John Montgomery, President
John Montgomery began his energy career in Houston in 1996 with Navigant Consulting where he worked on large, corporate strategy engagements for Occidental, Kerr McGee, Texaco and Mobil. Following his MBA studies, John worked as a Director at Shell Trading on the producer services desk, where he purchased physical natural gas and executed financial hedges. Following his time at Shell, and until the founding of Hedge Standard, John was a Director at Citigroup Energy Inc, where he was responsible for helping E&P companies hedge price risk. John then worked for Alta Resources as Vice President of Risk and Development where he managed the hedging program for an independent producer of natural gas with 1.2 BCF/d of gross production in the Marcellus.
Mr. Montgomery holds a BA from Emory University, and an MBA from Rice University. John is registered with the Commodities Futures Trading Commission as a Commodities Trade Advisor, and has successfully passed the FINRA National Commodities Futures Exam (Series 3), as well as the National Futures Association (NFA) Swaps Proficiency Exam. Mr. Montgomery is a member of the NFA.
Hedge Standard is a Houston-based, professional risk management consulting service. Our focus is helping producers and consumers of energy manage the volatile pricing inherent in the oil and natural gas markets.
We provide the following:
Energy market price discovery for Natural Gas, Crude Oil and NGLs
Comprehensive energy risk portfolio analysis
Energy risk management strategy development