Thomas S Glanville

Bio

Tom Glanville is the Managing Partner of both Eschelon Energy Partners and Eschelon Advisors. He has 30 years of energy sector experience and leadership positions in both operations and finance. Tom has held leadership positions at Reliant, Enron Corp. and Bankers Trust Company. Tom joined Reliant as Vice President, Corporate Development in 1998 and led the corporate wide review and analysis of a $20 billion merger of equals with a U.K. power generator. As founder of Reliant Energy Ventures, Inc. ("REVI") and its President from 1999 through 2002, Tom had primary responsibility for over $100 million in direct and indirect private equity commitments and was also a member of the "REVI" investment committee, which included the heads of each of Reliant's business units and approved each REVI transaction. In conjunction with these responsibilities, Tom served as Reliant's Vice President, Technology and New Ventures from 1998 through 2002 and as Acting President, Reliant Energy Communications from 2001 through 2002, where he led the management, restructuring and sale of that entity. Tom's tenure at Enron from 1991 to 1998 included service as President of Enron Capital & Trade Resources Canada Corp., the company's integrated Canadian energy merchant. While based in Calgary from 1994 to 1996, he led the company's significant expansion of its physical energy commodity marketing and energy commodity risk management activities and initiated its energy producer finance business. Tom's other positions at Enron included Vice President, Enron Capital & Trade Resources Corp. from 1996 to 1998, Vice President, Enron Finance Corp. from 1992 to 1994 and Vice President, Enron Oil Trading and Transportation Company from 1991 to 1992. At Bankers Trust Company, Tom provided merger and acquisition advisory services to a wide variety of companies in the domestic and international natural resource sector from 1987 to 1991, serving as a vice president in 1990 and 1991. He led the 1990 Japan Petroleum Exploration Company / Osaka Gas Corp. purchase of Universe Tankship, Inc.'s equity stake in the Indonesian Joint Venture, the first commercial liquefied natural gas ("LNG") project in Asia. He also served as a banking officer in the energy group at Texas Commerce Bank, Inc. from 1985 to 1987, and held operating and finance assignments at Mesa Petroleum Co. from 1980 to 1983. Tom has served as director of Itron (see Itron) since 2001 and is a current member of its audit committee with the qualification as a "financial expert". He is also a director of Eschelon portfolio company Chroma Exploration and Production, Inc. (see Chroma), and Strand Energy, LLC (see Strand), and an Advisory Director of Saber Oil and Gas Company, LLC (see Saber). In 2009, Tom was elected President of the Texas Tri-Cities (Houston, Austin, and San Antonio) Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors (see News). Through Eschelon Advisors, LP ("Eschelon Advisors"), his wholly-owned consulting company established in 2003, Tom has served as a consultant to Reliant on its private equity portfolio, in addition to acting in an advisory role for several private companies and investors in the energy sector. Serving as a leader and board member of several Houston not-for-profit entities, Tom is a Past Chairman of the Society of Performing Arts, a Trustee and past member of the Executive Committee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, a Member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and a member of its Audit Committee, and has served as a board member of the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Tom and his wife Liz reside in Houston with their three children - Ali, Mackenzie and Pierce. Serving as a leader and board member of several Houston not-for-profit entities, Tom is a Past Chairman of the Society of Performing Arts, a Trustee and past member of the Executive Committee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, a Member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and a member of its Audit Committee, and has served as a board member of the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Tom and his wife Liz reside in Houston with their three children - Ali, Mackenzie and Pierce. Tom graduated with honors from the University of Virginia in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. He received his Master of Science in Mineral Economics from the Colorado School of Mines in 1984, summa cum laude. His masters thesis was titled "The Relative Economics of Domestic Oil and Gas Exploration and Development 1978-1983" and was presented to the Society of Petroleum Engineers in March 1985.