Mark Viola is the Founder and Managing Partner of Stonecroft Advisors, a Risk Management and Quantitative Analysis Consulting firm committed to delivering solutions that drive bottom-line results for its energy trading and resource clients. Stonecroft offers services in risk management and quantitative analysis, model development and validation, hedging strategies, due diligence support, and risk products design.Mark has more than 20 years of professional experience. Prior to Stonecroft, he was VP and Head of Deal Structuring and Quantitative Analysis at Shell Energy North America for 8 years. At SENA, he achieved measurable results in enabling deals, designing and marketing new risk management products, developing strategies to grow the business, advancing Active Risk Management, and developing new and improved derivatives valuation and risk analytics models.Dr. Viola also served 2 years as a VP at El Paso Merchant Energy, 2 years as a Principal for PricewaterhouseCoopers' Financial Risk Management Practice, 7 years as a professor at The University of Akron, and more than a year as a research scientist with TRW's Space and Technology Group.Mark holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MBA in Analytical Finance from The University of Chicago.Mark has extremely strong abilities in communicating at all levels of the organization – he is equally adept speaking with financial engineers as he is presenting complex ideas to senior management. In addition, he has been successful in hiring and retaining excellent talent, demonstrated a strong competency to coach, mentor, and develop others to attain best-in-class skills, and established a track record for turning under-performers into top grade performers.Specialties: Risk Management Consulting, Deal Structuring/Structured Transactions, Derivatives Trading, Valuation and Analysis, Commodities and Energy Trading and Risk Management, Natural Gas & Power Trading and Risk Management
Listed skills include Valuation, Derivatives, Hedging, Commodity Markets, and 37 others.