Sid Jacobson

Energy markets and utility executive who is respected for possessing strong portfolio driven commercial decision-making, complemented with fact-based risk/reward analysis and organizational leadership.- Specializes in start-up, rapid growth, new market entry, energy transformation, and turn-around leadership- Supported over $80B in financial restructuring, asset acquisitions and business transformations,- Implemented Commercial Operations and Commodity Strategies that improved financial performance from $150M-$400M in EBITDA- Transformed approach to commodity AR/AP, Credit Risk and Collateral Management that helped reduce capital requirements $185M-$600M- Optimized decisions around the lifespan and acquisition/build of Generating Facilities, demonstrating O&M costs can be offset by economic optimization resulting in a $1M to $15-$20M cost to margin contribution ratio- Worked with over 40 energy organizations to transform their multi-commodity commercial operations and commodity and physical and contractual asset portfolios- Drives commercial strategy, commodity hedging, and operational decision-making that improve probabilistic outcomes for achieving or exceeding corporate strategy and financial objectives- Manages the quantitative teams to build portfolio level stochastic models that measure risk/reward to drive decision analysis; and business analyst teams to drive process and decision support- Aligns governance, controls and strategy execution to manage risk to financial performance, customer affordability, and corporate vision- Engaged in the clean transformation of a predominantly coal utility through decarbonization strategies including solar integration, carbon sequestrations and economic decisions around coal/gas conversion- Trusted for commercial strategy and commodity markets acumen by equity, creditors, boards, c-suite, finance and commercial/commodity business unit leads