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| Rick Mullins, President & CEO Rick is the President and Chairman of Guardian Direct Energy Programs, Inc. and founder of the company. Rick grew up in El Paso before earning his undergraduate accounting degree from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene. He started his professional career in 1986 as an accounting instructor at a small business college in Lubbock, Texas. In 1988, Rick accepted the position of revenue agent in the Dallas District of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) where he completed the IRS courses in basic and advanced individual income taxation, basic, intermediate, and advanced corporate taxation, and oil & gas taxation. It was at the IRS that Rick started his oil and gas career by examining federal income tax returns reporting income from oil and gas working and royalty interests. In late 1989, Rick left the IRS to attend law school at the University of Houston. He selected the University of Houston for its combined reputation in oil and gas law and the law of federal taxation. After completing his legal course work in 1992, Rick accepted a position in the energy industry segment of Ernst & Young, LLP (a "Big Four" public accounting firm) in Houston. While at Ernst & Young, Rick started his course work for a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) and passed the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam. Rick's public accounting experience included extensive work with major and large independent oil and gas companies, international service companies, small exploration and production companies, and individual and institutional investors in oil and gas investments. In late 1994, Rick left Ernst & Young, completed his MBA, and practiced law for a short time before accepting a position as an author and technical editor with the Thomson Legal & Regulatory Group - Practitioners Publishing Company (PPC) in Fort Worth. While at PPC, Rick was the managing editor for guides on dealing with the IRS and was the co-author of books on retirement planning and basic estate planning. While still working at PPC in July 1996, Rick co-founded Mullins & White Energy, Inc., and in 2000, Rick left PPC to devote all of his attention to Mullins & White Energy, Inc. In 2006, Mullins & White Energy merged into Mullins & White Exploration, Inc. and then into Guardian Oil & Gas, Inc. on January 1, 2009. Rick has remained the president and chairman of Guardian Oil & Gas, Inc. as well as president of Guardian Land and Commercial Real Property, Inc. (a real estate investment and management company), and of Guardian Ventures (the parent company of Guardian Oil & Gas, Inc., Guardian Direct Energy Programs, Inc., and Guardian Commercial & Real Property, Inc.). Rick has continued his education with course work in geology, petrophysics, and geophysics as well as in oil and gas law and federal income taxation. Rick is an associate member of the American Association of Professional Landmen and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, American Bar Association (ABA), and the Texas Bar Association. Rick is on the Advisory Board of the Institute for Energy Law and is a member of several committees in the Business, Energy, Real Property and Taxation Sections of the ABA. Since 1988 he has been married to Theresa Mullins and together they have had five children. |
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