Mr. Szabó is President and founder of Stone Bond LP and Stone Bond Technologies, LP. Mr. Szabó has over fifteen years of experience in marketing and sales of software and services. He has also led several other organizations as President & CEO. At Stone Bond, Mr. Szabó has led several projects that dealt with improving the profitability of client firms through improved business practices. The range of client engagement that Mr. Szabó has led covers a wide spectrum of functional activities from exploration and production in oil and gas, refining and marketing, trading, risk management, petrochemicals, and power. Typically, these projects have had an important information technology component. Mr. Szabó has worked with clients in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Previously, Mr. Szabó was the President of the International Division of another firm. Mr. Szabó oversaw the development, sales and marketing of highly specialized software for the petroleum and petrochemical industries along with the implementation of important IT projects. Prior to founding Stone Bond, Mr. Szabó held senior management positions at the firm Bonner & Moore. Mr. Szabó also held several management positions in a subsidiary of Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A., (PDVSA) in the areas of Refining, Corporate Planning and Supply and Trading. Mr. Szabó was one of the architects and implementers of PDVSA's "internationalization" drive, which evolved into several refining petrochemical and storage joint ventures with international firms in the U.S. and Europe. Additionally, Mr. Szabó was a member of the Venezuelan team that negotiated large technical assistance agreements with several multinational petroleum firms and previously was the technical manager of a one billion-dollar refinery-upgrading project. Mr. Szabó has written numerous papers on a multitude of energy related issues in a variety of international publications. Additionally, he has been regularly quoted in journals and wire services such as the Reuters, Bloomberg, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Middle East Economic Survey, and others. Mr. Szabó is a regular guest analyst on Bloomberg TV. Mr. Szabó started his professional career at Exxon. He has a degree of Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston.