Energy & Commodities Principal · Houston, TX
I translate how commodity businesses make money into scalable commercial strategy — with AI and technology as the enabler, not the end.
Curious, open, and grounded. I bring 15+ years of success leading commercial strategy, market development, and program delivery across energy and environmental markets. My career is marked by consistent results in creating and scaling new markets, commercial products, and operating models — across start-ups through Fortune 500 firms including bp, FIS, FIUTUR, and Wipro.
I specialize in understanding how commodity businesses make money across the value chain and translating that understanding into scalable commercial execution. In my current principal role I lead energy practice expansion at the intersection of AI and SAP-enabled trading solutions — building go-to-market strategy grounded in addressable market economics, not technology for its own sake.
I have operated globally across the US, AsPac, and Europe, leading internationally distributed teams supporting 24×7 commercial and operational environments. I align commercial, operational, regulatory, and technical stakeholders around shared economic objectives — and I build durable teams capable of executing complex, market-making initiatives under real-time financial demands.
Major programs across commercial strategy, ETRM delivery, and energy market development.
Leading EPAM's expansion into energy trading and commercial value-chain opportunities. Defined addressable market strategy, aligned delivery and sales teams, and originated commercial solution themes at the intersection of AI and SAP-enabled commodity operations.
Spearheaded a new Portfolio Owner role within bp T&S, deploying Salesforce Sales, Service, and Experience Clouds globally across Houston, Chicago, London, and Singapore. Drove 3× adoption of marketing and origination platforms in year one. Grew the organization significantly in headcount and multi-million dollar portfolio budget over three years.
Winner of bp's Connected Innovation program. Secured venture funding to develop a machine learning contacts platform integrating Salesforce, CRM, ETRMs, ERPs, and exchange data. Built knowledge graph with algorithmic heat maps for counterparty relationship strength — enabling real-time 360° view across trading operations globally.
Led commercial strategy for developing digital asset markets spanning natural gas, crude, ethanol, LNG, hydrogen, CCS, and SAF. Established liquidity in voluntary and regulated environmental products, partnering across GHG measurement firms, auditors, blockchain registries, and financiers to convert operational telemetry into tradable instruments.
Solution lead for a multi-year, multi-million dollar ETRM deployment for Cargill North American Power & Gas, directing 20+ global resources. Enabled full physical and financial trading, scheduling, valuation, and risk operations across power and gas markets including VaR, PnL, MtM, and back-office settlement. Delivered multi-million dollar PnL contribution across the broader ETRM practice.
Independent advisory covering commercialization, market development, and operating model design across crude, power, and environmental markets. Structured monetization pathways for ITC/PTC/VCM assets in CCS, power, and liquids. Advised on ETRM platform strategy and SAP S/4 CTRM operating models for Motiva, Calpine, and CCS developers.
The intersection where environmental policy meets physical commodity markets is where the most interesting pricing problems live. I follow how incentive structures — IRA tax credits, CBAM, voluntary carbon protocols — create real financial instruments out of operational performance, and where that logic breaks down in practice.
Most ETRM and SAP implementations fail commercially, not technically. I'm interested in why — the gap between what a platform was designed to handle and how a trading desk actually operates. The best systems I've seen were shaped by operators who understood both sides.
Carbon, hydrogen, CCS, biofuels, and differentiated fuels are still early-stage markets finding their pricing logic and settlement infrastructure. I follow how GHG accounting standards (PCAF, GREET, OPGEE), regulatory frameworks, and physical commodity fundamentals converge to create — or undermine — market liquidity.
I travel for the friction of being somewhere unfamiliar — it recalibrates how I think. I stay active because clear thinking depends on it. I follow social and political issues closely, especially where policy intersects with human dignity and economics. I have a genuine soft spot for animals. And underneath all of it: a real interest in being a decent person — showing up consistently for people, not just professionally.
Authoritative open-access sources I follow across energy markets, trading regulation, and environmental commodities.
Happy to connect with practitioners and firms working across energy markets, commercial strategy, and applied technology. Reach me on LinkedIn.