Danial Khan has over 18 years of experience in accounting, auditing, risk management, and commodity trading. He has extensive expertise in energy markets including natural gas, power, crude oil, and derivatives. Khan has held senior roles managing teams and projects, and advising government and corporate clients on infrastructure development, risk management, and operational efficiencies.

1. Danial Khan
Overview
 18+ years of professional experience
 Accounting (GAAP, GAAS and IAS)
 4 full cycle SOX 404 Audits (IT and Financial controls)
 Use COSO and CoBiT frameworks.
 In-depth work in internal as well as external Audit (Financial and IT).
 Procurement of feedstock for refineries as well as other materials for global supply chain processes.
 Contract reviews and matching with Inventory received and Pricing
 Joint Interest Billing, including calculating mineral rights, Federal, State and Local Taxes
 Cost Accounting
 Value-Added pricing for Valve manufacturing units
 Developed Global Pricing models using econometric and Statistical modeling.
 Reviewed and entered into contracts for International and put together and managed multifunctional
teams from 3 continents and 5 countries.
 managed the a large team of about 100 internal as well as external consultants as well as trained
key players from the functional verticals during a SOX Audit for ElPaso Corp.
 Audits of international subsidiaries to ensure
 SME Energy Commodities, Transportation (pipeline Balancing, Storage (Salt Dome, Pipeline, Sea-
bound), Rack Sales,
 Trading (Structured Physical), Basis Trades, OTC Derivatives, Exchange based deals (ICE, NYMEX,
CBOT)
 Deal Capture Blotter designs
 Deal Capture Interfaces with Exchanges for Traded deals
 Price Interfaces for Market Price import from 3rd. party services (LIMS, Bloomberg, Platts, Argus,
Gas Daily etc.)
 Nominations
 Settlements
 Invoicing
 Internal Mentoring and Training of junior staff
 Developing Management Proposal in response to RFPs from Clients. Developed HLE and LLE
templates to facilitate client requested changes, extensions and upgrades to Endur and RightAngle
 Strategic Business Process Consulting, Gap Analysis, consulting
 Derivatives Accounting (FAS 133, FAS 157, IFRS 9, IAS 39, Dodd Frank etc.)
 JIB Accounting, Technical Accounting
 Solutions Delivery and Managing Business Transformation
 Interviewed and hired Team members as well as put together Global Teams
 Report Designing per Customer Requests

2. Skill Profile
OpenLink Endur, OpenLink RightAngle, PEOPLESOFT, ALLEGRO, TRIPLEPOINT, ROME CREDIT, RAFT
INTERNATIONAL, PIMS, IMOS, SQL, PL/SQL, VBA, EXCEL (ADVANCED): PIVOT TABLES, V-LOOKUP, H-
LOOKUP, MACROS
COMMODITIES:
POWER (INCLUDING GRID CONGESTIONAL MODELING), ISOs, RTOs, LDCs
NAT GAS (INCLUDING TRANSMISSION, PIPELINE OPERATIONS) CRUDE (SWEET AND SOUR), INCLUDING
PIPELINE AND SEA CARGOES, BALANCING, TRANSMISSION etc. OLEFINS
WEATHER DERIVATIVES
Assignments
Professional Services and Business Development NOWCFO,
April 2014 – Present (9Months)
Director
 Interim CFO for Start-ups as well as established small to midsize companies. -- Team Lead for
providing cost efficiency for companies by streamlining their Accounting processes through the
cost effective use of our best resources coupled with latest technologies in the accounting as well
as back-office operations in the Energy trading space. -- Systems integration and optimization
for independents as well as "Big Oil companies" for E&P operations at the well head level,
including JBI and contract evaluation. -- Help clients get compliant with latest regulatory
pronouncements while advising on optimizing operational efficiencies.
Economic Ministry of Oman Aramco Consulting June2013 – March 2014 (Contract)
PMO Lead and Advisor
 Evaluated infrastructure (Water Purification; Water Desalination; Alternative Energy; Highway
development etc.)
 Selected 3rd. party vendors and selected optimal teams for each project in the portfolio.
 Regularly communicated the progress of each project with Company Executives and Government
officials.
 Closely managed the time/budgetary progress of each project to maintain the required ROI.
 Developed and managed project teams to streamline the financial infrastructure by deploying
new technology initiatives throughout the region.
 Evaluated infrastructure (Water Purification; Water Desalination; Alternative Energy; Highway
development etc.) Selected 3rd. party vendors and selected optimal teams for each project in the
portfolio. Regularly communicated the progress of each project with Company Executives and
Government officials. Closely managed the time/budgetary progress of each project to maintain
the required ROI.
SME Energy Americas OpenLink Financial LLC.
March 2011– April 2013 (25 Months), Houston Texas
Senior Consultant, Product Specialist, Strategic Services
 Techno-functional consulting on Endur v10 and v11 application. Especially front -office (trading)
and mid-office (risk) areas

3.  Create new service offerings to extend the current business
 Managed Junior Staff. Reviewed their work and worked on performance evaluations
 Created and headed the QA team
 Developed High Level and Low Level Estimates in response to Clients’ RFPs for changes required
to the core Endur and RightAngle products to meet their business requirements (both near-term,
as well as data model extensions as an increase in upgrade and/or implementation scope to the
“off-the-shelf Core Software Products.
 OpenLink Financial LLC (OLF) 05/2011 to 04/2013 (2 years)
 Techno-functional consulting on Endur v10 and v11 application. Especially front-office (trading)
Risk Matrics LLC. Sugar Land Texas Feb-2005 to March 2011(6 years)
Managing Director/Founder Risk Matrics
Following are some examples of Projects under Taken:
ACCENTURE
 Project Team Lead for managing all facets of SolArc s11 implementation including developing
Project Teams; writing management proposals and designing interfaces for the implementat ion
plan
VALERO ENERGY SERVICES
 Work closely with Allegro and TriplePoint teams for new ETRM implementation.
 Performed a lead liaison role between Business several functional units such as wholesale
marketing, Rack Sales, Yield Accounting, and Front, Mid, back offices) and Technical IT
personnel.
 Supported Trading Technology system.
INTERIM CRO, CORPORATE RISK AND BEST PRACTICES,
CHICKASAW ENTERPRISES
 Casino audit and process mapping in order to eliminate bottlenecks and gain efficiencies.
 Developed a Risk team to quantify and manage the portfolio as well as individual casinos/entities
and functional verticals.
 Evaluated enterprise-wide risk in a qualitative way order to and quantify it to be able to run
statistical simulations on models that I created. Tried to instill a six-sigma approach for best
practices.
 Managed to save the company over 3 million due to improved operational efficiencies, better
controls, and eliminating operational work-flows using six sigma methodology. Also trained the
staff on such concepts.
 Managed 9 employees – manager level down
 Interacted with all departments including but not limited to Operations, Accounting, Marketing,
and HR etc.
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT REFINERY P&L, SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
ABU DHABI NATIONAL OIL REFINERY
 Outlined derivatives strategies. Back tested performance and strategy as well as at portfolio
level.

4.  Worked with Operations, Engineering, and Document Control to establish and maintain accurate
Standard Project Costing in the QAD system and accurate Product Cost Forecasts using Excel
modeling, including maintenance of all raw material component costs, outside processing costs,
direct labor hours and direct labor rates, manufacturing yields, feedstock inventories and
overhead rates.
 Developed product costs, delegated and reviewed product costing tasks and assignments, and
coordinated resources and deadlines and applied extensive knowledge of refinery utilization
Structures, Refined product Routings, Refinery yields, and Costing Programs.
 Used a lot of cross-commodity relationships in the Analysis for stress testing, and scenario
analysis for management and financial analysis.
 Performed Asset Valuation by using linear and non-linear Financial Optimization methods and
Econometric Modeling.
 Reviewed Asset holdings and recommended acquisition and divestiture strategies to maximize
Risk adjusted Portfolio returns while securing Cash Flow stream above the companies required
ROI.
KOCHENERGY TRADING; ENTERGY KOCH; MERRIL LYNCH COMMODITIES
October 1999 to February 2005 (5 years 4 months)
MANAGER, STRUCTURED PRODUCT S and FINANCIAL TRADING MANAGER, MARKET AND CREDIT
RISK
 Heavy involvement with Weather options, Nat. Gas, hourly, and long-dated power deals.
 Extensively involved putting together presentations on changing electricity landscape in midst of
ERCOT deregulation. This included extensive study of California Power Markets, WACC, NWPP,
PJM, TVA, and SERC. Detailed study of NEMS macroeconomic modeling as it pertains to electric
utilities.
 Work with development teams involved in software intended to accurately measure and report
Hedge contracts traded so as to adhere with the regulation set forth by FAS 133 in conjunction
with back-office teams and mid-office manager.
 Involved in extensive financial and statistical modeling, complex energy trade evaluations and
pricing as well as trading in Natural Gas Liquids and other commodities (including capacity
trading to achieve optimal portfolio asset structure.
 Structured (paper) Trader and managed 6 physical traders.
 In five months have added $1.2 MM to the bottom line of the company.
 Developed a Propane supply/demand model in order to be able to predict the propane stocks
before the EIA statistics are released.
 Implemented Risk watch for Market and Credit Risk systems and wrote several systems
algorithms to calculate scenario tests and stress tests on the portfolio including exotics. Designed
and managed integration with legacy deal capture systems.
 Hourly to long dated power structured deal pric ing.
 Wholesale power and Nat. Gas contract evaluation for company compliance.
 Monitor Power, Nat. Gas, coal, metals, emissions and Weather trades on a daily basis.
 Report the Risk aggregation results to upper management.
 Develop proprietary models to value cross-commodity trades and exotic “off-system” options and
financial exotics. Develop models for measurement of DE@R, V@AR MC@R, CV@R, PFE numbers
using Matlab, Algorithmics’ RiskWatch, VB, and C using day-to-day tools such as Excel and M.S.
Power and Nat. Gas, and Weather.
 Responsible for Daily MTM positions Reporting
 Designed models for measuring risk on the long-dated power deals.

5.  Involved to a large extent in setting up a risk and P&L reporting process for the two parent
companies.
 Helped NGLs and Chemicals Groups change their process all the way from deal origination to the
back office activities, with a focus on timely and accurate risk management process. This included
suggesting and implementing new risk measurement techniques, especially for some of their
deals in some illiquid markets. Leveraged upon KHCs available resources to provide them with a
robust Risk management system. Maintained and updated the SolArc RightAngle software used
for refinery operations and deal entry/trading and scheduling activities.
 Developed a new Global Supply/Demand optimization model for the NGLs and Aromatics in order
to provide them with timely, proprietary information. This model allows the analysts to
manipulate the relevant data to more accurately forecast the global supply/demand for the
plastics and feed stocks in a timely manner, and very accurately, highlight any global arbitrage
opportunities in the commodities markets or simply freight-capacity trading. Some of the
techniques employed in developing such a model included optimization using linear programming
and shadow costing.
 Helped NGLs and Chemicals Groups change their process all the way from deal origination to the
back office activities, with a focus on timely and accurate risk management process. This included
suggesting and implementing new risk measurement techniques, especially for some of their
deals in some illiquid markets. Leveraged upon KHCs available resources to provide them with a
robust Risk management system. Maintained and updated the SolArc RightAngle software used
for refinery operations and deal entry/trading and scheduling activities.
 Developed a new Global Supply/Demand optimization model for the NGLs and Aromatics in order
to provide them with timely, proprietary information. This model allows the analysts to
manipulate the relevant data to more accurately forecast the global supply/demand for the
plastics and feed stocks in a timely manner, and very accurately, highlight any global arbitrage
opportunities in the commodities markets or simply freight-capacity trading. Some of the
techniques employed in developing such a model included optimization using linear programming
and shadow costing.
TRANSENERGY MANAGEMENT Inc. / ALTRA ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES Inc.
June 1997 to October 1999 (28 Months)
SENIOR BUSINESS CONSULTANT (Risk Management)
 Extensive work with several Utilities throughout the U.S.
 Involved in all phases of client systems audit before initiating projects.
 Consulted with regulated and unregulated clients to help determine the optimal book structure
for their gas and power trading operations.
 Discussed re-engineering some of their business practices which included setting up controls and
limits at several levels and segregating duties of some of their staff members in order to achieve
the best possible results.
 Helped clients map their book structures; pipeline points; trading zones/areas; indexes et c. to
Transenergy’s RMS software.
Education
Master of Business Administration, Quantitative Finance; Rice University, Houston, TX
Bachelor of Science, Finance/Accounting; Stillwater, OK
Bachelor of Science, Management; Stillwater, OK
OpenLink University (CLASSES/CERTIFICATION 01/2012)