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Leading Experts on Energy & Industrials

Thomas Shewski

Owner
High Energy Services
What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Thomas Shewski is the Owner of High Energy Services, a firm providing fuel, transportation, emissions, and power plant services to existing and proposed generating plants. Mr. Shewski is currently involved in buying fuel, transportation, and emissions allowances for several generating units acrossthe...

Dennis Fagerstone

Consultant
Dennis Fagerstone
What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Dennis Fagerstone is an independent consultant in the oil and gas industry. Prior, Mr. Fagerstone was an Executive Vice President of International Operations at Pioneer Natural Resources. He began as Executive Vice President following the August 1997 merger of Parker & Parsley with Mesa to form Pioneer....

Doug McVitie, MA, Founder & Chief Consultant, Arran AerospaceDoug McVitie, MA

Founder & Chief Consultant
Arran Aerospace
What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Doug McVitie is the Founder and Chief Consultant at Arran Aerospace, a firm providing consulting services in the aerospace and defense industry. Prior, Mr. McVitie was Director of Sales Intelligence at Airbus in Toulouse, France. He has spent 30 years in the aerospace industry around the world. In1996,...

David Faulkner, President, Decisive Management Professionals International (DMPI), LLCDavid Faulkner

President
Decisive Management Professionals International (DMPI), LLC
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David Faulkner is the Founder and President of Decisive Management Professionals International (DMPI); a defense consulting firm focused on solving Department of Defense (DOD) strategic and operational targeting issues, ranging from operational art and planning doctrine to automation of joint and service...

Ron Turi

Owner and Principal
Element 3 Battery Venture, LLC
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Ron Turi is the Owner of Element 3 Battery Venture, an advanced, large-format, lithium ion battery manufacturing company. Mr. Turi has more than 20 years of experience in product development for packaging materials, imaging products and lithium batteries in battery and coating industries. He possesses...

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GLG NewsSM Analyses in Energy & Industrials(?)

Analyses are solely the work of the authors and have not been edited or endorsed by GLG.

Class 8 Truck Prebuy Is Coming To An End - 2010 Skepticism Here!

November 6, 2009

Jay Thompson, President and General Manager, Transportation Business Associates

Class 8 Orders See Sharp Rise From September | www.truckinginfo.com

FTR Associates President Eric Starks shows North America Class 8 October order numbers at 21,792 trucks. This is a rate more triple than we were seeing February through July of this year - ranging 6,000-8,000 per month and double the August and September numbers. My friend Eric knows the numbers better...

China’s Economy and Construction Boom Creates Huge Floor Covering Potential

November 6, 2009

James Gould, President, The Floor Covering Institute

World Bank Raises Forecast for China's Economy | www.nytimes.com

A new, 40 billion square meter floor covering market is expected to emerge in China between now and 2025. The urbanization of China continues and is expected to increase its cities’ population by another 350 million people, creating demand for as many as five million new buildings. Every square meter...

A major player in diamond production from West Africa?

November 6, 2009

Proposed merger between Stellar Diamonds and West African Diamonds | www.yourminingnews.com

A business combination in the form of a takeover of Western African Diamonds Ltd by Stellar Diamonds Ltd will have little impact on the diamond producing countries of West Africa. Production will remain small in volume and revenue. The combined company as a pure diamond company may have increased attractiveness...

Mr. Buffet, buying a real railroad is not like in the board game.

November 6, 2009

Toby Kolstad, President, Rail Theory Forecasts

Buffett: Railroad business is 'in tune with the future' | www.usatoday.com

Hardly anyone can resist the temptation to by a railroad in the game of “Monopoly.” They are reasonably priced, have OK earnings potential, and if all four are owned, they have outsized rental rates and the payment rates with sites on all four sides of the board. In real life however, railroads are...

Fertilizer Musical Chairs Coming to Sad End- Agrium & CF Industries Last Offers

November 6, 2009

Gary Drimmer, President, Drimmer & Associates International

Agrium increases cash portion of bid in final attempt to buy CF Industries | www.chicagotribune.com

Since the beginning of the year Agrium Inc.  and CF Industries Holdings  Inc.  have been seeking to make a major acquisition in consolidation effort after drop in sector share prices. This week new offers went out and we might be reaching an end to this round of efforts as the outlook for the sector...

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