Rod Branch, musician, engineer, lobbyist, executive, inventor, ordained minister, and now, author. He is a grassroots American having worked as a roustabout in the oil fields of small-town America and on to engineer in the Alaskan Arctic, Washington lobbyist, and C-suite officer.. Rod holds a bachelor of science degree in petroleum engineering from Oklahoma State University and a master of science degree in global human resource management from the University of Liverpool.