ABOUT GOLDEN PASS

Alex Savva is the President and CEO of Golden Pass LNG, a rapidly growing joint venture of ExxonMobil and Qatar Energy with a vision of becoming the premier LNG export company in North America. In this role, Alex is leading the Golden Pass businesses through final preparation and numerous requirements necessary for on-schedule startup and commissioning in 2024.

He joined ExxonMobil in 2000 as a Facilities Engineer in Australia. Over his years with the company, he has served in a variety of engineering roles with increasing responsibility across facilities, reservoir and subsurface as well as planning, operations and managerial positions in Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Nigeria, and the U.S., where he was appointed New Operations Readiness Manager for ExxonMobil Upstream Oil & Gas. Immediately prior to being named CEO at Golden Pass, he was once again abroad as Executive Director/Production Manager, Upstream Oil & Gas, Deepwater, Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited

An Australian citizen, Alex earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree as well as a Bachelor of Commerce degree from The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1999.

Shawn Carsten is the Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer at Golden Pass LNG, overseeing the finance department's comprehensive responsibilities. Since joining in Spring 2024, he has been a key member of the Golden Pass Leadership Team.

Shawn brings a wealth of experience establishing robust financial organizations and frameworks, including spearheading digital transformations and enhancing business operations. His deep experience in end-to-end energy value chain, along with the chemicals industry has been shaped by domestic and international roles in Shell plc and serving as CFO of Shell Midstream Partners.

Shawn is an alumnus of the University of Colorado, where he pursued Finance, and he holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Bill Cooper, General Counsel, joined Golden Pass LNG in March 2021. ​​​​​​​Bill spent the first decade and a half of his professional career in private practice as a transactional lawyer and litigator. He represented clients in the energy industry, among others, and covered a broad range of interests. Building on this experience, he moved to Washington D.C., to work on Capitol Hill as counsel for the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

After Bill’s time with the House Energy and Commerce Committee, he worked for the firm Hunton & Williams LLP, then transitioned into the role of President for the Center for Liquefied Natural Gas (CLNG). At CLNG, he advocated for the development of America’s LNG capabilities before Congress, the White House, and federal agencies.

After a decade with CLNG, Mr. Cooper returned to Capitol Hill, accepting a role as a Subcommittee Staff Director for the House Committee on Natural Resources, and as Senior Policy Advisor on the National Environmental Policy Act. Bill later served as Senior Counsel and Director of Washington D.C. office with the law firm McConnell Valdés LLC. Bill then moved to the U.S. Department of Energy, where he served as the General Counsel providing legal advice, counsel, and support to the Secretary, the Deputy Secretary, and program offices throughout the Department.

Jeremy Horn joined Golden Pass as Vice President of Operations in June 2022. He oversees the Plant and Pipeline Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Safety, Health and Environment teams for Golden Pass, focused on ensuring safe and reliable operations.

Jeremy has over 19 years of experience with ExxonMobil in a variety of operations, technical and strategic planning roles. He started his career as a Facilities Engineer supporting Upstream oil and gas operations across Texas. In 2014, he relocated to Doha, Qatar and began a loan assignment to RasGas as Head of Operations for all common utilities across 7 LNG trains and 2 flowing gas plants. Following a second assignment in Doha as Surface Technical Manager for ExxonMobil Qatar, he returned to Houston in 2019 where he was assigned as LNG Operations Readiness Manager supporting projects across ExxonMobil’s global portfolio. Just prior to arriving at Golden Pass, he worked as the Operations Manager for ExxonMobil’s unconventional oil and gas operations across East Texas and North Louisiana.

Jeremy received his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Auburn University and his MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

Jeff Hammad is the Chief Commercial Officer for Golden Pass LNG. Jeff has broad responsibilities for managing the commercial group at Golden Pass, including the procurement of 2.6 bcfd of gas supply as well as the corresponding LNG sales of about 18 mta. He began working on the Golden Pass project during its early development phase in 2007 and has remained a core part of its leadership team since the company was founded.

Prior to his assignment at Golden Pass, Jeff joined Qatar Petroleum in Doha as Qatar was emerging into a global LNG powerhouse and managed the commercial development of a portfolio of international LNG receiving terminals. In 2009, he was seconded into Golden Pass LNG to manage the structuring and development of the import facility, and then subsequently the LNG export project. Jeff began his career in the energy industry with Enron where he was a Financial Analyst supporting their international business development efforts, including several expat assignments in the Middle East. Asset development remained his primary focus for the next 20 years, where he held commercial managerial roles helping launch major infrastructure projects across the full energy value chain with companies such as El Paso Energy, Enterprise and Oxy.

Jeff is a life-long Houstonian, and received his Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Houston following his enlistment in the United States Marine Corps.

Candace Jimerson, Vice President of Business Transformation & Development, has been with Golden Pass for more than 10 years and was instrumental in executing the transition from an LNG import terminal to ultimately a final investment decision on the 16 MTA export facility. In her current role, Candace is responsible for establishing, deploying, and continuously improving our people, business processes, systems and tools to enable the effective delivery of the company’s strategic priorities. She strives to deepen the GPLNG company values and inclusion and diversity behaviors to ensure Golden Pass maintains a solid cultural foundation through growth and change.

In her previous role at Golden Pass, Candace was responsible for commercial LNG operations, where she supported gas supply build out, facilitated governance requirements across functional groups and managed the contractual obligations for the project’s LNG off take agreement.

Candace received her BBA in Marketing from Southwest Texas State University in 2000 and her MBA from Texas Southern University in 2003.