Howard G. Blunk is founder and owner of OGC Consulting, an independent oil and gas consulting firm. He held a variety of accounting/audit supervisory and managerial positions, both domestically and internationally, in a 23 year career with Chevron before founding OGC. As author of PDI’s course books for both Joint Interest Accounting and Joint Venture Auditing, Mr. Blunk has combined these works into an integrated course book and teaching guide for PDI’s NAASJIO program. Having held a variety of leadership positions in COPAS, Mr. Blunk provides an authoritative, and insightful, look into the application of the COPAS guidelines that impact the Joint Interest arena.

Linda Heller has held leadership positions in finance, sales, operations, revenue recovery and fraud investigation.  She is a high-energy leader who excels in team building and development and who shares her knowledge and skills learned over a 38-year career at AT&T.  She is a graduate of the University of Texas and has been recognized as a Houston Women of Excellence Award recipient, International Who's Who of Professionals and the Lexington's Who's Who Registry. Linda was elected the first National President of the AT&T Professional Women's group and was the winner of the RAVE (Recognition Award for Value and Excellence) award in addition to numerous other awards.

Mr. Hoffman is National Director of Business Development and Sales for the Professional Development Institute of the University of North Texas. Prior to joining PDI, he held positions of Vice President of Sales for Artesia Data Systems, Vice President of Business Development for Novoforum, Global Director of Solutions Architecture for Oracle Energy, Director of Sales for PricewaterhouseCoopers' MCS Energy division. His career in oil and gas spans 30 years.   He holds a BS in Systems Science from Michigan State University.

Mr. Looney has more than 25 years supervisory experience in all phases of finance and accounting for the energy industry. He is a registered CPA for both Oklahoma and Texas. He is a former manager of Amerada Hess Corporation, where he supervised a revenue department of 75 people. He was responsible for recording all gas, gas plant and oil revenue.

Dave Loucks is the Director of Business Development for Assent Data, a Denver based software firm and developer of the Assent line of software products for the oil & gas industry.  Dave spent over a decade as an external auditor serving oil & gas exploration and production companies with Deloitte & Touche, BDO Seidman, and Hein & Associates.  He has been a frequent presenter to COPAS, audit firms, and other oil and gas companies on SFAS 143, oil and gas accounting, and the impact of SOX on oil & gas.  He is a CPA in Colorado and a member of the AICPA and the Colorado Society of Certified Public Accountants and a long time participant in the public company practice committee at the Colorado Society. Dave is a graduate of the University of Denver.

Mr. Miranda has been a CPA since 1984. As a former tax partner for KPMG, he worked with a variety of clients of different sizes in different industries. While there, he became editor for the annual updates to the oil and gas text that began as Burk & Bowhay’s “Income Taxation of Natural Resources” in 1954. This book was updated annually every year from 1954-2000. As editor, he rewrote a lot of material in the book as tax laws changed over the years and eventually became a co-author. He also worked on advising clients on the income tax aspects of e-commerce, the Internet, and other technology ventures as part of the KPMG e-Tax team.

Dick Moore has more than 30 years experience in the energy industry including jobs in both regulated and unregulated segments of this industry. He has held senior management positions in oil and gas production companies, interstate and intrastate natural gas pipelines, gas and electric utilities as well as natural gas gathering, processing and marketing companies.

Dr. Nichols is Professor and Director of Accounting Programs at Texas Tech University. After a successful career in the oil & gas industry, she pursued her PhD in Accounting at Louisiana State University. Linda continues to be heavily involved with the oil industry through consulting and providing training for oil companies in Angola, Nigeria, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Thailand, Hungary, the United Kingdom, Australia, and in the U.S. Linda is co-author of a textbook in the field, Fundamentals of Oil and Gas Accounting, published by PennWell. She also serves as Associate Editor of the Oil, Gas and Energy Quarterly, and serves on the Editorial Board of the Petroleum Accounting and Financial Management Journal.

Dennis is an internationally experienced professional with executive level responsibility as a business unit leader, consultant, author and speaker.  He has an extensive background in project, business and risk management and consulting.  Dennis served as co-chairman of a professional service firm's energy industry program, assurance partner on large public company engagements with extensive international operations, global leader of the firm's international energy industry risk management practice and as a member of its global risk management executive committee.  He is principal co-author of Petroleum Accounting:  Principles, Procedures & Issues, 4th and 5th editions and has authored many articles and publications.  He held numerous leadership positions in several professional and community associations and served on the AICPA's Sustainability Task Force which produced SOP 03-2 Attest Engagements on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Information.  He was a deputy director with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and leader of the PCAOB's Southwest Region.  Dennis is director-in-residence for the Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance and has served as an adjunct lecturer to graduate university programs.

Mr. Reeder has worked as an oil industry accountant since 1979 including positions with Exxon Corp., Kerr-McGee Corp. and today as an independent financial consultant. He focuses primarily on exploration and production work and was posted in Guangzhou and Beijing, China and now travels frequently to China as a consultant.

Jay Roy, CMA, MBA, is president of Strategic Compliance Group, Inc., which is a dedicated compliance company specializing in SEC and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. He is a financial professional well versed in SEC regulations, financial audits and SOX initiatives.

Marty Stetzer’s specialty is downstream petroleum operations, especially supply and trading. In 2001, he led supply chain evaluation work with Shell in Europe. He has developed a participative-interactive training course covering petroleum upstream, midstream and downstream, including OPEC, supply-demand, upstream and midstream operations, refining, transportation and distribution, trading, risk management and marketing. The course has benefited more than 250 multi-national staff across the USA, Russia, Europe and India. He has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kettering Institute in Michigan and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

John C. Tripp, Ph.D., CPA is a Professor of Taxation in the Graduate Tax Program and the School of Accountancy at the University of Denver. Dr. Tripp has been teaching income taxation at D.U. since 1979, specializing in the taxation of natural resources, property transactions and consolidated returns. He has worked at Ernst & Young as a Visiting Professor. He is an active member of the American Taxation Association; a former Trustee of COPAS-Colorado a past member of the Washington, D.C. S Corporation Study Group, as well as past Treasurer of the Denver Tax Group. He has served on several tax committees of the Colorado Society of CPA’s; and is a member of the University of Denver’s Tax Institute Planning Committee.