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2010 POWERFUL HISPANICS IN ENERGY GEISHA WILLIAMS


Senior Vice President, Energy Delivery Pacific Gas And Electric Company


stu LIVIA WHISENHUNT Founder, CEO


PS Energy Group, Inc.


She Blazes New Trails Livia Whisenhunt is a pioneer. In 1985, she founded PS Energy Group, Inc., in Atlanta, as a wholesale marketer of bulk transporta- tion fuels such as gasoline and diesel fuel. A year later, she began selling natural gas to businesses and the government. By 1989, Whisenhunt added retail sales to the mix, and became one of Georgia’s first certified marketers of deregulated natural gas. As the nation’s fourth largest Hispanic-owned company, PS Energy provides transportation fuels, emergency fueling, and fleet management services, including etrac™, a telematics solution that helps improve productivity, profitability, and the quality of the environment through better asset monitoring and vehicle tracking. Loomis, an international cash-handling company with more than 3,000 vehicles, is one of many customers that monitor their fleets through PS Energy’s etrac™. Such expertise gets one noticed. In recent years, Whisenhunt has served on a variety of state and federal committees and boards that have studied subjects including the deregulation of natural gas distribution, and the enforcement activities of federal regulatory agencies as they impact small business. Consequently, she has received many honors. These include recognition as the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Com- merce Small Business Person of the Year, being dubbed the Southeast Wholesale Entrepneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, and winning five consecutive Administra- tor’s Awards for Excellence from the United States Small Business Administration.


Do It Right, Do It Safely


Geisha Williams is all about safety, for her more than 7,000 employees, and in the reliable delivery of gas and electric- ity to more than 15 million Californians. Her broad responsibilities include the maintenance, construction and restora- tion of PG&E’s gas and electric trans- mission and distribution systems. Since joining PG&E in 2007, she has made dramatic progress in the areas of em- ployee safety, gas and electric reliability, environmental leadership, and effective project execution her hallmark. Under her guidance, in the last 30 months Energy Delivery has reduced its OSHA recordable incidents rate by over 60 percent. Williams’ organization was also an integral part of PG&E’s reduction of electric outage frequency to its lowest level in 22 years. Prior to joining PG&E , Williams spent nearly 25 years working for Florida Power and Light. She has a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineer- ing from the University of Miami and an M.B.A. from Nova Southeastern University. Williams is also a graduate of Leadership Florida, a member of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies and on the board of direc- tors of the American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter.


www.hispanicengineer.com stu JAVIER LOYA


Chairman, CEO and Co-founder, OTC Global Holdings Scoring Big in Energy


OTC Global Holdings is an independent inter-dealer broker in over-the-counter energy commodities—in other words, a middleman facilitating energy deals. In 2007, Javier Loya co-founded the Hous- ton and New York co-headquartered firm. It has 18 energy-related companies in its portfolio. Pooling the resources of many companies allows them to share the risks and leverage their cash. BusinessWeek says OTC Global Holdings “offers various options, swaps, deriva-


tives, and index-related products for natural gas delivery points and power products,” provides liquidity to the New York Mercantile Exchange, and energy services to energy traders and commod- ity markets. Loya, who has a Bachelor of Science degree in political science from Columbia University, co-founded his first firm in the sector, Choice Energy Group, in 1994. It was one of the early institu- tional natural gas brokers after deregula- tion. Prior to that, Loya was a natural gas options broker with First National Crude Oil managing accounts with oil companies, natural gas producers, elec- trical utilities, institutional banks and en- ergy marketers. The El Paso, Texas native has deep roots in community service. Among other groups, he is a member of The Houston Hispanic Chamber of Com- merce, the Houston Minority Business Council, and the Young Entrepreneurs Organization. He is a supporter of The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, AIDS Foundation Houston, American Cancer Society, Oasis Haven for Women and Children, and the March of Dimes. Loya, an avid fan, and former football player at Columbia, is also a minority owner of the NFL Houston Texans.


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