OGOS Energy LLC: Leadership Team Bios
Lt. General Joe N. Ballard, U.S. Army (Ret.) - Chairman, OGOS Energy LLC
General Ballard is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Ravens Group, an international business services corporation.
LTG Ballard’s last military assignment was as the 49th Chief of Engineers and Commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He managed all missions including the nation’s vast civil works program, environmental restoration and construction on military installations, with a budget totaling more than $16 billion. Prior to that, LTG Ballard was the Chief of Staff for the United States Army Training and Doctrine, responsible for headquarters and installation operations, training and budget management for over 20 major training and operational bases throughout the U.S.
Ballard, a registered professional engineer in civil engineering, graduated from Southern University in Louisiana with a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, earned a Master’s Degree in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri, and later graduated from the Army Command and General Staff College and from the Army War College.
Michael G. Miller - Chief Executive Officer, OGOS Energy LLC
Michael Miller has twelve years of public utility experience focused in the areas of corporate finance, strategic planning, and real estate portfolio management. While serving as a Finance and Strategy Consultant at WGL Holdings, Inc., Miller developed the business case for construction of a new LNG peaking plant; completed valuations in support of acquisition/ divestiture decisions pertaining to unregulated retail energy marketing subsidiaries; built the company’s New Business Acceptance Pricing Model for extension of the distribution system; and led the annual capital projects approval cycle. He developed the strategy for relocation of the company's central operations center.
Prior to working in the utility industry, Miller held various finance and development positions at HealthExtras, Inc., PepsiCo and IBM. Concurrently from 1990 to date, Miller, doing business as the Arundel Group, has developed and managed a commercial property portfolio and provided business advisory services to growth-oriented small businesses.
Miller serves as an appointed commissioner on the Maryland Venture Fund Authority as well as on the Maryland Video Lottery Facility Location Commission. He is a Board Member of the District 30 Democratic Club in Annapolis, MD. Miller is a graduate of Yale University, and holds an MBA in Finance from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.
Miller also serves as the President and Chief Operating Officer of SCS Energy Offshore LLC and SCS Maryland Energy LLC.
Louis G. Hutt, Esq., CPA - Secretary, OGOS Energy LLC
Lou Hutt manages The Hutt Law Firm, as well as The Hutt Co. Certified Public Accountants in Columbia, MD. Hutt is Chair of the Audit Committee of Washington University in St. Louis, Vice Chair of Howard County Community College, Treasurer of Horizon Health Foundation of Maryland, Director of Advance Mutual Savings Bank, and a Member of the Regulatory Fairness Board of SBA. Hutt is a published author of business self-help books and the host of The Lou Hutt Show each Saturday morning on SiriusXM Radio. His program has been widely praised for effectively featuring provocative interviews plus practical guidance and information focused on entrepreneurial, legal and tax concerns pertaining to both businesses and individuals.
Hutt earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis, and his J.D. for University of Maryland School of Law.
Westley Sholes - Treasurer, OGOS Energy LLC
Westley Sholes was an early investor in OGOS Energy, and has over thirty five years of executive level experience with an emphasis on strategic planning and overall management of health care systems. He is a former Deputy Director, Administrative Services of the Los Angeles County Department of Health. His extensive leadership experiences include service as Vice President and Board member of the National Organization of Black County Officials (NOBCO). Wes is currently principal of Sholes and Associates where he provides management consulting in the areas of strategic planning, business development and executive training. He earned a B.S. from Xavier University of Louisiana, followed by an M.P.A. at the University of Southern California.
Charles A. Worrell, Ph.D. - Director
Charles Worrell is a Principal Scientist at the MITRE Corporation where he serves on the Innovation Leadership Team, managing research and development portfolios, developing new intellectual property, and cultivating technical innovations. He manages teams that apply artificial intelligence to forecast the performance of future systems, and detect anomalous events in complex data sets.
Worrell has previously served as Director of Systems Development for the American Automobile Association’s (AAA) Response Services Center, and managed the construction of inter-city networks for Verizon. While serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy, he completed multiple tours at sea specializing in operations and navigation, as well as managing marine construction projects at both the NASSCO Shipbuilding Company, and the Long Beach Naval Shipyard. He currently holds a 100 Ton Master Mariner License from the U.S. Coast Guard.
Worrell received a BA in Regional Science and Environmental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and an MS in Systems Management from the Naval Postgraduate School. He also holds a Ph. D. in Information Technology from George Mason University.
Bruce Curry - Director
Bruce Curry is a retired Naval Captain with 30 years of service and numerous military awards. He now serves as the Branch Chief of the Plans Policy Division at U.S. Central Command, MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. He has over 20 years of fiscal, project management, and leadership experience.
Captain Curry was the Commanding Officer (CEO/COO) of the USS McFAUL (DDG 74) and the USS Monterey (CG 61) whereby he made several combat deployments to the Arabian Gulf for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Each ship won Battle Efficiency “E” for operational excellence and two Navy Unit Citations. He also managed a $1.2 billion physical plant (Aegis Guided Missile Cruiser and Destroyer) and over $5 million annual budget. In Maryland, Captain Curry served as Chairman, Seamanship & Navigation Department of the U. S. Naval Academy from 2001-2004 and simultaneously directed the Academy’s summer program while Dean of Students, Education Supervisor and College Professor.
Curry graduated from the Naval Academy with merit in 1981 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Science. He received a Master’s Degree in Science from the Naval Post-Graduate School and obtained a Master’s Degree in Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College.
Hon. Kurt L. Schmoke - Director
The Honorable Kurt L. Schmoke is Vice President, General Counsel and acting Provost of Howard University in Washington, D.C. As a three-term mayor (1987-1999) of the city of Baltimore, Maryland, Schmoke was a trail-blazing elected political leader and was ultimately responsible for managing municipal operating and special fund budgets exceeding $2 billion.
Widely respected for his legal and business acumen, Schmoke serves on several Boards of Directors including the Carnegie Corporation of New York, McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and Legg Mason Global Asset Management.
Schmoke graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in history from Yale University, attended the University of Oxford in England as a Rhodes Scholar, and earned his Law Degree from Harvard University.
Donella P. Brockington - Director
Donella Brockington is Vice President of Sales for the Government and Transportation Sector (GTS) line of business of Xerox Services (ACS). Based in Washington, D.C., she is responsible for growing GTS’ largest contracts in the region. Brockington joined ACS (then Lockheed Martin) in 1988 as Vice President of Municipal Marketing. During her career, she has received numerous awards including the 2001 inaugural Heroines in Technology Lifetime Achievement Award from the March of Dimes.
Before joining ACS, Brockington served as real property administrator for the D.C. Government Previously as senior operations analyst for the City, she developed highly successful programs for replacing commercial water meters and for eliminating a backlog of water billing accounts. Brockington is a member of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, and a member of the Women’s Advisory Board of the Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital.
Brockington earned her Bachelor’s Degree at Clark University in Massachusetts and two Master’s Degrees, in Urban Systems Engineering and in Guidance and Counseling, from Howard University.
Karen J. Neale - Director
Karen J. Neale is a federal government relations executive with extensive experience representing business, industry, municipalities and universities in a bi-partisan manner on environmental and energy issues. She is widely recognized for effectively leading teams within companies and organizations with diverse expertise and interests in developing policy and implementing strategy.
Currently Neale is principal at Hummingbird Strategies LLC, a Washington D.C. based consultancy that focuses on sustaining energy and environmental resources, and on climate change. Neale is retired from International Paper (paper and packaging) where she was the Federal Government Relations Manager for Environment. Early in her career, Neale served as the Liaison to Business, Industry and Agriculture for Congress’ National Commission on Air Quality.
Neale is an active member of the American Association of Blacks in Energy, and the Washington Government Relations Group. She earned a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University and an MS in Environmental Management from the University of Maryland University College. Neale also completed the Executive MBA Program at Kellogg School of Management.
Ernest Lattimer - Member
Ernest is an automotive dealership supply chain sales and marketing executive. He has over 25 years of business-to-business sales experience. Lattimer is a graduate of Rutgers University.
Stanley E. Wood - Director
Stanley Wood has over twenty-two years of experience in information technology and is the Founder and President of Integrated Business Information Systems Inc. (IBIS). Wood has enabled IBIS to help private sector companies; including ACN Energy, Motorola, Random House, Thomson Financial Services; trade associations; and federal and state government agencies including the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). IBIS specializes in assisting organizations to improve efficiency, share information across functional areas, re-engineer business processes and reduce transaction costs by effectively linking clients directly to their customers and suppliers across the enterprise.
Under Wood's guidance, IBIS facilitated a Regional Consortium consisting of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the New Jersey Highway Authority, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, the South Jersey Transportation Authority, and the Delaware Department of Transportation in the implementation of "E-Z Pass", a $500 million electronic toll collection system, that was the largest implementation of its kind at that time.
Mr. Wood received his International Executive MBA from Georgetown University and his BS in Physics from Morgan State University.
Alyson L. Hall, MD - Member
Dr. Alyson Hall, a board-certified ophthalmologist, has practiced medicine in Maryland since 1998. The Glaucoma Center, P.C., which she founded in 2001, is devoted exclusively to thoughtful, comprehensive glaucoma care with an overriding goal to provide the complete spectrum of medical and surgical care for her patients.
A New York native, Dr. Hall earned her Bachelor's of Science in Chemistry from Spelman College. She attended medical school at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She completed her Ophthalmology residency at the State University of New York at Stonybrook-Nassau County Medical Center and her glaucoma fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania Scheie Eye Institute.
Joseph L. Mayfield - Director
Joseph L. Mayfield has an extensive background in corporate finance, cost management and operations. Most recently, he spent two years as an Operating Partner and CFO of Hart Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in the education industry.
Prior to retirement, Mr. Mayfield served as a Division Head at Time Inc., where he managed 16 departments and a staff of 300 with an overall annual budget in excess of $300 million. Mayfield was responsible for global real estate, which encompassed construction management, facilities administration, procurement, general services, infrastructure support, and related finance and budgeting. In this role, Mr. Mayfield oversaw extensive business process re-engineering and successfully led multi-disciplined teams that generated over $800 million in cumulative cost savings over a fifteen year period. Prior to Time Inc., Mr. Mayfield held financial management positions in investment analysis, M&A, planning and capital budgeting at American National Can Company and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. He started his professional career in 1976 in the Treasury Division of the DuPont Company.
Mr. Mayfield’s community service and volunteer commitments have included leadership positions on the National Board of Directors of Girl Scouts of the USA, the Board of Opportunities Industrialization Centers International, the Board of the University of Michigan Alumni Society, and membership in the Executive Leadership Council.
Mr. Mayfield received his B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University and his M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Michigan.
Beverly J. Burke - Member
Beverly J. Burke is a Member/Investor in OGOS Energy LLC. Ms. Burke served as Vice President and General Counsel of WGL Holdings, Inc. for 10 years before her retirement at the end of 2011. In total, Ms. Burke has over 20 years of energy industry experience, addressing legal, regulatory and business issues pertaining to the regulated local distribution company activities of WGL as well as the Holding Company’s growth and expansion into non-regulated energy services including gas and electricity marketing, renewable energy generation, mid-stream investments and energy asset management.
For 10 years prior to joining Washington Gas, Ms. Burke had progressive responsibility within the legal office of the District of Columbia government, including litigation and trials, appellate advocacy, Special Counsel and leader of the Criminal Division.
Beverly Burke earned her B.A. degree from Brown University and her J.D. from George Washington University Law School.
John R. Moses, Jr - Member
John R. Moses, Jr. is an administrative official with the Securities and Exchange Commission, beginning in 2016.
Prior to that he was a consultant for international expansion at a venture-funded hospitality and real estate company.
He was previously a development executive with a private investment firm where he focused on deal origination and structuring in support of real estate investments in the Caribbean region. John was Director of Business Development at Lebua Hotels & Resorts, a luxury hospitality group headquartered in Thailand, where he led strategy for the group and managed it’s international expansion, including launching its operations in India.
After graduating from Stanford University, he was an officer in the US Navy and served as a shipboard division officer and in an anti-terrorism unit, during which time he led a joint US/Iraqi team in defending an offshore oil facility. John holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Rickey Allen - Director
Ricky Allen has over 35 years of leadership, management, and administrative experience. He has served as a medical service corps officer in the Navy, a government contractor, and a civil servant. Allen most recently served as Associate Director of Conference Approval and Reporting at the Veterans Health Administration. He was also Program Manager for the Navy’s $300 million Wounded Warrior Program, directing the contract professional staff. Allen was a Senior Policy Analyst in the Office of Strategic Medical Plans, Programs and Budget on the staff of the Air Force Surgeon General. Prior to that position, he served on the staff of the Navy Surgeon General as Deputy Director of Internal Communications and Department Head, Dental Corps Plans and Analysis Branch. Other assignments included Director of Medical Administration and Radiological Health Officer aboard USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), and Director of Operations Management at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia.
Allen, a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, graduated from Norfolk State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Health Services Management and earned a Master’s Degree in Health Services Administration from the George Washington University in Washington, DC. He later graduated from Virginia Union University, Richmond, Virginia, with a Master of Divinity degree.