Milton Scott, Chairman and CEO

Milton Scott is the founding majority shareholder, Chairman and CEO of The Tagos Group. He has distinguished himself over the past 30 years as a leader and visionary in entrepreneurship, finance, accounting, energy and corporate governance. Milton currently services as Director of W-H Energy Services Inc., an oilfield service company providing products and services for the drilling and production of oil and natural gas and Sterling Construction, a leading heavy civil construction company that specializes in the building and reconstruction of transportation and water infrastructure in large and growing markets. In 2003 he co-founded Complete Energy Holdings, LLC, an acquirer, owner and operator of over $1 billion of power generation assets. From 1999 – 2002, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer at Dynegy, Inc, a Fortune 500 company, where he was responsible for risk management over the trading operations, supply chain management, strategic planning, internal audit, human resources, administrative services and corporate security. Prior to joining Dynegy, he spent 21 years as an audit partner at Arthur Andersen, LLP. His primary focus was in the area of energy. His last three years with the firm, he served as the head of the technology and telecommunication team for the Southwest Region. He is a graduate of Southern University with a BA in accounting.

Rodney Ellis, Vice Chairman

Rodney Ellis is Vice-Chairman and a founding shareholder of The Tagos Group. Rodney has served as a business consultant to several Fortune 500 companies in his career. He currently serves on the National Commission of Energy Policy, a bipartisan group of 20 of the nation’s leading energy experts focused on issues including increasing global competition for energy resources, concerns over global climate change and progress in new energy technologies. He also co chairs the newly created Commission on African Americans in Climate Change. This committee is focused on getting minorities better engaged in energy and climate change initiatives within their communities. Rodney serves as a frequent lecturer in the areas of renewable energy and energy conservation/efficiency. As a Texas state senator, Rodney has championed legislative considerations concerning environmentally preferred products and services including a state wide Tax Free Holiday. He has a diverse background in international finance and plays a key role in The Tagos Group’s International Consulting Services. Rodney is currently serving in his sixth term in the Texas Senate from Houston. During his sixteen year tenure in the Texas Senate, the Senator has earned praise as a legislative leader on economic development, education, civil rights, tax cuts, criminal justice and workforce development issues. A native Houstonian, Rodney was a co-founder of Apex Securities, Inc., an investment banking firm later sold to Rice Financial Products Company. Prior to his election to the Texas senate in 1990, Rodney served three terms as a member of the Houston City Council. He holds a BA from Texas Southern University, a Master’s degree from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and a law degree from The University of Texas School of Law.

Ron Rod, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer

Ron Rod is the Chief Strategy Officer and a founding shareholder of The Tagos Group. He is an innovative and dynamic supply chain executive with 28 years of distinguished achievement in both operational and strategic management positions including practical experience in engineering, supply chain, construction and contract management. His experience has been extensive in the utility, oil & gas and pharmaceutical industries. He has recently led the Supply Chain Management practice for a global professional services company. Ron had the opportunity to network with over 200 companies in the Fortune 1000, serving supply chain needs in many retailers, manufacturers, and services industry customers. Ron exhibits a passion for supply chain management and possesses the ability to motivate staff, clients and vendors to meet quality, performance and cost reduction objectives. He has a demonstrated expertise in the development and implementation of creative solutions to physical and technical network, logistics, operations and customer service issues. He is a frequent speaker at various professional organization events including the Institute of Supply Management, Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, and the National Association of Contract Managers.

Beth Beloff

Beth Beloff is a sustainability business consultant to The Tagos Group. Beth has spent over 16 years as a thought leader in formulating the concept and practice of sustainable development. She is President and Founder of the non-profit organization BRIDGES to Sustainability Institute, which is a think tank dedicated to developing innovative approaches to support the implementation of sustainability and provide educational outreach on sustainability practices. She is an expert in integrating sustainable development with other critical business aspects and in particular in how to measure sustainability performance. She has developed a set of approaches to support management and technical decision-making with respect to sustainable development. These include collaboration with the GEMI organization (Global Environmental Management Initiative) through Golder Associates on the development of the GEMI Metrics Navigator™ and development of the software, BRIDGESworks Metrics™, both dedicated to the sustainability planning process and the development of sustainability metrics. Prior to BRIDGES, Beth founded the Institute for Corporate Environmental Management (ICEM) in the business school at the University of Houston. She has given over 150 speeches on corporate sustainability to university and business audiences and has authored over 30 publications on sustainability, including Transforming Sustainability Strategy into Action: the Chemical Industry, published by Wiley-InterScience in 2005, in which she is principal author and editor. Beth has a BA degree from University of California at Berkeley, a Master of Architecture degree from UCLA, and an MBA from the University of Houston.

Bill Dykes

Bill Dykes spent 28 years with Occidental Petroleum, originally as a geologist working in Latin American Exploration with a focus on Peru, Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina and Colombia. He worked on prospect development for Oxy’s billion barrel Cano Limon discovery before moving to Corporate Communications where he created Oxy’s Business Communications group and was responsible for business technology analysis, and helping to develop and deliver the Oxy Oil & Gas corporate message. After creating the Multimedia and Web Services group for Occidental Oil & Gas, he moved to Houston as Director of Corporate Communications & Web Development. In this position, Bill worked with Oxy’s operational units to develop communication strategies to best serve the corporation. He was recognized in 2000 by IBM and Forbes for intranet development supporting worldwide HES assessment and in 2007 represented Occidental in Libya as part of Occidental’s business development effort. Bill also worked closely with Oxy’s environmental remediation group, Glenn Springs Holdings, on community relations and social programs related to Oxy projects. Bill also owned and operated California Computer Graphics where he supported clients such as Texaco, Unocal, EG&G, Department of Energy, Bechtel, Wells Fargo, Merrill Lynch, Coldwell Banker and others in developing and delivering their corporate message to clients, partners and Wall Street.  He was co-publisher of the Bakersfield Business Quarterly, Bakersfield, California’s first business magazine and is a published professional photographer specializing in architectural/industrial photography.  He also now supports Best Buddies International, headed by Anthony Kennedy Shriver, by consulting on event development and fundraising in support of those with intellectual disabilities. At Tagos, Bill’s primary focus is international business development and TagosGreen^TM business development relating to alternative energy production and green cities and schools.

Howard Heuston

Howard has a proven record of success in supply chain management, logistics and business process.  He is a results-oriented executive with excellent skills as a negotiator, along with the leadership ability to plan, organize, staff, develop, motivate and direct an organization to achieve change. His areas of expertise include strategic sourcing; e-procurement implementation; warehousing & distribution; systems design & integration; supplier alliance management; business process engineering; materials management systems; e-commerce and project procurement management. Howard has worked with many very successful manufacturing and distribution companies. He developed and implemented, from startup, the vision and strategy behind a supply chain management department for Dynegy, Inc. a Fortune 500 energy company. As Director of Supply Chain for Dynegy, Howard managed logistics, procurement, supplier alliances, strategic sourcing, materials management, transportation, electronic commerce and supply chain technology. He has developed corporate-wide strategic supply chain management policies and processes and has implemented aggressive supplier diversity programs and introduced and developed advanced supplier alliance management concepts.  

Ron Tish

Ron Tish has a background including 17 years of supply chain management and information technology experience with Fortune 500 companies in the insurance, utility, power generation, natural gas and oil field services industries. He has extensive experience across the entire supply chain including strategy, procure to pay, strategic sourcing, materials management, warehouse management, maintenance, contractor/services management, policy development and SOX compliance. Ron has successfully led supply chain process and technology transformation initiatives through entire life cycles – vision, business case, process assessment, design, configuration, testing, deployment and all aspects of enterprise change management. He has extensive strategic and tactical experience defining, developing and executing large scale process improvements and systems-related implementations in the areas of enterprise resource planning, e-procurement, accounts payable, enterprise asset management, e-commerce, supplier integration and workflow automation. Ron holds a BS of Management Information Systems from Millikin University.

Eric Hueneke

Eric Hueneke is a seasoned executive bringing 19 years of supply chain, e-procurement and strategic management experience. Eric is a dynamic and results driven senior manager with diverse experience in the utility, oil & gas, e-commerce and manufacturing industries. He has a solid track record of developing new services, project management execution and helping companies meet performance metrics. Eric is a critical thinker experienced in operations management; strategic planning; profit & loss management; sales management; portfolio development and process improvement. Eric is tasked with delivering top line revenue growth for The Tagos Group and leads the company’s business development and overall sales efforts.  He is primarily focused on organizations within the Energy and Utility industry. Prior to joining The Tagos Group, he was the President and Board Director of Achilles Information where he helped the company achieve new growth and profitability by successfully directing its focus into the utility industry. Prior to Achilles Information, Eric was the Vice President of Sales Operations and Business Development for Pantellos Group where he assisted the company in achieving a cash flow positive position and developing the first industry wide, multi-utility aggregate agreement with Verizon Wireless.

Phill Tucker

Phill Tucker is a seasoned professional with 25 years’ of industrial services experience working for Fortune 100 companies. A proven leader in his field, he has been responsible for the safety, quality, production and financial performance of each organization he has served. His passion and strengths have always included strong customer relations. In his role for The Tagos Group, Phill has researched and prepared documents that define the meaning of green/sustainable and works with clients to identify the national agencies that certify their products and services. Phill works to identify experts in various categories of sustainability including building materials, landscaping, waste management, packaging and heating venting and air conditioning. He provides sales insight and industrial service know-how to the team in the area of Industrial Specialty Maintenance.  Phill's multi-plant industrial experience consists of areas of expertise in corrosion under insulation, industrial painting, insulation services, scaffolding design, erection, and maintenance, industrial cleaning, Lead and Asbestos abatement. He has worked at major facilities in the petrochemical industry. In addition to his industrial services management experience, Phill has a BA in chemistry from Cheyney University, a MS in chemistry from Atlanta University in Atlanta, GA. and he is a NACE Certified Coatings Inspector (NACE Inspector # 7083).

Billy Briscoe

Billy Briscoe is a founding shareholder of The Tagos Group.  He has been the principal lead in developing and implementing the offerings of the TagosGreen™ Business Community, a web-enabled collaborative environment of sustainability thought leadership, multi-disciplined industry expertise and operational tools and services. Billy is an experienced business strategist with more than 12 years’ experience providing legal, regulatory and business advisory services to private and public sector enterprises.  Prior to joining The Tagos Group, he was a consultant with Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, Inc. where he provided business advisory services to Fortune 1000 companies.  Prior to Diamond, Billy was a Principal at Public Strategies, Inc., a public affairs and crisis communications firm. There, Billy provided legislative and regulatory advisory services to energy and telecommunications clients.  Billy holds a BA from Hampton University, a JD from the University of Houston, and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

Shanna Graves

Shanna Graves has more than 20 years of experience in marketing, communications and business development working with professional services firms’ providing financial and business consulting services to Fortune 100 companies. Since joining The Tagos Group, Shanna has been working directly with leadership to produce comprehensive sales and marketing plans for each of the company’s three business units as well as for TagosGreen™ Business Community. This online community brings together industry experts and industry professionals into a forum to discuss sustainability concepts, strategies and operational methods that result in measurable environmental improvements. Shanna’s expertise lies in developing and executing marketing strategies that increase market share and sales through capitalizing on growth opportunities identified through financial analysis, industry trends and sound business instincts. Shanna came to The Tagos Group from UHY Advisors, an international audit, tax and business consulting firm based in Chicago, IL. Prior to UHY, Shanna was the Southwest Regional Marketing Director for Arthur Andersen, LLP where she developed marketing and sales initiatives to support an annual regional sales plan in 2002 of more than $700 million. Shanna has worked across all industry groups most recently focused on energy including renewable, oilfield services, manufacturing, distribution, technology and health care. She is a 1985 graduate of The University of Texas at Austin.

Maria Traver

Maria Traver has 20 years of office management, legal assistant and administrative experience. Maria is currently serving as Receptionist, Executive Assistant and Office Manager dealing with the day-to-day operations of the office along with all HR, payroll and accounts payable issues. Prior to joining Tagos, Maria managed the office of a 35 employee HVAC manufacturer’s representative company. Maria served as the project manager for the company during the construction of their new facilities. Maria has also worked in the legal industry as a litigation paralegal at the law firm, Bracewell & Patterson and as the litigation administrator for National Convenience Store, the parent company for the Stop-N-Go convenience stores chain. Maria holds a BA from the University of Houston.
 

Roxanne Algra

Roxanne  Algra spent 22 years in the oil and gas industry with Occidental Petroleum.  After beginning her career in Oxy’s Geophysics group she moved to Business Communications where she was instrumental in introducing most of the business technology used by Oxy’s Oil & Gas group through the 1990s, including development of their first remote access capabilities and corporate intranet. Roxanne also spent time managing the Oxy help desk before becoming web administrator for the Occidental corporate intranets in Houston. Prior to moving to Houston to rejoin Occidental in 2005, Roxanne administered Enron’s intranet at their wind energy project in Tehachapi, California. She also developed and administered the City of Tehachapi’s Internet  website. Roxanne now administers The Tagos Group and the TagosGreen™ Business Community internet sites and provides IT technical support company wide.