Vice Chairman, Power & Renewables
Wood Mackenzie
Boston, Massachusetts
Chris is the Vice Chairman of Wood Mackenzie’s Power & Renewables division. He is responsible for ensuring thought leadership within Wood Mackenzie, advising on the strategic direction of the business, and senior stakeholder engagement and relationship management.
Chris brings to this role 30 years of global power industry experience. Early in his career he led strategy consulting work and research teams at Cambridge Energy Research Associates (now part of IHS/S&P), including living in Europe and running CERA’s European and Russian divisions. At GE Energy Financial Service as the SVP of Investment Strategy he helped underwrite debt and equity investments in power assets, and later moved into an operational role managing a 2,000 MW portfolio of gas and coal power plants, as well as developing LindenVFT, one of the first merchant transmission projects in the country. Most recently, Chris was part of the senior management team of Genscape where he expanded Genscape’s real-time power monitoring business into analytics and software service businesses through both organic growth and acquisitions. Chris came to Wood Mackenzie through its acquisition of Genscape.
Chris is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Muhlenberg College with degrees in Russian Studies and Political Science and also holds a Master of Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania and the French Petroleum Institute. He has also completed executive leadership development programs at the University of Cambridge and at GE.
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