Over thirty years in the energy industry in positions of increasing responsibility up to C-level. Includes six years as an executive for a retail electric provider in which the company was successfully turned around from the brink of bankruptcy to being extremely profitable (eventually sold for $300 million). Thirteen years of trading and portfolio management experience for another energy retailer, an investment bank, and a large independent power producer. Managed profitable speculative trading books; deal flow books; a large portfolio of generation assets and structured contracts; and retail power portfolios consisting of both residential and C&I customers. Have a thorough understanding of markets in ERCOT, PJM, WECC, and NYISO. Managed teams of traders and portfolio managers with significant P&L responsibility. Approximately two years of management consulting and financial advisory experience for a professional services firm – focused mainly on mergers and acquisitions; commodity hedging and trading practices; and risk management processes and procedures. Five years of broad-based petroleum engineering experience.