UtiliPoint Speaking Resources
Contact Jennifer Lucero at jlucero@utilipoint.com to inquire about any of UtiliPoint's speaking resources.
 | Robert C. Bellemare, P.E. With 20 years of experience in the utility business, Mr. Bellemare advises clients on asset valuation, financial modeling, strategic planning, public issues management, and pricing products and solutions. He previously worked for Fortune 500 utilities in a variety of capacities including managing director of energy services, director of market research, wholesale trading and operations, research and development, distribution engineering and power plant engineering. His experience includes working in one of the largest coal plants in the northeast as well as helping to manage some of the largest solar and wind research projects of their time. Mr. Bellemare was co-lead of the unregulated business merger integration team for the AEP-CSW merger. Recently, he completed a study for a utility client in which the economics of new generation, transmission and energy efficiency investments were contrasted and examined. Mr. Bellemare is frequently quoted in the press and makes public presentations on energy issues, with recent forums including CNBC, the World Energy Council, Energy Risk Mutual and industry regulators. He is a registered professional engineer and holds a master's degree in electric power engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. |
 | J. Christopher Perdue Senior Director, Market Research Mr. Perdue directs UtiliPoint's market research efforts which result in special reports/analyses for corporate clients. In addition, Mr. Perdue's expertise includes forecasting of load, economic development, financial consulting, research, and retail solutions development and support at energy companies. Mr. Perdue has work experience at Excelergy, Duke Solutions, Central and South West, and Gulf States Utilities. Mr. Perdue most recently served at American Electric Power in roles with the software and technology company Excelergy. |
 | Patrick Reames Mr. Reames has more than 25 years of energy industry experience. He has a deep understanding, developed through hands-on experience and managerial oversight, of upstream and midstream oil and gas operations including exploration, production, gathering, gas plant operations and pipeline operations. Additionally, he has several years of energy commodity trading, transportation, and risk management experience with Amerada Hess, a Fortune 100 integrated energy marketing company. Over the last seven years, he has been focused primarily on information technology serving energy marketing. During this period, Mr. Reames has served as an executive for several technology companies providing products and services to gas and power marketing organizations, most recently serving as COO of TradeWell Systems, Inc. In these roles, his focus has been on the creation and delivery of high value service products designed to ensure the successful implementation and on-going use of technology solutions. |
 | Gary M. Vasey, Ph.D. Over the course of a 20-year career, Gary has acquired extensive experience in the energy and utilities industry. His professional background includes spells with BP Exploration, Price Waterhouse, Cap Gemini Sogeti, Sybase, and TransEnergy Management, prior to founding and building his own energy consulting company, VasMark Group. VasMark was acquired by UtiliPoint ® International in January 2004. Gary now has responsibility for managing and building UtiliPoint's ® Trading & Risk Management Practice where he and his colleagues have served over 50 companies with insightful industry analysis and consulting serves across North America and Europe. |
 | Patty Walton Ms. Walton manages UtiliPoint's benchmarking services, focusing on meter to cash operations for energy services and utility companies. Ms. Walton's experience includes managing all stages of systems development and process design/improvement projects including: vendor selection, discovery, scope, budgeting, reporting, resource allocation, scheduling, deliverables, integrating, testing, training, implementation, improvement and maintenance. She has worked with companies to establish best-of-breed service for meter management, meter reading and usage, inventory management, outage and curtailment management, field service, call center, marketing services, demand side management, accounting, billing, remittance, e-business, credit and collections, new market entry, new product development, pricing, sales support and renewals. She also has experience with mergers and acquisitions, focusing on operations integration. Her previous work history includes consulting services with Hawaiian Electric Industries, new market entry with Direct Energy Services, business planning with Alliance BridgeCo, market management with Exelon Energy, and many operations functions with Enron Energy Services. |
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