Chris Seiple

Vice Chairman · Wood Mackenzie · company speakers →

Chris is the Vice Chairman of Wood Mackenzie’s Power & Renewables division where he is responsible for senior stakeholder engagement, thought leadership and advising on the strategic direction of Wood Mackenzie’s business. Chris travels extensively and regularly presents to senior industry, policy, and financial community stakeholders on Wood Mackenzie’s analysis across the value chain of the power industry. Chris brings to this role 30 years of global power industry experience. The first part of his career he led strategy consulting work for power companies and investors at Cambridge Energy Research Associates (now part of IHS/S&P). He then moved into finance as the Senior Vice President of investment strategy at GE Energy Financial Services (EFS) underwriting debt and equity financing of power related investments and then later managed a portfolio of power plants and a merchant transmission project owned by EFS. He then led the power organization at Genscape where he expanded Genscape’s real-time power markets monitoring business into analytics and software service businesses through both organic growth and acquisitions. Chris came to Wood Mackenzie through its acquisition of Genscape and now works with Wood Mackenzie’s 250 power & renewables researchers across the globe. Chris is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Muhlenberg College with degrees in Russian Studies and Political Science and holds a Master of Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania and the Institut Français du Pétrole. He has completed executive leadership development programs at the University of Cambridge and at GE. He is based in Boston and has lived and worked previously in Europe.

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