Answer the following question: What key details about sean o. cota can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: sean o'brien cota -lrb- born june 27 , 1963 -rrb- is an american businessman , energy market expert , financial commentator , and policy advisor on american energy and financial market transparency and reform measures . as the president of a third generation family-owned oil company , cota & cota oil , inc. in bellows falls , vt , whom he has worked for since 1977 , he became extremely involved in energy commodity trading in 1988 . in 2010 , he was named chairman of the petroleum marketers association of america . he has testified before the united states senate , u.s. house of representatives , and the commodity futures trading commission -lrb- cftc -rrb- on ten separate occasions as recently as may 2015 ; first as an expert panelist on energy trading market functions , and later on the general subject areas of swaps , futures , options , and other ' exotic ' structured financial products . he is a member of the cftc energy and environmental markets advisory committee . on march 24 , 2011 us senator patrick leahy encouraged us president barack obama to appoint cota to become the next commissioner of the cftc then led by gary gensler , currently timothy massad , after formally nominating him for the post . mr. cota is a leader in the commodity markets oversight coalition , and the derivatives reform alliance , where he provides financial and physical hedging experience and counsel to the groups . he provided these groups significant counsel in the development of the '' close the enron loophole act '' commodity futures modernization . mr. cota was featured on the january 9 , 2009 60 minutes episode '' the price of oil/the chairman/wyclef '' which discusses whether wall street speculation is driving up the price of oil to american consumers .
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- imagesize is 220- title is former committee member , cftc energy and environmental markets advisory- alt is sean o. cota- party is democrat- birth date is c. 1963- name is sean o. cota- image is sean cota profile.jpg- birth place is maine- alma mater is kalamazoo college