US Chapter Networking Reception and Presentation

Kathleen Eisbrenner is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of NextDecade Corporation. She founded NextDecade in 2010 and served jointly as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until February of 2018. Ms. Eisbrenner was formerly Executive Vice President at Royal Dutch Shell, where she was responsible for the management of the company’s global LNG portfolio and LNG trading business. Prior to Shell, Eisbrenner was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Excelerate Energy, focused on developing the Floating Storage Regasification Unit (“FSRU”) vessel and industry. She also held various senior management positions at El Paso Energy. 

Jeff Hammad has over 20 years experience in commercial project development along the full energy value chain. He began his career with Enron as an Analyst running financial models on investment opportunities in power as well as several international investment opportunities. For the last ten years, Jeff has been employed by Qatar Petroleum and has been seconded to the Golden Pass LNG joint venture where he is currently focused on launching a ten billion dollar investment opportunity in a 15.6mta LNG Export facility.  

Nicholas Fulford is a Chartered Engineer with over 30 years experience in all parts of the natural gas value chain, leads GCA’s gas and LNG practice.  He has a track record in M&A, restructuring and commercial negotiations, with particular emphasis on wholesale and retail gas markets, LNG, unconventional gas and government/regulatory policy.