
Key Personnel
John Antonuk
Robert Stright
Charles H. King
Lawrence Koppelman
Randall Vickroy
Donald T.
Spangenberg, Jr.
John B. Adger,
Jr.
Alan J. Salzberg
Christine
Kozlosky
Dennis
Kalbarczyk
Mark Lautenschlager
Phillip S. Teumim
Yavuz Arik
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John Antonuk
is a co-founder and president of the firm. His 35 years of utility-industry experience includes extensive work involving
telecommunications, electricity, natural gas, and combination
utilities. He has directed or managed more than 200 consulting
engagements. Beyond his considerable
management skills and experience, John also brings to Liberty’s
clients a strong background in:
- Management audits and
assessments
- Corporate governance
- Executive management
- Utility planning and
operations
- Litigation strategy
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Restructuring
- Management of legal
departments
- Human resources
- Risk management
- Regulatory relations
- Affiliate transactions and
relations
- Subsidiary operations
- Testimony development and
witness preparation
John holds a J.D., with academic
honors, from Dickinson School of Law and a B.A., cum laude, from
Dickinson College.
Project Highlights
Telecommunications Companies
John has served as engagement director, project manager, and hearing
administrator for many telecommunications industry projects. Many
of them have involved large teams, important policy and regulatory
issues, an emphasis on technical management and operations issues,
and important ratemaking and financial-performance questions. Some
of these projects are:
John served as the
engagement director for two comprehensive financial reviews of RBOC
operations for state-public service commissions seeking to determine
the results being obtained by local telephone operations under
existing rates. He has also led many audits of policies, procedures,
and compliance, performance measures, and affiliate interests, and
has managed comprehensive audits of management and operations, and
of affiliate relations and transactions.
John has served 15
different commissions in a variety of capacities under the
Telecommunications Act of 1996. He served as hearing administrator
for combined proceedings involving nine Rocky Mountain region states
and addressing RBOC compliance with the Section 271 checklist, the
provisions of an SGAT, and the sufficiency of its performance
assurance plan. He has served as an arbitrator of numerous disputes
between RBOCs and CLECs involving interconnection agreements. He has assisted several commissions in reviewing RBOC compliance with various provisions of the Act. He has also
served as an expert advisor to Commission arbitrators on more than
20 interconnection agreements, and as a staff expert, including
service as an expert witness, in a similar number of arbitrations.
Energy Utilities
John has served as engagement director, project
manager, and lead consultant in many engagements for public-service commissions and as an advisor to large and small electric
utilities. His energy utility experience includes:
Detailed evaluations of utility holding-company structure,
governance, performance, financial separation, non-utility
operations, and controls at electricity and natural-gas utilities,
some of them among the country’s largest.
Providing expert testimony on mergers and acquisitions before
several public service commissions.
Evaluating affiliate relations and transactions at more than a dozen
electricity, natural-gas, and combination utilities. His work
includes detailed examinations of cost-allocation and assignment
systems, procedures, and activities, and the structured testing of
transactions for compliance with provisions requiring arms’-length
dealing among affiliates. He has performed extensive analyses of
affiliate energy-trading operations and of the quality and integrity
of affiliate performance of energy supply functions for a utility.
John
led a major effort by Liberty to assist a New England state to
restructure the operations of its largest retail electricity supplier.
That effort, which has been successful in bringing about
restructuring while providing lasting rate reductions for customers,
included examinations of stranded costs, valuation of assets to be
sold, assistance in overseeing the process of divesting those
assets, pricing of transition and standard-offer service,
structuring and magnitude of T&D service rates after restructuring,
inclusion of societal benefits costs into restructured rates,
securitization and other non-traditional financing of stranded
costs, and a host of other issues.
John
has managed ten comprehensive management and operations audits of
electricity, natural gas, and combination utilities for four
different state commissions.
John
has also provided a wide variety of services to other types of
energy suppliers. He has helped public-power enterprises to conduct
strategic planning in a competitive environment, to improve their
efficiency and effectiveness in a variety of generation,
transmission, and distribution functions, and to identify, evaluate,
and value acquisition candidates, both at the individual project and
at the enterprise level. He has assisted clients to assess their
competitive advantages and disadvantages in competing as utility
markets are opened, and he has provided assistance in understanding
and using available rate and cost information to assess their
prospects for competitive success.
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