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Kevin Simpson has followed the energy industry for 30 years with particular focus on oilfield service stocks. He has been ranked in the Institutional Investor Poll 17 times for his oil service coverage, most recently in 2001. Mr. Simpson has consistently scored high in surveys of earnings estimate accuracy, including inclusion in The Wall Street Journal's "Hall of Fame" for 6 consecutive years in the top 5 for estimate accuracy from 1995-2000, and a consistent top 3 ranking by the Starmine group for much of 2002. In 2000, Mr. Simpson was named one of the "Best on the Street" analysts by The Wall Street Journal for earnings estimate accuracy. After starting his career with Standard & Poor's, Mr. Simpson moved to the sell side in 1979, spending 10 year stints with each of Drexel Burnham Lambert and Merrill Lynch. He also spent three years at Schroder's between these two firms. During his time with "bulge bracket" firms, Mr. Simpson was the lead analyst on some 30 equity offerings in the oil service space, the vast majority of which had strong absolute and relative market performance in post deal trading. Mr. Simpson has a CFA and is a longstanding member of the New York Society of Securities Analysts. He is a member of the National Association of Petroleum Investment Analysts (NAPIA). Mr. Simpson received a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. | 