Who's Who?
New York Regional Interconnect, Inc. Scorecard
Who Are the Players at NYRI and Who is Advising Them
Who's calling the shots? Who's making the decisions? Who's advising who?

This is a first attempt to shed some light on who are the people involved with NYRI, who's working for
them and what it all means to the project and the process.

Below are some of the people of NYRI and the several companies connected to it. It is by no means
complete, but we will update and add to it as time passes.
Personnel of NYRI and Its Affiliated Companies
NYRI's Advisers, Consultants, Lawyers,
Lobbyists, etc.
Corporate Genealogy of New York Regional Interconnect, Inc.
  • NYRI, the company created to build the proposed power line is
    100 percent owned by Colmac NYRI, Inc.
  • Half of Colmac NYRI, Inc. is owned by American Consumer
    Industries, Inc. (ACI)
  • It remains unclear who owns the other half.
Bracewell &
Guiliani
NYRI's
Washington law
firm, with offices
from the Texas oil
patch to
Kazahtzstan.

Loaded with
former DOE types.

Yes, THAT
Guiliani; former
NYC mayor, former
federal prosecutor,
former scourge of
the Mafi,
ofte-rumored
presidential
hopeful.
?
 Richard Muddiman
?
 Willis S.McLeese.
  • Chairman of the Board of ACI, Colmac Energy, Inc., 1984-present,
    and of Colmac Clarion, Inc. (CCI)  and Piney Creek Inc. (PCI)  
    since 1997.
  • Life member of American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air
    Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE);
  • Chairman Emeritus, Trans Canada Freezers Ltd., and its U.S.
    subsidiaries;
  • Director of International Utilities Limited (more recently IU
    International Corporation) 1961-88, Member of the Executive
    Committee 1976-88, and Chairman of the Audit Committee of the
    Board 1970-1988.
White & Couch

Albany silk stocking law
firm with specialty practice
in energy law.

Leonard Singer (right)
represented NYRI at the
Senate hearing in Norwich

Maureen O. Helmer,
former chair of the Public
Service Commisssion is
a partner.

Senior managing partner
Algrid F. White, Jr. is a
Colgate grad.

White's wife, Marcia, is
Senate Majority leader Joe
Bruno's press secretary.

Office in Albany, New York
and Washington, D.C.

28 lawyers
?
 Robert S. McLeese
  • President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ACI,  
  • Deputy Chairman and CFO of CEI, 1996-present (formerly VP
    finance of CEI and ACI), CCI and PCI.
  • Founder and President, Access Capital Corp., 1990-present;
  • Past President and Director, Independent Power Producers'
    Society of Ontario, 1994-present;
  • Vice President Investment Banking, Midland Doherty Limited
    1985-1990; Manager Corporate Finance, Bank of Montreal 1982-
    1985;
  • Manager Financial Planning, Trans Canada Freezers Ltd./United
    States Cold Storage 1980-1982;
  • Auditor, Peat Marwick & Mitchell & Co. 1976-1979.
?
 Greg B. Lawyer
  • President of CEI, PCI, Colmac Suunnyside Inc. and Colmac
    Resources Inc. since 1998;
  • Executive Vice President of ACI;
  • Member, Board of Directors of all ACI subsidiaries;
  • Previously Vice President, Photovoltaics International, LLC;
  • Vice President, Diamond Energy, Inc., an owner/operator of power
    generating plants;
  • Vice President Asset Management, North Canadian Power, Inc.,
    an owner/operator of power generating plants;
  • Vice President of Burns & Roe, Inc., and General Manager of
    Burns and Roe Pacific Co., a architect/engineering company;
  • Vice President, Pyropower Corp., a supplier of circulating fluidized
    bed boiler equipment;
  • GA Technolgies and Ebasco Constructors, power project
    engineering companies.
Bill May
  • Independent contractor
    working for NYRI
  • Project manager for NYRI
  • Master of ceremonies at
    NYRI's public meetings
John Pierce
  • Independent
    contractor working for
    NYRI
  • Albany public
    relations company
    owner
  • NYRI spokesman
?
 Phillip W. Reese
  • Principal of Reese-Chambers Systems Consultants, Inc. 1978-
    present.  
  • Technical Director John J. McMullen Associates, Ventura 1976-
    1978.
  • Division Head U.S. Naval Ship Systems Engineering Station 1971-
    1976.  
  • Senior Staff, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
    1960-1971.
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 Chris L. Thompson
  • Senior Vice President, Development, of ACI;
  • Senior Vice President of NYRI;
  • Member, Board of Directors of ACI, Colmac Montana Inc. and
    NYRI,
  • Previously; President and CEO, CFO of Harris Group Inc. 1996-
    2003;
  • Vice President of Industrial Development Resources 1995-1996;
  • Senior Consultant, Operations Manager, Harris Group Inc. 1989-
    1995; Executive Engineer, RW Beck 1988-1989;
  • Project Manager, Parsons Main 1986-1988;
  • Project Manager Stearns-Catalytic 1972-1986.
?
 Colin T. Brown
  • Director of Eastern Utilities Ltd. since 1988;
  • President, Colin Brown Insurance Services Ltd (1999);
  • Chairman,National Citizen's Coalition (1988).  
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 Mary Alice Avery
  • Sr. Financial Services Officer, Wilmington Trust SP Services
    (Delaware), Inc. 2000- present,
  • Divisional Financial Manager, Delaware Management Services
    1995-2000, Assistant Controller, The Confab Companies 1983-
    1991.
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 Charles G. Johnson
  • Director and Chief Executive Officer of Ewing & Johnson, a
    professional law corporation in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
  • 1976-present; Director and Chief Financial Officer of Cheyenne
    Builders, Inc., a California corporation, residential and commercial
    construction firm;
  • Director and Chief Executive Officer of Chardia, Inc., a California
    corporation, real estate development & brokerage firm.
  • Born Cheyenne, Wyoming, December 5, 1950.
  • Admitted to bar, 1976, California and U.S. District Court, Southern
    District of California; 1977, U.S. Tax Court; U.S. Supreme Court.
  • United States International University (B.A., with honors, 1973);
    California Western School of Law (J.D., 1976). Phi Alpha Delta.
    Member, Advocacy Honors Board, 1975-1976. Lead Articles
    Editor, California Western International Law Journal, 1975-1976.
  • Author: "Remedies Under Maritime Law For Wrongful Death: Sea-
    Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet," 5 California Western International
    Law Journal 446, 1975.
  • Member: Imperial County and American (Member, Sections on:
    Corporation, Banking and Business Law; Taxation; Real Property,
    Probate and Trust Law, Natural Resources) Bar Associations;
    State Bar of California (Member, Sections on: Business Law;
    Agribusiness Subcommittee Board Member, Law Office
    Management; Real Property Law).
  • Practice Areas: Business Law; Corporate Law; Estate Planning;
    Finance; Real Property; Energy; Agricultural Law.
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