Michael E. Moore is Vice President of Business Development and External Affairs for Blue Strategies. He is focusing on the development of commercial CCS opportunities as well as advocacy work related to CCS legislation at Federal and state levels. He has 28 years of energy commodity and derivatives (oil, gas, power, carbon) experience in brokering, market development, business development and strategy. Moore is a founding board member of the Texas Carbon Capture and Storage Association, the Executive Director of The North American Carbon Capture Storage Association and was a founding board member for The Coalition for Commodity CO2, and recently an active member of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Florida Natural Gas Association and retained advisor to the Gulf Coast Carbon Center. He is a regular speaker and contributor in national and international CCS and energy related events.