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Frank Weisser has twenty-seven years investment banking experience with a focus on the natural gas industry since late 1983. After eight years as a generalist investment banker at Merrill Lynch, he joined the Energy Group at Morgan Stanley. In 1984, he sponsored and co-founded the Natural Gas Clearinghouse (now Dynegy), which became the largest independent marketer of natural gas in North America. |
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He moved to the Morgan Stanley Utility Group in 1985 as the senior
investment banker for the natural gas industry. He joined Bear Stearns as head of the Energy Group in 1988. Over his career he has been responsible for initiating, successfully structuring and negotiating
numerous merger, acquisition and divestiture assignments for oil and gas companies, natural gas pipeline and distribution companies and electric utilities. He has arranged numerous offerings of debt, preferred,
common stock and convertible securities for the full range of energy clients. He has also been responsible for successfully launching several new products in the U.S. capital markets including Credit Sensitive Notes
(Enron), Spread Protected Debt Securities (Transco) and LIBOR based Floating Rate Medium Term Notes (Ford Motor Credit). He was the financial advisor to Enron's natural gas production payment securitization program.
Frank co-founded Weisser, Johnson & Co. in 1991. |
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Previous Employment |
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1988 - 1991 |
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Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. |
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Managing Director and Head of the Energy Group |
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1982 - 1988 |
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Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. |
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1974 - 1982 |
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Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. |
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1971 - 1972 |
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Shell Oil Company |
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Calumet Gas Plant Engineer in New Orleans |
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1970 - 1971 |
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US Navy Civil Engineer Corps |
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Management Officer at Public Works Center, Yokosuka Japan |
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1968 - 1969 |
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Shell Chemical Company |
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Engineer at Deer Park, Texas Petrochemical Complex |
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Education |
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1972 - 1974 |
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University of Michigan |
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MBA and MS Chemical Engineering |
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1964 - 1968 |
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University of Texas |
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BS Chemical Engineering |
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