Capital City Energy Group, Inc. (OTCBB: CETG) is an oil and natural gas company whose business has evolved from being an innovative leader in the design, management, and sponsorship of retail and intuitional direct participation energy programs, to become one of the few vertically integrated independent oil and natural gas companies. The company focuses on growing their portfolio of core areas which provide growth opportunities through grass-roots drilling, operating, service companies, acquisitions, and fund management.
The upper management team is headed by Mr. Timothy W. Crawford, Chairman and CEO of Capital City Energy. He designed and introduced Capital City Energy’s first energy fund offered to individual investors. His management experience is vast, as he was the managing director for a group of professionals who consulted for businesses and high net-worth individuals to review and explore alternatives to their investments, banking, and insurance needs. Prior to that, Mr. Crawford spent 12 years working at Banc Stock Financial Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Diamond Hill Capital Management, Inc. (DHIL). His duties included participating in the original equity offering for the Banc Stock Group before assisting in taking the firm public, and worked in their investment banking division.
Joining the company in 2005 was Mr. Keith J. Kauffman, Capital City Energy’s President. With over 20 years of experience in the energy and petrochemical industries – serving as an engineer and financial analyst for Exxon Mobile Corporation – Mr. Kauffman has tremendous knowledge about the oil and natural gas industry. During his tenure at Exxon Mobile, he participated in business unit audit assessments on-location throughout Europe and West Africa, and was a key contributor in implementing drilling cost coding efficiency improvements worldwide. He completed numerous assignments in field operations and natural gas engineering in Kansas, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Texas. Mr. Kauffman received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Oklahoma and a master’s degree in business administration and finance from the University of Houston.
Serving as Vice President of Capital City Energy is Mr. Roger M. Gray, who joined the company back in 2006, and was employed in various positions in the oil and natural gas industry prior to accepting the position from Capital City Energy. His key responsibilities at the company include overseeing day-to-day operations for the firm and the Capital City Energy Funds. His experience within the oil and natural gas industry ranges from conducting and performing analyses of potential drilling opportunities to financial and business planning. The majority of his experience is in the exploration of oil and natural gas wells in the Appalachian Basin. Additionally, Mr. Gray was a pioneer in the sales and marketing of natural gas in a deregulated arena to industrial and commercial end users on various intrastate and interstate natural gas pipelines throughout much of the Midwest.
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