John J. McKenna
Chairman and CEO

(202) 461-2252 office
(703) 405-0881 cell

john.mckenna@hamiltonclark.com

John is a career energy and technologies commercial and investment banker.

From 1971 to 1981 he was a commercial banker at Citibank in New York. From 1973 to 1976 he was an officer in Citibank’s consumer non-durables group where he handled food companies and farmer cooperatives, and from 1976 to 1981 he was a Vice President and Team Leader in Citibank’s petroleum group where he managed large and complex oil and gas project financings, and synthetic and alternative energy financing.

From 1981 until the present he has been an investment banker. From 1981 to 1985 he was a Managing Director and head of the independent oil and gas group at Dean Witter Reynolds (now Morgan Stanley) in Houston, and from 1985 to 1989 he was a Managing Director and head of the Houston investment banking office of Lehman Brothers. In 1989 he started McKenna & Company and McKenna Securities Company, a member of the NASD and SIPC. In 1996, McKenna & Company was sold to Price Waterhouse and he became head of the Price Waterhouse energy investment banking group in Houston. He later was transferred to Washington, DC to manage the Project Finance and Privatization Group and started the energy technologies group at PricewaterhouseCoopers Securities.

From 2001 to 2003 he was the Chief Financial Officer at STM Power, a leading developer of kinematic Stirling cycle engines for distributed energy production.

In 2003 he co-founded Hamilton Clark & Co. and Hamilton Clark Securities Company.

He has served on the boards of Equus Corporation, a business development company (now NYSE:EQS), Proler International Corp., which at the time of its acquisition was the world’s largest scrap steel recycler (formerly NYSE:PS), STM Power and numerous charitable and civic organizations.

During 2007 and 2008 he was a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the joint DOE/USDA Biomass Research and Development Initiative, located at www.brdisolutions.com.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service degree from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and has served as an Adjunct Professor at the McDonough Graduate School of Business at Georgetown where he taught the course titled Project Finance.

He is a General Securities Principal and holds Series 7, 24, 63 and 79 licenses.

Ross F Crawford
Managing Director

(713) 658-8080 office
(713) 203-1902 cell

ross.crawford@hamiltonclark.com

Prior to joining HamiltonClark as a managing Director, Ross was President and Managing Partner of the private merchant banking firm, Dominion Financial Partners, LLC which he co-founded in 1988. He also served as President of its NASD registered broker dealer, Dominion Financial Securities Company.

Additionally during this period, he served as COO and a Director of two diversified middle market companies, Ruska Instruments, a manufacturer of pressure instrumentation products and HydroTech Systems, an engineering company and manufacturer of high pressure sub-sea pipeline connecting devices. His merger and acquisition experience was broadened by having initiated and led the execution teams for the sale of each of these companies during his operational tenure.

He is an active investor in early stage energy technology ventures. He was a co-founder of the Houston Angel Network, and has judged investment proposals for the Houston Technology Center, the Rice University Alliance, the NREL Industry Growth Forum and the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. Prior to 1988 he had a successful career spanning nearly 20 years in corporate banking and management with Houston-based First City Bancorporation.

He graduated from the University of the Pacific with a BA in International Relations in 1965 and then worked at the U. S. Army Security Agency. Since 1982, he has served on the World Business Advisory Council of the Thunderbird, American Graduate School of International Management and is a member of the Houston Venture Capital Association and the Houston Angel Network.

He is a General Securities Principal. He holds Series 7, 24, 63 and 79 licenses.