Tennessee Black Gold LLC
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Founder
Claudio
Coltellini
Claudio was born in Brescia, Italy in 1972. After his university in Economics and Business, he has developed a strong financial expertise working for Deutsche Bank Group in Italy for 7 years. He has applied this skill to the oil and gas industry developing projects with private equity in the last 16 years. He moved to US in July 2015
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Serves as Director of Atlantic Bridge Energy Limited (“ABEL”). ABEL was formed by a group of European and American businessmen to acquire and develop a U.S. onshore focused oil and gas company with properties in California, Texas and Kansas. Claudio is President of Atlantic Bridge Energy Inc., US branch of ABEL.
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Serves as CEO of Partners & Friends Holding Corp. (“P&F”). P&F was formed by a group of European businessmen to acquire and develop a U.S. onshore oil and gas company with properties in the panhandle of Texas. P&F has 15,000 acres in Moore and Potter Counties. He is CEO of Euramerica Gas & Oil Corp. (“EGO”) as well. EGO has oil and gas projects in Kansas, Louisiana and Missouri. It has been developed raising money in Europe, under reg-S. Claudio has studied a system to combine small investors without affecting the uniformity of the investment.
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Claudio has worked in marketing and sales during the years in which he was studying and has treasured these experiences that have brought him into direct contact with many people. Claudio is married to Laura, and they have three children. He is an accomplished photographer and he loves to travel.
Founder
Randall
Connally
Randall was born and raised in Texas and attended Texas A&M University majoring in finance. After university, Randall started his career as an analyst in the Energy Group at NationsBank (now Bank of America) where he was focused on traditional bank lending to primarily exploration and production companies. He transferred internally to Bank of America Securities in the high yield bond and leveraged finance groups where he was promoted to associate. In addition to working on energy high yield bond offerings he also participated in many financial sponsor transactions in a variety of industries.
Randall was later employed as an associate with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (acquired by Credit Suisse First Boston during his tenure) in the Energy Group where he focused on equity, high yield bond, investment grade bond and mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. onshore energy industry. After Credit Suisse, Randall was a vice president with Providence Capital, Inc. in New York City where he worked with the founder of Providence focused on advisory work for institutional and large private shareholders on corporate governance related matters.
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After three years away from the oil and gas business with Providence, Randall accepted a position as vice president of finance for a London AIM listed oil and gas company focused on developing natural gas assets in Ukraine. In this capacity Randall assisted the company is raising over US$32 million in development capital and the successful sale of the company to an international oil company. Randall then served as senior vice president of finance for another international focused E&P company, this one focused on developing assets in Colombia which was also successfully sold within 24 months of founding.
At this point in his career Randall started a Cantera Advisors, Inc. to act as a business development consultant to oil and gas companies. Cantera served as an advisor in a major acquisition financed by Riverstone Holdings that was later sold to a NYSE listed company and several smaller transactions. He has served as an advisor or principal in or for 5 London AIM listed companies. In the last 10 years he has broadened his experience by operating oil and gas assets in Oklahoma and Louisiana. He currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of Atlantic Bridge Energy as well as a founding partner of Tennessee Black Gold, LLC.
Founder
Robert
Lucas
Robert brings one of the most diverse backgrounds to our team which adds business experience and out of the box thinking. He began as a radio announcer, a Humor Writer and Editor for Hallmark Cards, and owned businesses in auto sales and repair. In the late 1990’s he studied and became an options trader. His success led to becoming a Proprietary Trader for multiple Brokerage Firms and later running his own Hedge Fund.
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After selling his interest in his trading operation he ventured into real estate development, and even owned a boat franchise. He then started working with a company in SE Kansas helping to raise money in oil drilling partnerships, and eventually went out on his own. Since the late 2000’s he has also helped startups connect with management and financial sources, and is Co-Founder of a fast growing functional beverage company.
However, he never abandoned his oil interests and over the last few years has been instrumental in building the initial stages of a soon to be public company, as well as other individual drilling campaigns. He co-founded TN Black Gold to take advantage of unique spin off projects and one-off opportunities in the oil realm.
