William Harmon is the President and CEO of Triana Energy Holdings in Charleston, WV. Over the course of 21 years – from accounting manager to President and CEO he has turned a company called Columbia Energy & Resources into the second largest oil and gas producer in the eastern US. He left the company to build Triana Energy, which then acquired his former company (Columbia Energy & Resources) for $330 Million, and, in just two years' time, he built that company up and sold it to the Chesapeake Energy Corporation for over $3 Billion! 

This CPA has successfully acquired, merged and grown several entrepreneurial companies and created an aggregate return of nearly $2 billion for his investors in only 5 years. These companies are known today as one of the most aggressive energy exploration and production entities in the eastern U.S. This transaction was dubbed the “2006 M&A Deal of the Year” by Oil and Gas Investor Magazine.