C. Michael Ming currently serves as the Marketing and Technology Vice President Executive Liaison for Baker Hughes, a GE company at the company’s Oil & Gas Technology Center in Oklahoma City. He formerly served as the Oklahoma Secretary of Energy under Governor Mary Fallin, the President of the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America, RPSEA, and as an independent natural gas producer as a Managing Member and principal of K. Stewart Energy Group and K. Stewart Petroleum Corp. He holds a BS degree with distinction in Petroleum Engineering and an MS degree in Engineering Management, both from Stanford University, and is a Registered Professional Engineer in Oklahoma. At Stanford Mr. Ming is an emeritus member and past Chairman of the Petroleum Investments Committee and co-sponsored the MAP/Ming Visiting Professorship on Energy and the Environment. He also currently serves on the Oklahoma Business Roundtable Executive Committee, and the Central Oklahoma United Way and OKOGA Boards of Directors, and industry advisory boards at the University of Texas BEG, Oklahoma University, and Tulsa University. He formerly served on the MIT Future of Natural Gas Study, as an adjunct professor in Energy Management at the University of Oklahoma, on the Stanford School of Earth Sciences Dean’s Advisory Board, and as an oil & gas strategic planning advisor to the Department of Energy.