STILLWATER, Okla. - The Department of Finance and OSU’s Student Chapter of the Financial Management Association recently hosted Griff Jones, CEO of Eagle Energy.

Griff Jones is Chief Executive Officer of Eagle Energy.  He is a 1991 OSU finance graduate.  His activities and honors while at OSU included serving as president of Business Student Council and being selected as Outstanding Senior in the School of Business.  A co-founder of Eagle Energy, Jones was instrumental in the development of the Watson Trading Floor at Oklahoma State University. Griff and his wife, Mindi, have supported OSU in many ways including the establishment of the Ed and Marilyn Keller Professorship in Finance and an endowed scholarship fund at OSU.

During his recent visit to OSU, Jones discussed energy pricing problems across different regions of the country and how Eagle Energy managers address those problems with OSU finance graduate students. In addition, Jones served as the guest speaker for the first FMA meeting of the year, where he spoke about atomic energy for the United States.

Eagle Energy is a Houston-based energy marketing and services company that manages and optimizes supply, transportation, transmission, load and storage portfolios on behalf of wholesale natural gas and power clients in the United States and Canada. Eagle Energy is one of the largest providers of market services to the wholesale gas and power sectors in North America.  It also operates in the US coal markets. Eagle Energy also manages innovative projects to help mitigate environmental exposure.