senior management

Terry A. Newendorp
Chairman and CEO

Terry Newendorp, founder of Taylor-DeJongh, has more than 35 years of experience in international and cross-border capital investments, global financial structuring, project financing, and debt and equity raising and private placements of capital. He has negotiated and closed deals in 75 countries, aggregating more than $70 billion, primarily in the energy, oil & gas, petrochemicals, telecommunications, metals & mining, and infrastructure sectors. In addition to extensive experience structuring commercial bank loans globally, he has complete familiarity with government and multilateral financing institutions, including the export credit agencies of most of the developed world. He has extensive experience developing projects, securing debt and equity and closing transactions.

He has served as financial advisor for 22 trains of LNG production, 77,426 megawatts of power generation, and 26,410 kilometers of pipelines. Since 2006, he has advised the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe on energy security issues. Mr. Newendorp has supervised over 250 IPP financial advisories, of which 7 were the first of their kind in the host country.

Mr. Newendorp was awarded the honor "Superstar Team, Asia/Middle East Oil and Gas," received the "Independent Energy 25-year All-Star Award" for energy finance, and has received international recognition for success in energy finance globally. He was the overall leader for advisory teams that have won 12 "Deal of the Year" awards since 1999.

Mr. Newendorp received his J.D. cum laude from The George Washington University School of Law and his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University. Washington, D.C.

Laurent Lavigne du Cadet
Deputy CEO

Laurent Lavigne du Cadet is an experienced senior manager with over 20 years in international business, as a company founder, decision maker, investment banker and financial advisor. He has been the CEO of several global investment companies and a Fund Manager and has raised more than $3 billion during his career.

He is a specialist in mergers and acquisitions, project financing and direct investment with a main focus in the oil and gas industry, power industry, in real estate and in infrastructure. He has extensive experience in high level negotiations between western industrial/financial groups and governments or public authorities. Mr. Lavigne du Cadet has developed an expertise in business takeovers and corporate turn around and restructurings.

Laurent Lavigne du Cadet was most recently the Chief Executive Officer of Amwal, the largest Qatari Investment Bank owned by the most important financial institutions of Qatar. Prior to joining Amwal, Mr. Lavigne du Cadet was Head of the oil, gas, and energy investment banking group of Millennium Finance Corporation, a subsidiary of Dubai Islamic Bank, for both equity and debt offerings of energy companies and was the Fund Manager of the Millennium Global Energy Fund.

During his 20 years of experience in the energy sector, he acted as a financial adviser and an M&A banker for some of the largest European and American corporations, such as Total, Technip, Pride International, General Electric and Alstom. He successfully advised RAK Petroleum on its first investment in an Australian oil and gas exploration and production company. He also structured the first ever done Shariah compliant mezzanine fund and structured financing of one of the largest real estate projects in Qatar.

He was the founder and Managing Partner of Alternative Finance Partners, a merchant bank specializing in oil and gas project development and financing with a particular emphasis on upstream and midstream projects.

Mr. Lavigne du Cadet holds a business school diploma from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, Rouen, France and a Master of Science degree in International Finance from the University of Paris IX Dauphine.

Kathryn D. Lindquist
Chief Marketing Officer

Kathryn Lindquist, with 23 years of international business experience, manages the marketing, market research and administration of the firm. She is responsible for developing all press, advertising and marketing materials, speaking engagements, journal article publications, the website, sponsorship activities and all research required for the firm. She manages recruitment, staff training, and the intern program. Other responsibilities include overseeing the administration of the foreign offices and business development activities with U.S. and foreign government agencies for government side advisories.

She founded InterCommerce Corporation, an international marketing and business development company. Ms Lindquist was previously a senior international trade specialist at the Office of International Trade for the state of Maryland, and was in sales and marketing for a US headquartered medical products company, working in Paris.

Ms. Lindquist holds an M.B.A. in International Marketing from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a B.A. in French, Spanish and Education from Morningside College. Washington, D.C.

David Suratgar
Member, Board of Directors

David Suratgar has more than 30 years of infrastructure project finance experience. He is a former vice-chairman of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (DMG) and member of the board for Banque Morocaine du Commerce Exterieur and senior advisor to the Chairman.

Mr. Suratgar was responsible for project financing, external debt management advice (syndicated loans, bond issues and export credit procurement advice), debt restructuring, rescheduling and buybacks and debt-equity conversions. He established and managed the international privatization team.

He is a member of the board of The Major Projects Association in London; a member of the board of Multi-Manager Fund Ltd; a senior research fellow and member of the Advisory Council, International Law Institute in Washington, D.C. Mr. Suratgar was responsible for helping to establish the Training Center in International Investment Negotiations, (Privatization and Project Finance for trainees from Emerging Market countries). He teaches "Financing of Development Projects and Techniques for Privatization in Developing Countries," at the School of Law, University of Georgia.

Mr. Suratgar holds an M.A. (Law) from Oxford University, a Master of International Affairs and ABT in International and Comparative Law from Columbia University, and an AMP — Corporate Finance from Harvard Business School, Hague Academy of International Law. London