Ralph Eads is vice chairman of Jefferies & Co., a U.S. investment bank, where he leads the firm's global energy practice. The firm has been at the forefront of financing the North American oil and gas boom, pioneering the joint venture model and the entry by non-US companies into North America. Since 2007, Jefferies has completed 36 resource deals for an aggregate of $110 billion. Eads previously worked at El Paso Corp.; Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette; and S.G. Warburg & Co. He has served on the board of Duke University since 2009. He also sits on the board of the American Clean Skies Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides policy support on environmental and energy issues. He is chairman of Expectation Graduation, a program aimed at keeping kids in school that was started by Houston Mayor Bill White. He recently served as a trustee of St. George's School in Newport, R.I., and has been active in the Nature Conservancy of Texas, the Houston Ballet, The Kinkaid School Foundation and Small Steps Nurturing Center.

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Natural Gas

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