of Project Finance Advisory at the ABN Amro bank in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he originated and executed international oil & gas project advisory and finance transactions involving the bank and capital markets, multilateral and export credit agencies, and mergers & acquisitions. From 1996-97 Mr. Works was Vice President, Emerging Markets, Former Soviet Union, at J.P. Morgan's investment banking unit in London, England where he was responsible for client relationships and transaction execution for oil & gas projects in Russia and Central Asia. From 1990-96 Mr. Works was Vice President & Legal Relationship Manager in J.P. Morgan's New York office for the bank's business units involved in U.S. & global project advisory and mergers & acquisitions assignments where he assisted in analyzing, structuring, drafting, negotiating, and closing U.S. and international mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, and recapitalizations.
Mr. Works began his career in 1982 as a corporate finance attorney with several Wall Street firms including Shearman & Sterling and Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York. Mr. Works was educated at the University Of Denver College Of Law (J.D. 1982), the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Certificat d'Etudes Politiques 1978), the Universit?e Paris-IV (Sorbonne) (Certificat de Langue Fran?se 1977), and the University of Kansas (B.A. 1977). Mr. Works is a U.S. national and is fluent in English and French. He currently resides in Denver. | 