Andrew V. Reid has served as President and Director of Treaty Energy Corporation since March 2010 and appointed to serve in the additional roles Chairman and CEO of the Company since April 2010.
Andrew Reid has more than 20 years of corporate finance and management experience. In 2006 Mr. Reid started NOLA Commercial Finance Inc., a commercial finance company. During the past 4 years he has focused on helping small regional Oil & Gas companies with debt and equity funding. He has helped fund in excess of $50 million for various types of income producing properties.
In 1998 Mr. Reid started his own investment firm where he focused on the Oil & Gas Industry. In 2004 he sold the business to spend more time with family, but continued to do consulting work.
Mr. Reid grew up in the Houston, Texas and went on to attend St. Edwards University and the University of Texas in Austin. After college, he joined the GMS Group LLC in Houston, a small boutique investment firm his father helped found. There Mr. Reid specialized in municipal and corporate debt finance, mergers, and restructurings.
Chief Operation Officer, Corporate Secretary and Director
Gerard Danos has served as Corporate Secretary of Treaty Energy Corporation since March 2010 and was appointed to serve in the additional roles of Chief Operating Officer and Director since May 2010.
Mr. Danos, a private investor for more than seven years, joined Treaty Energy in March as Corporate Secretary. He brings a breadth of skills and knowledge in building and growing companies to the Treaty management team. Most recently, he served as Owner/Principal at St. Catherines Hospice, LLC where he helped guide the company from a startup company to one of the regions leading hospice providers. Prior to this, Mr. Danos served as Vice President / Director for Medico, LLC., a subsidiary of Magnolia Management Corporation, a privately held company, which operates 65+ long term care facilities throughout Louisiana and Mississippi.
Mr. Danos received his Bachelors Degree from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.
Director
Randall Newton is a CPA with a background in corporate finance, SEC filings, strategic planning, mergers and acquisition modeling and analysis, corporate governance and compliance under Sarbanes-Oxley that is complemented by early experience in the financial side of oilfield transportation and international joint ventures in oil & gas exploration.
From 1998 to present Mr. Newton has been the principal of Newton Collaboration, LLC, a Houston Texas-based firm that provides accounting, governance and information systems consulting services to private and public companies, and provided such services to Treaty Energy since its inception. Prior to 1998, Mr. Newton served as corporate controller of Peak USA Energy Services Ltd. of Houston, where he created the Finance Department for a spinoff oilfield transportation joint venture for Nabors Drilling, the world's largest land-rig company and Chesapeake Energy.
Earlier, Mr. Newton was the CFO and Project Manager for Russian-American Oil & Gas Joint Ventures. He was responsible for the implementation of a Joint Russian/GAAP general ledger system that was administrated totally by Russians. He prepared and defended a $200 million operating and capital budget and supervised a Russian accounting staff of fifty.
Randall Newton received a BBA degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Texas, and is fluent in Russian, Spanish and French.
Director
Dan Olson joined Treaty Energy as an Independent Director in October 2009.
Dan Olson has over 30 years of experience in both public and private business, and was a co-founder of Small Cap Consulting, LLC in 2004.
Mr. Olson’s focus over the years has been on start up and developmental companies. His ability to guide companies on achievable goals and then see those goals completed has taken him into various business sectors. The implementation of his management strategies has lead many companies from concept to reality.
Mr. Olson has managed, owned, and served as a director in both private and public companies. He has also spent a portion of his career in mentoring Chief Executive Officers. He holds a post graduate degree in Economics from North Dakota State University.
Director
Paul L. Fourt, Jr. has served as a Director of Treaty Energy Corporation in May 2010.
Mr. Fourt is currently Managing Partner of the Law Offices of Paul L. Fourt, Jr. of Brownsville, Texas, a general practice law firm with a main focus on civil and criminal litigation. From 1999 to 2000 M. Fourt served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Dallas County District Attorney Office.
In prior years, Mr. Fourt was affiliated with a number of Texas law firms, and handled a broad spectrum of legal cases, giving him the broad legal credentials that have prepared him for his current responsibilities.
Mr. Fourt has a J.D. Degree from Oklahoma City University School of Law and a B.A. Degree in History from the University of Texas at Austin