Kevin Stiles

Kevin Stiles

River Energy’s President, Kevin Stiles, began trading commodity futures and options in 1983, becoming a licensed broker in 1987 when he started working at the Kansas City Board of Trade.

In 1988 Kevin moved to Chicago, IL where he traded at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, also spending some time at the Chicago Board of Trade.

In the mid 1990′s Kevin moved to the St. Louis, MO. area, where he worked for a commodity futures merchant, running his own brokerage operation.

Kevin is proud to have been a member in good standing of the National Futures Association (NFA) since 1987. He also takes great pride in the fact that no customer complaints have been filed and there have been no regulatory or disciplinary actions in his 21 years of membership.

From 1988 to 1998 Kevin provided market commentary as often as three times daily, such as market pre-opening, mid session, closing comments and/or special reports for Bonneville Market Information, Data Broadcast Corporation and the successor company of CBS Marketwatch. He also wrote weekly and bi weekly commentaries for a number of print publications. He has extensive experience not only in the futures and options markets, but also in the basis, cash and physical markets, over the counter derivatives and commodity transportation.

Kevin Stiles formed River Energy, LLC in 2006 and River Energy acts in an advisory role for the procurement, transportation and marketing of energy products including gasoline, diesel fuel, natural gas and propane. River Energy serves both municipal and private enterprises.

River Energy also acts as a liaison to the commercial and industrial customer base of its clients.

Dan McCluskey

Dan McCluskey

My background in energy dates back to 1981 when I started with Apex Oil Company.  I worked in the Treasury Department as Credit Analyst, later as Senior Credit Analyst and in addition to monitoring all large ticket accounts (wholesale/trading), I managed the hedging portfolio for the refining and trading operations of the group.

I obtained my M.B.A. in Finance from Webster University in 1992 while working as Credit Manager for Wagner Lighting Division.

In 1993 I obtained my Series 3 commodity broker license, and worked with Merrill Lynch as Hedging/Risk Management consultant up until 1997.  I was recognized by Merrill Lynch for being the eighth highest producing representative within my length of service after the first year.

In 1998 I was Manager of Fuel Administration for Trans World Airlines.  I initiated a hedging program for jet fuel swaps, along with budgeting, scheduling, and supervising 2 direct reports involved in charters and accounts payable.  My efforts in the jet fuel swap program resulted in $98,000 in savings within three months.

In 2001 Kevin and I teamed up at FC Stone brokerage and worked for a time together at R.J. O’Brien until 2002 when I went to work at Laclede Gas Company as their Credit-Risk Analyst.  Again, I managed the hedging positions for all futures and options traded by Laclede Gas Company and the unregulated group, Laclede Energy Resources, Inc.