Concentric Energy Advisors Expands its Service Offerings to Include Risk Management

MARLBOROUGH, Mass., May 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Concentric Energy Advisors, Inc. ("Concentric") is expanding its energy-focused consulting practice to include risk management services.  Julie Ryan, who recently joined Concentric as Vice President, will lead the practice.  

Ms. Ryan is an energy industry executive with a proven record of achievement in risk management and strategic planning. She provides advisory services to energy industry executives in the areas of risk management, strategic planning, wholesale trading and marketing, M&A due diligence, and business integration planning.

Concentric is expanding upon its existing regulatory, financial and economic services to include the following risk management capabilities:

• Enterprise risk management program development
• Hedging strategies for regulated and non-regulated companies
• Utility hedging protocols and decisional documentation
• Testimony for power costs and risk management practices
• Risk management governance, policies and procedures
• Counterparty risk analysis
• Margin call and working capital analysis
• Risk management systems selection
• Disclosures of risk factors and risk management practices
• Integration of risk management and strategic planning
• Risk management training for company managers
• Compliance programs and reporting

"Julie's experience adds a skill set and depth of knowledge to Concentric that our clients tell us is increasingly important to them, in both risk management and corporate governance," said John J. Reed, Concentric's Chairman and CEO.  "Her prior work in both the regulated and merchant energy sectors provides our clients with insight and knowledge of best practices in wholesale electric and gas markets, and will help our clients address emerging issues for participants in the markets."

About Concentric Energy Advisors

Concentric (www.ceadvisors.com) is a regulatory and financial advisory firm focused on the North American energy and water utility industries.  Headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts, with an office in Washington, DC, Concentric specializes in a full range of regulatory advisory services and testimony, litigation support, M&A and other transaction-related financial advisory services, strategic consulting services including market analysis, energy commodity contracting and procurement, economic feasibility studies, and capital market analyses and negotiations.

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