Management

William D. "Bill" Goodwin

William D. "Bill" Goodwin
Bill Goodwin and Chuck Murchison, have been partners for more than nine years and active in the oil business for seven of those year.

They formed Target Market Development, a marketing strategy and sales consulting firm, in 1996. In 1999 the two partners formed TMD Energy, Inc., an oil and gas exploration, development and production firm. TMD Energy owns and operates some 41 wells. It also operates an additional 80 wells for others. In 2004, it joined with Zaveri Oil Corp., LTD to acquire Kingston Oil Corp, which owned 40,000 acres of producing leases, 53 oil wells and 92 gas wells and was renamed Ky-Tenn Oil, Inc. (KTO)

Bill Goodwin is an idea man. Some executives are at their best fine-tuning a program. Bill is at his best facing a problem and a blank sheet of paper. Over his career in the private and public sectors, he has been called upon to solve complicated problems by creating and implementing simple but effective solutions.

He has more than 30 years of experience in the oil business in Tennessee, Kentucky and Texas. He has managed a drilling company, serving in every position from toolpusher to president (sometimes both posts at the same time). Goodwin founded and served as president of a publicly-owned oil company, where he was involved in every phase of the operation from leasing to designing stimulation programs to production. He spent one year in Midland, Texas, where he served as a consultant to a firm that bought and sold oil and gas properties for independents and major oil companies in the United States and Canada.

He serves as the President of the Tennessee Oil & Gas Association for six and was named the association's Oilman of the Year in 1981. In 2005 he received the associations Distinguished Service Award. He is also a founder of the National Association of Royalty Owners and serves on the Board of Directors of the national organization.

He has remained in the oil business as he and his partner have developed their management consulting practice. His only absence was to serve as press secretary to U.S. Senator Dole in his 1980 presidential bid.

His years of experience span financial public relations, marketing and political strategy at the state and national levels, publishing, and the independent oil business. He is recognized for his marketing and communications strategy expertise plus his keen understanding of business at the corporate and entrepreneurial levels.

Bill worked his way through the University of Kansas as a telephone lineman, pipeliner and salesman. Upon graduation, he became manager-editor of a Kansas semi-weekly newspaper that had not been profitable in 25 years. Once he turned it around financially, he became manager, then director of Public Relations and Publications for the U.S. Jaycees.

He served as an account executive with Carl Byoir & Associates, a New York PR firm, before joining Nashville-based Holder-Kennedy & Co. While there he handled the Brock for U.S. Senate campaign and went to Washington, D.C. as Brock's press secretary.

Bill served as a campaign consultant to the National Republican Senatorial Committee before returning to Tennessee where he took over a debt-ridden oil company. He turned it around and sold it to run for Congress, a race he lost by a close margin in a heavily Democratic district.

Bill has served as a consultant to a wide range of clients, including the American Bus Assoc., Bank One, Borg-Warner, Honeywell, Hospital Corp. of America, Kemper Institute, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Kodak, and the Grand Ole Opry.

Charles A. "Chuck" Murchison

Chuck Murchison has combined a background in oil and gas, journalism, business and politics into result-oriented programs that have been successfully used by businesses, corporations and politicians across the United States.

He is particularly skilled at conducting training courses in sales, marketing, management, negotiation and communications. Today he manages KTO's extensive field operations.

Chuck has a deep understanding of the mechanics of group and individual persuasion and media strategies.

Chuck brings 30 years of business experience to Target Market Development clients. In 1973, U.S. Senator Brock appointed Chuck as his press secretary in the Senate. Later Chuck served as a consultant to a national political campaign committee and major policy committee of the Senate. He provided strategies and negotiation support for the President's position before, during and after the air controllers strike in the early 80s.

Chuck has conducted extensive management and sales training programs for a wide variety of disciplines, including stockbrokers, commercial loan officers, mortgage loan originators, equipment sales, distributor sales and small and medium businesses. He has published numerous articles on marketing, sales, personality traits, and has produced both informational videos and commercials. Chuck received his MBA from the University of Michigan and his Bachelors degree at Memphis State University where he was a starting linebacker.

Chuck has successfully managed engagements with dozens of clients, including: Novus Services, RAM Mobile Data, AIG-CS, Dean Witter Reynolds, Premier Bank, BancOne and Kemper Insurance.