Dr. Frédéric Briens is the founder of Africa Liquid Energy and a petroleum engineer with a 35-year history of professional experience in the oil and gas industry in all parts of the world. Dr. Briens has held the highest positions within oil and gas exploration and production companies as well as in well services companies. He has spent the past ten year in Africa working on exploration, appraisal, development and production of oil, and other projects linked to the oil and gas industry in Gabon, Uganda, Tanzania, and Mozambique. During these years, he has identified the potential of gas to help countries make progress towards their energy independence. Several African oil producers do not refine their own crude and hence import 100% of their diesel needs. They also often flare gas that can be used to substitute substantial amounts of imported diesel. Capturing this gas helps not only to reduce diesel imports but also significantly reduce the emission of green effect gases and help countries comply with international climate conventions. Dr Briens holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Centrale de Paris, an MSc and a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA from Colorado State University.

Mr. Rob Kayser is an upstream oil and gas production and field manager with over 35 years of hands-on experience internationally. He has worked in offshore and onshore fields in Syria, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Australia, Canada, and in Africa from 2012, in Chad, Madagascar, and Kenya. Mr. Kayser was in charge of all field development and most recently exploration and appraisal activities in Kenya, working back to back with Mr. Jon Erickson. Mr. Kayser was instrumental in the implementation of significant cost-reduction initiatives.

Mr. Payne is Co-founder of Africa Liquid Energy and Co-founder and Principal for the Last Mile Energy overseeing both domestic and international projects including new opportunity sourcing, development, and deal execution for the firm. Prior to co-founding Last Mile Energy, Mr. Payne was part of the founding management team of NuBlu Energy and was instrumental in the funding development, and commissioning of NuBlu’s advanced technology liquefaction plant currently operational in Port Allen, Louisiana. Since 2016, Mr. Payne has led business development for NuBlu having amassed a pipeline of LNG plant opportunities with a value of over $2 billion. Under Mr. Payne leadership, NuBlu secured its first commitment from a large international conglomerate to purchase a new build LNG plant totaling anticipated to produce approximately 250,000 gallons per day. The first of its kind, once deployed, this LNG plant will be the first Flare Gas-to-LNG operational in the market today. Mr. Payne is also in final negotiations with one of the most influential natural gas companies in the eastern Mediterranean related to deploying up to 6 LNG plants to serve base-load demand, peak-load demand, and industrial customers. Once commenced, these LNG plants will stabilize the region’s access to liquid natural gas storage and greatly reduce the risk of an existing offshore FSRU being targeted as an international asset of interest for potential destabilization. Additionally, Mr. Payne is currently developing a number of Marine-to-LNG opportunities that will provide significant contracted volume to Last Mile’s LNG platform within the Gulf Coast markets Prior to NuBlu Energy, he worked in the CNG industry selling and building CNG stations for public and private entities. Before his entry into the natural gas industry he owned a successful renewable energy company that implemented solar thermal solutions into poultry farms. Mr. Payne earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing from Stephen F. Austin State University in 1995.

Mr. Curry is a Co-Founder of Africa Liquid Energy and Co-Founder and Principal of Last Mile Energy, a liquid gas monetization platform focused on select, distributed natural gas initiatives related to plant acquisition, advanced technology applications, and infrastructure deployment including leading strategies to drive the exportation of US natural gas and related cryogenic infrastructure to international markets. Last Mile Energy and its affiliates currently supply LNG to power, mining, and bunkering applications, among other burner tip and will in short order become one of the most powerful LNG players in the Americas including bringing a commanding market stance on the global stage. Last Mile Energy is currently in the process of deploying an aggressive roll-up strategy via acquiring a portfolio of small-to-mid scale LNG production facilities/terminals allowing significant expansion capacities in addition to consolidating the assets of NuBlu Energy, a Texas-based liquefaction technology provider, that owns a small-scale LNG plant located in Port Allen, LA. Mr. Curry oversee all functions of the business and primarily focuses on corporate finance, structuring, and deal execution for the firm including directing the Company’s acquisitions, new growth projects, partnerships, & capital structuring strategies. Since 2013, Mr. Curry built the largest US LNG platform serving industrial and aggregate markets deploying over 30 multi-application LNG storage & regasification systems in over 20 states and brings has deep relationships and experience within distributed LNG market having pioneered the off-grid, small-scale LNG infrastructure market in the US. In 2014, Mr. Curry secured equity from T. Boone Pickens in order to fund natural gas infrastructure, power and logistics/distribution investments. Blue Roads was the first company dedicated to the delivery of LNG to the high horsepower, construction industry in the US and under Mr. Curry’s oversight, Blue Roads grew to become the largest provider of LNG to the aggregates, minerals, and sand industry in North America with operations in 17 states. Mr. Curry remains a shareholder in Blue Roads. Mr. Curry has over 16 years of experience in natural gas, energy finance, venture capital, and capital markets having worked in the hedge fund, buy-side space where he underwrote direct portfolio investments and managed portfolio companies within a variety of sectors including esoteric asset classes. Prior to 2014, Mr. Curry spent eight years in private equity and finance with an emphasis on aggregation of financial assets via various leveraged capital structures. Prior to focusing on private equity, Mr. Curry began his career as an analyst for Citigroup, Inc. after earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Real Estate Finance from the M.J. Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University in 2005.