Vice President West Power Trading & Origination
Rbs Sempra Commodities Llp
Responsible for managing the trade desk and origination throughout the Western Energy markets.Focused on investor-owned and public utilities, independent power producers, and other load-serving entities (ESP, CCA, C&I).Services offered included portfolio optimization, hedging, risk management, and commodity procurement. Successfully participated in target market request for proposals (RFPs) both electricity and natural gas.Managed deals through rigorous internal processes that required approvals from the trade desk (position and price risk), mid-office (valuation), credit, regulatory review, legal review, and management review.Profitably managed proprietary portfolio and customer energy positions (asset management) through buying/selling of outright positions, location/time/spark spreads, transportation and exchange of energy.Recruited, trained, and managed a commercial team that profitably traded in the western short-term physical and financial energy markets, as well as mid-market customer flow business.