Miguel Espinosa
President and CEO, The Riverview Group, L.L.C.
Unaffiliated (Independent) Board Member

Miguel Espinosa formed The Riverview Group, L.L.C., a company that provides financial, project finance, and international government relations consulting services, in September 2001. He is currently president and chief executive officer of this company.

Mr. Espinosa began his career at Continental Oil Company's Treasury Department, in Houston. Shortly thereafter he joined Conoco, Inc., where he remained for 36 years. He progressed through various assignments with Conoco in Madrid and London, then returned to the United States to head an office in Stamford, Connecticut, before returning to Houston in 1976. He became the assistant treasurer in 1981, and in August 1998 was elected treasurer where he was responsible for a full array of treasury activities for the company worldwide. He played a major role and/or led Conoco's significant financings from 1976 to 2001, and was a member of the Finance Leadership Team that took Conoco from being a subsidiary of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company to again being a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. He left Conoco in 2001.

He is involved in a variety of community activities, and serves on boards, commissions, and advisory councils at three major universities. He is a member of the board of directors of Fuel Tech, a publicly traded company, headquartered in Batavia, Illinois.

Mr. Espinosa graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor of business administration in 1963 and an MBA in 1965.