GTI elects new board of directors; David Carroll named president/CEO

Pipeline & Gas Journal, Oct, 2006

Gas Technology Institute (GTI) has announced the election of a new board of directors by GTI membership. As part of a major restructuring of the research organization, the number of board members has been reduced from 35 to 14.

Elected for a term expiring in 2009:

* Philip C. Ackerman, chairman, president and CEO, National Fuel Gas Co.

* Randy Barnard, senior vice president, operations, Williams Gas Pipeline (Vice Chair of GTI)

* Mary Jane McCartney, senior vice president, gas operations, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (Chair of GTI)

* John M. Stinson III, principal, John M. Stinson Co., and

* Wm. Michael Warren Jr., chairman, president and CEO, Energen Corp.

For a term expiring in 2008:

* Robert W. Best, chairman, president and CEO, Atmos Energy Corp.

* Charles D. Davidson, chairman, president and CEO, Noble Energy, Inc.

* Robert J. Fani, president and COO, KeySpan Corp.

* John Somerhalder II, president and CEO, AGL Resources Inc., and

* Lori Traweek, senior vice president, operations and engineering management, American Gas Association.

For a term expiring in 2007:

* Peter A. Cistaro, vice president, gas delivery, Public Service Electric & Gas Co.

* Mark T. Maassel, president, Northern Indiana Public Service Co.

* Terry D. McCallister, president and COO, Washington Gas, and

* Lee M. Stewart, senior vice president, Gas Transmission, Sempra Energy Utilities.

The board also named acting president David C. Carroll as president and CEO. Carroll (see July 2006 P&GJ) joined GTI in 2001 as Vice President of Business Development. In that role, he led the effort to expand GTI's customer base and increase revenues from technology-based product and service offerings.

Carroll also served as president of Operations Technology Development, NFP and Utilization Technology Development, NFP, two Illinois-based not-for-profit companies sponsoring collaborative gas industry research.